Right here’s our weekly take a look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the final week in baseball (June 28-July 4).
For Orlando: The Giants defeated the Dodgers on Brett Correctly’s walk-off residence run final Friday. It was the Giants’ thirty first walk-off residence run towards their historic rivals. Among the many others? One from Orlando Cepeda on Aug. 18, 1961. The late Cepeda’s passing was introduced mid-game at Oracle Park on Friday. But once more, the Giants had the right technique to honor a legend who has handed away.
Skenes Day: By way of his ninth MLB begin on Saturday, Paul Skenes has 70 strikeouts and simply 10 walks. He’s the second pitcher with not less than 70 strikeouts and 10 or fewer walks in his first 9 profession appearances since not less than 1901. He joins 2014 Masahiro Tanaka, who had 73 strikeouts and eight walks. Total, he’s the ninth pitcher with not less than 70 strikeouts in his first 9 profession appearances in that span and the primary since Tanaka.
10-Ok once more: Garrett Crochet’s begin on Sunday was the sixth time he’s had not less than 10 strikeouts in a sport this season. The one pitchers with extra 10-strikeout video games of their first 18 profession begins since not less than 1901 are Hideo Nomo (eight), Corbin Burnes (seven), Fernando Valenzuela (seven), Al Downing (seven) and Dwight Gooden (seven).
Grand salami: Between June 22 and Sunday, the Brewers hit 5 grand slams in an eight-game span. The slams got here from Brice Turang (twice), Rhys Hoskins, Jake Bauers and Jackson Chourio. They turned simply the second crew in MLB historical past with 5 grand slams in an eight-game span, becoming a member of the 2020 Padres, in response to the Elias Sports activities Bureau.
Tony Taters: Anthony Santander led the Orioles with 13 residence runs in June, tied for the third-most in a calendar month in Orioles/Browns historical past. The one gamers forward of him on the record are Jim Gentile in August 1961 and Harlond Clift in August 1938, every with 15. He tied Nelson Cruz in Could 2014 and Frank Robinson in July 1966. As a crew, the Orioles hit 60 residence runs, the third-most in a calendar month in MLB historical past, behind the Yankees in August 2019 (74) and Braves in June 2023 (61).
Hey, Mr. DJ: On Tuesday, D.J. Herz had 10 strikeouts and no walks in his sixth profession begin. It’s already his second sport with not less than 10 strikeouts and no walks in his younger profession. He’s one in all two pitchers since not less than 1901 with two such video games in his first six profession outings. He joined Stephen Strasburg in 2010, additionally for the Nationals.
Electrical Elly: Elly De La Cruz made his presence recognized in his first profession sport at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday. He registered his fifth profession sport with not less than a triple and a house run in his 183rd sport. That tied Ted Williams for probably the most such performances in a participant’s first 185 video games since not less than 1901.
Preserving it 100: On Monday, Nolan Jones had a 101.3 mph outfield help, the quickest in MLB this season. On Tuesday, he had one at 100.8 mph, the second-fastest by any participant in 2024. He’s the primary participant with a 100+ mph outfield help in back-to-back video games underneath Statcast (since 2015) and the Rockies are the primary crew to have one in two straight video games from anybody, in response to MLB’s Jason Bernard.
Stroll the stroll: Christian Walker hit his 18th and nineteenth profession residence runs at Dodger Stadium on Thursday, in simply his forty second sport there. That’s 4 greater than every other participant in his first 42 video games on the ballpark. His 19 residence runs there have all come for the reason that begin of 2018, eight greater than anybody else as a customer there in that span.
Present Ironman: Matt Olson has performed 542 consecutive video games coming into Friday, relationship to Could 2, 2021. There have been solely six different streaks of not less than 500 since 2000, per Elias. They belong to 2000-07 Miguel Tejada (1,152 consecutive video games), 2018-22 Whit Merrifield (553), 2010-14 Prince Fielder (547), 2000-03 Alex Rodriguez (546), 2003-06 Hideki Matsui (518) and 2004-07 Mark Teixeira (507).
