MLB: A collection of rare baseball feats
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The All-Star Game does not mark the halfway point of the season ; when the season closes its 81st game it is halfway, because the schedule is 162 games.
In the 2025 season , the All-Star Game will be held after 95 games have been played.
And a strange behavior that this season shows is that only nine players are hitting over .300 points , eight in the American League and one in the National League, Will Smith , of the Dodgers with .326 of 239-78.
The leader in batting average in the Majors is Aaron Judge of the Yankees with .356, 122-for-343 with 34 home runs .
Several baseball fans have asked me to record, from my point of view, rare feats that have occurred in the Major Leagues .
In my view, the rarest and most difficult feat to match or surpass is the two consecutive no-hit games by Johnny Van der Meer of the Cincinnati Reds in June 1938 .
Considering that 99% of pitchers will never even throw a no -hitter , and many great pitchers in Cooperstown have never thrown one, the feat of pitching two no-hitters in a row becomes understandable.
Another feat that's hard to top is that of Fernando Tatis II , who, while playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, on April 23, 1999, hit two walk-off home runs in the same inning off the same pitcher, Chan Ho Park. That's tough, tough to top.
Another epic that is not easy to surpass is Tom McCreery 's three leg home runs in a game on July 12, 1897.
How about this one?To execute two triple plays in a single game , as the Minnesota Twins ' defense did on July 17, 1990. To surpass that feat borders on the impossible.
Another strange record is that of the Baltimore Orioles , who lost 15 consecutive Sunday games in 2008. The record is 16 on a Sunday by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1960.
The Sultan of the Stake, Babe Ruth hit nine home runs in one week, but Frank Howard from May 10-18, 1968, hit 10 home runs in 20 at-bats for a new record.
A day like today
1966: Maury Wills' RBI single drove in Tim McCarver to give the National League a 2-1 victory over the American League. Juan Marichal pitched three scoreless innings and struck out two to extend his scoreless All-Star Game performance to eight.
1994: Moisés Alou hit a double in the tenth inning to drive in Tony Gwynn and lead the National League to an 8-7 victory over the American League.
2005: The American League defeats the National League 7-5 and Miguel Tejada is the Most Valuable Player.
2010: Veteran slugger David Ortiz wins the All-Star Game's Home Run Derby with a dazzling performance, hitting ball after ball into the right-field seats at Angel Stadium for a total of 32 home runs, 11 of them in the final round, where he beat fellow Dominican Hanley Ramírez. He dedicated his performance to his friend, pitcher José Lima, who had passed away suddenly a few weeks earlier.
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