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Today's First Pitch looks back at one the greatest games in baseball history. Check it out. thisgreatgame.com

Have pitchers gotten wilder? According to @Stathead, there have been 24 instances of a team throwing three or more wild pitches in a postseason game since 1982. Before 1982? None.

First Pitch incoming. Obviously, a lot to talk (and write) about out here on the West Coast.

This is the deal with the devil that sports entities have made and are now seeing the consequences of. Beware #MLB...and NFL, and NBA, and so on... www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Random thought: Ever since Arte Moreno stripped "Anaheim" from the #Angels team name in 2016, they haven't had a single winning season. The Curse of Anaheim?

The #Mets' Juan Soto has stolen two bases tonight at Miami. He needs two more to become a 40-40 man.

He won the AL MVP 73 years ago and he's still with us. Happy 100th birthday to Bobby Shantz!

In losing another game, 8-4 to the #Marlins, the #Rockies see their season run differential dip to -402; if that stands (or gets worse) by season's end, they'll be the first team in the modern era to finish a year at or over -400.

For the second time in three games, the #Dodgers are taking a no-hitter into the ninth inning. If they complete this one, it will be a combined effort, with Tyler Glasnow (seven innings) and Blake Treinen (one) keeping the #Rockies hitless—but not scoreless.

For those who want to know: This season, there have been 65 position players who have appeared in a combined 122 games as an emergency (late-inning batting practice) pitcher. In 134 innings, they've given up 269 hits, 171 runs (163 earned), 38 HRs, 50 BBs, and have hit 21 batters. ERA: 10.95.

A woman umpire, the year's longest winning streak, baseball at a NASCAR racetrack, and the latest four-homer performance. All that and much more, including some surprises on our rundown of the month's Best & Worst, in our August Comebacker. thisgreatgame.com/comebacker/

Besides the four home runs he hit tonight, Kyle Schwarber set a #Phillies record with nine RBIs. Four players had held the old mark of eight, most recently Jayson Werth in 2008.

Position players who are not paid to pitch are embarrassing to the game. #MLB needs to make it harder for them to enter a game.

The #Mariners' Cal Raleigh is the first AL player not named Aaron Judge to hit 50 HRs in a season since Chris Davis in 2013.

The crowd of 17,675 at Busch Stadium tonight is the smallest (non-COVID-impacted) since the ballpark opened in 2006—and the smallest for a #Cardinals home game since 1997.

The #DBacks' Corbin Carroll has two triples for the fourth time this season. That ties a #MLB record held by five other players—most recently by Carl Crawford in 2004.

The #Rays have tied a team record by giving up eight HRs tonight against the #Yankees. It's only one out in the sixth inning.

It was 59 years ago today that Art Shamsky hit three HRs for the #Reds despite not entering the game until the eighth inning. Shamsky recalls that game in our interview with him earlier this year. thisgreatgame.com/art-shamsky/

This is a friendly reminder that the #Rockies are 4-0 when playing with an eight-game losing streak. They'll have a chance to make it 5-0 on Tuesday after losing their eighth straight game for the fifth time this year on Monday, 3-2 against the #Cardinals.

For the first time in 47 MLB starts, the #Pirates' Paul Skenes gives up more than six hits, with seven allowed to the #Reds —yet still allows no runs over six innings. Also: 23 starts in 2024: 1.96 ERA 24 starts in 2025: 1.94 ERA

Over their last six games, the #Nationals have allowed 103 hits over 248 at-bats for a .415 batting average; that’s the most hits conceded over a six-game stretch since the St. Louis Browns gave up 104 in 1936.

In today's First Pitch: * Farewell, Ryno * Emmanuel Clase caught up in gambling probe * Can Cade Smith be Clase on the mound? (Last night's answer: No) * Manfred v. Harper * Astros finally score first, still lose *Ohtani plates his 100th Check it out! thisgreatgame.com

Two years ago, I lost my dear friend and TGG co-creator, Ed Attanasio. Here’s my online eulogy of this wonderful, funny, edgy, and caring man. thisgreatgame.com/ed-attanasio/

Random, upcoming potential feat: If the next five runs batted in by the #Angels' Mike Trout all come on solo home runs, his 400th career HR will also be his 1,000th career RBI.

The #Marlins made it eight straight wins tonight, defeating the visiting #Twins, 2-0. The franchise record is nine straight wins. They are the only #MLB team never to have won 10 straight.

Paul Skenes: Five shutout innings, no win—again. #Pirates

RIP Diego Segui, the only player to perform for both of Seattle's #MLB teams—the 1969 Pilots and the #Mariners, in their first season.

The #Rockies have gone 197 straight games without shutting out an opponent, two shy of the all-time mark (199, St. Louis Browns). Their next three games are at Coors Field...against the #Dodgers. Odds, anyone?

Today's jam-packed First Pitch covers seemingly everything, from a beanball war in LA to a fan altercation in Detroit to Steven Matz's 4 Ks in one inning to Juan Soto's 1,000th & Jac Caglianone's first two, to even ICE. Check it out, if you dare! thisgreatgame.com

In today's First Pitch: Spencer Strider, Rick and Wes Ferrell, Casey Schmitt, Babe Dahlgren, Charlie Finley, Mike Trout, Tim Lincecum, Ebbets Field, Billy Williams and Eddie Waitkus. Check it out! thisgreatgame.com

Today's First Pitch includes names like Paul Skenes, Jeff McNeil, Mel Ott, Clayton Kershaw, Frank McCormick, George Kirby, Dave Parker and Ted Williams, among many others. Check it out! thisgreatgame.com

I trust the #DBacks bought insurance on Corbin Burnes when they signed him to that six-year, $210m contract. #TommyJohn

After giving up 12 runs in his last start, the #Phillies' Jesus Luzardo got nailed for eight runs in just 2.1 innings today against the #BlueJays. No pitcher since 1913 had previously allowed 20 runs over 5.2 or fewer innings through back-to-back starts.

There have been seven games this season in which both teams have scored 10+ runs. The #Diamondbacks have been involved in four of them.

The #Rockies have four different losing streaks of eight games this season. None of those skids extended to a ninth straight loss. Their next game is Monday night at Miami against the 23-34 #Marlins.

A lively, jam-packed First Pitch includes Zack Littell, Junior Caminero, Johan Santana, Michael Wacha, Johnny Mostil, Heyseong Kim, Brandon Pfaadt, Justin Verlander, Nolan Ryan, Theodore Breitenstein and more. Check it out! thisgreatgame.com

The #Rays' Zack Littell, today: * 1st career CG * 117 pitches most thrown by anyone this year; most thrown by TB player since 2017 * 1st CG by TB pitcher since 2021, 2nd since 2016 * 10H allowed—most by pitcher in 9-inning CG since 2018

Jesus Luzardo is mercifully done in Philadelphia, removed one out into the fourth having allowed 12 runs to the #Brewers. That's the most runs allowed by any #Phillies pitcher since Al Jurisich in 1947.

This is not right. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Today's First Pitch evokes Randy Johnson, Frank Chance, Junior Caminero, Forbes Field, Manny Ramirez, Jose Berrios, Harry Hooper, Alexis Diaz and Amos Rusie, among many others. Check it out! thisgreatgame.com

For those going revisionist on Joe Jackson—or believing that the threat to integrity ends with death (looking at you, Rob Manfred), we suggest this read. sports.yahoo.com/article/comm...

Today's First Pitch serves up Dutch Leonard, Andrew Benintendi, Eric Davis, Noah Cameron, Randy Velarde, Paul Skenes, Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Kennedy, among many others. Check it out! thisgreatgame.com

Today's First Pitch chats up Shohei Ohtani, Barry Bonds, the Rockies, Braves Field, Jose Altuve, Ronny Simon, Willie Mays, Carlos Rodon, Jim Thorpe, and many others. Check it out! thisgreatgame.com

The #DBacks' loss at St. Louis drops their season record to 26-27—the first time since April 7 that an NL West team other than the #Rockies has been below .500.

The #Tigers' Tarik Skubal needed just 94 pitches to throw a shutout, striking out 13 #Guardians. Since pitch counts became an official stat in 1988, no pitcher has ever struck out that many batters while throwing a shutout in less than 100 pitches.

The #Marlins' Janson Junk pitched the final 5.1 innings, earning a save in the team's 6-2 win over the #Angels at Anaheim. It's the most innings thrown by a pitcher to earn a save since 2018.

In today's First Pitch, we're talking Rafael Devers, Emmanuel Rivera and that emergency pitcher farce, a long night at Citi Field, Zack Wheeler, Bartolo Colon, Bo Jackson, Jack Pfiester, Crosley Field and the 1984 Tigers. Check it all out! thisgreatgame.com

Hendriks on social media threats and hate messages that he and other players receive: “This is almost a daily occurrence for almost everyone in this clubhouse. That’s the upsetting part, and it's not being controlled in the right way.” Said it’s gotten much worse due to gambling.

Today's First Pitch serves up Tony Fernandez, Logan O'Hoppe, Jared Jones, Al Simmons, Kevin Gausman, Andre Dawson, Tommy John and old Yankee Stadium, among many others. Check it out! thisgreatgame.com