What is the largest deficit overcome in baseball?

12 Runs: Detroit Tigers 16, Chicago White Sox 15 (June 18, 1911) That the Tigers secured the majors' second-most comeback wins (42) in 1911 is noteworthy, but it still barely explains the unlikeliness of a team overcoming a 13-1 deficit for a win.
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What is the biggest deficit comeback in MLB playoff history?

The Philadelphia A's set the mark for the biggest postseason comeback win in 1929, both in terms of largest deficit (eight) and lowest win expectancy (0.5%) overcome.
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What is the biggest loss in MLB history?

The modern record still belongs to the 2007 Texas Rangers, who defeated the Baltimore Orioles by a 30-3 mark on August 22, 2007.
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What is the largest win margin in MLB history?

The largest margin of victory in a Major League Baseball game is 30 runs, which occurred when the New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles by a score of 30–0 on August 24, 2007. In baseball history, it has been the most common method of victory: one run.
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Who was the first MLB player to earn $1000000 a year?

Nolan Ryan becomes baseball's first million dollar man | Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Has an MLB team ever allowed 1000 runs in a season?

Since 1900, seven teams have scored 1,000 or more runs in a season, the most recent being the 1999 Cleveland Indians, who scored 1,009 runs to become the first team since the 1950 Boston Red Sox (1,027) to reach four digits.
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What is the biggest 9th inning deficit overcome?

That got us thinking: What is the largest come-from-behind victory in the final frame in big league history? Well, it appears to have happened on April 25, 1901. Down 13-4 in the bottom of the ninth, the Detroit Tigers came back to beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 14-13.
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Who is the closest MLB player to 3000 hits?

The next closest player to the club is Hank Aaron, with 3,771 hits.
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What is the biggest scandal in baseball history?

The 1919 World Series resulted in the most famous scandal in baseball history, often referred to as the Black Sox Scandal. Eight players from the Chicago White Sox (nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds.
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Has any MLB team scored 30 runs in a game?

Every starter reached base at least twice during June 8's 29-4 torching of the Browns. At the time, 29 runs set a new MLB high, which was later matched by the White Sox, before the Texas Rangers recorded 30 on Aug. 22, 2007.
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Has an MLB team ever won a game without a hit?

If someone told you that a team recorded no hits in a baseball game, you would probably -- and reasonably -- assume that team lost said game. Well, on June 28, 2008, the Dodgers beat that Angels despite not recording a single hit in the game.
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What is the biggest blown lead in MLB playoff history?

1. 2004 New York Yankees. Only once in baseball history has a team come from behind 3-0 in a best-of-seven series.
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Has any team overcome 3 1 deficit World Series?

MLB teams have overcome 3–1 deficits 14 times (including one 3–0 deficit), six of which occurred in the World Series.
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What is the largest comeback in playoff history?

Though surpassed by the Minnesota Vikings in 2022, the Bills' 32-point comeback remains the largest comeback in postseason history and the second largest overall. It was also the first time an NFL team with a lead of at least 30 points lost the game, and the only one until the aforementioned Colts–Vikings game in 2022.
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Is a 27 pitch game possible?

No, there has never been a 27-strikeout baseball game. The all-time record for strikeouts in a 9-inning game is 20. This has been done by both Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox, and Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs.
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Has any pitcher thrown 3 pitch inning?

Oakland A's Lou Trivino throws 3-pitch inning, a surprisingly rare feat - Athletics Nation.
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Who is the only pitcher to win the 3 decades?

When Palmer earned the win in Game 3 of the 1983 World Series against the Phillies, he became the first pitcher in major league history to win a World Series game in three different decades. He also threw a no-hitter against Oakland in 1969 and, remarkably, never surrendered a grand slam in his entire career.
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What is the biggest 9th inning comeback in MLB history?

1. 9 Runs: Detroit Tigers 14, Milwaukee Brewers 13 (April 25, 1901) An overflow crowd of 10,000-plus was on hand at Detroit's Bennett Park for the Tigers' first MLB game in the new AL, but the grandstand had thinned out by the time the home team came to bat in the ninth inning down 13-4.
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What is the rarest accomplishment in baseball?

The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.
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What is the biggest single game comeback in the World Series?

Game 1 of the 2022 World Series was filled with excitement from start to finish, as the Philadelphia Phillies came back from a 5-0 deficit to defeat the Houston Astros 6-5 in extra innings. The Phillies' victory marked the largest comeback by a National League team in a World Series game since 1956. The new Mr.
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Do any MLB pitchers throw 100 mph?

In the pitch-tracking era (since 2008), there have been 223 MLB pitchers to hit 100 on the radar gun, according to Baseball Savant's Statcast. Almost half of those have happened since 2018. The Twins have had only four pitchers reach triple digits in this era: Duran, Jorge Alcala, Brusdar Graterol and Juan Morillo.
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Has anyone ever gone 7 for 7 in an MLB game?

Prior to Stennett, 43 players in modern baseball history had recorded a 6-for-6 game, including Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Paul Waner. However no batter in the modern era had been able to go 7-for-7 in a nine-inning game.
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Has there ever been 5 home runs in one inning?

Astros tie MLB record with 5 home runs in 1 inning, all off Red Sox's Nathan Eovaldi. The Houston Astros exploded on Tuesday with five home runs in the second inning off Boston Red Sox starter Nathan Eovaldi.
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