Baseball Fact of the Day

[San Diego Padres]

Hello all - I thought this might be a fun thing to add and keep up with during the season. Will try to update as much as I can. Found a crazy one to start with...baseball is insane.


Babe Ruth in first 725 MLB games: 176 HR

Shohei Ohtani in first 725 MLB games: 176 HR



Babe Ruth in his first 481.2 IP in the MLB:

37-19 W-L

Shohei Ohtani in his first 481.2 IP in the MLB:

38-19 W-L

(Pulled this from WTF Sports on Twitter). 

[San Diego Padres]

In 1957, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs conducted a huge trade. How huge? They traded their entire minor-league teams! As the Dodgers were preparing to move West and the Cubs were wanting a change, both teams decided to spice things up and traded their entire 25-man minor league roster.

(MLB.com)

[San Diego Padres]

Cy Young (Yes, that Cy Young) has a higher career batting average (.210) than Joey Gallo (.195). Found this while searching who has the lowest career AVG with 3000+ PA.
Gallo is 3rd lowest.

Per Eric Cross on Twitter

[San Diego Padres]

Been a bit I know but thought this was a cool stat.

The fastest-ever MLB game lasted just 51 minutes. The current average is 2 hours and 36 minutes, so this was a lightning fact game.

The record-setting game occurred on September 28, 1919, when the New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies.

The game was so short as the two teams wanted to break the previous record set a few years earlier, so they both played as fast as they possibly could with little care for the score.

From thefactsite

[Boston Red Sox]

What a cool idea. Keep it up. Do you have or did you have the oft Hyped Joey G?