Achievements never seen in MLB (theoretical possible)

[alko]

MLB is well know for myriads of statistics. Is there any achievement, somehow possible, but never seen in MLB?

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[Cas]

MLB is well know for myriads of statistics. Is there any achievement, somehow possible, but never seen in MLB?

Five home runs in a game, twenty-seven strikeouts in a game, one hundred runs scored in a game... Because baseball games have no theoretical maximum length, you can think of any ludicrously large number of events in a single game.

Pitching a perfect game where your team commits an error - this has nothing to do with game length. Having a perfect (1.000) winning percentage, as a pitcher, in a large number of decisions (the record was 18-1, set by relief pitcher Elroy Face in 1959, but apparently a Max Fried, of whom I have never heard, went 7-0 last year in 11 starts and actually achieved this).

 

[Terry Yake]

i think we'll see 5 HRs in a game one day

mike cameron came so close in '02 but he flied out to the warning track in his last AB

 

[Vamos Rafa]

i think we'll see 5 HRs in a game one day

mike cameron came so close in '02 but he flied out to the warning track in his last AB

I remember that.

That also reminds me of the 2006 game between the Padres and the Dodgers. LA hit 4 HR in a row in the 9th and Julio Lugo’s warning track power sent the ball to the track and almost hit it out. That was the last time a team came close to hitting 5 HR in a row in a single game, which has never happened before.

 

[Perennial]

Fernando Tatis with 2 grand slams in the same inning is still the most ridiculous feat I'm aware of...

I wonder what the odds are of that record ever being broken?

1 in a million? 1 in a billion? 1 in a trillion?

 

[darko]

20+ strikeouts by a pitcher. I think the record of 20 will get broken soon.

 

[Perennial]

Complete game shutout with only 27 pitches thrown...

 

[darko]

I remember that.

That also reminds me of the 2006 game between the Padres and the Dodgers. LA hit 4 HR in a row in the 9th and Julio Lugo’s warning track power sent the ball to the track and almost hit it out. That was the last time a team came close to hitting 5 HR in a row in a single game, which has never happened before.

4 home runs in a row has only been done 9 times ever. JD Drew is only player to be involved twice.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

5 hits in a inning without scoring a run

 

[Cas]

Fernando Tatis with 2 grand slams in the same inning is still the most ridiculous feat I'm aware of...

I wonder what the odds are off that record ever being broken?

1 in a million? 1 in a billion? 1 in a trillion?

If you take a huge home run hitter, they may have a roughly 1 in 10/11 chance to hit a home run in any particular at-bat, so homering in two consecutive at-bats would be about a 1 in 100 chance, and three 1 in a 1000. The real difficulty would be in loading the bases three times in the same inning before the home run hitter. If you assume the entire lineup has a .400 OBP (maybe because the pitching they're facing is terrible, and they're a really good team), the odds are on the order of, what, 0.4 to the 22nd power (you need 22 batters in one inning), which is about 1 in 568 million. Since you can accept two outs, the odds should be better than that, but you also have to factor in extra-base hits, runners taking the extra base, stolen bases, and so on that would reduce the odds (because there might not be loaded bases for our home run hitter), and you also have to factor in the odds of the home runs occurring, so I think 1 in a trillion might be about accurate.

 

[Terry Yake]

5 hits in a inning without scoring a run

that's a good one

how would that even be done?

 

[Vamos Rafa]

that's a good one

how would that even be done?

Lead off single
Another single, baserunner tries to advance to third but gets tagged out.
Another single, men on 1st and 2nd with one out.
4th single in a row but runner from 2nd tries to score and gets thrown out at the plate. 1st and 2nd again but now two outs.
Infield single to make it 5 hits in a row. Everyone is safe and now the bases are loaded.
Strikeout. Inning over.

Yeah, I had to think that through lol.

 

[alko]

Some funny (+ Fernando Tatis with 2 grand slams) moments in video

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

that's a good one

how would that even be done?

single
Pickoff
Single
Pickoff
Single
Single
Single
Strikeout

 

[Unholy Diver]

single
Pickoff
Single
Pickoff
Single
Single
Single
Strikeout

You could also go with

Single, Single, Single,

out stealing home,

single,

out stealing home,

single,

out stealing home or strikeout, or flyout or groundout

 

[Ozamataz Buckshank]

20+ strikeouts by a pitcher. I think the record of 20 will get broken soon.

Strikeouts are increasing so it's possible, but pitchers also get very few opportunities to even strike out that many batters now since the complete game is a dying concept.

 

[Lunatik]

that's a good one

how would that even be done?

You could even do it with 5 consecutive hits, including a leadoff triple and a double.
1. Triple, thrown out at the plate going for an inside the park job
2. Double, caught stealing 3rd/picked off
3. Single
4. Single
5. Single
6. Out

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

5 strike outs in a single inning has never happened

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

I know it's happened once before, but throwing a no hitter and losing the game is a WTF one for sure.

I'd like to see a double golden sombrero in a game, seems more and more likely with the 3 outcomes approach infiltrating the game

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Fernando Tatis with 2 grand slams in the same inning is still the most ridiculous feat I'm aware of...

I wonder what the odds are off that record ever being broken?

1 in a million? 1 in a billion? 1 in a trillion?

To take make that even more unreachable is the fact both were off the same pitcher. No way a pitcher stays in long enough to go that today.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I know it's happened once before, but throwing a no hitter and losing the game is a WTF one for sure.

I'd like to see a double golden sombrero in a game, seems more and more likely with the 3 outcomes approach infiltrating the game

Andy Hawkins who was pitching for the Yankees gave up 4 runs, no hits in 8 innings and lost. MLB no longer recognizes no hitter in a loss

 

[darko]

To take make that even more unreachable is the fact both were off the same pitcher. No way a pitcher stays in long enough to go that today.

Chan Ho Park haha.

 

[c9777666]

Will we ever see a player hit 3 grand slams in 1 game?

 

[GKJ]

Andy Hawkins who was pitching for the Yankees gave up 4 runs, no hits in 8 innings and lost. MLB no longer recognizes no hitter in a loss

I think Jared Weaver lost a game 1-0 to the dodgers and threw an 8-inning no hitter? If you throw 9 but lose that’s bullshit because you still threw a no hitter, you just didn’t win. No hits is no hits.

 

[Perennial]

I believe Pedro Martinez lost a no-hitter in extra innings with the Expos...