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.063 -- Barry Bonds' career batting average (2-for-32) against Chuck McElroy. Bonds flied out against the Padres left-hander Friday. |
Derek Jeter is closing in on a fourth consecutive 200-hit, 100-run season.
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1 -- Players in history who have hit three home runs in a game three times in the same season. Sammy Sosa became the first with three blasts against Houston on Sunday. |
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1-0 -- The score in Tampa Bay's defeat of Toronto on Sunday, marking the seventh AL game to finish 1-0 this season. |
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1.37 -- Indians pitcher Chuck Finley's ERA in three September starts, all wins, after going 1-2 with a 5.63 ERA in August. Finley went 6-1 in September last season. |
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2.05 -- Twins pitcher Rick Reed's ERA in three September starts, two of them wins, after going 2-3 with a 6.75 ERA in August. |
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4 -- Consecutive losses suffered by the Mariners last week, their first losing streak of at least three games this season. Seattle lost to Anaheim on Thursday and was swept by Oakland before beating Texas on Monday. |
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5 -- Players who have hit two home runs in a game against Atlanta's Greg Maddux. Phillies third baseman Scott Rolen accomplished the feat on Sept. 17. The other four are Luis Gonzalez, Eric Karros, Benito Santiago and Kal Daniels. |
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7 -- Players in history with 200 hits and 100 runs in at least four consecutive seasons. The Yankees' Derek Jeter needs 22 more hits to become the eighth, joining Willie Keeler (1894-1901), Wade Boggs ('83-89), Chuck Klein ('29-33), Charlie Gehringer ('33-37), Paul Waner ('27-30), Bill Terry ('29-32) and Al Simmons ('29-32). |
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11 -- Hits by San Diego's Rickey Henderson in his past nine games, including a 4-for-5 performance Monday night. Henderson is seven hits shy of 3,000 for his career. |
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16 -- Home runs this season by Cincinnati outfielder Adam Dunn, making him the sixth rookie in team history to hit at least 15. The other five were Frank Robinson (38) in 1956, Bernie Carbo (21) in '70, Vada Pinson (20) in '58, Gary Redus (17) in '82 and Johnny Bench (15) in '68. |
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39 -- Record number of major league ballparks in which Fred McGriff, Mark McGwire and Ellis Burks have homered in. McGwire homered for the first time in PNC Park on Thursday and McGriff went deep in Enron Field on Friday. |
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83 -- Extra-base hits by St. Louis' Albert Pujols, breaking the NL rookie mark of 82 set by Brooklyn's Johnny Frederick in 1929. Hal Trosky of Cleveland owns the major league record with 89 in 1934. |
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92 -- Major league games postponed during the six-day suspension of play that began with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. |
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1,291 -- Strikeouts by Milwaukee hitters this season, breaking the all-time record of 1,268 by the 1996 Detroit Tigers. Milwaukee still has 12 games to add to its record. |
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26,277 -- Average attendance in baseball's first 23 games back from the week-long postponement. The leaguewide attendance average was 30,134 before the incidents. |
