No pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) history has thrown two perfect games, but Jean Faut of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) is the only professional baseball player to achieve this feat, pitching two perfect games in 1951 and 1953. In MLB, there have been 24 official perfect games, with no pitcher throwing more than one, though the years 2010-2012 saw a rare cluster of them.
No major league player has ever thrown two perfect games, although Jean Faut of the AAGPBL accomplished the feat with perfect games in 1951 and 1953.
Ron Hassey is the only catcher in MLB history to have caught more than one perfect game. His first was with pitcher Len Barker (for the Cleveland Indians against the Toronto Blue Jays) in 1981 and his second was with pitcher Dennis Martínez (for the Montreal Expos against the Los Angeles Dodgers) in 1991.
Ron Necciai apparently struck out 27 in a no hitter for the Bristol Twins against the Welch Miners on May 13, 1952.
Aroldis Chapman _thecubanmissile54 owns the fastest verified MLB pitch: 106 mph (2011).
Aaron Judge reached 350 career HRs in 1,088 games, 192 games faster than anyone else in MLB history.
Nolan Ryan threw 235 pitches and struck out 19 batters in 13 innings and ended up getting a no decision against the Red Sox, 1974 His opponent, Luis Tiant, went 14 1/3 innings before surrendering Denny Doyle's walk-off double in the bottom of the 15th.
1. Yogi Berra- Good luck trying to dispute this one: he won three MVP awards (1951, 1954 and 1955), made 15 All-Star game appearances, caught Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series and boasts an unprecedented 10 World Series rings.
Shohei Ohtani became the first player in baseball history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season. He hit 3 homers today; he's trying for 60/60.
Montreal Expos outfielder Otis Nixon stole six bases in 1991 and the Rockies' Eric Young had six steals in 1996 before Carl Crawford of Tampa Bay posted six steals in one game in 2009. Gwynn raised his batting average four points on the day to . 335.
Mason Miller is the new No. 1 flamethrower in recorded postseason history. Miller struck out the Cubs' Carson Kelly with a 104.5 mph fastball in the bottom of the seventh inning during the Padres' 3-0 win in Game 2 of the National League Wild Card Series on Wednesday afternoon at Wrigley Field.
He is tied with Bob Feller for the most one-hitters, with 12. Ryan also pitched 18 two-hitters. Despite this, he never pitched a perfect game, nor did he ever win a Cy Young Award; both were largely attributed to his high walk rate.
“No player in baseball history has ever hit five home runs in a game!” This 2025 season has been the Year of the Four-Homer Game. Schwarber did it that night. Eugenio Suárez, now with the Mariners, did it for the Diamondbacks in an April 26 loss to the Braves.
On July 14, Raleigh became the first catcher to ever win the MLB Home Run Derby. He continued his hot streak on July 26, when he became the first catcher to hit 40 home runs before August in MLB history.
1 Barry Bonds#, 72.7 2 Ted Williams, 67.9, HOF 3 Rickey Henderson, 57.6, HOF 4 Carl Yastrzemski, 55.5, HOF 5 Ed Delahanty, 48.6, HOF 6 Al Simmons, 45.5, HOF 7 Pete Rose, 44.9 8 Goose Goslin, 43.5, HOF 9 Ralph Kiner, 42.8, HOF 10 Tim Raines, 42.4, HOF 11 Billy Williams, 41.4, HOF 12 Manny Ramirez#, 40.0 13 Minnie Minosa ...
400 season: Ty Cobb (1911), George Sisler (1922), and Rogers Hornsby (1925). Rap Dixon, Tip O'Neill, Nap Lajoie, Josh Gibson (twice), Willie Wells, Mule Suttles, Oscar Charleston (twice), Heavy Johnson, and Rogers Hornsby (twice) also earned the Triple Crown in their . 400 season.
In 1974, Nolan Ryan set the Guinness World Record for the fastest-recorded baseball pitch with a 100.9 mph fastball. With today's technology, it's estimated to have been 108.1 mph.
31 years ago, on August 4, 1993 Robin Ventura became the only major league baseball player to ever get six hits in one inning. The hits were administered by 46-year-old Texan Nolan Ryan, who was 20 years older than Ventura.
The best power-speed combo seasons ever
The 50-50 Club had its first member in 2024, when Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani accomplished the feat with a performance for the ages on Sept. 19.