Lou gehrig did you know that grand slam records during a career, single season, and game can be found in baseball almanacs grand slam record book. Jim gentile becomes the first major league baseball player to. Baseball genius 3 jeter publishing kindle edition by green, tim, jeter, derek. Jan 22, 2014 hobbs hit a grand slam to beat philadelphia. White sox slugger jose abreu already has two grand slams. Baseball almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for grand slams including career grand slam records, single season grand slam records and game related grand slam records. When diving into the record books we found that the only other national league team to have thre.
The following lists statistical records and alltime leaders as well as awards and major accomplishments for the chicago cubs professional baseball club of major league baseball. Hafner, mattingly hold singleyear grand slam record. Hafners 6th grand slam ties mattingly the new york times. The white sox put up eighteen hits and scored in each of the first five innings in a dominant performance highlighted by venturas accomplishment. All records are based on official data from the majors.
Grand slam scorebooks is a revolutionary concept that combines a scorebook with a lineup card into one. A bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the previous major league season. The 10 slams surrendered by nolan ryan, one of the most unhittable pitchers in history, is the most alltime. Aug 27, 2020 the padres broke the major league record earlier in the week when eric hosmer hit a grand slam, making the club the first ever to hit a grand slam in four straight games. Travis hafner tied mattinglys major league record in 2006, while in 2009, albert pujols tied the one.
There are certain years that trigger immediate associations in any baseball fans mind. Starstudded draw held for firstever diriyah tennis cup. Apr 23, 1999 6 rick hummel, it was grand night for tatis. Don mattingly and travis hafner share the singleseason record with six grand slams each in mattinglys case, these were the only grand slams of his major league career. A grand slam every game a repeating highlight that was each unique in its own way. Baseball almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for grand slams including career grand slam records, single season grand. Holding a career record almost guarantees a player eventual entry into the baseball hall of fame because it represents both longevity and consistency over a long period of time. Indians slugger, yankees great each knocked six slams in historic seasons. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Aug 20, 2020 padres slam their way into mlb record books eric hosmer of the padres celebrates with manny machado after hitting a grand slam in the fifth inning thursday at petco park. Please email your requests and baseball almanac will do the research.
These are the 10 active baseball players with the most grand slams. List of major league baseball singlegame grand slam. Record categories use the following links to find a specific category or scroll down to view entire record book. The draw for thursdays opening day of the diriyah tennis cup, presented by saudi aramco, has served up a mouthwatering set of quarterfinals for the kingdoms firstever international. May 09, 2012 all total, players in the history of the game have managed two grand slams in the same game. I could have been hit another 100 times if i hadnt gotten out of the way. Mccoveys 18 slams remain a record among players who spent their careers exclusively in the nl, with 10 of them cutting through the wind at candlestick park. Aug 14, 2006 now, hafner has matched mattinglys grand slam record. Whether 2014 will produce such a season is yet to be written, but a tremendous crop of baseball books guarantees this year to be one for the publishing annals. Nov 20, 2014 there would not be another walkoff grand slam in a threerun game until babe ruth duplicated the feat on september 24, 1925. Notebook grand slam by felix hernandez is one for the books.
Minnesota fared fine without him, but detroits rookie outfielder continues to make an impression, both with his new team and in the record books. Pete rose logged more than 14,000 atbats including 196 with the bases loaded and hit just one slam. But it was his grand slam in the second inning and two more in the third. Grand slam record s major leagu e baseball record s for gran d slams. Alex rodriguez currently holds the record for most career grand slams with 25. But in case you were curious, here are the owners of the most career grand slams in major league history. Aug 20, 2020 but the four grand slams are whats left in permanent ink in the record books. Eastern league, at buffalo baseball park, buffalo, ny. Mar 15, 2021 three is the record for most grand slams in a single game by a team in ncaa history. Northrup led the 1968 tigers in hits and rbis, hit five grand slams, broke up three nohitters, and had the gamewinning triple off bob gibson in game 7 of the 1968 world series.
Grand slam records set by mlb teams research by baseball almanac on june 9, 1998, during the third inning, anaheim played arizona and each team hit a grand slam in the third inning making this the first interleague game in major league history with two grand slams in one inning of play. Ernie banks and albert pujols share the singleseason national league record with five grand slams each. Wildcats record historic grand slam string and walk. Every team which had a player hit two grand slams won their milestone games. Hafner, in 2006, registered his second grand slam on may 17 and his third on june 3. Grand slam scorebooks the only scorebook with the write.
Four different players hit grand slams for the padres in their past four games setting a record in major league baseball. Padres slam their way into mlb record books the san. No player has accomplished the feat more than once in his career and no. Aug 21, 2020 per the air force baseball record books, mcbroom ripped a singlegame record five extrabase hits two doubles, two home runs, and one triple to go along with four singles thats 19 total. The 9 most obscure baseball records and feats audacy. San diego padres break mlb record with 4 consecutive games. Baseball individual most grand slams career record holder state data media.
When diving into the record books we found that the only other national league team to have three consecutive games with a grand slam. Aug 20, 2020 three consecutive games with grand slams was a feat in itself. An ultimate grand slam is classified as a player hitting a basesloaded, walkoff homer when his team enters its final atbat trailing by three runs. List of major league baseball singlegame grand slam leaders. He hit an opposite field double when the pitcher was trying to intentionally walk him. Meanwhile, don mattingly set the oneseason record with six grand slams in 1987 remarkably, the only grand slams of his major league career. Grand slams league by league totals on baseball almanac. Aug 21, 2020 it marked the fourth consecutive game a padres player has hit a grand slam, breaking a record they shared with the 1895 cleveland spiders. San diego padres break mlb record with 4 consecutive games with. Jim lafountain and college baseballs unbreakable record.
Baseball wedding sign, baseball decor, baseball grand slam wedding baseball sign, 8x1016x20 rustic wood style printable instant download printsbymadesign 5 out of 5 stars 9,122. Many teams have hit two grand slams in one game, but on august 25, 2011, the new york yankees became the first team in major league history. He former major league career grand slam leader lou gehrig just went out and did his job every day. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading grand slam. Lets start here, because this is probably the most.
The year 1925 wasnt just the year gehrig took over for wally pipp at first base. World series grand slam by billings pitcher dave mcnally. Grand slam baseball the armory power pitching academy. Rangers allow recordsetting grand slam in fourth consecutive. Of course, it shouldnt be too shocking considering that the tatis family now owns the grand slam record book. Milwuakees brewers on april 5, 1978, complete the first series of the season, sweeping the baltimores orioles in all 3 games with scorelines from 1 1 163 and 5. Jim palmer faced more than 16,000 batters across three different decades, and never surrendered one. They are the only team in mlb history to hit a grand slam home run in 4. Padres slam their way into mlb record books the san diego. In the shadow of jose pujols 600th career home run, the first grand slam to ever bring a player into the 600homerun club, mike zunino hit the seventh grand slam in the majors on saturday setting a new singleday major league record.
These are records for grand slam tournaments, also known as majors, which are the four most prestigious annual tennis events. Apr 05, 2021 to say baddoo haunted his old team with a grand slam might be a dramatization given the tigers 156 loss to the twins on monday at comerica park. Cards third baseman basks in 15 minutes of fame after slams, st. List of grand slam related tennis records wikipedia. Trainers of saudi cup runners share thoughts on track work in. The most grand slams hit over the course of a career by any player is currently 23, accomplished by lou gehrig. These games have resulted in other singlegame mlb records being set due to the prodigious offensive performance. The revolutionary write once system combined with a multitude of other features makes scorekeeping for baseball and softball easy for any age. Baseball grand slam suncatcher kit classroom valentine for kids valentines day gifts for boys sports kids craft kit arts and crafts punchofcolor. On june 3, 2017, a record breaking seven grand slams were hit on one day.
Those record books are going to have to make room for caleb pendleton now. The overall mlb records for career pinchhit at bats 804 and pinch hits 212. With 23 grand slams, lou gehrig held the alltime record until 20. Baseball records and baseball record books baseball almanac. Feb 23, 2021 grand slam baseball genius series, book 3 tim green, derek jeter on. Major league baseball record for consecutive grand slams. The record for most home runs in a single game is eight, held by jay nig clarke. He scored a gamewinning run by crashing into the catcher and knocking the ball free. Also that season, mattingly set a major league record by hitting six grand slams in a season two during his july home run streak, a record matched by travis hafner during the 2006 season. Mlb career 196473 and just three of those were grand slams but. Its officially the grandest day in major league baseball history. Mattingly had a record 10 home runs during this streak long and griffey had eight during their streaks. This website is a private project and has no official relation with or sanction from the midwest league or minor league baseball. Four or more home runs in a single game society for american.
Career leaders for grand slams top 1,000 listed below are the top 1,000 grand slam hitters in major leauge history, players that made it their career terrorizing pitchers when they stepped to the plate. San diego padres set mlb record with grand slam in fourth. We searched the division i college baseball record book to find the. Eric hosmers fifthinning grand slam gave the padres grand slams in four straight games, a first in mlb history. Each of these greats has hit the really big one not just your regular every day home run, but the all exciting, game altering, grand slam.
Sep 04, 1995 chicago white sox third baseman robin ventura joined the record books by blasting two grand slam home runs in a 143 victory over the texas rangers in a monday night game at the ballpark in arlington. Hafner was 10 years old when mattingly assaulted the record books, and suddenly his name stood alongside. There have been 27 instances on record since 1925 of a player hitting an ultimate grand slam, though playbyplay data is incomplete prior to 1974, so some instances might be missing. Hell do in a pinch baseball roundtable goes deep into the. Baseball almanac is pleased to present the top 1,000 alltime career leaders in grand slams. Apr 27, 2018 both of those are still records in college baseball. Colby guy is the editorinchief for the university press. In baseball, a grand slam is a home run that is hit when all three bases are loaded, thereby scoring four runsthe most possible in one play. Apr 23, 2020 a line drive into the dodgers bullpen and a shot into the leftfield pavilion put tatis in baseball s record book as the first player to hit two grand slams in one inning. Some of historys greatest players sit atop the alltime grand slam leaderboard, according to baseball almanac, including alex rodriguez, manny ramirez, and lou gehrig. The ticket became a keepsake after dave mcnally of billings belted his grand slam homer in the bottom of the sixth inning. Oct 11, 2020 here is an authentic ticket from game 3 of the 1970 world series. Hafner hit his sixth grand slam in clevelands 11run first inning to tie mattinglys singleseason record sunday, and the indians.
Cal hits two grand slams, but only one officially, in. List of major league baseball career records wikipedia. Alex rodriguez hit 24 career grand slams, the most by any player in major league baseball history, passing lou gehrigs 23 on september 20, 20. Tony lazzeri was the first player to hit two grand slams in a single game, doing so for the new york yankees against the philadelphia athletics on may 24, 1936. When diving into the record books we found that the only other national league team to have three. Thirteen players have hit two grand slams in a single major league baseball mlb game to date, the most recent being josh willingham of the washington nationals on july 27, 2009. Caleb pendleton makes history by hitting two grand. Stretch knocked at least one grand slam in nine consecutive seasons from 196472, tied with rodriguez for the longest streak in history. Grand slam records set by baseball teams, a baseball record book by baseball. The names of active players appear in boldface for their career totals and currently active streaks.
White sox slugger jose abreu already has two grand slams in. From nfl plays to college sports scores, all the top. Barbershop owner was montagues mane man in three grand slam game updated jan 19, 2019. Baseball genius 3 jeter publishing and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Only eight teams had accomplished such a task in the 50 years of division i baseball for which the ncaa has. Mark mcgwire even once commented that during his seventy home run season the media was counting the number of cups of coffee he actually drank each and every day. Jalen deluca applies his baseball genius to his own playing in the followup to. Sixto lezcano, gorman thomas and cecil cooper, connect grand slam in every game to set record. The records list the top 5 players in each category since the inception of the cubs.
Grand slam state tournament ages 6u to 15u sponsored by dicks 060506062021 alabaster, centreville, montevallo, tuscaloosa, trussville, lincoln, al and surrounding areas. Alex rodriguez has 25 career grand slams, the most by any player in mlb history. These games have resulted in other singlegame mlb records being set due to. Apr 07, 2021 in mattinglys record season, he didnt hit his second grand slam until june 29 and his third until july 10. Jim gentile becomes the first major league baseball player. The four previous teams to hit two grand slams in the same inning were the 1962 minnesota twins, the 1969 houston astros, the 1980 milwaukee brewers, and the 1986 baltimore orioles. Do you know how many players in major league history have hit two grand slams during the same inning. Only one player has hit a grand slam in each end of a doubleheader. Ive never seen it, i think youll have to look at some record books. Five other players have tied lafountains record of two grand slams in an inning a feat that hadnt been achieved before 1976, yet no one. The first was tony lazzeri on may 24, 1936 and the last to date was josh willingham on july 27, 2009. Posted may 26, 2016 zac jancek record book for grand slams. Per the air force baseball record books, mcbroom ripped a singlegame record five extrabase hits two doubles, two home runs, and one triple to go along with four singles thats 19 total. According to mlb stats, cronenworth is the third player with a threehomer game this season and the first padre ever to do it since june 2019.
From scorekeeping, records, and statistics to schedules, salaries, travel budgets, ticket prices, refreshments, baseball card profits and losses, and fantasy leagues, this book s reproducible handouts give students reason to practice skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, percents, ratios, averages, estimation, and especially. In major league baseball mlb, records play an integral part in evaluating a players impact on the sport. In baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by baserunners. The 10 active baseball players with the most grand slams. Baseball is the only professional sport where every single thing that every player on the field does is recorded good or bad. Most grand slams in a season by every major league baseball team. Only four players in baseball history have ever had 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases during the same season do you know who they are. Is there a record book you would like to see listed.
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