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#OnThisDay in baseball history

.244 batting average, .316 on base percentage, 116 strikeouts (the most he ever had in any season), and a 97 OPS+ in 1996. 🤷🏼‍♂️

#OnThisDay in baseball history

#OnThisDay in baseball history

When a best-of-7 postseason series with the 2-3-2 format has been tied after 4 games, the team playing G5 on the road – before returning home for G6-7 – has gone on to win that series 35 of 61 times (57.4%)

In any best-of-7 series tied 2-2, the G5 winner has won the series 46 of 68 times (67.6%)

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

#OnThisDay in baseball history

Ohtani is amazing and we should all be appreciative of his greatness but it’d be rad to hear anything about any of the other players in this game.

Meghan Markle’s great-great uncle played for one of the greatest baseball teams in history: the 1931 Homestead Grays. And before that, Bill “Happy” Evans played against the banned Black Sox, too.

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Just blows my mind that in 120 years of the postseason a record can be SIX of something and this dude comes along and gets NINE.

Would be like Barry Bonds coming along and hitting 105 home runs in 2001… which tbh maybe he would have if they pitched to him.

Great advice not just for tonight, or a game which happens after an unexpectedly long game the night before, but for ALL sporting events, concerts, and just times out in public.

The people working may be getting paid to be there, but they're still people. Treat them with the kindness they deserve.

The long 2018 game World Series game, which also ended on the first batter of bottom of the 18th but had much LESS action (30 total H+W, as opposed to 50 last night) took FORTY-ONE more minutes. If you’re still wondering about the pitch clock.

#OnThisDay in baseball history

Mark Wegner has been so bad tonight, he has radicalized my mom into wanting robot umpires.

I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED THIS

OK so you know the gag on the Simpsons when Sideshow Bob is stepping on the rakes, it's funny, then it's too much, then it's terrible, then it's transcendently hilarious

this baseball game

Nobody remembers why this game began, all those generations ago. Such details are long lost to history. All we know is that the game must be played

Major League Baseball announces fuck it, it’s the 15th inning, rebroadcast this game, retransmit it. Hell, give your friends accounts of the game. We do not give a shit anymore.

Starting to think a Greek mythology punishment might be in play here. The game is doomed to continue until the Blue Jays are brave enough to pitch to Ohtani.

Ohtani tonight

double
homer
double
homer
intentional walk
intentional walk
intentional walk
intentional walk


totally normal evening

you wouldn't think he could still do things that you insist you've never seen before, and yet

Game 3 of the World Series will continue until morale improves.

Ohtani is the first player to reach base 7 times in a postseason game.

The regular-season record, if you're wondering, is 9x. It's been done 3 times, most recently by Stan Hack of the Cubs in 1942.

Four players have done it 8x, most recently: Melky Cabrera with the Blue Jays in 2014.

I love the “look I discovered this important stat, the BlueJays hit better in wins than losses” hard hitting analysis brought by this crew

TORONTO, ON - OCTOBER 25: Ernie Clement #22 of the Toronto Blue Jays looks on during warm ups prior to Game Two of the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre on Saturday, October 25, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Michael Chisholm/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Ernie Clement is playing right now with a super-old glove he bought on eBay (!) a few months ago. It has no padding left so he’s wearing a batting glove under it.

Tough shit. Manfred even said public shaming was part of their punishment.

How many times are these fools going to mention "everyone in the stadium" standing when literally the entire first row behind home plate (the fans, us viewers, can actually see) have been seated nearly the entire game?

Why continue to harp on that (false thing) when this game has been an all-timer?

Shohei Ohtani is the first player with multiple games with 12+ total bases in a single postseason

Only only player with two such games in a postseason career:

Babe Ruth

I, too, am calling BS