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The Chargers are the second team in NFL history to lose back-to-back games by double digits with both coming at home against teams that had a sub-.200 win pct the previous season.
The other was the 1926 Racine Tornadoes (Oct. 10-17), who played just one more game before folding.
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Elly De La Cruz during his 23-game on-base streak:
21 singles
10 doubles
8 home runs
23 runs scored
10 walks
4 stolen bases
Only one other MLB player in the modern era has reached all of those marks over any 23-game span: Lou Gehrig (June 9-30, 1930).
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Tonight the @Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong & Alex Bregman:
each had 3 extra-base hits
each hit a home run
each hit a triple
The last pair of MLB teammates to do that in the same game was Willie Mays & Daryl Spencer for the Giants on May 13, 1958.
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The @Brewers' Pat Murphy has reached the playoffs and won at least 93 games in all three seasons with Milwaukee.
The last MLB manager to do that in his first three seasons with a franchise was Hall of Famer Dick Williams for the A's between 1971-73.
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Pete Alonso is the only player in MLB history to:
hit a milestone HR (any multiple of 100)
tie the game in the 9th or later
go deep against his former team
...all on one swing of the bat.
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Brayan Rocchio now has 4 career walkoff hits in September:
9/18/2024 vs. Twins (single)
9/28/2025 vs. Rangers (HR)
9/4/2026 vs. Tigers (HR)
9/15/2026 vs. White Sox (double)
No other MLB player in the last 50 years has had more than 2 walkoff hits in September at 25 or younger.
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Yordan Alvarez has been intentionally walked 32 times this season, 19 more than any other American League player in 2026.
That would be the largest gap between the AL's leader in IBB and the AL player with the next most in any of the last 70 seasons.
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Most walkoff HR while trailing in a season, MLB history:
4 - 2006 Reds
4 - 2014 White Sox
4 - 2026 @Dbacks
Kenneth Walker III for the @Chiefs tonight:
✅ 150+ rushing yards
✅ 60+ yard rushing TD
✅ receiving TD
✅ more total net yards than the opposing team
✅ more points than the opposing team
The last NFL player to do all of that in one game was Bo Jackson on November 30, 1987.
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Pete Crow-Armstrong of the @Cubs has now had 7 games this season with:
4+ hits
multiple XBH
a home run
That's the most by any MLB player in a single season in the modern era.
Reid Detmers over his last 5 starts:
35 K
2 R
2 BB
1 XBH
He’s the only MLB pitcher in the modern era to achieve those marks or better over a five-start span.
Jaxson Dart is the first QB in NFL history to have a season opener with:
3+ passing TDs
50+ rushing yards
130.0+ passer rating
The Chicago Bears are the first team in NFL history to score 50+ points and allow 30+ points in a team's first game of a season.
1 - Jackie Young is the first player on Opta record to record 15+ points, 5+ rebounds and 5+ assists in a FIBA Women's World Cup final.
Clutch.
#FIBAWWC#
Jahmyr Gibbs enters the day with 49 scrimmage TDs in 49 career games played.
With a TD today, he would be the 5th player in NFL history with 50+ scrimmage TD in his first 50 career games joining Chuck Foreman (55), Jim Brown (53), Larry Johnson (52) and Marcus Allen (51).
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Jeremiah Smith had 8 catches for 164 yards and a receiving touchdown in Ohio State's loss tonight.
The last player to reach those totals for the AP No. 1 team in a loss was Florida's Reidel Anthony on November 30, 1996.
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Drake Baldwin is set to play in his 250th career game today. He is two hits shy of becoming the 5th catcher since 1920 to record 250+ hits and 150+ RBI through his first 250 games (Brian McCann, Mike Piazza, Yogi Berra, Rudy York; Based on primary position through that season).
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Carlos Rodon over his last 24 starts:
Zero games allowing 4+ runs
Zero games allowing 2+ home runs
Zero games pitching 3.0 or fewer innings
He joins Jacob deGrom (2018-19) as the only pitchers in MLB's modern era to have no such games over a 24-start span.
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Shota Imanaga has allowed just one total run over his six career starts against the Pirates. He's the first MLB pitcher to allow no more than one run over any span of six starts against a single opponent since Juan Marichal did so against the Mets from 1965-66.
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This is the first time in NFL history the top 2 finishers in the MVP voting the previous season each had their team score 10 or fewer points in the season opener.
