Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (April 25-May 1)
GENO: When Scooter Gennett had his four-homer game on June 6, 2017 for the Reds, Eugenio Suárez played third base. With his own four-homer game on Saturday, Suárez became the first player to both have a four-homer game and appear in another game where a teammate hit four home runs in his career in MLB history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Snakes alive: It was the first four-homer game since J.D. Martinez did it on September 4, 2017, also for the D-backs, under the direction of Torey Lovullo. He’s the first manager to manage two four-homer games from individuals. The D-backs are the fourth franchise with multiple individual four-homer games, joining the Phillies (three), Braves (three) and Dodgers. Those three teams began playing before 1900. The D-backs began in 1998.
Home sweet home: On Sunday, the Red Sox became the first team with a stolen base of home in consecutive games since the Marlins in August 2020. It was the first time the Red Sox had done so in consecutive games within a season in at least the expansion era (1961), per Elias. Including Saturday, Jarren Duran's three career SB of home are the most by a Red Sox player in at least the expansion era (1961).
Speedy Corbin Barrels: On Sunday, Corbin Carroll tripled in the first inning, going 11.02 sec. home-to-third, the fastest in MLB this year. Then he one-upped himself, with a 10.87 sec. home-to-third time on his second triple. He became the first player with two sub-11.05 sec. home-to-thirds in a game under Statcast (2015).
Good start: On Sunday, Agustín Ramírez became the first player in at least the last 125 seasons to have three games with multiple extra-base hits within his first five career games. Ramirez’s seven extra-base hits tied for the most by a player in his first five career games (since at least 1901), with Rece Hinds (2024), Rowdy Tellez (2018), Jorge Soler (2014), Will Middlebrooks (2012) and Chris Dickerson (2008).
Walk(-off) this way: The Giants’ win Sunday on Heliot Ramos’ little league home run was the team’s fifth walk-off win of the month. Five walk-off wins are the Giants’ most in April in a season. The last time they had at least this many in a calendar month before this past week was May 2013 (also five).
Finding Nimmo: On Monday, Brandon Nimmo became the third player with nine RBIs in a three-inning span within a game since RBI became official (1920), Sammy Sosa (2002) and Ivan Rodriguez (1999), per Elias. Nimmo became the second player with nine RBIs in a game in the sixth inning or later in that span, joining Mike Moustakas on September 12, 2015.
Deja vu all over again: Tuesday was the second time in Yankees history they hit four home runs in a first inning of a game. They also did it on March 29. The Yankees are the first team to hit four home runs in the first inning multiple times in the same season in MLB history. It was also the second time in Yankees history they started a game with three straight home runs. They also did it on March 29. And you guessed it, the Yankees are the first team to go back-to-back-to-back to start a game twice in the same season.
Big wins: The Yankees, Rangers and Dodgers all won by at least 12 runs on Tuesday. That tied for the second-most such wins on a day in MLB history. It was the first time it happened since July 29, 2021 and 15th since 1900. The only day with more? May 24, 1884 with four such wins.
Current Ironman: Matt Olson has played 650 consecutive games entering Friday, dating to May 2, 2021. There have been only seven other streaks of at least 600 to begin in the divisional era (1969), per Elias. They belong to Cal Ripken Jr. (2,632 consecutive games, 1982-98), Steve Garvey (1,207, 1975-83), Miguel Tejada (1,152, 2000-07), Pete Rose (745, 1978-83), Dale Murphy (740, 1981-86), Rose (678, 1973-78) and Sandy Alomar Sr. (661, 1969-73).