I asked Mantle about it well after he retired. He said that looking back, it was probably a dumb thing to do, that he should’ve gotten into a rundown to let the tying run score from 3rd. But as it happened, his instinctive/athletic dive back to 1st base achieved the same result.

3-run double grand slam 3-run double 3-run double 2-run single grand slam That's what the San Diego Padres' Jurickson Profar has done over his last 6 AB with the bases loaded. Only one other MLB player in last 50 years has had 19+ RBI over a span of 6 bases-loaded AB: Albert Pujols (19).

Congratulations to the great Bo Jackson as he enters the Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame today. An electric performer in #MLB and a singular athlete of my lifetime.

Bryan Reynolds and Rowdy Tellez of the Pittsburgh Pirates are the first pair of teammates in MLB history to each hit multiple homers including a grand slam in the same game.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are the first team in MLB history to end a game by scoring 14+ unanswered runs with all of them coming on home runs.

The 9th inning of tonight's Arizona Diamondbacks - San Diego Padres game featured: a grand slam (Thomas) a go-ahead HR (Grichuk) a game-tying HR (Profar) a walkoff HR (Machado) It's the first time in MLB history 4 different players accomplished those 4 feats in the same inning of the same game.

Friday in MLB: 4-hit games: Arenado, Garcia, Machado, Miranda, Reynolds, Taylor multi-HR games: Keith, Reynolds, Smith, Tellez, Turner grand slams: Correa, Hoskins, Reynolds, Tellez, Thomas This is the first time ever there were at least 5 of each on the same day.

Ben Rice of the New York Yankees is the first player in MLB history to hit a leadoff homer and two 3+ run homers in the same game. He did it 17 games into his career.

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers is the only MLB player in the modern era to draw multiple walks, get hit by a pitch, steal a base, smack a triple and launch a home run all in the same game.

Since pitches were first tracked in 1988, the Chicago Cubs are the only MLB team to have 3 separate 2-strike RBI extra-base hits in the bottom of the 9th in a victory. They all came off of Ryan Helsley, who hadn't allowed a 2-strike extra-base hit all season before today.

Spencer Schwellenbach of the Atlanta Braves is the only MLB rookie in the modern era to strike out 8+ batters without a walk in 3 consecutive starts. He's also the only rookie in the modern era with 25+ strikeouts and no walks over a 3-start span.

Blake Snell of the SFGiants has held hitters to a .078 batting average in 5 starts since coming off the IL. That's the lowest batting average allowed by any MLB pitcher over any 5-start span in the modern era (min. 30 IP).

Feats in 2024 for the Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz (who wears No. 44): back-to-back 4+ hit games a game with 4+ hits & 4+ SB a game with 4+ XBH a game with 4+ walks No other MLB player in the modern era has done all 4 of those over his entire career (let alone in one year at age 22).

Mike Trout turns 33 today. Trout is one of two players in the live-ball era (since 1920) to have a .975+ career OPS & at least 200 stolen bases at the time of their 33rd birthday, along with Willie Mays.

Players with 35+ hits, 10+ doubles, 10+ homers & 10+ walks over a 20-game span in MLB's modern era: Babe Ruth, Yankees (1922) Rogers Hornsby, Braves (1928) Lou Gehrig, Yankees (1936) Joe DiMaggio, Yankees (1937) Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays (2024)

The San Diego Padres' Jackson Merrill: July 30: game-tying HR in 9th inning vs. LAD August 7: game-tying HR in 9th inning at Pit August 9: game-tying HR in 9th inning at Mia He's the first player in MLB history to hit 3 game-tying HR in the 9th or later in a span of 11 days or less.

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers has homered and stolen a base in the same game 6 times this month. That's the most such games by any player in any single month in MLB history.

Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers leads the AL in wins (16), ERA (2.51) and strikeouts (201). Chris Sale of the Atlanta Braves leads the NL in wins (16), ERA (2.46) and strikeouts (206). There has never been a season where a left-handed pitcher won the Triple Crown in both the AL and NL.

There have been 2 games in MLB history where a player had: 6+ RBI 5+ times on base 4+ XBH 3+ HR a leadoff HR a HR in the 9th or later Both were by Kyle Schwarber within the last 30 days.

Both the Houston Astros & New York Mets have gone from 11 games under .500 to 11 games over .500 this season. The only other seasons in MLB history where multiple teams did this were 2005 (Astros/Athletics) and 1916 (Browns/Giants).