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The winning team is traditionally invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States . A total of 119 World Series have been contested through 2023, with the AL champion winning 68 and the NL champion winning 51. The New York Yankees of the AL have played in 40 World Series, winning 27 – the most championship appearances ...
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [ a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714, and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only ...
Major League Baseball. Retrieved 24 June 2012. Exceptional homer-hitting resumes for all, adding to the luster of the fact that Thome—at least in terms of sheer volume in career home runs and walk-off home runs—eclipsed them all: Jim Thome 13, Babe Ruth 12, Jimmie Foxx 12, Stan Musial 12, Mickey Mantle 12, Frank Robinson 12.
This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards ...
Josh Gibson holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler 's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season. Record.
The National League pennant winner of a given Major League Baseball season is the team that wins the championship—the pennant —of MLB's National League (NL). This team receives the Warren C. Giles Trophy and the right to play in the World Series against the champion of the American League (AL). The current NL pennant winners are the Arizona ...
Charles Radbourn [ 3] holds the record for the most wins in a single-season, winning 59 games in 1884. [ 4] John Clarkson [ 5] (53 in 1885) and Guy Hecker [ 6] (52 in 1884) are the only other pitchers to win more than 50 games in a single-season. [ 7]
Brian Snitker says he and his Atlanta Braves "plan on winning the (National League) East."This might be the week to put that plan into action. The Braves manager and his six-time defending ...