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1. Acuna, fifth-inning crowning achievement off Alex Vesia: 111.5 miles per hour.
2. Duvall, seventh-inning grand slam off Josh Smith: 110.4 miles per hour.
3. Acuna, eighth-inning fly out off Ryne Stanek: 110.3 miles per hour.
4. Freeman, third-inning home run off Jordan Yamamoto: 108.5 miles per hour.
5. Freeman, sixth-inning groundout off Smith: 106.8 miles per hour.
Duvalls other two home runs were a 106.1 miles per hour launch Yamamoto and a 101.4 mph one off Yamamoto. Braves Twitter lit up in festivity– other than for one user called Joe Morales, who posted a crying meme with the words, “Sat Adam Duvall in dream.”.
Yes, it was a bad day for Joe Morales. It was a historical one for Adam Duvall and the Braves.
The Braves got in the day striking.263/.337/.475 as a team while averaging 5.4 runs per video game. Now the Braves are striking.270/.345/.491 and balancing 5.9 runs per game.
The Braves struck 17 balls at 100-plus miles per hour, which, think it or not, is not a StatCast-era record. The Nationals had 20 100 miles per hour balls in play in a 23-5 win over the Mets in 2017. The Braves 5 hardest-hit balls Wednesday:.
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The legendary baseball author Roger Angell turns 100 next week. In his timeless book “The Summer Game,” he poetically explains his cherished sport: “Since baseball time is determined only in outs, all you have to do is succeed entirely; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us– Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass– swim and blur in memory, the ball drifts over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game might never ever come.”
The Atlanta Braves tried to defeat time on Wednesday and nearly prospered, scoring 29 runs in their victory over the Miami Marlins. “My favorite urban flower, the baseball box score,” Angell once composed. Well, he will like this box rating. The Braves shattered their modern-day franchise record (since 1900) for runs in a game and simply missed the Texas Rangers record of 30 runs, set in 2007 in a 30-3 triumph over the Orioles. The difference because game? The Rangers were the visiting team and got to bat 9 times; undoubtedly, they scored 6 runs in the ninth inning. The Braves, dipping into home, batted only 8 times. (In the theater of the absurd department, its worth keeping in mind that the Rangers-Orioles video game was the very first game of a doubleheader.).
2 RelatedRonald Acuna Jr. had a heckuva game, filling his box rating with crooked numbers: 4 4 3 3. He added 3 walks, so he reached base 6 times. He did not have the finest game of the night.
Freddie Freeman homered, doubled and drove in six runs. He did not have the very best game of the night.
Dansby Swanson and Austin Riley each scored 5 runs. Thats pretty rare. Just Alex Dickerson has also done it this season, and George Springer was the only gamer to do it in 2019. Neither Swanson nor Riley had the very best video game of the night.
That honor comes from Adam Duvall, who went 3-for-4 with two strolls, three crowning achievement, five runs and nine RBIs. He connected Tony Cloningers franchise record for RBIs in a video game; Cloninger, a pitcher, hit two grand slams in a game in 1966. Duvall hit 3 home runs in a game for the 2nd time this season, becoming the very first National League gamer with two three-homer games in a season given that Albert Pujols in 2006. Just Sammy Sosa has three three-homer games in a season.
That isnt even the most amazing Duvall three-homer fact. As MLB.coms Sarah Langs mentioned, Duvall is the first player in Braves history with two three-homer games in his profession. Yep. Hank Aaron had simply one three-homer video game for the Braves. Chipper Jones had simply one. Dale Murphy, Eddie Mathews, Andruw Jones … just one. Bob Horner had a four-homer game, however he never had a three-homer game.
Maturing in New York, Angell watched Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig whacked home runs at the initial Yankee Stadium. I dont know if he watched any of this video game, but I can ensure it was something he had never ever seen before: It was the first game in MLB history to end 29-9.
The Braves and Marlins combined to score the third-most runs in a video game in the modern period. The Boston Beaneaters, the leader to the existing Braves franchise, scored 30 runs in a game in 1883 and scored 29 just 11 days later.
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Still, 38 combined runs is quite remarkable. Here are the other three video games with a minimum of that many combined runs:.
June 9, 1901: Giants 25, Reds 13.
Obviously, the game was also much various in 1901. The Braves and Marlins combined for 9 crowning achievement Wednesday, but there wasnt a single homer in this game. There were, however, 49 hits, consisting of 31 by the Giants. Kip Selbach went 6-for-7, and George Van Haltren and Charlie Hickman each had 5 hits and five runs. This was the last appearance for Hall of Fame pitcher Amos Rusie, called the “Hoosier Thunderbolt” for his blazing fastball. He was a star for the Giants in the 1890s however hadnt pitched in the majors in three years when the Reds offered him a chance. He pitched 5 innings in relief and allowed 15 hits and 10 runs.
May 17, 1979: Phillies 23, Cubs 22.
The Phillies scored 7 runs in the top of the. Dave Kingman struck 3 long balls for the Cubs as part of a six-RBI day, and colleague Bill Buckner drove in 7, but Mike Schmidt won it for the Phillies in the 10th inning with a home run off Bruce Sutter.
Aug. 25, 1922: Cubs 26, Phillies 23.
Yes, another Phillies-Cubs game at Wrigley Field (then referred to as Cubs Park). The Cubs scored 10 runs in the second and 14 runs in the fourth. The Phillies rallied late with 14 runs in the last two frames. Hack Miller homered twice and drove in six runs for the Cubs, and teammate Cliff Heathcote had 5 hits, two strolls and 5 runs. One difference: This video game took 3 hours, 1 minute to play; the Marlins and Braves needed 4 hours, 14 minutes.
The Braves shattered their modern franchise record (given that 1900) for runs in a video game and just missed the Texas Rangers record of 30 runs, set in 2007 in a 30-3 triumph over the Orioles. (In the theater of the ridiculous department, its worth noting that the Rangers-Orioles game was the first video game of a doubleheader.).
He connected Tony Cloningers franchise record for RBIs in a video game; Cloninger, a pitcher, struck 2 grand slams in a game in 1966. Duvall hit three home runs in a game for the 2nd time this season, becoming the very first National League gamer with 2 three-homer games in a season since Albert Pujols in 2006. Bob Horner had a four-homer game, however he never had a three-homer game.
