Talk:List of Major League Baseball single-game records

Size

I'm thinking maybe this is getting a little big for its own good, and should be broken up into more than one table, say, one for hitting, one for pitching, one for baserunning/fielding, etc.?? That way, the notes are more manageable, too. Revolver 17:23, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Footnotes/one-off events

It's a bit confusing that both the footnotes and one-off events use numbers, if one reads the footnotes and tries to work back to the thing it refers to; one doesn't know which is which (although eventually I worked it out; those on 1-counts in the column were to one-offs). How about using, say, letters for one, and numbers for the other? Noel (talk) 15:41, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. I found the footnoting extremely confusing. --Russ Blau (talk) 21:07, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

It took me several minutes to figure it out. Changing one set to letters would mess up the numbered lists, so it non-trivial to implement. I've added a couple of brief explanatory notes that will hopefully make things clearer. -dmmaus 22:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Surely it's not true that 9 hits in a single game only occurred once???

By a single player! --Russ Blau (talk) 21:07, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

It seems that the Fielding section is really slim compared to the others, and I know that there has to be more crazy fielding things that have happened. Such as the unassisted putout by a catcher on a stolen base attempt (catcher runs and applies the tag himself). DeltaTango 04:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Unassisted putout by a catcher on a stolen base attempt actually winds up not being too uncommon, because an unsuccessful suicide squeeze (when the batter attempts to bunt & misses) is scored as a stolen base attempt, and I'd guess that in about a third of the failed squeeze attempts I've seen, the catcher makes the tag on the runner without a throw.

Yeah, but what about unassisted double plays by catchers? [1]. Neier 13:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

According to this webpage [2] 9 players have done it twice in their careers, and there's a link on that page to 6 catchers who made two tags at the plate on the same play (of course, they aren't unassisted, but it looks like two tags in one play is more rare than an unassisted catcher DP). CruiserBob 02:31, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

The table says that four pitchers have walked the first four batters of a game, and cites the Baseball Almanac website. However, that page is incorrect - Baseball-Reference.com lists six starters who have walked the only four batters they faced before being removed, and there are certainly others that have walked the first four and stayed in the game. Davehogg (talk) 05:30, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

confusing

This article is beyond confusing... it would be improved by putting the footnotes in with the article, no?

One more record that should be added to this page is:

Only time ever that a pitcher's first ML at-bat was a pinch-hit HR: Gene Stechschulte, April 17, 2001. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.168.80.95 (talk • contribs) . 01:17, 13 July 2006

I just dropped by this article today and found it confusing that the numbered footnote do not appear 1,2,3 but in some other order. Conversion to cite.php would help that. For the lettered footnotes, it might be clearer if the event details could be incorporated into the table, perhaps in the references column. (The entry for "most hits in an inning" put a 3 in the column otherwise devoted to "# of occurrances" - fixed that.) Also, the criteria refer to single game events, but then under fielding is a double-header event; not sure how to fix that. Gimmetrow 02:17, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

8 runs batted in in one inning

If Fernando Tatis hit two grand slams in one inning, then he must have accomplished the eight rbis in an inning as well. I'm not familiar with the "table" format here, so someone else needs to correct it. piper108 04:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

• Tatis is the one guy who got 8 rbis in an inning. No one else has. WilyD 18:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you think we should mention he got both grand slams off the same pitcher? Chan-Ho Park, if you're curious.--Syd Henderson 02:17, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Re-format

I am going to rewrite this entire article as a more text-based article, getting rid of the graphs and footnotes. Vidor 00:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

What graphs do you mean? The tables seem useful, but the unique events could be written about as text before a table summarizing the non-unique events. Gimmetrow 00:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I mean a text-based article, with bullet points. Better way to organize, I think. Vidor 12:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

The table seems clearer to me. Handling the unique events in text seems OK, but a list of bullet points for the rest doesn't really seem like an improvement. Gimmetrow 16:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, I have to disagree with you. When I'm done all the silly footnotes with names at the bottom will be gone. Also, an entire column devoted to the outside links will be gone. Vidor 19:47, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it's just the two of us commenting. I'm mostly concerned about doing away with the table, because eventually someone will come along and re-create it anyway. Gimmetrow 05:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

2 grand slams in one inning

this happened against the Cubs last year (the Mets did it) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.167.57.117 (talk • contribs)

It was not the same player. Twice in an inning by one team has happened 7 times in all, according to Grand slam (baseball). Neier 11:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Albert Puhols hit two grand slams in one inning against the Dodgers in the first inning of a game in St. Louis the first or second year of Puhols's career. I don't know where to look it up to confirm it but I saw it happen on TV.

If you cannot prove that an action is true then you should not suggest that the action took place. There is no proof anywhere that Puhols hit 2 Grand Slam's in one inning. If Puhols would have done so there would be plenty of evidence available, especially in the age of the Internet. The lack of any evidence is evidence in itself that it did not happen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.216.46.237 (talk) 01:45, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Page move

This page clearly needs to be moved as the title does not assert the content properly. The move would be to "List of Major League Baseball single-game records". Thoughts? //Tecmobowl 06:50, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

First 27 batters retired without a perfect game

This entry needs to be updated: the feat was achieved (apparently 3rd time in history) by the Orioles' Erik Bedard against Texas on 7/7/07 in a complete-game shutout: 2 hits, no walks, no errors, and both baserunners erased in double plays- total 27.4.152.222.226 15:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Although Bedard faced the minimum number of batters (27), this is not a case of 'first 27 batters retired' as the two guys who were erased on double plays were baserunners, not batters. So while this doesn't change the record, it does raise the question, how many (if any) times has a pitcher pitched a complete game and faced the minimum number of batters without getting a no-hitter? If the answer is a low enough number, it seems like a record that should be added to the list. CruiserBob 05:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Single-inning records

The title of the article refers to single-game records, but many of the entries are single-inning records. I think the latter should be broken out into their own article.--BillFlis 00:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC) Insert non-formatted text here

Unique events?

What are Unique events? Kingturtle (talk) 20:48, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't know anything about Wikipedia, but the Paul Konerko World Series winning grand slam is not true. He did hit a grand slam in the world series, but it didn't win anything and is not notable, the poster merely copied the source from the above record. Thanks! Chris! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.72.25.88 (talk) 04:27, 22 June 2011 (UTC) I think I fixed it!

This section "Unique events" does not say what the letters mean for these records. Without explanation the section is meaningless. Reference to Baseball Almanac is insufficient. Better for the section to be deleted than for it to remain a detraction as currently.Rgdboer (talk) 22:18, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Since this has not been fixed in 11 years, I am deleting the section. If anyone wishes to revive it, go ahead, but the events listed must be described. Mdewman6 (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

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