Sports records made to be broken? Not so fast …
Some sports records seem unbreakable, but single-game feats in baseball could still surprise us.
May 13, 2025
key points from this story:
- Single-game records remain possible in MLB
- Four-homer games have happened 19 times
- 20 strikeouts and a perfect game never combined
- 11 RBI in one game yet to be achieved
- Two grand slams in a game done 13 times
- Three hits in one inning is extremely rare
Maybe a Major League Baseball player will slug five home runs in one game. Maybe a batter will drive in more than 10 runs in a single game. Maybe a pitcher will throw a perfect game and strike out 21 batters along the way. Or maybe not.
Career or single-season records may or may not ultimately be broken, such as Barry Bonds’ 762 home runs, Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Cy Young’s 519 pitching victories or Cal Ripken’s 2,632 consecutive games played, but a single-game record could happen at any time, considering there are 2,430 opportunities every season.
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