Stats of the Week: Milestones for Miz, Max and more

Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (Aug. 7-13).

Nobody beats the Miz: Jacob Misiorowski became the first pitcher to reach 200 strikeouts this season on Sunday, and he got there in a hurry. Misiorowski reached the total in 129 1/3 innings, the second-fewest to the mark in a season in MLB history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Only Spencer Strider reached 200 strikeouts in a season in fewer innings, in 123 1/3 in 2023.

Junior: Junior Caminero hit his 35th home run of the season on Tuesday. At 23 years and 37 days, he became the second-youngest player with consecutive 35-HR seasons, by age on the day of his second 35th, per Elias. Only Eddie Mathews was younger, at 22 years and 328 days in 1954.

Keeping it 100: Corbin Carroll hit his 100th career home run in his 606th game on Wednesday. He’s just the third player in MLB history with at least 100 home runs and 50 triples before his 610th career game, joining Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio. Talk about good company.

Bregman for three: Alex Bregman had his first career three-homer game on Wednesday. He was also walked twice. Bregman became the 20th player since at least 1900 with three home runs and multiple walks in a game (21st if we include the postseason). He was the first since Will Smith on July 5, 2024, and he’s the first Cubs player on the list.

Shotime: Shohei Ohtani hit another homer on Wednesday and is up to 136 homers with the Dodgers. That’s the fourth-most home runs by a player in his first three seasons with a team, behind Mark McGwire (STL: 159), Alex Rodriguez (TEX: 156) and Babe Ruth (NYY: 148).

Efficiency: Braxton Ashcraft threw his first career complete game on Thursday, and he did it on just 85 pitches. It was just the third nine-inning complete game on 85 or fewer pitches since the start of 2015, joining Framber Valdez on May 30, 2025, and Kyle Hendricks on May 3, 2019. It’s the third such game by a Pirates pitcher since pitch counts have been tracked (1988), along with Jeff Karstens on July 15, 2011, and Doug Drabek on Sept. 30, 1990.

No strikeouts, no problem: The Tigers threw a shutout on Thursday, and they did it without striking out a single batter. They became the first MLB team to throw a shutout without striking out a batter since ... July 1, 2014, when they did so. It’s just the ninth such game in the Wild Card era.

It’s crowded: Caminero, Matt Olson, Kyle Schwarber and Yordan Alvarez were all tied for the most home runs in MLB at the end of the day on both Tuesday and Wednesday, before Schwarber hit two on Thursday into the corn. It was the first time there’d been a four-way tie (or more) for the MLB home run lead this late in a season (excluding 2020) since the end of the day on Sept. 8-9, 1982, when Gorman Thomas, Reggie Jackson, Dale Murphy and Dave Kingman all had 34, per Elias.

Among the greats: Max Scherzer reached 3,516 career strikeouts on Saturday. That put him into sole possession of 10th-most strikeouts all-time, per Elias. He passed Walter Johnson, who had 3,515. Quite the accomplishment. He’s now up to 3,520 through his start on Thursday.

Current Ironman: Olson has played 903 consecutive games entering Friday, dating to May 2, 2021. His streak is the eighth-longest in MLB history. The only other streaks of at least 700 consecutive games to begin in the divisional era (1969) are, of course, 1982-98 Cal Ripken Jr. (2,632 games), as well as 1975-83 Steve Garvey (1,207), 2000-07 Miguel Tejada (1,152), 1978-83 Pete Rose (745) and 1981-86 Dale Murphy (740).