Stats of the Week: 3-homer games (1 not exactly) make history

Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (July 3-9).

Quasi-three-homer game: Heliot Ramos hit a leadoff triple on Monday that he came around to score on, creating a Little League home run. He went on to hit two actual homers, too. He became the first Giants player with two homers and a triple in a game since Pablo Sandoval on Sept. 25, 2011. Ramos was the first player with multiple home runs and a Little League home run in the same game since Bubba Trammell on Aug. 23, 2002, according to the Elias Sports Bureau

Extra, extra! Monday was the Dodgers’ first extra-inning game this season -- on Freddie Freeman 18th-inning World Series game walk-off bobblehead day, of course. It was game No. 92. That’s the second-longest into a season a team has gone without playing an extra-inning game in MLB history, behind the 2005 Red Sox, who first went to extras in game No. 99, per Elias.

Nobody beats the Miz: Jacob Misiorowski did it again on Tuesday, with a strikeout at 104 mph. He now has four career strikeouts of at least 104 mph, the second-most of any pitcher under tracking (2008), behind only Aroldis Chapman’s nine. Misiorowski has thrown 670 pitches of at least 100 mph this year. That’s 333 more than any other starter in a season under tracking, including playoffs. It’s the third-most by anyone in a season in that span (2016 Chapman 723, 2018 Jordan Hicks 673). It’s July.

O’What a game: Ryan O'Hearn set a Pirates record with 10 RBIs on Tuesday, breaking a mark that had stood since 1939. O’Hearn became the first player to have each of his team’s first 10 or more RBIs of a game (RBIs official since 1920), per Elias.

What a streak: Tyler Tolbert had a hit in 12 consecutive plate appearances from Sunday to Tuesday, tying the MLB record by both plate appearances or at-bats. The only other players to get a hit in 12 consecutive at-bats are Johnny Kling in 1902, Pinky Higgins in 1938, Walt Dropo in 1952 and Jose Miranda in 2024. The only players to do it in 12 consecutive plate appearances like Tolbert were Kling and Dropo. Tolbert became the third player with consecutive five-hit games since at least 1900, joining 1970 Roberto Clemente and 1917 Hi Myers.

Shotime: Shohei Ohtani hit his 300th career home run on Tuesday. Ohtani already had the most career home runs of anyone in MLB history to strike out at least 510 batters, but now he has a round number with 300 homers. Let’s look at this another way. There are now 170 players with at least 300 career home runs. Eight of them have struck out at least one batter, led by Ohtani’s 765 strikeouts as a pitcher. The others? Babe Ruth, with 501 strikeouts (714 homers), Jimmie Foxx with 11 (534), Dave Kingman with four (442), Rocky Colavito with two (374), Ted Williams with one (521), Gary Gaetti with one (360) and Anthony Rizzo with one (303).

PCA: Pete Crow-Armstrong hit his 20th and 21st home runs of the season on Wednesday. Crow-Armstrong is the fourth player to reach 20 homers and 20 stolen bases before his team’s 95th game of a season multiple times (2025, 2026). He joined Alfonso Soriano (2002-03, ‘06), Jose Canseco (1988, ‘98) and Bobby Bonds (1969, ‘73, ‘77).

Birthdays are important: Wednesday was Michael McGreevy’s birthday. He started that day and St. Louis won. The Cardinals have now won 13 straight games started by pitchers on their birthday. Their last such loss was in 2006. That extends the longest such streak in MLB history, per Elias. No other team has ever won more than eight straight birthday starts.

Schwarbs: Kyle Schwarber hit his MLB-leading 32nd home run of the season on Wednesday. That’s also his 219th since joining the Phillies. He has the third-most home runs by a player in his first five seasons with a team, behind only Babe Ruth (NYY: 235) and Mark McGwire (STL: 220). And there’s plenty of season left.

Current Ironman: Matt Olson has played 874 consecutive games entering Friday, dating to May 2, 2021. His streak is the ninth-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).