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Rivera Joins Hoffman in 500-Save Club

Posted: Jun 29th 2009 12:47AM ET by Ed Price (RSS feed)
Filed under: Yankees, MLB Milestones

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Mariano Rivera hugs Jorge PosadaNEW YORK – Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman got to 500 saves in different ways.

Rivera, who earned No. 500 on Sunday night as the Yankees defeated the Mets, did it in the New York spotlight, with his biting cut fastball.

Hoffman was in the relative shadows of San Diego with a changeup as his signature.

But they are more alike than they are different.

"They joke around, they have personalities, but when they get locked in, it's a whole different beast," Brett Tomko, who has sat in the bullpen with both men, told FanHouse.
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Aaron on Glavine: 'You Have to Be Gracious Enough to Step Aside'

Posted: Jun 7th 2009 6:32PM ET by Terence Moore (RSS feed)
Filed under: Braves, MLB Hall of Fame, MLB Milestones

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Tom GlavineIt happens. Guys such as Tom Glavine spend much of their baseball careers shining brighter than the sun. Then, when nearly everything surrounding their stardom begins to dim near the end, they just won't leave.

They don't want anybody to push them, either.

Hank Aaron wasn't one of those guys.

"Believe me, I was ready to retire, and the game went on, just like it did after Babe Ruth retired and when Willie Mays retired, and it's going to continue that way whether folks realize it or not," said Aaron, 75, baseball's legitimate home-run king, chuckling during an exclusive interview with FanHouse. He has spent the last three decades or so as an Atlanta Braves executive, a noted philanthropist through his Chasing the Dream Foundation and an eternal straight-shooter on all sorts of things.
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Ten Big Memories of the Big Unit

Posted: Jun 5th 2009 7:30AM ET by Ed Price (RSS feed)
Filed under: Diamondbacks, Giants, Yankees, MLB Milestones

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Randy Johnson and Curt SchillingI covered Randy Johnson as a beat writer for eight seasons: 1999-2004 with the Diamondbacks and then 2005-06 with the Yankees. (We both moved East the same winter, by coincidence.)

So I figure I saw about 230 of Johnson's starts – hey, I deserved a day off once in a while – and more than 100 of his 300 wins. Off the top of my head, here are the top 10 Randy Johnson moments I witnessed in those eight years:

1. Perfection (May 18, 2004)
Twenty-seven up, 27 down at Atlanta. And after this game, Johnson even smiled. His 117th and final pitch, a called strike to Eddie Perez, was 98 mph. His 14 strikeouts were second-most ever in a perfect game, and at 40, he was the oldest ever to be perfect. "I don't think my stuff has been any better than it was today," Johnson said.
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Larger Than Life: Unit Joins 300 Club

Posted: Jun 4th 2009 10:58PM ET by Andrew Johnson (RSS feed)
Filed under: Giants, MLB Milestones

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WASHINGTON -- Convention never suited Randy Johnson anyway.

So it figures that he would wait 22 1/2 hours and then 36 more minutes after that before embarking on the final 2 1/2-hour leg of his journey into one of baseball's select groups. It figures he'd do it on the grayest of days in front of a crowd that might make a minor league team blush with embarrassment instead of before 45,000 adoring fans, too.

No, the poetic path never was for the Big Unit.

But he found his way into the 300-win club anyway Thursday night in the nation's capital. Two rain delays over two days were unable to prevent him from becoming its 24th member with six innings of one-run ball in a 5-1 victory over the hapless Washington Nationals.

It was only after hitting the milestone Johnson seemed able to wax philosophical.
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Ichiro Has Much Respect for DiMaggio

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 2:19PM ET by Gary Washburn (RSS feed)
Filed under: Mariners, MLB Milestones

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Ichiro SuzukiIchiro Suzuki extended his hitting streak to 26 games Tuesday in an 8-2 Seattle win over the Baltimore Orioles, setting a team record previously set by well, himself in 2007. Yet, the brilliant hitter remains 30 games from equaling Joe DiMaggio's astounding 56-game hitting mark set in 1941. That's 30 games. Another month of scratching out hits. Another series of bloops, bleeders, line drives and drag bunts.

That number isn't lost on Ichiro, who was asked about the probability of closing in on 56.

"I think it's true when they say that its the hardest record to break," he said Tuesday night.

Ichiro said his biggest regret Tuesday was not inviting his wife Yumiko and dog, (that's correct) Ikkyu, to the ballpark to watch him set the club record. Ichiro then pulled out a Japanese fan with an image of his Shiba on both sides.

"But at the same time, if you think about it, if I didn't invite them, it didn't mean that much to me," he said. "But once I got this far, I wanted to achieve it. Now I wish I would have asked them to come."

Starting Five: Curses! Or Is It: Bullpen! Foiled Again!

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 6:00AM ET by Ed Price (RSS feed)
Filed under: Angels, Blue Jays, Braves, Cubs, Giants, Marlins, Nationals, Rays, MLB Injuries, MLB Milestones, Starting Five

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Randy Wells Chicago CubsStarting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.

You Oughta Know ...

That the Cubs are jinxed.

OK, maybe not. But last night in Atlanta was reason to believe in goats.

Rookie Randy Wells, right, held the Braves hitless for 6 2/3 innings and took a 5-0 lead into the eighth inning.

It got a little dicey after that, but with one out in the bottom of the ninth, Chicago was up 5-3 with no one on base. Then Kevin Gregg (5.24 ERA) struck out Garret Anderson -- except the third strike got past catcher Geovany Soto and to the backstop, so Anderson reached first. And two batters later, Jeff Francoeur hit his first homer since May 1 to tie the game.
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No. 299 Moves Big Unit to Doorstep

Posted: May 28th 2009 2:00AM ET by Jeff Fletcher (RSS feed)
Filed under: Giants, MLB Milestones

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SAN FRANCISCO --The Randy Johnson Countdown is down to one.

Johnson won the 299th game of his career on Wednesday night, leaving him on the cusp of joining the elite 300-victory club.

Johnson will try to become the 24th pitcher to reach that milestone next Wednesday night in Washington. After that, he'll start June 8 at Florida, then back home for a June 13 game against the A's.
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Helton Hoping For Delayed Milestone

Posted: May 19th 2009 10:05AM ET by Ed Price (RSS feed)
Filed under: Rockies, MLB Milestones

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Todd Helton Colorado RockiesJason Kendall got his 2,000th hit Monday.

Todd Helton did not.

Yet.

Helton, and his Rockies teammates, thought he got No. 2,000 with a ninth-inning smash that Braves shortstop Yunel Escobar played like a matador, waving his glove at the ball as it shot past him.

But official scorer Jack Wilkinson (a long-time baseball writer whom I know, like and admire) ruled the play an error.
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The Dugout: Jayson Werth Versus the Zeitgeist of Our Times

Posted: May 14th 2009 8:00AM ET by Jon Bois (RSS feed)
Filed under: Dodgers, Phillies, MLB Milestones, The Dugout, MLB PEDs

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On Tuesday night, the Phillies' Jayson Werth singled off Dodgers pitcher Will Ohman in the seventh inning, then stole second base, third base, and home plate. By my count, Werth is only the fourth player since the Ty Cobb era (after Paul Molitor, Eric Young, and Chris Stynes) to straight-up steal his way around the basepaths. He came as close as a baserunner can get to stealing a home run.

Perhaps Werth experienced an epiphany of self-actualization, or perhaps the Dodgers were simply preoccupied with other matters. Manny being Bannied and all that.

Your Dugout is after the jump.
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Hank Aaron: Home Run Record Is Bonds'

Posted: Feb 14th 2009 11:30AM ET by Pat Lackey (RSS feed)
Filed under: Braves, Giants, NL East, NL West, MLB Milestones

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Finally, someone is using some sense in this steroid discussion. This week, Bud Selig threatened to suspend Alex Rodriguez for failing a drug test six years ago in which it was specifically stated there would be no penalties, then mused that he might get out the eraser and remove Barry Bonds from the record books. Hank Aaron, however, told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that he wants no part in that.

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