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Albert Pujols flied out in the first inning at Yankee Stadium, bringing his career batting average to .29999. Pujols’s career batting average had not been below .300 at the end of any at-bat since he had a .286 mark (4-for-14) through his first four games in the majors.
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Thanks for the inspiration,
@WorldWideWob
. We looked into Russell Westbrook’s historically unique game and it really was something to behold. Brace yourself for some deep Elias
#NBAPlayoffs
research – let’s dive in 🧵:
That is the greatest 3-of-19 performance i have ever seen.
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The Brooklyn Nets' eight two-point field goals on Thursday were the fewest by a team in a game since Nov. 22, 1950, when the Lakers and Pistons each made four FG in a game famous for its final score (19-18, Ft. Wayne). The 24-second shot clock debuted less than four years later.
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Something to chew on for Hall of Fame voters:
Andruw Jones is one of six players in
#MLB
history with 10 Gold Gloves and 350+ HR. The other five were all voted into the BBHOF in their first year of eligibility: Mays, Schmidt, Griffey, Jr., Kaline, and Bench.
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Joey Votto was a combined 12-for-23 (.522) versus Roy Halladay, Mike Mussina and Mariano Rivera, who will all be inducted into the Hall of Fame today. That's the highest career batting average for any active player who faced all three of those pitchers.
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The
@NYIslanders
are the first team in NHL history to win back-to-back games, after trailing by multiple goals in the last seven minutes of the third period in each game.
#Isles
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.
@Nationals
had a 21-year old hit a game-tying HR in the 9th inning (Robles) & a 20-year old hit a go-ahead HR in the 10th (Soto). It's the 1st time in
@MLB
modern era that a team had 2 different players under the age of 22 hit game-tying & go-ahead HRs in the 9th inning or later
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Dak Prescott has now thrown for 400+ yards in four of his last five games.
He is the first player in
#NFL
history to accomplish that.
#DallasCowboys
📷 Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports
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Don Shula head-coached against a man who was an NFL head coach in 1920, the league’s first season, and also against someone who is still an NFL head coach today. He was 5-4 head-to-head against George Halas, and 2-0 versus Bill Belichick.
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Stephen Curry finished 2021 with 2,796 points, 499 rebounds and 523 assists.
#DubNation
The only other players to post 2,700+ points, 400+ rebounds, and 400+ assists in a calendar year are Michael Jordan (1987, 1988, and 1990) and James Harden (2019).
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That's why we are here
@mcuban
!
Since 1997-98, no game (regular or postseason) saw 7 consecutive possessions end with a made three-pointer until
@dallasmavs
and
@utahjazz
last night.
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Christian Yelich (80 HR, 207 RBIs, 52 SB since 2018) is the fourth player in
@MLB
history with 80+ home runs, 200+ RBIs, and 50+ stolen bases over a two-season span, joining Willie Mays (1955-56), Barry Bonds (1992-93, 1993-94, 1996-97), & Alex Rodriguez (1998-99).
#ThisIsMyCrew
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Dusty Baker is the only person in MLB history who did all four of the following:
* Played in at least 2,000 games
* Won a World Series as a player
* Won 2,000+ games as a manager
* Won a World Series as a manager
Congratulations Dusty on an extraordinary career.
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The
@Dodgers
are the first team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to draw five consecutive walks to end a game, with no outs occurring at any point during the streak of walks.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers' Cameron Heyward had a sack today, while his brother Connor Heyward scored a touchdown. They are the first pair of brothers to do that for the same team in a single game since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
#HereWeGo
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Our next question was “Who has the most 3 of 19 games in NBA history? (actually since 1956, when FGA became a stat)” And again the answer is Westbrook with four. Fun fact: the first time Russ did so was November 12, 2008, just his 8th career game and his 20th birthday 🎂
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On this date 25 years ago, Gregg Popovich made his debut as an NBA head coach for the Spurs.
He has the longest continuous tenure for any current head coach/manager in NBA, NFL, NHL, or MLB.
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This afternoon the Elias family lost its visionary leader. Seymour Siwoff passed away at the age of 99. Seymour is a legend who transformed the company into what it is today.
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Philip Rivers threw for 4,169 yards this season, the second-most in
@NFL
history in a player’s final season. Only Andrew Luck had a higher total; he passed for 4,593 yards in 2018, coincidentally for the Colts, before his surprising retirement.
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Yordan Alvarez, who on Saturday became the first
@astros
rookie to homer three times in a game, is the first
@MLB
player to debut in the last 100 seasons and reach 50 RBIs in 45 or fewer games. Previous fastest to 50 career RBIs was Joe DiMaggio (46 games in 1936).
#TakeItBack
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Jacob deGrom has recorded at least 13 strikeouts and hit a home run in the same game twice this season (April 3 and tonight). Since 1893 (when the current mound distance was established), no other pitcher has had two games with 13+ K’s and a HR as a batter over an entire career.
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Josh Allen (32 for 40) is the first passer in
@BuffaloBills
' history to attempt 40 or more passes in a game and complete at least 80% of them. The only other player with a performance of that kind on
#MNF
was Matt Ryan, who was 36 for 45 in a 2013 loss to the Jets.
#BillsMafia
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LaMelo Ball is the only
#NBA
player in the last 60 seasons to lead all rookies in total points, rebounds, assists and steals at the All-Star break.
#NBATwitter
#AllFly
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David Pastrnak is the first player with two hat tricks vs. the Canadiens in one season since Gordie Howe in 1951-52.
#NHLBruins
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Miguel Cabrera said he hopes to reach 3,000 career hits and 500 HRs this year. Among the six men in the 3,000/500 club (Aaron, A-Rod, Mays, Murray, Palmeiro, Pujols) none reached both milestones in the same season. Cabrera is 134 hits shy of 3,000 and 13 HRs short of 500.
#MLB
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The Heat earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference despite five of their top 10 in minutes played on the season being undrafted players. They are the first team in the modern draft era (since 1966) to even make the playoffs with 5 of their top 10 in minutes being undrafted.
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Javier Baez has 10 home runs, 24 RBIs, and 25 runs scored in 28 games this season. The only other Cubs over the last 60 years with that many homers, RBIs, and runs within the team’s first 30 games of a season are Sammy Sosa in 2001 (10/28/26) and Anthony Rizzo in 2016 (10/28/26).
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Aristides Aquino homered in the second, third, and fourth innings versus the Cubs on Saturday, becoming the first player in
@Reds
history, as well as the first rookie player on any
@MLB
team, to hit a home run in three consecutive innings within a single game.
#BornToBaseball
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Albert Pujols made his
#MLB
debut 20 years ago today, starting in left field and batting sixth for the Cardinals on Opening Day at Coors Field. He went 1-for-3 with a single, the first of his now 3,236 career hits.
#STLFLY
#WeBelieve
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Last night, Russ reminded us that there are plenty of ways to make your impact felt on the court, if your shot’s not going in. When you can rebound, pass, and play great D, you can sometimes put it all together to record the greatest 3 of 19 shooting game in NBA history.
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Justin Smith grabbed 11 offensive boards in Arkansas’ victory last night. That is tied for the most offensive rebounds in an NCAA Tournament game over the last 30 years.
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Scottie Barnes of the Toronto Raptors is the first rookie to be perfect on 10+ field goal attempts in a single half since Derrick Rose on March 18th, 2009. Barnes leads all scorers as the Raptors are dominating the Nets going into the second half.
#WeTheNorth
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Lou Gehrig made his MLB debut 100 years ago today. He was a late-game defensive replacement at first base for Wally Pipp at Yankee Stadium in a 10–0 win against the St. Louis Browns. It was the start of one of the most iconic careers in sports history.
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Fun fact: this was Albert Pujols’ 500th career home run against a right-handed pitcher. His 200th career home run against a left-handed pitcher came earlier tonight off of Andrew Heaney.
Congratulations to Albert Pujols! The St. Louis Cardinals star just recorded his 700th career home run, joining Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, and Babe Ruth as the only players to reach that incredible milestone.
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The Buffalo Bills' Ed Oliver just picked up the first Thanksgiving safety since 2013. The Detroit Lions' Ndamukong Suh was the last player to log a safety on Thanksgiving Day.
#BillsMafia
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#OnePride
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Three
@TBLightning
players have reached the 40-goal mark this season (Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, and Steven Stamkos). The last team with that many 40-goal scorers was the 1995-96 Penguins (Jaromir Jagr, Mario Lemieux, and Petr Nedved).
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Luke Voit has reached base safely (via hit, walk, HBP) in 37 straight games with 38 RBIs in the span. 3 other
@Yankees
have had a span as long of reaching base safely in each game, with at least an RBI-per-game: Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio.
(Since RBIs became official in 1920.)
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Our first question was “Who was the last player to go 3 of 19 from the floor in an NBA playoff game?”. And of course the answer is Westbrook, then a Wizard, in a 122-114 win over the Sixers on May 31, 2021. Russ logged a ridiculous 21 rebounds, 14 assists, and 2 steals that day.
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How do we know? Since the 1996-97 season, when play-by-play data first became available, Westbrook is the ONLY player to record an offensive rebound, a blocked shot and an assist while also going 2 for 2 from the line, all within the final minute of an NBA playoff game.
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At least they get to enjoy their turkey. The Jacksonville Jaguars are the only team in NFL history to never play a Thanksgiving game. Do you want to see them get one sometime soon?
#DUUUVAL
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On Christmas Eve in 2000, the Raiders beat the Panthers 52-9.
Rich Gannon tossed five touchdown passes, the most ever in a game on Christmas Eve in
#NFL
history.
#RaiderNation
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Yadier Molina has caught 1755 games. Tonight he can tie Hall-of-Famer Gabby Hartnett for the major-league record for games caught for one team. Hartnett played for the Cubs from 1922 to 1940, catching 1756 games.
#Cubs
at
#Cardinals
8 pm ET on
@ESPN
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Brandon Woodruff (1.87 ERA, 119 SO) is the only pitcher in
@Brewers
history with a sub-2.00 ERA and 100 Ks in his first 16 starts of a season.
(CC Sabathia did that for Milwaukee in 2008 after being acquired from Cleveland, but those were not his first 16 overall GS that year.)
Big Woo>Big Apple 🍎
Woodruff is getting in the zone before taking on the Mets.
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Stephen Curry scored 2,796 points in 2021. Only five other players in
#NBA
history scored as many points in a calendar year:
-Wilt Chamberlain (five times, 1960 to 1964)
-Elgin Baylor (1961)
-Nate Archibald (1972)
-Michael Jordan (1987 and 1988)
-James Harden (2019)
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have listed Mitchell Trubisky as their starting quarterback on the team's official depth chart. Since the NFL moved to a 16-game schedule in 1978, Trubisky is the only quarterback with 50+ career starts and 0 career pick-sixes.
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Alexis Lafrenière's first goal in the
#NHL
was a game winner in overtime for the
@NYRangers
. At 19 years 109 days, Lafrenière is the youngest player in NHL history to net an OT-winner for his first career goal. The only other teenager to do that was Cody Ceci (also 19) in 2013.
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Charlie Blackmon (
@Chuck_Nazty
), who went 3-for-4 tonight, has 34 hits in 68 at-bats this season. The last player for any team with a .500 or higher batting average at least that many at-bats into a season was Larry Walker in 1997 for the
@Rockies
, also starting 34-for-68.
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Over his last two games the
@Pirates
Adam Frazier is 9-for-10 with five doubles and a home run, making him only the second player in the modern era (since 1900) to have at least nine hits, five doubles and a HR over a two-game span (Joe Cronin did so in June 1933).
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.
@Utah_Football
is the first team to shut-out its opponent in the first half of 3 straight
@pac12
conference games within one season since Washington in 1991.
#GoUtes
#Pac12AfterDark
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Starling Marte has 26 hits in 15 games for the
@Athletics
. That matches the most hits any player has ever had in his first 15 games with the team since the franchise moved west in 1968. Adam Kennedy also had 26 hits in his first 15 games with OAK in 2009.
#RiseAndGrind
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#MLB
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Patrick Mahomes is one of only two quarterbacks in NFL history with 400+ passing yards and 5+ passing touchdowns in a single playoff game. The other is Ben Roethlisberger, who did so in January of 2018.
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Congratulations to Albert Pujols! The St. Louis Cardinals star just recorded his 700th career home run, joining Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, and Babe Ruth as the only players to reach that incredible milestone.
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Tim Anderson's last 10 games:
21 hits
15 runs scored
He’s the third
@whitesox
player over the last 85 years with that many hits and that many runs scored over a 10-game span. Nellie Fox did it in 1953 and so did Paul Konerko in 2012.
#ChangeTheGame
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As reported by Gary Cohen on
@SNYtv
, Bartolo Colon, at age 42, is the oldest player in MLB history at the time of his first home run.
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Maurkice Pouncey and Ben Roethlisberger started 115 games together as center and quarterback, the most for any two
#NFL
players at those two positions since Peyton Manning and Jeff Saturday (170).
#NFLTwitter
#Steelers
#SteelersNation
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Andrei Svechnikov (
@ASvechnikov_37
) is the first player in
@NHL
history to score a goal in the first, second, and third periods of a playoff game at age 20 or younger.
@Canes
#LetsGoCanes
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The Buffalo Bills are the first team with zero punts and zero turnovers in a single playoff game since the Indianapolis Colts in January, 2004. A dominant performance for Josh Allen and Company.
#BillsMafia
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During tonight's win against the Winnipeg Jets, the
@Canucks
became the first NHL team since the Chicago Blackhawks in October of 2013 to score two power play goals in under 25 seconds of total power play time. Vancouver only needed 17 seconds for their two extra-strength goals.
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Zion Williamson has 221 points and 75 rebounds in 10 games in the
@NBA
. The last player with that many points and rebounds over his first 10 games in the league was Shaquille O'Neal in 1992 (238 points, 158 rebounds).
#Pelicans
#WontBowDown
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Triston McKenzie has gone 6+ innings and allowed 0 or 1 run in each of his last four starts. Over the last 50 years, only five rookies have done that in 5 straight:
1981- Fernando Valenzuela (7)
1984- Doc Gooden
2006- Justin Verlander & Matt Cain
2016- Michael Fulmer
#OurCLE
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Our thoughts and prayers are with Damar Hamlin, the Hamlin family, the Buffalo Bills, and the entire NFL community at this time. We are grateful for the medical personnel who have assisted and will continue to assist Damar, and hope to see him make a complete and speedy recovery.
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According to the
@NFLNetwork
, Will Dissly of the
@Seahawks
is the first tight end in NFL history with at least 100 receiving yards and a TD reception in his
@NFL
debut.
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The Yankees have won their last 14 games in Baltimore, setting a team record for most consecutive road wins against a particular opponent. The
@MLB
record for any head-to-head matchup is 19 straight road wins by the Brooklyn Dodgers at Cincinnati (1947-49).
#StartSpreadingTheNews
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With the win by the
@Bengals
today, the longest current droughts by any major North American men's pro sports team without advancing in playoffs (i.e. win game in NFL, round in other sports) belong to the Detroit Lions (last in Jan. 1992) and Cincinnati Reds (last in Oct. 1995).
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Stop bothering us with junk like this.
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Luka Dončić's averages in his 11-game playoff career:
32.8 PPG
9 RPG
9 APG
It's the furthest into any player’s postseason career in which he was averaging 32-9-9. The previous furthest: exactly one game by LeBron James, who went for 32-11-11 in his first career postseason game.
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The Mets did it against the Phillies yesterday.
Everyone on
@Phillies
line up has scored a run (and by he 4th inning). Is that a record?
@EliasSports
@Mets
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With three touchdowns from Sam LaPorta and two from Jahmyr Gibbs tonight, the
@Lions
became just the second team since the 1970 Merger to have five offensive touchdowns from rookies in a single game, joining the Chargers on Nov. 3, 1974.
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Patrick Kane led all
#NHL
players with 24 points in February (7 goals, 17 assists in 13 games). That matches the highest monthly point total of his career and the highest monthly point total by any
@NHLBlackhawks
player over the last 30 seasons.
#Blackhawks
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The
@Cardinals
defeated the Pirates tonight, 17-4, without hitting a home run. It’s been over seven years since the last time a team scored that many runs in a game with no homers; the Rockies did so on April 11, 2012 against the Giants in a 17-8 victory.
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Shohei Ohtani (44 HR) needs one home run to tie Mike Trout (2019) for the second most homers in a season in
@Angels
’ franchise history.
Troy Glaus tops that list with 47 HRs in 2000.
#WeBelieve
|
#MLB
(Photo by Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports)
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Noah Syndergaard is the first pitcher to homer and throw a shutout in a 1-0 game since Bob Welch for the Dodgers against the Reds on June 17, 1983.
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Patrick Mahomes needs 173 passing yards tonight to reach 5000 yards in his 16th NFL game. That would be which 3 games quicker (!) than any other player in
@NFL
history.
@Chiefs
at
@Seahawks
pregame now on
@NBCSports
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Tyler O’Neill led the
@Cardinals
with a homer and five RBI in their win over the Pirates.
#STLCards
Only two other Cardinals ever had five RBI in a season opener: Del Gainer in 1922 and Wally Roettger in 1928, both also against the Pirates.
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Instances of a player shooting 16% or worse on 19+ FGAs in a playoff game? It’s happened 18 times, including Game 7 of the 1957 NBA Finals when HOF Celtics Bill Sharman (3-20) and Bob Cousy (2-20) both did so in a 125-123 2OT win. Elias has the original paper score sheet:
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Luka Dončić has 90 points, 15 rebounds, and 21 assists over his last two games. The only other player to hit those minimums in
#NBA
history is Russell Westbrook, who scored 94 points, had 26 boards, and handed out 21 assists over a 2-game span for OKC in March 2017.
#NBAAllStar
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Get this: Namestnikov from Buchnevich and Zibanejad wasn't even a
@NYRangers
high for this season!
Pavel Buchnevich from Kevin Shattenkirk and Mats Zuccarello--Nov. 11 vs. Edmonton.
Have there ever been more letters on one goal in a 🏒box score than Namestnikov (Buchnevich, Zibanejad)?
@NYRangers
@MSGNetworks
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The
@NYIslanders
have won each of their last nine games when their opponent scored first, including their win vs. Pittsburgh tonight. That ties the longest such streak within one season in
@NHL
history, done three prior times (Isles in 1989-90, Detroit in 2001, Columbus in 2015).
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Henrik Lundqvist is 2nd goalie with a GAA below 2.50 in each of his 1st 10
@NHL
seasons.
@NYRangers
Quest For the Cup:
@MSGNetworks
at 8 pm
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On Sunday, Stephen Curry joined Pete Maravich as the only
#NBA
players in the last 50 years to score more than 30 points in both the first half and second half of a game. Curry scored 31 in both halves; "Pistol" Pete had 31 in the first half and 37 in the second.
#CurryBrand
40th Anniversary (Feb. 25, 1977) Pete Maravich electrified the Superdome by scoring 68 points: The most EVER by a guard in an NBA game.
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It appears the league “record” is 34 letters, which was done several times, including once by the
@NYRangers
. On Feb. 27, 1986, Ron Greschner scored, assisted by Reijo Ruotsalainen and John Vanbiesbrouck.
#NYR
#history
Have there ever been more letters on one goal in a 🏒box score than Namestnikov (Buchnevich, Zibanejad)?
@NYRangers
@MSGNetworks
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Shohei Ohtani has 32 HRs this season, one shy of the
#MLB
record for the most by a foreign-born player prior to the All-Star Break. Sammy Sosa, who was born in the Dominican Republic, holds that record with 33 homers before the break in 1998.
#WeBelieve
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Bumgarner was 1st pitcher in sole possession of MLB lead in HR at the end of a day since Jim Shaw of Washington Senators (through 5/5/1919).
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Shohei Ohtani, tied for the MLB lead with 23 homers, is making his 11th start of the season on the mound. The only other player in
#MLB
history to start more than 10 games as a pitcher and hit more than 20 home runs in a season was Babe Ruth in 1919 (15 GS, 29 HR).
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Luis Urías and Manny Piña each hit two homers
+
Urías and Jace Peterson each had five hits yesterday
That makes the
@Brewers
just the 3rd team with two players with 2 HR and two with 5 hits in a game since 1895!
#ThisIsMyCrew
|
#MLB
The Brewers offense went OFF today at Wrigley:
2⃣2⃣ Hits
1⃣7⃣ Runs
5⃣ Homers
Relive every single hit on Youtube:
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Paul Pierce scored 24,021 points, grabbed 6,651 rebounds and handed out 4,305 assists in 16 years with the
@celtics
. Only 4 other players had 24K/6K/4K with one franchise:
John Havlicek (Celtics)
Karl Malone (Jazz)
Kobe Bryant (Lakers)
Tim Duncan (Spurs)
#NBATwitter
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The
@Astros
’ Yordan Alvarez is the fourth player in the modern era (since 1900) to hit six (or more) home runs through his first 11 games in the majors, joining Trevor Story (7), Carlos Delgado (6), and Dino Restelli (6).
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