It's our honor and privilege to sit on the Negro Leagues Statistical Review Committee and to support MLB in entering statistics for more than 2,300 Negro League players into the official database and record books. Please join us in celebrating a truly historic day for baseball.

Luis Gil’s .160 opponent batting average is the lowest mark through a pitcher's first 21 career starts in the live-ball era (1920) prior best among non-openers: Hideo Nomo, .171 h/t Elias Sports Bureau

The Mavericks beat the Celtics 122-84 in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, marking the 3rd-largest margin of victory (38) in a Finals game in NBA history, per Elias Sports Bureau. 42-pt win: CHI 96 vs. UTA 54, 6/7/98 39-pt win: BOS 131 vs. LAL 92, 6/17/08 38-pt win: DAL 122 vs. BOS 84, 6/14/24

From our research team: Prior to Francesco Molinari's ace on the 9th hole at Pinehurst No. 2 in yesterday's 2nd round, no one had ever made a hole-in-one on his 36th hole to make the cut on the number at a U.S. Open.

Rory looking to enter final round of U.S. Open inside top 10 for the sixth straight year. It would be the longest such streak since Ben Hogan 12 times in a row, from 1940 through 1956 (per Elias Sports Bureau) Six others have had streaks of six or longer, including Walter Hagen and

This is the first time the Red Sox have ever won back-to-back series against teams who owned MLB’s best record entering each series (min. 50 games into a season). The Phillies entered Tuesday an MLB-best 45-20. The Yankees entered Friday an MLB-best 49-22. h/t Elias Sports Bureau

most consecutive decisions decided by 5+ runs: 1890 Louisville Colonels: 12 1894 Baltimore Orioles: 11 1884 St. Louis Maroons: 11 2024 Dbacks: 10 *active 1884 Altoona Mountain Citys/Pride: 10 h/t Elias Sports Bureau

this was the 6th win in Dodgers franchise history when trailing by 5+ runs in the 9th inning or later: Today at COL 7/18/57 vs STL 7/12/29 vs STL 6/25/29 at NYG 5/6/1898 vs Washington Senators 4/29/1893 at PHI h/t Elias Sports Bureau

Go behind the scenes of how the first round of Negro League stats got incorporated into MLB record books with one of the committee members, Elias Sports Bureau Senior Historian John Labombarda. The 6-month effort finished just in time for #MLBAtRickwood in Birmingham: gulfcoastmedia.com/stories/the-st…

Yankees starters have gone at least 4 innings in all 76 games this season that extends their longest such streak at any point in a single season h/t Elias Sports Bureau

There have been 3 instances of pitchers recording 55+ strikeouts with 10 or fewer walks thru 8 career games in the last 131 years. The Pittsburgh Pirates rotation currently has two of them this season with Jared Jones and Paul Skenes (Masahiro Tanaka the other in 2014). h/t Elias Sports Bureau

Per Elias Sports Bureau and the Twins, this was the first time in the Minnesota era in which Twins pitching retired 34 consecutive batters (Ober 17, López 17). Last time it had been done in franchise history had been by the 1958 Senators.

CJ Alexander is making his MLB debut tonight for the #Royals. His brother Blaze Alexander debuted for the Arizona Diamondbacks Opening Day. Other bro's to debut in same year since 2000: Trevor/Tylor Megill ('21) Scott/Tyler Heineman ('19) A.J./Joe Jiménez ('17) Jhonatan/Donovan Solano ('12)

Chasing history! Capiii shines in his 150th Major League Soccer game 🫡 #NERevs | Elias Sports Bureau

Per Elias Sports Bureau, Nick Senzel's 10th inning home run was the first home run in an at-bat of 10 pitches or more in extra innings in Nationals history (2005-pres.)

Willie Mays’ 15 career walk-off RBI and 16 walk-off PA are each the most for the Giants since RBI became official (1920) [h/t Elias Sports Bureau] SO OF COURSE THEY WON ON A WALK-OFF WHILE WEARING HIS NUMBER baseball is the best

Armando Alvarez is the 6th A’s player with 3+ hits in the game where he got his first career hit, last 50 seasons, joining: 4/8/15 Mark Canha 6/8/11 Jemile Weeks 6/9/06 Mike Rouse 9/3/97 Ben Grieve 8/24/86 Mark McGwire h/t Elias Sports Bureau

at 20 years & 107 days old, Jackson Chourio is the youngest player with an inside-the-park HR since Ken Griffey Jr. on May 21, 1989 at 19 years & 181 days old h/t Elias Sports Bureau