BR Bullpen:Did You Know Archive

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Did you know...

...what historic homer Xavier Batista hit in Japan?
...that top prospect Coby Mayo is a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting?
...what record Yin-Hao Lai set this season?
...in what league Shunsuke Suzuki won a pitching Triple Crown?
...what record Shozo Higuchi set?
...that Yung-Chuan Huang was the youngest player to get a postseason hit in the CPBL?
...in what event Genaro Llanes was the All-Star catcher?
...that Ronald Medrano pitched for one team in the 2023 World Baseball Classic Qualifier and a different team in the WBC itself?
...what Yusaku Akimoto did that was unmatched for 50 years?
...what historic strikeout Toshiaki Ogata recorded?
...what record Tsuneo Kobayashi has held since 1952?
...what record Masayoshi Nakayama holds in Japan?
...what history Chip Duncan made in Australia?
...what record Chien-Fa Chang set?
...what record Yutaka Ikeuchi once held?
...how Wei-Yung Wang began his career on an amazing note?
...that Yukihiro Narita was the first Japanese pitcher to win a game in the CPBL?
...what history Bálint Piros made for the Hungarian national team?
...what record Hajime Saito holds in Japan?
...what 14-year-drough Heorhii Hvrytishvili‎‎ ended for Ukraine?
...that Wen-Chuan Lee was the first two-way player in the CPBL?
...what franchise record Hiroki Watanabe held for 25 years?
...what tournament Hansel Paulino led in wins and ERA?
...what records Yu-Yu Fan set in Taiwan?
...what record Ryoma Nogami set?
...what historic hit Tsung-Fu Lee had?
...what award Yong-un Kim was the first winner of?
...that Toshihiro Kase was Nippon Pro Baseball's last two-way player before Shohei Ohtani?
...in what 2023 event Kana Onodera was named the All-Star starting pitcher?
...what record Hiroki Sakai helped set in the Taiwan Major League?
...what history Hsi-Hua Hsu made for the Mercuries Tigers?
...what records Wei-Ta Su has set?
...what history Jacob Steinmetz made in 2021?
...what Hall of Fame Albert De Lannoy is part of?
...what historic trade Toru Hamaura was involved in?
...what collegiate record Kazumi Sonokawa set?
...that Takao Fujimura was a league leader in two different loops despite not switching teams?
...what NPB record Choei Shirasaka has held since 1950?
...what franchise history Tokuzo Harada made?
...what Taketoshi Ogami did that only one player had done before him and only one has done since?
...what Japan Series history Takuji Kochi made?
...what fielding record Takashi Kusaka set in 1954?
...that Takeshi Nomura was the first Pacific League leader in winning percentage?
...that Mike Solomko was the first gaijin to be traded in Nippon Pro Baseball?
...that Yu-Chen Liu was the youngest manager in CPBL history?
...in what tournament Takashi Suzuki won MVP honors?
...what history Will Vasseur made for the Swiss national team?
...what record Pedro Fernandez set in 2023?
...what durability mark Yukio Shimabara once held?
...what franchise record Kenichi Ryu has held since 1965?
...what NPB record Shuzo Aono set?
...what record was set by Akira Ishii?
...what award Dong-soo Lee won in 1995?
...what Sadayuki Tokutake was the third NPB rookie to accomplish?
...that Akira Kunimatsu was on eight Japan Series winners during his playing career?
...what historic first Hajimu Tatsumi had in 1960?
...that Hiroomi Oyane has the lowest ERA in Chunichi Dragons history?
...what pitching record Yoshinobu Uemura tied?
...what record Bunjiro Sakamoto holds?
...what Osamu Takechi was the only player to accomplish prior to Shohei Ohtani?
...what collegiate record Hikaru Takano set?
...what history Michael Bosco made in Taiwan?
...what historic win José Masís got for Costa Rica?
...why lefty reliever Andrew Vasquez is known as "the Dragon"?
...what unique brother feat Takayuki Kono was part of?
...what team history Takahiro Tokutsu made in 1975?
...how Akio Saionji had perhaps the biggest hit in Toei Flyers history?
...what Takeo Daigo was the first NPB catcher to accomplish?
...what Kunio Fukutomi did in 1972 that no one had done before?
...how Yoshinori Tsuji got his nickname?
...that 2021 amateur draft first-rounder Max Muncy not only shares a name but also a birthday with major leaguer Max Muncy?
...what team record Takashi Tanaka held for 44 years?
...what historic game Jody Treadwell pitched in Australia?
...what history Chun-Nan Lai made in 2008?
...what rookie record Kuo-Chin Wang once held?
...what historic win Jonah Schaller had for the Swiss national team?
...what record Yu-Liang Lai held for 17 years?
...how Hsien-Chang Chen got his nickname?
...that Will Flynt was the first hurler to fan 200 in a CPBL season?
...what Shih-Ming Huang was the first CPBL player to accomplish?
...that Chun-Liang Wang hit the first homer in CPBL annals?
...what CPBL history Ming-Kun Ho‎‎ made?
...in what event Sadia Bibi threw three complete games in three days?
...that Tim Meeks was in AAA for six years but never made it to the majors?
...that Yi-Cheng Wang is tied for the most Taiwan Series wins ever?
...what single-game record Chih-Wei Teng set?
...what Pitcher of the Year honors Andrew Painter won in 2022?
...what record Hung-Chin Tu has held since the first season of the CPBL?
...what history Sheng-Wei Wang made in 2019?
...what major role Sotero Ortiz played in the Puerto Rican national team's sole world title?
...what father-son first Wei-Chen Wang was part of?
...what historic win William Ponce had for the Salvadoran national team?
...that Wei-Chung Wang was the first Taiwanese player in the Korea Baseball Organization?
...what MVP Colson Montgomery recently won?
...what Yao-Hsun Yang was the first batter to have an extra-base hit in 5 consecutive at-bats in the CPBL - and this after spending his first decade as a pitcher?
...what history Tung-Hua Yueh made with his brother in 2021?
...what career record Yi-Chuan Lin holds in the CPBL?
...that Chikara Morinaka was signed as a batting practice pitcher and became a two-time All-Star?
...what Yu-Ching Lin did that no prior player had done for the Brother Elephants?
...that Fu-Hao Liu holds the CPBL record for game-opening homers in a season?
...what CPBL record belongs to Kuo-Chang Lo?
...in what country René Herlitzius won Best Pitcher and MVP honors (in different seasons)?
...what Chia-Rui Mai was the youngest player to accomplish?
...that Wei-Lun Pan holds most of the CPBL career pitching records?
...what records Cheng-Min Peng holds?
...in what league Ryan Byrne set the strikeout record?
...what CPBL record Chien-Jung Su has?
...what award Jung-Tai Sung was the first two-time winner of?
...what Hung-Yu Lin was the first CPBL catcher to accomplish?
...what relief record Hung-Cheng Lai shared?
...what was unique about Wei-Hua Lee's debut?
...what Che-Hsuan Lin accomplished in 2018 that had not been done before?
...what year Chen-Hua Lin was named the top hurler in the CPBL?
...in what event Edgar Torres was named the top starting pitcher?
...what CPBL record Chih-Ping Lin holds?
...that Reshma Shivaji Punekar has thrown no-hitters in consecutive international tournaments?
...what history was made in the 1990 CPBL All-Star Games?
...that Ángel Padrón threw the first no-hitter in the Caribbean Series in 72 years?
...what award Po-Yu Lin won in 2015?
...what national award Harmen Sidhu won in 2013?
...that Chin-lung Hu reached 1,000 CPBL hits faster than anyone else?
...what Pacific League record Takanori Yamauchi has held for over 50 years?
...what Chung-Yi Huang accomplished that no other CPBL manager has done?
...that Tzu-Peng Huang is the only pitcher to lead the CPBL in ERA and holds during his career?
...what black ink Norberto Obeso picked up in the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games?
...what record Chien-San Kao held for one year?
...what event Aviv Bobrov led in ERA?
...what records Kuo-Ching Kao set?
...what catching records belong to Chih-Kang Kao?
...what award Ta-Yuan Kuan won in 2021?
...what new role Hung-Chih Kuo led to?
...what Taiwan Series record Yin-Lun Lan holds?
...how many records Tai-Shan Chang set in his amazing career?
...that Todd Moser led NCAA Division I in wins?
...what title-winning hit Max Draijer delivered in 2022?
...what big start Tereza Stejspalová made for the Czech Republic while still a teenager?
...what record Kuang-Sheng Chou holds in Taiwan?
...what career record Cheng-Wei Chang broke in his 5th season?
...what record Chien-Ming Chang set in 2009?
...what record Kai-Wen Cheng set?
...that Chih-Hsien Chiang holds the single-season CPBL slugging record?
...that Szu-Chi Chou is the oldest player with a 3-homer game in Taiwan?
...that Yu-Hsien Chu had more homers in a month than anyone else in CPBL history?
...what record Chi-Hung Hsu holds?
...what big win Miguel Mejia picked up in 2017?
...that Seong-rae Kim is the only second baseman to have won a home run title in the KBO?
...what event Yin-Sum Kwong led in both wins and losses?
...that Eun-won Jung was the first KBO player born in the 2000s to hit a homer?
...what franchise record Eun-seong Chae won?
...what history En-Sih Huang made in the CPBL?
...that Joe Van Meter set the Colonial Athletic Association hit record but has not batted in his 14 pro seasons to date?
...what record Shinji Inoue holds?
...what Yoshiaki Kanemura was the first player to accomplish?
...what league Manuel Estrada led in strikeouts?
...in what era Yasumitsu Shibata fired the first no-hitter?
...what history Anderson Castro made for the Chilean national team?
...what MVP Makoto Kadowaki won in 2023?
...what team record Won-jung Kim set during '23?
...what history was made in the 2019 CPBL All-Star Game?
...in what event Chien Yu won MVP honors?
...what slugging feat Tao-Jung Tseng was the first CPBL player to accomplish?
...what franchise record Woo-suk Go holds?
...what CPBL record Hsuan-Ta Liu set in 2023?
...what key role Wilmer Ríos played in the first Gold Medal for the Mexican national team?
...what record Chen-Yen Chiang set?
...what record was set in the 2014 CPBL All-Star Game?
...what record Kai-Wen Cheng set in his rookie year?
...what history Kuo-Lin Kao made in 2020?
...what NPB record Takayuki Kato set in 2023?
...what defensive gem Cheng-Jui Sung‎‎ pulled off in 2021?
...who has thrown Korea Baseball Organization No-Hitters?
...that Tzu-Kai Chiu was the first Taiwanese player signed by the Cincinnati Reds?
...in what tournament Shao-En Lin was the All-Star starting pitcher?
...what event Carlos García led in strikeouts in 2023?
...what major upset win Cerilio Soleana pulled off in 2022?
...what Huehor did for the Laotian national team that no one else has accomplished?
...what record Koya Fujii set in 2021?
...what title game Kojiro Yoshimura won in 2023?
...what record was set in 2022 CPBL All-Star Game 2?
...what Tzu-Ting Yeh was the first CPBL player to accomplish?
...that Yuki Matsui was the youngest NPB hurler to 200 career saves?
...what happened in 2001 NPB All-Star Game 1 that had not happened previously?
...that Hisashi Ogura was the last pitcher to get double-digit wins for the Orix BlueWave?
...what was unique about 2007 NPB All-Star Game 2?
...that Papi Figueroa won an Amateur World Series and two Caribbean Series?
...what history Tsuyoshi Shinjo made during the 2004 NPB All-Star Games?
...what year Shizuo Shiraishi won the Japan Series clincher?
...what record was set in 1952 NPB All-Star Game 1?
...what record Kazuo Yamaguchi tied in 2001?
...what was noteworthy about Charlie Luis's appearances in the 1954 NPB All-Star Games?
...what team record Shota Imanaga set in 2023?
...who won the first NPB All-Star Game?
...in what perfect game Mizuki Bando took part during 2023?
...what happened in 1988 NPB All-Star Game 3 that would not happen again?
...that brothers Edwin Jiménez and Emil Jiménez both became major league umpires in 2023?
...what record-setting performance took place in 1964 NPB All-Star Game 1?
...that Rick Ownbey didn't make his high school's baseball team but wound up in the majors?
...what notable brother feat occurred in the 1983 NPB All-Star Games?
...what record Shigekuni Mashiba held for over 30 years before Masahiro Tanaka topped it?
...what history was made in the 1982 NPB All-Star Games?
...what title game Dong-ju Moon won in 2023?
...what two historic homers were hit in the 1960 NPB All-Star Games?
...what Juan Montes was the first Guatemalan to accomplish?
...what record was set in 2000 NPB All-Star Game 2?
...what record Naoki Miyanishi holds?
...what history Graeham Luttor made for the Hungarian national team?
...that Hitoshi Hatayama is the only player to qualify for both a batting title and an ERA title during his NPB career?
...what team record Chang-ki Hong set?
...what historic performance occurred in 1992 NPB All-Star Game 2?
...what were the St. George Cricket Grounds?
...what was unusual about Masahiko Kaneda's ERA title?
...that 1990 NPB All-Star Game 2 featured the first match-up of rookie starters in NPB All-Star history?
...how Kanei Kobayashi began his career in historic fashion?
...in what country Sedley Karel won two save titles?
...who hit the first sayonara home run in NPB All-Star history, in 1963?
...in what event Mung Chuevakham started over half of his team's games on the hill?
...what Tsuneo Horiuchi was the only player to accomplish in the Japan Series?
...what record Shinji Tajima set in 2016?
...what title game Nelmerson Angela won this year?
...that Keisuke Tanimoto was the first NPB pitcher to be traded the same season he had pitched in the All-Star Game?
...what record was set in 2011 NPB All-Star Game 1?
...what Si-hwan Roh was the first KBO player born in the 2000s to accomplish?
...what gem Geonel Gutiérrez pitched in 2023?
...who set the RBI record during 1999 NPB All-Star Game 2?
...what Tetsuya Kakiuchi is the only player to have done in Japan?
...what Tsutomu Iwamoto was the first pitcher to do in over 30 years?
...what Chia-Hao Sung was the first Taiwanese hurler to accomplish?
...what league Roque Contreras led in wins?
...what Tomoya Mikami was the first NPB rookie to accomplish?
...that Atsuki Taneichi tied a record on consecutive innings with a strikeout?
...that Yusuke Ohyama had the first six-hit, three-homer game in NPB annals?
...what Central League record Kiyoshi Matsuda has held for over 70 years?
...what Shunpeita Yamashita was the first pitcher to do in Japan?
...what record was toppled in the 2014 NPB All-Star Game?
...what team record Shogo Sakakura broke in 2021?
...what record Yuhei Takanashi set?
...what was notable about the career path of Fumihito Haraguchi?
...what 58-year-old Pacific League record Katsunori Hirai broke?
...that Kona Takahashi broke a record that had belonged to Daisuke Matsuzaka?
...what Keita Nakagawa was the first rookie to do?
...that Jae-hoon Ha set a rookie save record but started his career as an outfielder and is back to the outfield again?
...what Chun-Wei Wu was the first pitcher to do in Taiwan?
...what records Teruaki Sato set as a rookie?
...what recent event Carlos Arroyo led in runs and hits?
...what was historic about Jo-Hsi Hsu's debut?
...that Ryota Wong was the first reliever for Singapore in an Asian Games?
...what award Kotaro Kurebayashi recently won?
...what Joshua Crouse was the first Swiss national team player to accomplish?
...that Victor Starffin was the first pitcher to win 300 games in Japanese pro ball?
...that Ron Teasley is one of only three former Negro League players from the period when they were major leagues to be still alive as of November 2023?
...what record Nico Genesta tied in 1950?
...that Allan Chu had the first run by a Chilean national team member in a Pan American Games?

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