BR Bullpen:Did You Know Archive11

This is an archive of articles that were featured on the Main Page as part of Did You Know? from November 14, 2023 to August 22, 2024

...that Paul Weichard went from being an outfielder to a pitcher to an outfielder to a pitcher to an outfielder over the course of his career?

...what record Chun-Chin Huang set in Taiwan?

...what historic start Yung-Chang Chang made in 1990?

...what MVP award Aguedo Vasquez won?

...that Munenao Ogawa was the first Japanese player in the CPBL?

...what major win Pablo Guillén got for the Spanish national team?

...what ERA title Damon Newman won?

...what awards Chan-Tsung Yang won in 1999?

...that Domen Rotar was both the first designated hitter and first relief pitcher for the Slovenian national team in a European Championship?

...what feat Han-Chao Tai pulled off in an international championship?

...what record Richard Bell set in the Taiwan Major League?

...who won the 2024 European Championship Qualifiers?

...what records Mike Guilfoyle set in the Atlantic League?

...that Peter Bonilla was the youngest player on the 2023 European Championship titlists?

...that Walter Pennington was the first big leaguer from his college?

...that Tyler Phillips set a franchise record in his major league debut - but it is not clear whose record he broke?

...what league Wilton Chávez led in strikeouts?

...what history Gen Beacom made in Australia?

...what record Wan-Lin Tsai holds in Taiwan?

...that Rece Hinds had an unprecedented five extra-base hits in his first two major league games, among other remarkable feats?

...what Chih-Yu Lin accomplished that no one else has done in Taiwan?

...why José Viera never got a shot at the majors?

...what history Gavin Erasmus made for the South African national team?

...what was unusual about Chun-Chieh Chen's appearance in the 1998 Taiwan Series?

...what record Mark Zappelli held for 20 years?

...what franchise record Yandy Díaz recently set?

...that Po-Chao Yang had 10 hits in the CPBL but still had a historic homer?

...what unusual trade Takashi Sasagawa was involved in?

...what key hit Shun-Ho Wang had for his country in 2019?

...what MVP award Nelson Castro won in 2009?

...what records Ko-Yao Weng holds?

...what Hank Woodman did that only Burt Hooton and Ben McDonald had done before?

...that Yao-Wen Kuo pitched the most games of any CPBL hurler not to get a decision?

...that Eric Wordekemper won a Pitcher of the Year award two years after being a 46th-round draft pick?

...that Chia-Chi Yeh was the youngest CPBL pitcher?

...how Isabel Girón wound up using his sister's name?

...what award Asaka Tsuru won in 2019?

...in what event Iggy Escaño and Kittipong Thonglor won All-Star honors?

...what tournament Juan Lozano led in runs?

...what history Krishna Hapurachchige made for Sri Lanka?

...who was Marla Collins and what got her fired?

...in what event Francis Gesmundo won the MVP?

...what history Rafael Eigenmann made for the Swiss national team in 2023?

...what MVP award Miguel Salud won in 2017?

...that Chirath Karunarathne got his country's first Asian Championship win and first Asian Games win?

...what historic homer Yu-Kuo Peng hit?

...that Diana Ibarra is the only player to homer for Mexico in a Women's Baseball World Cup?

...in what country Eric Páez is the reigning Pitcher of the Year?

...that Doc Bushong was the first player to catch 90 games in a season?

...in what 2023 event Yaya Kojima was an All-Star?

...what feat Tsutomu Kimura was the first NPB player to accomplish?

...that Connor Norby had never been outside the U.S. before he made his major league debut at the Rogers Centre?

...what awards Tamaki Muramatsu won in 2018?

...what history Edith De Leija made for Mexico?

...what historic homer Takashi Eda surrendered?

...what league Roy Merritt led in games pitched two years in a row?

...that Otis Green played four seasons in AAA as an outfielder and then pitched six seasons in AAA but never made the majors?

...in what event Wei-Chieh Lo tied for the most triples?

...what unusual occurrence took place in the debut of Michel Otañez?

...that Bill Melton was the first White Sox player to have a 30-homer season?

...why Jorge López was designated for assignment by the 2024 New York Mets?

...that Celso Oviedo began his career as a pitcher yet went on to win three home run titles?

...what event Pablo Barquero led in batters struck out?

...what work pitcher Ryan Loutos performed for the St. Louis Cardinals after being signed as an undrafted free agent?

...what historic win Maricela Aguillera got for Mexico?

...how the 1994 Expos far exceeded expectations?

...what historic game Hisashi Kondo started?

...what unprecedented feat Sheng-Kai Lin was involved in?

...what record Wei-Han Hung set?

...in what event Saentis Zeller was the oldest player to get a hit?

...what is the Negro League Statistical Review Committee?

...in what league Grant Everard was a two-time MVP?

...what were the circumstances behind Jakson Reetz's first major league homer?

...that Nathan Martorella was traded while he was standing on first base as a baserunner?

...what Hall of Fame Mathias Winterrath is a member of?

...that Sean Fekete was the first player from Dubai to play college ball in the US?

...what event Sarah Pengelly led in strikeouts?

...that Tony Alomar once led all of minor league baseball in triples?

...what Manuel Zapata did that no one else has done for the Chilean national team?

...what tragic incident Murray Gage-Cole was an inadvertent part of?

...that Jenny Cavnar was the first woman to be named the primary television broadcaster for an MLB team?

...what record Yutaka Tagawa holds among NPB umpires?

...what Takenori Yamakawa accomplished first for the Hiroshima Carp?

...how many school records Cannon Lester set in college?

...that Ryan Walker trained as a locksmith during the COVID-19 pandemic?

...what odd no-hit situation Román Ramos was involved in in 1961?

...that Cam Booser was out of baseball for four years and working as a carpenter before making his MLB debut at 31 this season?

...that Kohei Wong was the first professional baseball player from his country?

...that Parker Markel started a combined no-hitter in the first game ever played by the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars?

...what record Rafael Valle has held since 1978?

...what Hank Bunnell is the only George Washington University pitcher to accomplish?

...what history Hideori Oshima made for the Swiss national team?

...that Toshio Kurosawa had the first retired number in Japanese pro ball history?

...what was historic about Noboru Yamashita's no-hitter?

...what records Chu-Hsuan Yeh holds in Taiwan?

...in what league Kiyoshi Yamada holds the single-season walk record?

...what was unusual about Kyle Karros' first professional home run?

...that Clint Weibl won a AAA ERA title but never made the majors?

...that Tse-Chun Wang was the youngest starting pitcher to win a CPBL game?

...what history Ching-Wei Huang made?

...in what league Claudio Galva won Pitcher of the Year?

...what Taiwan Series history Chia-Ming Tu made?

...what historic homer Sung-En Tseng recently hit?

...what record Kamekazu Yasui held?

...what rookie mark was set by Kazuo Kasahara?

...that Paul Bruno won the only Evangeline League pitching Triple Crown while also leading the league in OPS?

...what key role Luis Mateo played in the 2019 Caribbean Series finale?

...what history Naeem Bin Zahrin made for Singapore?

...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?