BR Bullpen:News Archive
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Recent Events
2024
- November 24: Taiwan wins the 2024 Premier 12. The MVP is Chieh-Hsien Chen.
- November 23: Argentina wins the 2024 South American Championship.
- November 21: Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani are unanimous winners of the MVP Award in the American League and National League respectively
- November 20: The Cy Young Award in the National League goes to Chris Sale, while in the American League, Tarik Skubal is the winner.
- November 19: Pat Murphy wins the Manager of the Year Award in the 2024 NL while the AL award goes to Stephen Vogt.
- November 18: The Rookie of the Year Award goes to Paul Skenes in the National League and to Luis Gil in the American League.
- November 14 Ryan Helsley wins the Trevor Hoffman Award while Emmanuel Clase takes the Mariano Rivera Award.
- November 7: Daisuke Miura wins the Matsutaro Shoriki Award for 2024.
- November 4: Rui-Yang Gu Lin wins the CPBL MVP for 2024. Tzu-Yu Tseng is the Rookie of the Year.
- November 3: The Yokohama BayStars win the 2024 Japan Series. Masayuki Kuwahara wins Series MVP.
- October 30: The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees, four games to one, to win the 2024 World Series; Freddie Freeman wins the World Series Most Valuable Player Award.
- October 28: The KIA Tigers win the 2024 Korean Series. Sun-bin Kim wins Korean Series MVP.
- October 26: Markus Solbach is named the Bundesliga-1 north MVP for the second time while Alex Schmidt wins the MVP for the south.
- October 26: The Huskies de Rouen win their 18th French Division I title.
- October 25: The CTBC Brothers win the 2024 Taiwan Series. Sung-En Tseng is the Series MVP.
- October 20: The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Mets in the NLCS; Tommy Edman win the NLCS MVP Award.
- October 19: The New York Yankees win the 41st American League pennant of their history by defeating the Guardians in the ALCS. Giancarlo Stanton is named ALCS MVP.
- October 12: Neptunus win the 2024 Holland Series. Christian Diaz is named MVP.
- October 12: The Hoboken Pioneers win the Belgian First Division championship.
- October 1: Heidenheim Heideköpfe defends their Bundesliga title successfully.
- September 27: The Chicago White Sox set a new modern major league record with their 121st loss of the season.
- September 26: The Oakland Athletics play their final home game in the city that has been their home for the past 57 years.
- September 21: The Rättvik Butchers win their third straight Elitserien championship.
- September 19: Shohei Ohtani becomes the first member of the 50-50 club - hitting 50 home runs and stealing 50 bases in the same season.
- September 19: Draci Brno wins their 25th Extraliga title.
- September 9: The Sultanes de Monterrey win the Mexican League title. José Marmolejos is the finals MVP.
- September 4: Three pitchers for the Chicago Cubs led by Shota Imanaga, combine to pitch a no-hitter over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- August 31: Parma wins the 2024 Italian Series. Alex Liddi is the MVP.
- August 26: Lake Mary, FL wins the 2024 Little League World Series.
- August 3: Japan wins the 2023-2024 Women's Baseball World Cup. Miu Shiraishi wins the MVP.
- August 3: The Astros Valencia win their third Spanish Baseball League title, all of them four years apart.
- August 2 Blake Snell pitches the third no-hitter of the season.
- July 25: Dylan Cease pitches the second no-hitter in San Diego Padres history.
- July 24: The Central League wins 2024 NPB All-Star Game 1 behind MVP Shugo Maki, while the Pacific League takes Game 2 with Toshiya Satoh being named MVP. In a high-octane set of games, numerous offensive records get broken.
- July 16: The American League defeats the National League, 5 - 3, in the 2024 All-Star Game; Jarren Duran wins the Ted Williams Award as the game's MVP.
- July 14: The Cleveland Guardians select 2B Travis Bazzana of Oregon State University as the first overall pick in the 2024 amateur draft, making the highest-ever selection for an Australian.
- July 13: The National League defeats the American League in the 2024 Futures Game; Cam Collier wins the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP.
- June 28 Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda passes away at 86.
- June 24 The University of Tennessee wins the 2024 College World Series for the first title in school history; Dylan Dreiling is the Series MVP.
- June 18 Hall of Famer Willie Mays, one of the greatest players ever, passes away at age 93.
- June 8 The University of Tampa wins the 2024 Division II College World Series.
- June 6 Misericordia University wins the 2024 Division III College World Series.
- May 19 Yu Darvish joins the meikyukai by earning his 200th win between NPB and MLB.
- May 15 I-Chung Hong becomes the first CPBL manager to 1,000 wins.
- April 15 Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog dies at age 92.
- April 1: Ronel Blanco of the Houston Astros pitches a no-hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays.
- February 9: The Tiburones de La Guaira win their first ever Caribbean Series title; Ricardo Pinto in named Caribbean Series MVP.
- February 8: Jesús Feliciano, César Tovar, Odell Jones, Francisco Campos and Julian Tavarez are inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.
- February 7: Ángel Padrón of La Guaira becomes only the second pitcher in the history of the Caribbean Series to pitch a no-hitter in defeating Rivas, 9-0.
- February 6: Howard Birnie, Paul Godfrey, Rod Heisler, Jimmy Key, Russell Martin and Ashley Stephenson are elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
- February 4: The Adelaide Giants win the 2023-2024 Australian Baseball League. Todd Van Steensel wins finals MVP.
- January 28: The Tiburones de la Guaira take their first Venezuelan League title in 38 years.
- January 27: The Tigres del Licey win their record 24th Dominican League championship.
- January 26: Lachlan Wells wins the Helms Award for 2023-2024.
- January 24: The Naranjeros de Hermosillo sweep the Mexican Pacific League finals, the first team to do so in 11 years.
- January 23: Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer are elected to the Hall of Fame.
- January 21: The Criollos de Caguas win the Puerto Rican League title for a record 21st time.
- January 18: Hiroki Kuroda, Motonobu Tanishige and Tomoichi Tanimura are voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in the 2024 voting.
- January 12: Chien-Ming Wang, Cheng-Hao Peng, Hyotaro Kondo, Keng-Yuan Chen and Kuei-Hsing Lin are named to the Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame.
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