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Pete Alonso played his 500th consecutive game this week, although if he wanted that to seem impressive to local fans, he probably picked the wrong city to play in.<\/p>\n
Alonso, of course, joined the Baltimore Orioles this past offseason. Their franchise record for consecutive games is also the big league record of 2,632 by true \u201cIron Man\u201d Cal Ripken Jr. Remember, Lou Gehrig held the record of 2,130 before it was broken by Ripken in 1995.<\/p>\n
Alonso is now at 501 after Sunday\u2019s game. That means you can still fit Gehrig\u2019s entire streak into the gap between Ripken and Alonso. Before leaving the New York Mets for Baltimore, Alonso did set their franchise record of 416 consecutive games.<\/p>\n
The only player with a longer active streak is Matt Olson, and unlike Alonso he\u2019s on the verge of breaking his current team\u2019s mark. Olson has played 864 straight games, the last 730 of which have come for the Atlanta Braves. The Braves\u2019 record is held by two-time MVP Dale Murphy at 740. So Olson is on track to break the record July 10, on the road against St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Olson would tie Murphy\u2019s mark July 9 \u2014 exactly 40 years to the day from when Murphy\u2019s streak ended.<\/p>\n
According to Sportradar, the shortest belongs to Washington. The franchise mark is held by the elder Vladimir Guerrero, who played in 276 straight games when the team was still in Montreal.<\/p>\n
Aside from the Orioles and Yankees, the Chicago Cubs have the longest team record for consecutive games: 1,117 by Billy Williams.<\/p>\n
Bumbling Jays<\/p>\n
For the teams in the American League wild-card race, it\u2019s hard to fall too far off the pace. The Toronto Blue Jays have lost six straight games, and they\u2019re still only 2 1\/2 games out of a postseason spot.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t make this recent stretch of baseball any more palatable. Texas swept four straight from the defending AL champions, with the Blue Jays dropping the finale Sunday when they let Jarred Kelenic score the winning run all the way from second on a wild pitch in the ninth.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t much for Toronto to be happy about, especially at the plate. After finishing third in the majors in OPS last year, the Blue Jays are in the bottom 10 this season. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has only four home runs and George Springer is batting .220.<\/p>\n
Big lumber<\/p>\n
Junior Caminero hit three home runs and drove in six runs as Tampa Bay routed Kansas City 13-2 on Thursday. The Rays also took a combined no-hitter into the ninth inning of that game before Carter Jansen homered off Craig Kimbrel with one out.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has hit just 74 home runs this season \u2014 only Miami and Boston have fewer \u2014 and Caminero has 22 of them.<\/p>\n
Comebacks<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a three-pack this week, courtesy of the resurgent Phillies and a compliant Washington bullpen that stook out from last week\u2019s action.<\/p>\n
Tuesday: The Nationals lead 5-0 in the fifth and 8-6 in the ninth before allowing eight runs in the final inning for a 14-9 loss. Those eight runs came after the first two Philadelphia batters of the ninth struck out.<\/p>\n
Wednesday: Again down to their last out with nobody on, Philadelphia rallies with Kyle Schwarber\u2019s walk and Derek Hill\u2019s two-run homer. The Phillies win 5-4.<\/p>\n
Thursday: Down 5-0, the Phillies score two runs in the sixth, three in the seventh and five in the ninth for a 10-5 victory.<\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s peak win probabilities, according to Baseball Savant: 98.8% on Tuesday, 96.3% on Wednesday and 96.5% on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Nationals also blew an eight-run lead at San Francisco earlier this month. They\u2019ve lost four games after leading by at least five \u2014 the most such defeats in baseball.<\/p>\n
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