History movers: Yordan Alvarez (Franchise Home Runs) up 66 → 72; Yordan Alvarez (Home Runs) up 71 → 76; Otto Lopez (Batting Average) down 66 → 61.
HISTORY LAST NIGHT: Tristan Peters hit for the CYCLE (4-for-4, HR, 3B, 2B, 1B) — happens about a half-dozen times a season.
Milestones reached last night: Yordan Alvarez reached 30 HR; Jung Hoo Lee reached 100 hits; James Wood reached 100 hits.
The .400 chase: Otto Lopez went 0-for-7 last night and saw his average slip 6 points to .339. The gap to .400 is now .061.
The so-what: through 96 team games, Kyle Schwarber sits 11 HR behind Bonds' 73-homer pace (43 at this point). That's the number that decides whether this season becomes a chase or a footnote.
The .400 burndown: Otto Lopez carries a .339 average into today; a .400 finish takes a .492 clip the rest of the way (127-for-258). That is .015 harder than yesterday. A 3-for-4 tonight lowers the requirement to .488; an 0-for-4 raises it to .500.
30/30 watch: Pete Crow-Armstrong sits at 21 HR / 23 SB — 9 homers short and 7 steals short of a 30/30 season, projecting to 36/40.
Historical intelligence
Kyle Schwarber has 32 home runs through 96 team games, 10 behind Barry Bonds's 2001 pace at the same checkpoint (42). Comparable chases finished with a median of 46; 27.9% reached 50 and 3.5% reached 60 (n=86).
Retrosheet · verified play-by-playIf James Wood finishes at the current projection of 148, it would rank No. 22 among all seasons since 1901 — only 21 finished higher.
SABR Lahman Baseball Database · through 2021The WSH single-season record is 46 home runs, set by Alfonso Soriano in 2006. James Wood projects to 46 and projects to tie it.
SABR Lahman Baseball Database · through 2021MLB teams are averaging 8.38 batter-strikeout events per team game. The last completed season at least this high was 2021. The stored historical peak is 8.81 in 2019.
SABR Lahman Baseball Database · through 2021
