Season log

2026, in the moments that mattered

Every night of this season has its own page in the daily archive. This is the short version — 49 entries drawn from 171 nights, each one a change between two days rather than a state repeated across forty.

March 2026

  1. 03-15

    Opening Day

    The season begins.

    opening day
  2. 03-28

    Dominic Smith hit a WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM

    rare feat
  3. 03-30

    Michael Soroka threw an IMMACULATE INNING (inning 5: 3 K on 9 pitches)

    rare feat

April 2026

  1. 04-09

    Xander Bogaerts hit a WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM

    rare feat
  2. 04-10

    Max Muncy hit 3 home runs

    rare feat
  3. 04-21

    Sam Antonacci hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat
  4. 04-23

    Evan Carter hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat

May 2026

  1. 05-06

    Andy Pages hit 3 home runs

    rare feat
  2. 05-09

    Bobby Witt Jr. hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat
  3. 05-13

    Daulton Varsho hit a WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM

    rare feat
  4. 05-14

    Jung Hoo Lee hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat
  5. 05-19

    James Wood hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat
  6. 05-24

    The .400 chase ended: Otto Lopez would need to hit .432 the rest of the way

    He leads MLB at .337 with 108 games left. Nobody has ever hit that much over a stretch that long — the record is .431, Rogers Hornsby in 1924.

    chase over
  7. 05-24

    Heriberto Hernández hit a WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM

    rare feat

June 2026

  1. 06-04

    Shea Langeliers hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat
  2. 06-10

    Bryce Eldridge hit a WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM

    rare feat
  3. 06-15

    Colt Keith hit 3 home runs

    rare feat
  4. 06-15

    Pete Crow-Armstrong hit for the CYCLE (4-for-4, HR, 3B, 2B, 1B)

    rare feat
  5. 06-20

    Kyle Schwarber hit 3 home runs

    rare feat
  6. 06-20

    Bryce Harper hit for the CYCLE (4-for-5, HR, 3B, 2B, 1B)

    rare feat
  7. 06-23

    Nasim Nuñez reached 30 stolen bases

    31 SB in 74 games

    milestone
  8. 06-28

    Kyle Schwarber reached 30 home runs

    30 HR in 80 games

    milestone

July 2026

  1. 07-01

    Dansby Swanson hit 3 home runs

    rare feat
  2. 07-01

    Joe Mack hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat
  3. 07-05

    Bobby Witt Jr. reached 30 stolen bases

    30 SB in 85 games

    milestone
  4. 07-10

    Tristan Peters hit for the CYCLE (4-for-4, HR, 3B, 2B, 1B)

    rare feat
  5. 07-10

    Yordan Alvarez reached 30 home runs

    31 HR in 95 games

    milestone
  6. 07-17

    Spencer Steer hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat
  7. 07-19

    Victor Mesa Jr. hit an INSIDE-THE-PARK home run — a half-dozen or so happen a season

    rare feat
  8. 07-19

    Hunter Goodman hit 3 home runs

    rare feat
  9. 07-20

    Ben Rice ran his hitting streak to 12, the longest of the season

    44 short of DiMaggio's 56

    streak
  10. 07-21

    Ben Rice reached 30 home runs

    30 HR in 96 games

    milestone
  11. 07-26

    James Wood reached 30 home runs

    30 HR in 106 games

    milestone
  12. 07-29

    Jazz Chisholm Jr. reached 30 stolen bases

    30 SB in 101 games

    milestone
  13. 07-30

    Nick Gonzales ran his hitting streak to 14, the longest of the season

    42 short of DiMaggio's 56

    streak
  14. 07-31

    Junior Caminero reached 30 home runs

    30 HR in 109 games

    milestone

August 2026

  1. 08-01

    Matt Olson reached 30 home runs

    30 HR in 111 games

    milestone
  2. 08-03

    Alec Burleson hit 3 home runs — three-homer games happen roughly 15 times a season — his first career three-homer game.

    rare feat
  3. 08-04

    Fernando Tatis Jr. (843) passed Phil Nevin (842) on the Padres' all-time hits list

    rare feat
  4. 08-05

    Chandler Simpson reached 30 stolen bases

    30 SB in 107 games

    milestone
  5. 08-07

    Pete Crow-Armstrong reached 30 stolen bases

    30 SB in 117 games

    milestone
  6. 08-09

    Jacob Misiorowski reached 200 strikeouts

    204 K in 22 games

    milestone
  7. 08-11

    Yandy Díaz (1017) passed Ben Zobrist (1016) on the Rays' all-time hits list

    rare feat
  8. 08-11

    Fernando Tatis Jr. (164) passed Nate Colbert (163) on the Padres' all-time home run list

    rare feat
  9. 08-12

    Corbin Carroll (305) passed Jay Bell (304) on the Diamondbacks' all-time RBI list

    rare feat
  10. 08-12

    Corbin Carroll (100) passed Matt Williams (99) on the Diamondbacks' all-time home run list

    rare feat
  11. 08-16

    Otto Lopez reached 150 hits

    150 H in 121 games

    milestone
  12. 08-16

    José Caballero reached 30 stolen bases

    30 SB in 103 games

    milestone

September 2026

  1. 09-01

    Gerrit Cole reached 150 career wins

    rare feat

How this list is chosen

Everything here is a transition, not a state: the day a mark was crossed, the day a streak reached its number, the day a chase stopped being possible. Rare feats come from the notables the nightly job already verified, restricted to the genuinely uncommon — this archive counted 132 first home runs and 119 walk-offs, so neither one is a headline. Repeats of the same event are collapsed, since a running total moves nightly while the event does not, and no single kind of entry may take more than a few slots in a month.

The .400 line is dated against the highest batting average anyone has ever recorded over a stretch of the length still remaining, not against a round number — which is the only way the day it ends can be identified at all. Most outlets simply stop mentioning the chase.

Built entirely from stored snapshots and no API calls, so it can be regenerated for any season the archive covers. Right now that is 2026.