HISTORY LAST NIGHT: Tristan Peters hit for the CYCLE (4-for-4, HR, 3B, 2B, 1B) — happens about a half-dozen times a season.
Nightly briefing
Baseball last night
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.
Kyle Schwarber is on pace for 238 strikeouts
Kyle Schwarber has struck out 141 times, projecting to 238. Mark Reynolds' record is 223. But he's doing damage too: he leads MLB in home runs (32) — one every 10.8 at-bats. The strikeouts are the price of the power.
Mark Reynolds struck out 223 times in 2009, a mark that has survived the highest-strikeout era in history.
- Current
- 141
- Projected
- 238
- Record
- 223 Mark Reynolds · 2009
Misiorowski, Jacob's 105.5 mph 4-Seam Fastball on 2026-06-26 is the fastest pitch of 2026.
39 wins from a 100-win season.
Needs 32 more to reach 120.
Needs 18 more to reach 50.
Yordan Alvarez ranks 2/1/1 in the AL in AVG/HR/RBI.
22 from a 50-save season.
41 wins from a 100-win season.
A 473-foot home run on 2026-06-16 — the longest ball of the season.
Tonight's stakes
What to watch today
The stat at stake: Otto Lopez carries a .339 average into today. A .400 finish would take roughly a .492 clip the rest of the way (127-for-258) — extreme territory, but every multi-hit day moves the math, and every 0-for-4 costs about two points.
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.
How to read the site
The chase, in plain English
Otto Lopez leads MLB at .339, but .400 is still a mountain. He would need 39 straight hits to get there today, or roughly a .492 average the rest of the way (127-for-258) to finish at .400.
Every chase gets a 0–100 History Score against the record book, allowing home-run pace, streaks, Statcast extremes, and even negative history to share one radar.