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The following is a list of single-game baseball records and unusual events. The following criteria are used for inclusion:
Only events occurring within a single plate appearance, inning, or game are included; cumulative or aggregate records achieved over more than one game are not listed.
Events occurring during post-season play are included, but events occurring during an All-Star Game are not included.
2 grand slams in an inning. Number of occurrences: 1.[2]Fernando Tatís, April 23, 1999
1 grand slam from each side of the plate in the same game. Number of occurrences: 1.[2]Bill Mueller, July 29, 2003
Grand slam on first career pitch. Number of occurrences: 2. Kevin Kouzmanoff, September 2, 2006; Daniel Nava, June 12, 2010.
Home runs from both sides of the plate in the same inning.Number of occurrences: 3.[3]Carlos Baerga, April 8, 1993; Mark Bellhorn, August 29, 2002; Kendrys Morales, July 30, 2012.
12 RBIs in a single game. Number of occurrences: 2.[13]Jim Bottomley, September 16, 1924; Mark Whiten, September 7, 1993.
Hitting into 4 double plays in a game. Number of occurrences: 3.[14]Goose Goslin, April 28, 1934; Joe Torre, July 21, 1975; Víctor Martínez, September 11, 2011.
Three sacrifice flies in a game. Number of occurrences: 12.[15] Most recently, José López, April 15, 2008.[16]
7 home runs allowed in a game. Number of occurrences: 1.[23]Charlie Sweeney, June 12, 1886.
6 wild pitches in one game.Number of occurrences: 3.[24] Most recently, Bill Gullickson, October 4, 1982. Bert Cunningham of the 1890 Players' League threw five wild pitches in a single inning.
26 hits allowed in a game. Number of occurrences: 1. Allan Travers, May 18, 1912.
29 hits allowed in an extra-inning game. Number of occurrences: 1. Eddie Rommel (17 innings), July 10, 1932.
Oldest pitcher to win a game. Jamie Moyer, age 49 years, 151 days, May 16, 2012.
Most innings pitched by a relief pitcher in one game. Zip Zabel, 18+1⁄3 innings. June 17, 1915
Fastest recorded pitch thrown by a pitcher in a game. Aroldis Chapman, 105.1 miles per hour (169.1 km/h). September 24, 2010.[25]
Slowest recorded pitch thrown by a pitcher in a game. Brock Holt, 30.4 miles per hour (48.9 km/h). August 7, 2021.[26][27]
26 strikeouts in a game of any length.Number of occurrences: 4. New York Mets, August 23, 2019 (in a 14-inning game); Los Angeles Dodgers, June 2, 2017 (in a 12-inning game); Chicago Cubs, May 7, 2017 (in an 18-inning game); and California Angels, July 9, 1971 (in a 20-inning game).
Most strikeouts in a game of any length by both teams. 48 in an 18-inning game between the Cubs and Yankees on May 7, 2017 [35]
Three errors on one play. Number of occurrences: 4. Most recently committed by Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Diego Padres, September 8, 2014. Yasiel Puig bungled a throw to first base. A. J. Ellis then torpedoed the throw into left field, and then on the relay to home plate, Hanley Ramírez threw the ball past a diving Clayton Kershaw to complete the trifecta of errors.[42]
^As of 2002. This event was much more common before the modern era (i.e. the turn of the 20th century); there have been only 40 inside-the-park grand slams since 1950.
^This may seem impossible. However, by definition a perfect game requires more than simply retiring the first 27 batters in order; it also requires that the pitcher's team wins, and that the pitcher completes the entire game. See perfect game for more details.
^These six events may be the only times in the history of baseball when a team has deliberately and with premeditation allowed a run to score by the opposing team for strategic purposes. It is true that there are cases where a particular choice of defensive alignment may make scoring more likely, and there are cases where decisions made in the moment of play allow a run to score in exchange for other strategic purposes, but intentionally walking in a run is clearly in a different class of strategic maneuver. This may also have occurred when a pitcher was instructed to deliberately hit a batter with the bases loaded, but in this case, intention is not provable.
^Baseball Reference lists 6, but Hideki Okajima surrendered a home run on his first pitch April 2, 2007.
^ abThis is possible when a batter who has been struck out reaches first base safely under a dropped third strike. That is, if strike three is recorded on the batter but the catcher does not catch the ball to complete the putout (likely because of a wild pitch or passed ball) and first base is unoccupied, the batter may advance to first; the pitcher is credited with a strikeout, but no out is recorded.
^The Baseball Almanac states that 17 pitchers have accomplished this feat. Of these, all but Chuck Finley have only once struck out 4 batters in a single inning (consecutively or otherwise). Finley however did it 3 times, but the Baseball Almanac does not state how many of those were consecutive strikeouts (i.e., whether it was once, twice, or all 3 times).
^Some sources do not include the two perfect games thrown in the 19th century, because of differences in the rules of play, and thus list only twenty-one perfect games.
