The Chase

Sep 15No Plan B — Pete Alonso's 300th home run arrives in his first Orioles season, built on eight years and a refusal to consider anything else.

Sep 11Robbie Ray at 100 — Thirteen seasons, six teams, and a clubhouse confrontation that changed his approach — Robbie Ray reaches 100 wins.

Sep 9Paper, Tape, and a Hundred Home Runs — The Brewers catcher reached 100 career home runs on September 9, at age 28, in his seventh major-league season.

Sep 9The Birth Certificate — Sixteen seasons and 2,500 hits in Houston, from a second baseman once told he was too short.

Sep 8A Hundred Saved — Tanner Scott reached 100 career saves closing for the Dodgers, a decade after he nearly didn't make his high school team.

Sep 8One Hundred Bags, One Backyard — Pete Crow-Armstrong reached 100 career stolen bases playing for the team his father loved.

Sep 8The Restaurant and the Count — From crutches on draft day to 500 career runs — the path of a second baseman who nearly didn't begin.

Sep 6The Kid From La Sabana — Ronald Acuña Jr. reached 1,000 career hits yesterday in an Atlanta uniform he has never taken off.

Sep 6The Second Day — The Astros second baseman from Maracay crossed 1,300 career runs in his sixteenth season — all in Houston.

Sep 6400 Saves, a Long Way From Holguín — The closer who came out of Cuba by way of a Rotterdam hotel door has reached 400 career saves and is still pitching in Boston.

Sep 5Five Hundred From La Sabana — Ronald Acuña Jr. reached 500 career RBI in his ninth season with Atlanta, the team that signed him out of La Sabana at sixteen.

Sep 4Five Teams, Eight Years, 500 Runs — A contact hitter from San Felipe who nearly quit as a teenager reaches 500 career runs in his eighth season.

Sep 4The Umpire's Son — 250 saves across three clubs in ten major-league seasons, from a 19th-round pick out of Millersville.

Sep 2Acuña's Two Hundred — The Braves outfielder from La Sabana reached 200 career home runs in his ninth season — all of them in Atlanta.

Sep 1The Crossing to Five Hundred — Yandy Díaz drove in his 500th career RBI 13 years after a raft crossing from Cuba. The phone calls home have never stopped.

Aug 31A Thousand Times Home — Xander Bogaerts scored his 1,000th career run on August 31. Fourteen seasons from Aruba to San Diego.

Aug 30Two Hundred Swings of the Kraken — Gary Sánchez reached 200 career home runs across twelve seasons and six teams.

Aug 29The 1,017th Pick Reaches 100 — From a 34th-round selection at San Diego State to 100 major-league home runs — back with the Padres, at first base, at 32.

Aug 20200 for the Kid From Jánico — Willy Adames, the first major leaguer from Jánico, reached 200 career home runs on August 20, 2026.

Aug 20The Shortstop Who Stayed — Jacob deGrom, who nearly quit baseball as a Stetson shortstop, has reached 2,000 career strikeouts.

Aug 20A Thousand Driven In — Rejected before his signing, a kid from Ciudad Piar reaches 1,000 career RBI — back in Cincinnati.

Aug 12Corbin Carroll at 100 — A hundred home runs, five seasons in — built by a Seattle kid who idolized Ichiro and never stopped taking extra swings.

Aug 9The Cut That Made a Thousand Hits — Jeff McNeil was a golfer until he wasn't. A thousand hits later, the pivot still runs through everything.

Aug 8Strange Gyrations — Aaron Nola's 2,000th career strikeout caps twelve years in Philadelphia — all of them as a Phillie.

Aug 3Just Catch the Ball — From two-way player at East Carolina to 500 hits with the Cardinals, five seasons in one place.

Aug 1Bolly — A second baseman from Curaçao reaches 100 career stolen bases in his tenth season with the Braves.

Jul 29Tarik Skubal's 1,000th Strikeout — From an Arizona tournament to a milestone in Detroit — the left-hander who got a business card and made a call.

Jul 29The Undrafted Kid — Spencer Torkelson reached 500 career hits in his fifth season with the Detroit Tigers.

Jul 28A Thousand Hits from Berlin — From a Berlin Little League to a thousand major-league hits, via pinstripe pants his mother kept cutting open.

Jul 28Gavin Williams, 500 Strikeouts In — A kid from Autryville who turned down the Rays, finished his degree, and has spent every pitch of his career in Cleveland.

Jul 26Semien's Thousand — Fourteen seasons, five teams, one fingerprint pendant — Marcus Semien crosses 1,000 runs scored.

Jul 25The Runner Who Isn't Afraid — Esteury Ruiz reached 100 career stolen bases the way he runs — without hesitation.

Jul 25Five Hundred for the Youngest Turang — The Brewers' second baseman reached 500 career hits in his fourth major-league season.

Jul 24Five Hundred Runs — Yordan Alvarez reached 500 career runs scored in his eighth season with the Astros — the only major-league team he has ever played for.

Jul 24Never Said Win — The father who never said 'win,' the brother who reminds him the game is a privilege, and a thousand hits across six clubs.

Jul 22McCannon's Hundred — 100 career home runs across five clubs and thirteen seasons — from a catcher whose mother was told he might not survive.

Jul 20The Kid Who Stayed — Trea Turner reached 200 career home runs on July 20 — a number built across three teams and a dozen seasons by a shortstop who never looked old enough to be there.

Jul 20Lake Forest to Two Thousand — Nolan Arenado reached 2,000 hits in his third city, fourteen seasons after the Rockies drafted him out of El Toro High.

Jul 19The Initials in the Dirt — Manny Machado's 1,200th RBI is the shape of a career that started with a grandfather's warm milk and a bunting lesson in Hialeah.

Jul 19Five Hundred Hits, One Photograph — Seven seasons, four clubs, and 500 career hits for the Astros' third baseman from Hermosillo.

Jul 18Scranton to a Hundred — Six seasons, two teams, and 100 stolen bases for a kid from Scranton who once rushed for 6,080 yards in high school football.

Jul 18The Barn in Cheyenne — From a barn in Wyoming to 500 RBI in the big leagues — Brandon Nimmo's decade-long climb reaches a round number in Texas.

Jul 17The Sign and the Count — The kid who held a Yankees sign at the 2001 World Series has 2,300 career strikeouts.

Jul 17Sixteen Seasons, 2,700 Strikeouts — From a cheeseburger at Florida Gulf Coast to the Braves' rotation — Chris Sale's milestone, and the career that built it.

Jul 16The Glove He Gave Away — Devin Williams reached 100 career saves eight years after he nearly quit baseball in a minor-league game.

Jul 12The Shortstop Who Almost Went Home — A switch-hitting shortstop from Sabana Grande de Boyá reaches 500 career hits in his 502nd major-league game.

Jul 11Walter and the Thousand — Logan Gilbert's milestone is the work of a late bloomer from Apopka who found a different gear on the mound.

Jul 10The Box He Stayed In — Yordan Alvarez reaches 200 career home runs, built on a swing that kept him in the box when most young hitters would have bailed out.

Jul 7The Notebooks and the Number — Three hundred home runs, nine seasons, and the kid from Iwate whose father kept the notebooks.

Jul 7The Drive to 100 — Undrafted out of high school, he reached 100 career home runs in a 10-RBI game for Pittsburgh.

Jul 7Bo Bichette's First Thousand — A kid named after Bo Jackson, raised by an All-Star father and a mother from Porto Alegre, reaches 1,000 hits in his first season as a Met.

Jul 4Randy Arozarena's 500th Run — Five hundred runs scored, and a career that spans St. Louis, Tampa Bay, and Seattle.

Jul 3Mookie Betts, 1,200 Runs In — Thirteen seasons, two teams, and a Nashville kid who was told he was too small — now with 1,200 runs scored.

Jul 1One Hundred from Arakawa — The Cubs outfielder reached 100 career home runs in his fifth major-league season, a number built on an iron bat and golf balls in Tokyo.

Jun 30Two Hundred Fifty for the Kid from Sánchez — A boy who rode a lame horse to the field every morning is now 250 home runs into a major league career.

Jun 28Dad on the Brim — Six teams, fourteen seasons, and a word written under the brim.

Jun 28The Walk-On's Thousand — Shane Bieber reached 1,000 career strikeouts — a decade after arriving at UC Santa Barbara without a scholarship.

Jun 28A Hundred in Houston — Isaac Paredes reached 100 career home runs in his seventh season — a career that began with two-mile walks to Little League in Hermosillo.

Jun 27The Arm From Texarkana — Michael Wacha's 1,500 strikeouts span fourteen seasons and six teams, but the thread runs back to an American Legion game his father coached.

Jun 27The Long Way from Kauai — From a Hawaiian surf trip that never ended to nine major-league stops, Kirby Yates reached his hundredth save.

Jun 27Bamm-Bamm at Five Hundred — The 5-foot-9 second baseman who rebuilt his swing in Nashville has 500 career RBI.

Jun 26The Notebook at Five Hundred — The Twins right-hander crossed 500 career strikeouts at 25, four seasons after his debut in Tampa Bay.

Jun 26The Oath and the Number — Paul Skenes reached 500 career strikeouts in his third season. The path to the mound ran through the Air Force Academy.

Jun 24300, Twice Over — The Dodgers' shortstop reached 300 career home runs in June — a number he has bowled before.

Jun 23The Outfielder Who Couldn't Throw — Sandy Alcantara reached 1,000 career strikeouts in his ninth major-league season.

Jun 19The Kid at a Thousand — A shortstop from Santiago reaches 1,000 hits across nine seasons and three clubs, still carrying the humility his mother taught him.

Jun 19A Hundred Saves and a Daughter Named Ellis — Pete Fairbanks's path to 100 saves ran through two elbow surgeries, three teams, and a daughter named Ellis.

Jun 19A Thousand for the Hometown Team — A Denver kid who took his glove to bed has spent ten years striking out hitters for the only club he's ever known.

Jun 17A Hundred With the Other Hand — Eduardo Rodríguez reached 100 career wins as a left-handed pitcher — which he became after breaking his right arm at age seven.

Jun 15Five Hundred in Relief — A 10th-round pick who once drove to spring training wondering if baseball was over has logged his 500th career strikeout.

Jun 13Jake Burger's Hundred — A career nearly lost to injury reaches a round number, and the man who almost walked away is still swinging.

Jun 131,200 Runs for the Ironworker's Son — Fifteen seasons, two MVPs, and 1,200 runs — scored by a Las Vegas ironworker's son.

Jun 12Gunnar Henderson, at a Hundred — The career behind Gunnar Henderson's 100th home run — one team, 620 games, and a field in Selma.

Jun 11The Reliever Who Almost Wasn't — Devin Williams reached 500 career strikeouts in June — a number built entirely in relief, by a pitcher who nearly walked away from the game.

Jun 10Stay In — Max Scherzer's 3,500 strikeouts span 19 seasons, seven organizations, and a refusal to come off the mound.

Jun 10A Thousand Times Across — George Springer's 1,000 career runs span 13 seasons, two teams, and a life that began in New Britain.

Jun 10Five Hundred — Two elbow reconstructions, seven major-league seasons, and the 500th strikeout.

Jun 9What Color Is the Sky — Josh Bell's 200th home run caps an eleven-year career across seven franchises, shaped in a Coppell backyard by a father who turned him around at five.

Jun 92,500 Hits, One Swing — Seventeen seasons and a father who has been on the other end of batting practice since the beginning.

Jun 9The Picture He Carried — Fernando Tatis Jr. reached 500 career runs — a number built from a boyhood on rocky infields and seven seasons in San Diego.

Jun 3One Uniform, One Thousand — Ten seasons, one team, one jersey given to his mother — and now a thousand hits.

Jun 2The One in the Cage — Paul Goldschmidt's 1,300th career run is the product of sixteen seasons built on tee work, mentorship, and showing up.

May 29Five Hundred Runs From Sagua la Grande — Yandy Díaz's 500th career run traces back to a raft, a beach, and a phone call to his mother.

May 29The Position He Chose — Geraldo Perdomo reached 500 hits playing shortstop — the position he took up after his cousin's death.

May 27The Goofy Kid at a Thousand — Eight seasons, two cities, and a thousand hits for the Polar Bear.

May 23The Long Sleeves — Freddie Freeman reached 1,400 career runs in his seventeenth season — a career shaped by loss, a promise, and a father who stayed.

May 22FN — Manny Machado reached 2,100 career hits on May 22, fifteen seasons after his major-league debut.

May 21The Hundred and the Hallway — The hundredth stolen base of a career built on the bat — and on a hallway in Santo Domingo where the first bases were imaginary.

May 18The Field Was the Relief — George Springer reached 1,500 career hits in May — a number built over 13 seasons and two teams by a player who found relief from a childhood stutter on the baseball field.

May 15Five Hundred Runs and a Camp in Carmichael — The Guardians' first baseman reached 500 career runs in his first Cleveland season — a nine-year arc from Sacramento State, alongside a high school service project that carried through his career.

May 15The Hallway to Two Hundred Fifty — The 250th home run came eight years to the day after his debut — and years after a father's bottle caps in a Santo Domingo hallway.

May 12Named After a Ballpark — Shea Langeliers reached 100 career home runs in May. The name came first.

May 12Schwarber at 350 — Twelve seasons, four clubs, and a left-handed bat that came back from a torn knee to help win a World Series.

May 12Still Alive — The Red Sox outfielder reached 100 career stolen bases on May 12, his sixth season with the only club he has known.

May 11The Yard and the Number — Six franchises, fourteen seasons, and the 2,000th strikeout — the career of Kevin Gausman.

May 8The First Round Number — The Nationals' shortstop reached 500 career hits on May 8, his fifth season in the majors.

May 7Yandy Díaz's Thousand — A defector who never expected the majors reaches a round number in his tenth season.

May 7The Cages — Paul Goldschmidt's 2,200th hit is a number built on a father's torn shoulder and an eighth-round pick who kept swinging.

May 7Keep Your Hand Raised — A designated hitter who moved through four organizations in seven seasons reached 500 major-league hits on May 7.

May 6The Baby Giraffe Grows Up — The 6-foot-8 right-hander from Santa Clarita reached 1,000 career strikeouts this May, his third season with the Dodgers.

May 6The Quiet Thousand — Bryan Reynolds reached 1,000 career hits in the only uniform he has ever worn.

May 4Over the House — The Wiffle ball that cleared the house in Lilburn, the father who coached two sons, and the 300 home runs that followed.

May 4Five Hundred Hits — Adley Rutschman reached 500 hits at 28, with one team and a family's athletic roots behind him.

Apr 29The Alpha at 1,200 — Nolan Arenado's career RBI milestone, built from a competitive kid who once bunted to win.

Apr 22The Call He Tried to Make — Eight seasons in Pittsburgh, 500 RBI, and the coach who wouldn't take the scholarship back.

Apr 21A Thousand Runs, Built in Lake Forest — The third baseman crossed 1,000 career runs scored in his 14th season. The competitiveness came from his mother; the obsession from his father.

Apr 20The Glove That Got Him Here — Miguel Rojas reached 1,000 hits the same way he reached the majors — by surviving on defense when the bat wasn't enough.

Apr 18The Barn and the Thousand — Brandon Nimmo reached 1,000 career hits in a Rangers uniform. The road started in Cheyenne, where Wyoming had no high school baseball.

Apr 15The Cage Behind the House — Cal Raleigh's 500 career hits arrived in April — six seasons, one team, and 166 home runs for a .217 catcher.

Apr 12The Kid From Buford — Brandon Marsh reached 500 career hits on April 12. The path ran from Buford, Georgia, to Philadelphia.

Apr 3Yordan Alvarez, 500 RBI, and the Ride That Started It — A career built in Houston began with a forgotten minivan and a teenager who didn't know what a trade was.

Apr 3Riley Greene's First Five Hundred — Five seasons in Detroit, built on an Oviedo front lawn where the lights stayed on after dark.

Mar 28Reid Detmers and the 500 — The Angels left-hander reached 500 career strikeouts in March, six seasons into a career rooted in central Illinois.

Mar 28From Millville to 1,200 — Mike Trout's run to 1,200 started with a scout who knew his father and a habit that ruins the laundry.

Mar 28C. Walk at 500 — Christian Walker scored his 500th career run on his 35th birthday. The path started in a Pennsylvania garage.

Mar 26The First Hundred — Five seasons in Philadelphia, 100 stolen bases, and a homework notebook full of autographs.

Mar 26Getting Comfortable — Five hundred hits for a utility man shaped by a military childhood.

Mar 25A Thousand From Rocklin — The kid who grew up a hundred miles from Oracle Park has struck out a thousand big-league hitters, all for the team he grew up watching.