Ashby, Garner honored and inducted into the Astros Hall of Fame
https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/phil-garner-alan-ashby-inducted-astros-hall-of-fame
Detmers earns first home win with 11 K’s in 8 scoreless frames
https://www.mlb.com/angels/news/reid-detmers-strikes-out-11-royals-in-win
Guards ride complete effort to 10,000th win in franchise history
https://www.mlb.com/guardians/news/guardians-secure-10-000th-win-in-franchise-history
Joshua Baez is the first player in MLB history with 3 home runs in his debut
The previous earliest career game for a player to have a 3-HR game was 10th, by 8/10/19 Aristides Aquino and 9/4/97 Bobby Estalella
h/t @EliasSportshttps://t.co/M0zT1mGfVD
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) August 15, 2026
449 ft!
Of the 5 players to homer on their first pitch of their first at-bat under Statcast (2015), Joshua Báez’s went the longest https://t.co/RevFHBzJI4
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) August 15, 2026
Teammates celebrate a HISTORIC 3-HR game
The Memphis Redbirds clubhouse erupted watching Joshua Báez’s third home run in his MLB debut!
📹: @_LooCijntjepic.twitter.com/fYnU7sshPq
— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) August 16, 2026
Carson Benge!
98.1 mph
That’s the 3rd-fastest tracked OF assist by a Mets player under Statcast (2015)
Enjoying this article? Support our work with a small crypto donation.He now has each of the top 3, with 100.0 mph on 7/24 and 98.2 mph on 7/10
Benge is the only MLB player with 3 98+ mph OF assists this season (only Jordan Walker even has 2) https://t.co/aRnfP7yuZ7
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) August 15, 2026
Anything Goes
This day in history:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-16
This day in baseball:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/August_16
Their necks physically cannot bend to look up. This is because the body of the pig is designed mainly to prioritize finding food.
In 1993, researchers at Cambridge’s computer science department got tired of walking up to an empty coffee machine. So, they wired up a system that would stream images to the Trojan Room that housed the coffee pot.
One of the most amazing facts about Bob Ross is that he once painted using only gray colors for a color blind viewer. Ross did this so that the viewer would not need to worry about his color blindness getting in the way of his artistic creativity.
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