About a year ago I stumbled into some article on Bob Watson scoring Major League Baseball's 1,000,000th run back in 1975. It didn't occur to me at the time to wonder if we were anywhere close to the 2,000,000th run, but now I see that the historic run will be scored TODAY:
From the reign of Queen Victoria to the era of launch angles, a parade of ballplayers has crossed home plate. It has happened 1,999,987 times through Friday’s games, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the official statisticians for Major League Baseball.
That means that on Saturday some lucky player will set spike to rubber and score what will officially be the two millionth run in M.L.B. history.
In baseball’s official accounting, the first run scored in the lineage of today’s Major League Baseball came on April 22, 1876. According to new research this month conducted by Thorn, the run was plated by Tim McGinley, a catcher for the Boston Red Stockings, the forebears of today’s Atlanta Braves. Historians are not certain whether he batted right- or left-handed, but we know he scored in the top of the second inning at Philadelphia.
I was gonna make a "as long as The Orioles pitching stays as it is then MLB may reach 3,000,000 by September" joke but decided to take the high road instead. You're welcome, O's fans!
But seriously, you can see what I'm talking about:
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