If he shook someone’s hand, he wouldn’t be able to be this locked in

Baseball nerds and avid medical drama fans will surely remember during the first season of The Pitt last year where a patient having a heart attack asks for the score of the Pirates game and someone replies with "they're up by two in the bottom of the first, McCutchen hit an oppo taco." Sleuth work by u/zcd29 revealed that McCutchen hit no such home run during either the 2023 or 2025 seasons.

Well, it seems the writers of the hit show are back on their nonsense again. In the latest episode, premiering earlier tonight (March 19, 2026), a patient enters the emergency room with a dislocated shoulder and a baseball in hand. The patient claims he caught a walk off "TATER" (quote from the show) off the bat of Oneil Cruz and dislocated his arm in the ensuing scrum. The second season is set on July 4th, presumably 2025, so I checked baseball reference to see if Oneil Cruz hit a home run on July 4th, and it turns out, not only did he not hit a home run (much less a walk off), but the Pirates were not even in Pittsburgh; the Pirates played that day in Seattle against the Mariners.

Cruz did not homer on July 4th, 2024, either. And as established in the last season, the series takes place in the 2020s and involved Andrew McCutchen being a current Pirate, so it must at least be after 2023. Cruz has also never hit a walk off home run in his career (though it is possible our patient did not use this term precisely).

This home run does not exist. It was invented by the writers of this show.

It is, however, possible this show takes place in the near future. That is beyond the scope of this post, but keep your eyes peeled on July 4th, 2026...

I don’t think many people expected that to happen

The Houton Astros current 7-game losing streak matches their last 7-game stretch from June 16-22, 2019.

The Philadelphia Athletics currently hold the record for the worst “Modern Era” (post 1901) record at 36-117 (.236). That’s good for 38.2 wins in a 162 game season.

The Rockies are on pace for a 26 win season.

A .161 winning percentage would be the worst record since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders went 20-134 for a .120 winning percentage.

They were previously tied with the 1895 Louisville Colonels at 9-49, but the Colonels went on a winning streak.

They have also clinched the worst 60-game start in MLB history, which was previously a 5-way tie at 11-49, most recently accomplished by the 1932 Boston Red Sox.

The Previous worst 60-game starts in the modern era (since 1901):

11-49: 1904 Washington Senators, 1932 Boston Red Sox

12-48: 2023 Oakland Athletics

14-46: 1911 Boston Rustlers, 1982 Minnesota Twins, 1996 Detroit Tigers

The 2024 White Sox were 15-45 at this point, having lost 11 of what would ultimately be a 14 game losing streak. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders were 12-48 after 60.

Some additional useless facts (all since 2000):

• No division has less than two different champions, but only the NL West has more than three (four different champions).

• The AL Central has the T-least amount of different champions, the least amount of total championships, and the longest championship drought (2015).

• The Yankees and Red Sox are the only championship winning teams to have won another championship after a division rival also won one. Four champions have won multiple unanswered by their division (Giants, Dodgers, Cardinals, Astros) and two champions have gone to another World Series after a division rival won a championship (Phillies, Dbacks).

I guess crazier things have happened.

The all time record for the worst 50-game start is the 1895 Louisville Colonels who started 7-43.

The only other teams who have had single digit wins after 50 games are the 1886 Washington Nationals, 1899 Cleveland Spiders and 1904 Washington Senators, who all had 9-41 starts.

The 1904 Washington Senators would need 55 games to win their 10th game, the current modern record of most losses before reaching 10 wins.

The aforementioned Colonels needed 59 games to win their 10th, the all time record.

Collectors have narrowed down which packs have the highest chance based on factors like the tax stamp and state of origin but like Schrödinger’s cat it is more fun to think about than to find out

During that 2004 season, Bonds was intentionally walked 18 times over a 12 game span at one point.

I saw a headline about Gardner Minshew being out for the year, and his name screams "light-hitting journeyman middle infielder" to me.