Cold Hard Facts

Fact: When the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox game started, Mark Teixeira was 34. When it ended, he was 35.

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Source: Mark Feinsand

Fact: Giancarlo Stanton will be paid $68,449 EACH day for the next 13 years.

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Source: ESPN's Darren Rovell

Fact: Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw is the first player to allow eight earned runs, zero walks and have 10 strikeouts in a postseason game.

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Fact: The Kansas City Royals are currently last in the majors in both home runs and walks. If this holds, they will be the first-ever team to be last in both categories while still making the playoffs.

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Fact: With Adrian Beltre's walk-off home run tonight, all 30 teams have a walk-off home runs in a season for the first time since 2003.

Source: ESPN Stats & Info

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Fact: The Oakland Athletics were an MLB-best 72-44...they're now 8-19 in the last 27 games (tied for worst in MLB in that span).

Source: ESPN Stats & Info

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Fact: The Philadelphia Phillies completed the 11th combined no-hitter in MLB history. It was the first since the Seattle Mariners used six pitchers to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers in June 2012.

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Fact: The reported Red Sox signing of Cuban OF Rusney Castillo (7 years, $72.5M) would be the biggest first-time contract awarded to a Cuban-born player.

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Fact: As it stands now, four of the five California MLB teams (Dodgers, Angels, A's, Giants) are primed to play in the postseason, which would be the first time this has ever happened.

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Fact: Since his movie "Good Will Hunting" premiered in 1998, the Boston Red Sox are 0-15 on Ben Affleck's birthday, August 15.

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