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1 day agoFC Bayern vs. VfL Wolfsburg: Facts & figures
FC Bayern lead the Bundesliga at midseason with historic records, dominant form, and strong title-winning precedent making them clear favorites for the championship.
At any given moment during the baseball season between Opening Day and August 31, there are 780 active players on major league rosters - 30 clubs, each with 26 players. Maybe a few more are scattered about if the 27th Man clause is invoked for a day-night doubleheader or neutral-site contest. On September 1, when rosters expand to 28, the total rises to 840+. Given the steady stream of personnel promotions and corresponding demotions over the course of a campaign, it seems certain that MLB never encompasses the same 780 or 840 players from one day to the next. For example, the team we root for used 63 different players across 162 games in its most recent season, and activated two others who never saw action.
After all, there were less than 10 minutes remaining and the Spaniards had survived a flurry of missed chances before drawing level in a game in which they were second best. But this was Arne Slot's Liverpool, who have made a habit of scoring late winners. By the time captain Virgil van Dijk planted home a powerful header to snatch a 3-2 victory, the stoppage-time winner felt as inevitable as it did thrilling for the home fans.
That breaks the record once held by White, who starred as the Blue Jays centerfielder during Toronto's glory days when the team won back-to-back World Series championships in 1992 and '93. Springer is now just 19 home runs shy of the all-time MLB record of 81 lead off home runs, which is held by the late-great Rickey Henderson, who, ironically, usurped White as the teams leadoff hitter in the second half of '93 when Henderson was traded to the Blue Jays.