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A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports.
Updated: August 16, 2005, 8:41 AM ET
By Elias Sports Bureau, Inc. | Special to ESPN Insider
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
• Felix Hernandez struck out 11 batters in the Mariners' 11-3 win over the Royals on Monday. He's the first teenager to fan at least 10 batters in a game since Dwight Gooden had 15 double-digit strikeout games in 1984. The last before Gooden was Bert Blyleven in 1970.
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• Felix Hernandez struck out 11 batters in the Mariners' 11-3 win over the Royals on Monday. He's the first teenager to fan at least 10 batters in a game since Dwight Gooden had 15 double-digit strikeout games in 1984. The last before Gooden was Bert Blyleven in 1970.
• This is the 56th season of major-league baseball in Kansas City, covering six different franchises in five different leagues. But these Royals have established the longest losing streak by any Kansas City team in major-league history.
The previous record stood for 121 years -- since the very first year of major-league baseball in Kansas City. That 1884 team -- known as the Unions and playing in the Union Association, a major league for just that one season -- lost 15 decisions in a row.
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