Some of the best advice often comes from teammates, not coaches and managers. "Our guys are invested in everything,” Jameson ...

1977 -- Seattle’s Ruppert Jones homered off Cleveland’s Dennis Eckersley in the fifth inning to snap Eckersley ... 2012 -- Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter in New York Mets’ history. Santana ...

1977 -- Seattle’s Ruppert Jones homered off Cleveland’s Dennis Eckersley in the fifth inning ... 2012 -- Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter in New York Mets’ history.

1977 -- Seattle’s Ruppert Jones homered off Cleveland’s Dennis Eckersley in the fifth inning to snap Eckersley’s no-hit string of 22 1-3 innings, just two outs short of Cy Young’s major league record.

Hit streaks, no-hitters, record chases — they can ... Tom Henke, John Franco, Dennis Eckersley), so that, by the time Smith and Eckersley retired in the late 1990s, the archetype was set.

Eckersley will emerge as the game’s dominant closer ... 2001 — Hideo Nomo became the fourth pitcher in major-league history to throw a no-hitter in both leagues in Boston’s 3-0 victory over Baltimore.

Gibson, sidelined by leg injuries, came off the bench and connected against Hall of Fame closer Dennis ... winning No. 27 in 2009. The first Series with a pair of 50-home run hitters in Judge ...