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Bregman's double runs Astros' winning streak to 12

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These games originally were scheduled more than a month ago, and Game 1 resumed after being suspended because of rain in the middle of the sixth — so technically, Soto managed to homer in a game played before he made his major league debut.

Huh?

The 19-year-old Soto was called up from the minors for the first time five days after Game 1 started on May 15; it picked back up at 3-all and the Nationals about to bat in the bottom of the sixth. After Bryce Harper — who had a full beard back on May 15, when the game began, but was clean-shaven this time — struck out, and Anthony Rendon singled, Soto drove a 97 mph fastball from Chad Green (4-1) to the back of the second deck in right field.

Another young phenom, a 19-yr-old so good, he just broke the time-space continuum, lol

This is one of the quirks that can arise from a suspended game

Soto didn't make his MLB debut until May 20, but this HR (the 6th of his career) will count as a HR on the May 15 game that was suspended. So statistically, he hit a HR before he even made his debut, although it won't count as his 1st HR. Got that? Lol

OK, here's another mind-bending possibility that can arise from a suspended game:

Imagine this - a pitcher pitches for one team and then the game gets suspended. That pitcher then gets cut or traded to the opposing team. Later when the suspended game gets continued, that pitcher pitches for the opposing team against his original team.

Depending on how the game works out, there's a possibility that the winning pitcher and the losing pitcher is the same pitcher! How could a pitcher be the winner and the loser in the same game?! That's what a suspended game can give ya, lol

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Bartolo Colon earned his 244th win, passing Hall of Famer Juan Marichal for the most by a pitcher born in the Dominican Republic, and Texas beat skidding Kansas City.

Pitcher Bartolo Colon ("The Big Sexy") has been pitching so long, facing against batter Adalberto Mondesi (son of retired MLB great Raul Mondesi) - that's already Colon's 4th father-son duo he has faced in his lengthy career

He has already pitched to fathers and sons Clay and Cody Bellinger, Eric Young Jr. and Sr. and Cecil and Prince Fielder

He's so old, those Major Leaguer fathers and their sons celebrate him on Father's Day, lol

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