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MLB.com's Article On Best 60-Game Stretches In History Contains Significant Errors

Related Topics: Babe Ruth, Tom Tango

Are you curious what the best batting average or best OPS or lowest ERA is over any 60-game stretch in modern major league history?

Well, Tom Tango (MLB.com senior data architect) and Jason Bernard (MLB.com baseball research and development manager) did the digging and MLB.com's Matt Kelly presents the information, but there are significant errors in his article.

Babe Ruth is listed as having the best OPS of all-time over a 60-game period (1.598, May 11 to July 22, 1920), but Ruth actually played in 68 games between those dates and posted a 1.