The First 24-8 Score in Major League History Happened Friday Night

Padres    - 371 116 041 - 24 22  0
Nationals - 300 104 000 -  8 12  3

The Padres beat the Nationals 24-8 on Friday night, scoring in eight of nine innings. (San Diego left runners on first and second in the seventh.)

It's the first 24-8 score in major league history. (A National Association game on May 4, 1874 finished 24-8 (Philadelphia White Stockings over the Baltimore Canaries), but the NA (which existed for five seasons prior to the National League) is not considered a "major league".)

The Padres: (A) scored 24 runs; (B) had a player hit for the cycle (Jake Cronenworth); (C) had a player with 7 RBI (Wil Myers); and (D) had a player score 5 runs (Tommy Pham). Since 1920, when RBI became an official stat, no team had accomplished all of those feats in the same season, much less the same game. (Not sure if this means 24+ runs or exactly 24 runs.)

Players Hitting For the Cycle When Team Scored 24+ Runs, MLB history:

CIN John Reilly       September 12, 1883  vs PIT (W 27-5)
STL Tip O'Neill       April 30, 1887      vs CLE (W 28-11)
PHI Sam Thompson      August 17, 1894     vs LVL (W 29-4)
SDP Jake Cronenworth  July 16, 2021       at WSH (W 24-8)

(Skipped the entire 20th century, easily!)

It was also the fifth game in MLB history in which a player from each team had 4 hits, 4 RBI, and 10 total bases:

July 14, 1946   CLE Lou Boudreau & BOS Ted Williams
May 14,  1965   DET Willie Horton & BOS Carl Yastrzemski
April 17, 1976  PHI Mike Schmidt & CHC Rick Monday
June 23, 1984   STL Willie McGee & CHC Ryne Sandberg
July 16, 2021   SDP Jake Cronenworth & WAS Juan Soto

Red Sox Pitchers With 3-Inning Save At (Any) Yankee Stadium:

Sparky Lyle     September 13, 1969 (W 5-2)
Bill Lee        April 7, 1970 (W 4-3)
Bob Stanley     June 5, 1984 (W 5-4)
Alfredo Aceves  June 8, 2011 (W 11-6)
Tanner Houck    July 16, 2021 (W 4-0)

The Death of the Triple: Bill James: "Players with long careers who retired before 1900 hit an average of 189 triples per 10,000 balls in play. Those who retired 1925-1949 hit 133; those who retired 1975-1999 hit 81. Now the average is 61. More than 2/3 of triples have disappeared over time."