Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (August 8-14).

What an ending: The Brewers won on Friday with a game-ending assist at home in a one-run game. The throw was 96.9 mph from Blake Perkins. That’s the third-fastest tracked game-ending OF assist under Statcast (2015), per MLB’s Jason Bernard. It trailed only Aaron Hicks on July 28, 2018 (98.7 mph) and Avisail Garcia on Sept. 22, 2017 (97.7 mph).

Long plate appearances: J.P. Crawford's 17-pitch plate appearance on Saturday tied Darren Bragg on June 16, 1995 for the most pitches in a plate appearance by a Mariners hitter since pitch counts were first tracked (1988). Before Nathaniel Lowe last Thursday, there had not been a plate appearance of at least 17 pitches since Austin Meadows in the 2021 pl

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