Major League Baseball
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MLB fields roughly 780–840 active roster spots daily, but across a season over 1,400–1,500 distinct players appear in games.
After all, there were less than 10 minutes remaining and the Spaniards had survived a flurry of missed chances before drawing level in a game in which they were second best. But this was Arne Slot's Liverpool, who have made a habit of scoring late winners. By the time captain Virgil van Dijk planted home a powerful header to snatch a 3-2 victory, the stoppage-time winner felt as inevitable as it did thrilling for the home fans.
That breaks the record once held by White, who starred as the Blue Jays centerfielder during Toronto's glory days when the team won back-to-back World Series championships in 1992 and '93. Springer is now just 19 home runs shy of the all-time MLB record of 81 lead off home runs, which is held by the late-great Rickey Henderson, who, ironically, usurped White as the teams leadoff hitter in the second half of '93 when Henderson was traded to the Blue Jays.