Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (April 6-12).

Bumgarner-Kershaw, Round 13: The veteran NL West starters faced off in each of their first two starts of the year, the most recent of which came on Friday. That was the 13th game between Madison Bumgarner and Clayton Kershaw, the fourth-most head-to-head starts for pitchers in the Divisional Era (since 1969), according to the Elias Sports Bureau. They trail only Tom Seaver/Steve Carlton (17), Steve Rogers/Carlton (17) and Don Sutton/Phil Niekro (15).

José keeps hitting: The Guardians’ José Ramírez began the season with a 10-game hitting streak. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because last year, he began with a 12-game streak. Ramírez became the second player in Cleveland history to begin multiple seasons with hit streaks of 10-plus games, joining Nap Lajoie. And it just so happens both did it in consecutive seasons, with Lajoie having a 13-game streak to begin 1911 and 15-game streak to kick off 1912.

Boomstick business: Nelson Cruz had quite the game Sunday, racking up six RBIs and homering. At 42 years and 282 days old, he became the third-oldest player with six RBIs in a game (RBI an official stat since 1920), younger than only Carlton Fisk (10/3/91; 43 years, 281 days) and Barry Bonds (7/19/07; 42 years, 360 days). The home run was his second of 2023 in his fifth game of the season. He became the second-oldest player with multiple homers in his first five games of a season since 1900, younger than only a 44-year-old Rickey Henderson in 2003 for the Dodgers.

Heaney will strike you out: The Rangers’ Andrew Heaney tied an American League record on Monday, striking out nine straight Royals batters. He became the 13th pitcher with at least nine straight strikeouts in a game, and he came just one shy of tying the overall mark. The record is 10, set by Tom Seaver, then tied by Aaron Nola and Corbin Burnes.

The Sho never stops: With seven scoreless innings and one hit allowed on Tuesday, Shohei Ohtani has now gone at least five innings and allowed fewer than four hits in each of his past seven outings. That’s tied with Johan Santana in 2004 for the second-most consecutive such outings since at least 1901. The only longer streak was engineered by Jacob deGrom in 2021, at eight. By the way, he’s hitting .304 in 101 plate appearances in that span.

Luis also keeps hitting: The Marlins’ Luis Arraez played his 400th career game on Monday and exited with a .319 career batting average. That’s the fourth highest in any player’s first 400 games as a batter in the Wild Card era, behind only Ichiro Suzuki (.339), Albert Pujols (.333) and Todd Helton (.327). Speaking of batting average, as we so often are with Arraez, he enters the weekend hitting .500 in Miami’s first 13 games. He’s the fifth qualified hitter in the Wild Card era to hit .500 or better in his team’s first 13 games of a season, joining Ramón Hernández (.526) in 2006, Barry Bonds (.500) in 2004, Sandy Alomar (.512) in 1997 and Mike Piazza (.525) in 1995.

Maximum Muncy: Max Muncy had himself a series against the Giants, hitting four home runs and racking up 11 RBIs. He’s now hit 25 homers in his first 75 games against the Giants, the second most by a player in his first 75 games against the franchise. Only Gary Sheffield (26) hit more home runs to start his career against San Francisco. Muncy's 11 RBIs were tied for the third-most by a Dodgers player in a three-game series since RBIs became official (1920), behind Frank Howard in 1962 (vs SF: 12) and Gil Hodges in 1949 (vs CIN: 12).

He went to Jarred: Jarred Kelenic absolutely crushed a baseball at Wrigley Field on Wednesday for a 482-ft home run. It’s the Mariners’ longest home run tracked by Statcast (since 2015). It’s also the second longest at Wrigley in that span including the postseason, behind only Willson Contreras’ 491-ft homer in Game 4 of the 2017 NLCS. Kelenic is the 35th player with at least one 480-plus-ft homer tracked by Statcast.

Welcome to the bigs: 20-year-old Jordan Walker is the youngest player in the Majors, and he’s off to one of the best starts. He got a hit in each of his first 12 games before going hitless on Thursday. That 12-game hitting streak is tied with Eddie Murphy in 1912 for the longest hitting streak to start a career at age 20 or younger since 1900, according to Elias. Twelve games is tied for the eighth-longest hitting streak to begin a career among all players to debut since 1900, behind only David Dahl (17) in 2016, Chuck Aleno (17) in 1941, Juan Pierre (16) in 2000, Glenn Williams (13) in 2005, Rocco Baldelli (13) in 2003, Mike Woodard (13) in 1985 and Dale Alexander (13) in 1929.

The Amazing Rays: Last week, we talked about the Rays’ streak of wins, all by four-plus runs, to start a season, which reached nine. Their overall streak now sits second behind only the 1884 St. Louis Maroons, at 13. If we remove the season-opening qualifier, the Rays were the first team to win at least nine straight by at least four runs at any point in a season since the 1939 Yankees reeled off 10 straight. Overall, it was the eighth such streak in MLB history, per Elias. Wins eight and nine were both 11-0 shutouts, a rarity as well. The Rays became just the fourth team to notch consecutive shutout wins, all by more than 10 runs, joining the 2019 Orioles, 1936 Tigers and 1885 Giants (three straight).