Stat of the Day and Yankees History

From Jayson Stark:

Here's one more Yankees claim to fame in their 15-0 wipeout of the Mets on Sunday: It was their biggest margin of victory ever against a National League team. The Yankees have won 130 World Series games in their history, but their largest margin of victory in any of them was 14 runs, in an 18-4 thumping of the Giants in Game 2 of the 1936 World Series. And they'd never won an interleague game by more than 13 runs.

And this against a guy who finished in the top 5 of the Cy Young voting the past 5 years, winning two. And then that game is sandwiched against two no-name starters who they can't hit. Go figure.

Also, after Mariano Rivera's strikeout last night, a stat flashed on the scoreboard very quickly: "Mariano Rivera has now tied Allie Reynolds for 11th on the Yankees strikeout list with 967". He's 47 away from Roger Clemens at 10th. Allie Reynolds hit his mark in 1,700 innings with the Yankees. Clemens in 1,103. Rivera is at 1,051.1. Pretty impressive stuff.