With Negro Leagues, Baseball Reference Rewrites Its Record Book

By BY JAMES WAGNER from NYT Sports M.L.B. is still working to incorporate Negro league statistics, but a popular website lets fans put some of the numbers in context.https://nyti.ms/3wumblX

On the Verge of Two Million Runs

By BY DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports There was much fanfare in 1975 when Bob Watson scored baseball’s millionth run. With baseball’s historical stats in flux, the two millionth will score this week without much fuss.https://nyti.ms/3oKX2k2

Madison Bumgarner Throws a No-Hitter. Kind Of.

By BY TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports In a game limited to seven innings as part of a doubleheader, the Arizona lefty gets a shutout but won’t be credited with a no-no.https://nyti.ms/32P9JjI

His Job Is Counting Stephen Curry’s 3-Pointers. You’d Retire, Too.

By BY SCOTT CACCIOLA from NYT Sports On the heels of Curry’s 62-point explosion (and after 57 years in his role), Fred Kast is retiring as the Golden State Warriors’ official scorekeeper.https://nyti.ms/3i1n7Ig

Baseball in Empty Stadiums Is Weird. How Will It Affect Outcomes?

By BY ROBERT O’CONNELL from NYT Sports Players, coaches and analysts of all stripes are watching this season’s games to see what effect — if any — the absence of fans has on the games themselves.https://nyti.ms/3jU1ZUK

Why Are American Women Running Faster Than Ever? We Asked Them — Hundreds of Them

By BY TALYA MINSBERG AND KEVIN QUEALY from NYT Sports What’s behind a sea change in women’s elite and sub-elite running.https://nyti.ms/385Lu0H

Seymour Siwoff, Master of Sports Statistics, Is Dead at 99

By BY RICHARD GOLDSTEIN from NYT Sports As head of the Elias Sports Bureau, which he took over in 1952, he supervised record-keeping for baseball, football and other professional sports.https://nyti.ms/2DwRtiq

For the Nationals, a Former Bat Boy Mixes Numbers and Tradition

By BY TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports Sam Mondry-Cohen, Washington’s 32-year-old assistant general manager, used his field-level understanding of baseball’s culture to modernize the club’s approach.https://nyti.ms/2PlGv6u

The Stat That Turns Mike Trout’s .312 Average Into .626

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports You’re probably familiar with batting average, a staple of baseball statistics. But a Bill James creation, secondary average, offers another way to measure offense.https://nyti.ms/2CZzAbQ

Ichiro Suzuki Is Not Baseball’s Hit King. He Is So Much More.

By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN from NYT Sports With 3,089 hits in the majors and 1,278 in Japan, some believe Suzuki surpassed Pete Rose. It is more complicated than that.https://nyti.ms/2FmP0r6

Which Quarterbacks Throw the Farthest? The Young Ones, Mostly.

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports The Bills’ Josh Allen leads the N.F.L. in “intended air yards,” how far each pass travels. Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold are also among the leaders.https://nyti.ms/2Ew0wSv

How Did He Catch That? A New N.F.L. Stat Can Confirm Your Amazement

By BEN SHPIGEL from NYT Sports Through tracking devices attached all over the field, and to the players, the league measures the difficulty of a passing play with a statistic called completion probability.https://nyti.ms/2AyuBgg

Letters to the Sports Editor

By Unknown Author from NYT Sports Readers sound off on the data about fines in tennis.https://nyti.ms/2zmNrbb