Jimmy Rollins & 20 triples
Posted by Andy on September 18, 2007
After last night's crazy Phillies-Cardinals game, this year Jimmy Rollins has 28 HR, 36 doubles, 36 stolen bases, and 18 triples. That means he needs just 2 more triples to join the 3-member 20/20/20/20 club, which Curtis Granderson also joined this year.
If he gets to 20 triples, that means 2 players will have 20+ triples this year. Guess when the last time was that happened? Hit the jump to see.
To make this list, hit the Batting Season Finder, set 3B >= 20, and sort by Years w/ players:
Year Number Players Matching +----+------+-----------------------------------------+ 1912 7 Joe Jackson / Chief Wilson / Sam Crawford / Frank Baker / Honus Wagner / Red Murray / Ty Cobb 1911 5 Frank Schulte / Ty Cobb / Larry Doyle / Mike Mitchell / Birdie Cree 1913 4 Dots Miller / Sam Crawford / Vic Saier / Tris Speaker 1928 3 Heinie Manush / Jim Bottomley / Earle Combs 1926 3 Lou Gehrig / Curt Walker / Paul Waner 1920 3 Hy Myers / Rogers Hornsby / Joe Jackson 1903 3 Buck Freeman / Sam Crawford / Bill Bradley 1902 3 Sam Crawford / Tommy Leach / Jimmy Williams 1930 2 Adam Comorosky / Earle Combs 1925 2 Kiki Cuyler / Goose Goslin 1924 2 Rabbit Maranville / Edd Roush 1906 2 Elmer Flick / George Stone 1901 2 Jimmy Williams / Bill Keister
So these are ALL the seasons since 1901 in which at least 2 players hit 20 triples. Not since 1930 has it been done! By the way, two players had 19 triples in a season as recently as 1984, when Juan Samuel and Ryne Sandberg did it.
Also, in that Phillies/Cards game last night, the Phillies used 6 relief pitchers after Kyle Kendrick, and all of them ended up with season ERAs over 5.00 by the end of the game. I imagine that this is a record, although I know of no way to determine if that is so.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Ken Williams (1922) is the only player to go
30-30-30-10 (SB-HR-2B-3B).
With 2 more homers Rollins will join him.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
How did you put HTML in your comment?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I just did. Why, is it not supposed to work?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
You just wrote the HTML code in your comment? I didn't know that was possible. Oscar--you should never have played MLB...you should have gone straight to IT.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Also with 196 hits, Rolloins can become the first ever with 200-20-20-20-20.
September 18th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/HOU/HOU200009290.shtml
Houston had 6 relievers with ERA's over 5.00 in a late season game.
September 18th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
How the heck did you figure that out?
September 18th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
I don't know that thats the record, just another instance.
I looked for the team with the most pitchers in a season with at least 20 appearances and ERA >= 5.00.
Houston 2000 came up.
So I looked at the games for Houston 2000 with the most number of pitchers.
September 20th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Willie Randolph's been using at least 4 on a regular basis lately and it's awful