Comments on: Matt Williams hit 62 HR

By: The View From The Bleachers | Reporting Cubs Baseball Since 2003 » Blog Archive » Webtopia

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:02:52 +0000

[...] Did you know that Matt Williams hit 62 home runs in a season? Stat of the Day Blog, which is run by Baseball Reference, actually compiled the strike shortened season with 2005 in the beginning and found this nugget. - (Source) [...]

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Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:30:42 +0000

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By: OscarAzocar

OscarAzocar — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:10:25 +0000

I think that there are actually 7 groups (6 in a row and then another 2 games later) of 162 consecutive games in which Williams hit 62 home runs. I believe that this is the earliest:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=willima04&year=1993&t=b#794:955:sum

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:04:07 +0000

Dunno about that, I will alert Sean.

By: settes

settes — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:44:24 +0000

Hey Andy, it seems the free trial isn't exactly working, in the event finder section it seems like some of the options aren't available. http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/2728/picture1ba3.png I assume that you should be able to see all the options under opponents and pitchers and all that, right?

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:24:35 +0000

Yes, 37 years old, thanks. Fixed that in the original post. My math skills are awesome.

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:03:08 +0000

I think you mean 37 year old record.