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Level 42

Posted by Steve Lombardi on April 8, 2010
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A totally random and bizarre stat for today - via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Team Batting Game Finder - teams, since 1973, with 40 or more games of 9 innings or less where they sent 42 or more players to the plate:

Rk Tm Year #Matching W L  
1 SEA 1996 54 38 16 Ind. Games
2 NYY 2007 54 46 8 Ind. Games
3 DET 1993 52 32 20 Ind. Games
4 OAK 2000 51 38 13 Ind. Games
5 COL 2000 50 42 8 Ind. Games
6 TEX 1998 49 37 12 Ind. Games
7 PHI 2007 49 36 13 Ind. Games
8 NYY 1999 49 38 11 Ind. Games
9 BOS 2007 49 37 12 Ind. Games
10 NYY 2003 48 39 9 Ind. Games
11 DET 1987 48 34 14 Ind. Games
12 CLE 2000 48 30 18 Ind. Games
13 SEA 2001 47 42 5 Ind. Games
14 PHI 2005 47 36 11 Ind. Games
15 NYY 2006 47 39 8 Ind. Games
16 CLE 1999 47 37 10 Ind. Games
17 NYY 2009 46 33 13 Ind. Games
18 NYY 1998 46 41 5 Ind. Games
19 CIN 1976 46 39 7 Ind. Games
20 BAL 2004 46 36 10 Ind. Games
21 TEX 1999 45 33 12 Ind. Games
22 BOS 2008 45 33 12 Ind. Games
23 BOS 1996 45 35 10 Ind. Games
24 BOS 2004 45 35 10 Ind. Games
25 TEX 1996 44 29 15 Ind. Games
26 SFG 2001 44 32 12 Ind. Games
27 SEA 1997 44 36 8 Ind. Games
28 OAK 1999 44 36 8 Ind. Games
29 NYY 2000 44 36 8 Ind. Games
30 MIL 1999 44 31 13 Ind. Games
31 CLE 1997 44 34 10 Ind. Games
32 BOS 2006 44 31 13 Ind. Games
33 BOS 2003 44 32 12 Ind. Games
34 TOR 1999 43 32 11 Ind. Games
35 TEX 2008 43 29 14 Ind. Games
36 STL 2000 43 35 8 Ind. Games
37 STL 2003 43 35 8 Ind. Games
38 PHI 2009 43 36 7 Ind. Games
39 HOU 2001 43 32 11 Ind. Games
40 BOS 1995 43 29 14 Ind. Games
41 BOS 1999 43 33 10 Ind. Games
42 SEA 1998 42 26 16 Ind. Games
43 SEA 2000 42 33 9 Ind. Games
44 SEA 2003 42 36 6 Ind. Games
45 PHI 1993 42 32 10 Ind. Games
46 NYY 1996 42 33 9 Ind. Games
47 NYY 2004 42 35 7 Ind. Games
48 NYY 1994 42 30 12 Ind. Games
49 NYY 1986 42 33 9 Ind. Games
50 LAA 2009 42 26 16 Ind. Games
51 COL 1999 42 22 20 Ind. Games
52 COL 1997 42 32 10 Ind. Games
53 CLE 2006 42 30 12 Ind. Games
54 CAL 1979 42 32 10 Ind. Games
55 PHI 1999 41 28 13 Ind. Games
56 NYY 2005 41 34 7 Ind. Games
57 COL 2007 41 31 10 Ind. Games
58 CHW 1996 41 31 10 Ind. Games
59 BOS 1997 41 30 11 Ind. Games
60 BOS 1987 41 30 11 Ind. Games
61 ARI 1999 41 37 4 Ind. Games
62 SFG 2004 40 28 12 Ind. Games
63 SFG 2002 40 34 6 Ind. Games
64 SEA 1999 40 24 16 Ind. Games
65 NYY 1997 40 32 8 Ind. Games
66 NYM 1999 40 34 6 Ind. Games
67 NYM 2000 40 32 8 Ind. Games
68 MIN 1996 40 30 10 Ind. Games
69 DET 1992 40 26 14 Ind. Games
70 CLE 1996 40 30 10 Ind. Games
71 CIN 1975 40 36 4 Ind. Games
72 CHW 2000 40 31 9 Ind. Games
73 CHW 2006 40 30 10 Ind. Games
74 BOS 2005 40 32 8 Ind. Games
75 ATL 2004 40 34 6 Ind. Games
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 4/8/2010.

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It's really too bad that those 1996 M's had almost zero starting pitching - 'cause, if they did, they would have been one of the great teams of the modern times.

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4 Responses to “Level 42”

  1. Ross Says:
    April 8th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    I definitely agree with your last statement. This stat is obviously a good stat to have, but then to go only 38-16 with all those baserunners? That '07 Yanks staff was nothing at all spectacular, but when your offense is that powerful, you have to try to lose games.

  2. Brad T. Says:
    April 8th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    I remember watching a game between the Orioles and Mariners that baseball-reference tells me was on May 17, 1996, where both teams had over 20 hits in a 9-inning game (and ended up being 14-13, in favor of the Orioles). The announcers said at the time that was the first time that had happened in about 20 years. The most recent game I can find to the 1996 game was April 27, 1980, between the A's and Twins, where the Twins won 20-11.

  3. BSK Says:
    April 8th, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    It's interesting to see a young Raul Ibanez racking up a -52 OPS+. I didn't even know that was possible!

  4. Gerry Says:
    April 8th, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    I note that team 51 on the list, the 1999 Rockies, went only 22-20 in these games. I bet most of them were in Denver....

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