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ShareThisYanks Not Scoring In First 35 Games
Here's a fun little sort via Play Index:
From 1956 to 2008, Playing for NYY, In team's first 35 games, (requiring R=0), sorted by greatest number of games matching selected criteria in a game
Year Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+ Alvaro Espinoza 1990 30 Ind. Games Bobby Richardson 1960 29 Ind. Games Bill Skowron 1960 28 Ind. Games Clete Boyer 1966 28 Ind. Games Sandy Alomar 1975 28 Ind. Games Bobby Richardson 1961 27 Ind. Games Gene Michael 1968 27 Ind. Games Jim Mason 1974 27 Ind. Games Roger Maris 1966 27 Ind. Games Alvaro Espinoza 1989 27 Ind. Games Robinson Cano 2008 27 Ind. Games Gene Michael 1971 26 Ind. Games Jim Mason 1975 26 Ind. Games Bucky Dent 1977 26 Ind. Games
Not exactly a group that Robinson Cano, coming into this season, probably wanted to join.
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This entry was posted on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 8:12 am and is filed under Game Finders. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Geez, you're obsessed with Robinson Cano. Maybe he's slumping because he's preoccupied with his stalker.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
So if I've got this right, Bobby Richardson, batting leadoff for the 1961 Maris-Mantle Yankees, failed to score a run in 27 of the Yankees first 35 games? Holy cow!
May 9th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Richardson as a leadoff hitter was part of the reason that the '61 Yankees, winners of 100+ games and clubbers of 240+ home runs, didn't lead their league in runs scored.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Looking at the '61 Yankees players, they didn't really have a lead-off type hitter. Richardson had a .295 OBA (!), but Kubek and Boyer were not much better
(.306 and .308, respectively). After that it was Skowron (.318), Berra (.330),
Maris (.372), Howard (.387) and Mantle (.448). Not much speed there, except for Mantle.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:21 am
I wasn't criticizing Houk for batting Richardson leadoff; I was commenting on their failure to score despite the lineup's historical power. You're right, though. Of their starters, everyone with a good OBP was a better fit in the middle of the order.