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Most games played at cleanup
Reader kingturtle pointed out in the suggestions that Justin Morneau played all 163 of the Twins' games this year as the cleanup hitter. Here are the leaders since 1956, in terms of games played in one year at cleanup:
Year Games Link to Individual Games -----------------+----+-----+------------------------- Justin Morneau 2008 163 Ind. Games Ron Santo 1963 162 Ind. Games Eddie Murray 1984 162 Ind. Games Cecil Fielder 1991 162 Ind. Games Carlos Delgado 2000 162 Ind. Games Rocky Colavito 1965 162 Ind. Games Don Baylor 1979 162 Ind. Games Joe Torre 1971 161 Ind. Games Carlos Lee 2005 161 Ind. Games Carlos Delgado 2003 161 Ind. Games Rocky Colavito 1961 161 Ind. Games Bobby Bonilla 1989 161 Ind. Games Albert Belle 1997 161 Ind. Games Albert Belle 1999 161 Ind. Games
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Red Sox Make It A Gang Of Ten
If I'm using Play Index correctly, last night...er, make that early this morning...when the Red Sox lost, at Fenway, to the Angels in 12 innings, it was just the 10th time in baseball history that a team lost a home game in the post-season where they played 12 innings or more. The others:
Cnt Date Series G Tm Opp GmReslt IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk Ptchrs ERA +----+-------------+------+-+---+----+-------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+------+------+ 1 2005-10-25 WS 3 HOU CHW L 5-7 14 14 7 7 9 11 2 237 149 6 0 64 53 2 0 1 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 8 4.50 2 1999-10-08 NLDS 3 HOU ATL L 3-5 12 12 5 5 5 18 1 197 129 0 0 51 46 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 4 3.75 3 1998-10-07 ALCS 2 NYY CLE L 1-4 12 8 4 4 4 9 1 196 126 3 2 47 42 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 3.00 4 1996-10-05 ALDS 4 CLE BAL L 3-4 12 14 4 4 3 23 3 211 134 2 0 53 50 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 3.00 5 1988-10-09 NLCS 4 NYM LAD L 4-5 12 7 5 5 6 10 2 173 112 2 0 49 42 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 0 2 3 3.75 6 1986-10-15 NLCS 6 HOU NYM L 6-7 16 11 7 7 8 11 0 236 145 2 2 64 54 2 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 5 3.94 7 1973-10-14 WS 2 OAK NYM L 7-10 12 15 10 5 4 10 2 8 7 61 54 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 3.75 8 1973-10-09 NLCS 4 NYM CIN L 1-2 12 8 2 2 5 7 2 1 0 48 42 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 3 1.50 9 1924-10-04 WS 1 WSH NYG L 3-4 12 14 4 3 6 12 2 51 43 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2.25 Games found: 9.
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HR streaks to start the post-season
Here are the leaders for most consecutive games with a homer to start the post-season. So this doesn't count each series separately, but rather the first series that a given player played in each year.
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Juan Gonzalez 1996-10-01 1996-10-05 4 16 5 7 0 0 5 9 2 3 0 0 .438 .526 1.375 1.901 TEX Jeffrey Leonard 1987-10-06 1987-10-10 4 13 5 7 0 0 4 5 1 2 0 0 .538 .625 1.462 2.087 SFG Bengie Molina 2005-10-04 2005-10-07 3 11 4 5 0 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 .455 .500 1.273 1.773 LAA Hank Aaron 1969-10-04 1969-10-06 3 14 3 5 2 0 3 7 1 0 0 0 .357 .357 1.143 1.500 ATL Hank Bauer 1958-10-01 1958-10-04 3 13 4 7 0 0 3 7 2 0 0 0 .538 .538 1.231 1.769 NYY Johnny Mize 1952-10-03 1952-10-05 3 9 3 4 1 0 3 5 1 1 0 0 .444 .500 1.556 2.056 NYY Matt Holliday 2007-10-03 2007-10-04 2 9 2 3 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 .333 .333 1.000 1.333 COL So Taguchi 2006-10-07 2006-10-13 2 2 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000 STL Javy Lopez 2002-10-02 2002-10-03 2 8 3 3 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 .375 .375 1.125 1.500 ATL Troy Glaus 2002-10-01 2002-10-02 2 9 3 4 0 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 .444 .444 1.444 1.888 ANA Derek Jeter 2002-10-01 2002-10-02 2 7 4 5 0 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 .714 .778 1.571 2.349 NYY Jim Thome 1999-10-06 1999-10-07 2 7 3 2 0 0 2 6 1 1 0 0 .286 .375 1.143 1.518 CLE Ken Caminiti 1999-10-05 1999-10-06 2 7 2 4 0 0 2 4 0 1 0 1 .571 .625 1.429 2.054 HOU Shane Spencer 1998-09-30 1998-10-02 2 6 3 3 0 0 2 4 1 0 0 0 .500 .500 1.500 2.000 NYY Derek Jeter 1997-09-30 1997-10-02 2 9 3 4 0 0 2 2 3 1 0 0 .444 .500 1.111 1.611 NYY Brady Anderson 1996-10-01 1996-10-02 2 9 3 4 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 .444 .400 1.111 1.511 BAL Ken Griffey 1995-10-03 1995-10-04 2 11 4 5 0 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 .455 .417 1.273 1.690 SEA Marquis Grissom 1995-10-03 1995-10-04 2 11 3 4 1 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 .364 .364 1.273 1.637 ATL Ruben Sierra 1995-10-03 1995-10-04 2 12 2 3 1 0 2 4 3 0 0 0 .250 .250 .833 1.083 NYY Kevin Mitchell 1989-10-04 1989-10-05 2 9 4 5 0 0 2 5 1 0 0 0 .556 .556 1.222 1.778 SFG Jose Canseco 1988-10-05 1988-10-06 2 8 2 2 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 .250 .250 1.000 1.250 OAK Dan Ford 1979-10-03 1979-10-04 2 9 2 4 1 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 .444 .444 1.222 1.666 CAL Davey Lopes 1978-10-04 1978-10-05 2 9 3 6 1 1 2 5 0 0 0 0 .667 .667 1.667 2.334 LAD Joe Morgan 1972-10-07 1972-10-08 2 8 3 3 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 .375 .444 1.125 1.569 CIN Harmon Killebrew 1970-10-03 1970-10-04 2 8 2 3 0 0 2 4 2 1 0 0 .375 .444 1.125 1.569 MIN +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Dusty Rhodes 1954-09-29 1954-09-30 2 3 2 3 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 3.000 4.000 NYG Mickey Cochrane 1930-10-01 1930-10-02 2 6 3 2 0 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 .333 .500 1.333 1.833 PHA Jimmie Foxx 1929-10-08 1929-10-09 2 9 3 5 1 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 .556 .556 1.333 1.889 PHA Casey Stengel 1923-10-10 1923-10-12 2 6 2 3 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 .500 .625 1.500 2.125 NYG
Manny Ramirez has homered in the first two games this year (although he doesn't show up on the above list as of yet.) He has a chance to become just the 7th player to homer in his first 3 post-season games of a particular season if he goes deep again against the Cubs in Game 3 of the NLDS.
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Bat Days In October
Evan Longoria, in today's ALDS game between the Rays and Chisox had three hits - including two homers. Which player has the most post-season games in his career where he had three (or more) hits with two (or more) of them being for extra bases? Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Post-Season Batting Game Finder, here's the leaders with such games:
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Reggie Jackson 6 Ind. Games Bernie Williams 4 Ind. Games Duke Snider 3 Ind. Games Gary Sheffield 3 Ind. Games Babe Ruth 3 Ind. Games Alex Rodriguez 3 Ind. Games Manny Ramirez 3 Ind. Games Trot Nixon 3 Ind. Games Fred McGriff 3 Ind. Games Jeff Kent 3 Ind. Games Andruw Jones 3 Ind. Games Derek Jeter 3 Ind. Games Billy Hatcher 3 Ind. Games Steve Garvey 3 Ind. Games Jack Barry 3 Ind. Games Roberto Alomar 3 Ind. Games
I guess Reggie really wasn't kidding with that "Mr. October" thing?
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2 HR in first post-season game
Evan Longoria already has 2 HR for the Rays today. Here are all the other players with 2 HR in their first post-season game (nobody as of this writing has ever had 3...):
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Todd Walker 2003-10-01 2003-10-01 1 5 2 4 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 .800 .800 2.000 2.800 BOS Troy Glaus 2002-10-01 2002-10-01 1 4 2 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 .500 .500 2.000 2.500 ANA Edgardo Alfonzo 1999-10-05 1999-10-05 1 5 2 2 0 0 2 5 1 0 0 0 .400 .400 1.600 2.000 NYM B.J. Surhoff 1996-10-01 1996-10-01 1 4 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 2.000 2.500 BAL Ken Griffey 1995-10-03 1995-10-03 1 5 3 3 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 .600 .600 1.800 2.400 SEA Chipper Jones 1995-10-03 1995-10-03 1 5 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 .400 .400 1.600 2.000 ATL Gary Gaetti 1987-10-07 1987-10-07 1 3 3 2 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 .667 .750 2.667 3.417 MIN Ted Kluszewski 1959-10-01 1959-10-01 1 4 2 3 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 .750 .750 2.250 3.000 CHW
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