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Archive for October, 2009

Driving ‘em In; Keeping ‘em Out

Posted by Raphy on October 1, 2009

Today, Chris Carpenter drove in 6 runs while allowing none.

Here are  all the previous pitchers since 1954 with 6 or more RBI in a single game:

  Cnt Player            Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt PA AB  R  H 2B 3B HR **RBI** BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions
+----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-------+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+
    1 Tony Cloninger    1966-07-03    ATL @SFG W 17-3   5  5  2  3  0  0  2     9    0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 9th P

    2 Robert Person     2002-06-02    PHI  MON W 18-3   4  3  3  2  0  0  2     7    1   0  1   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 9th P

    3 Micah Owings      2007-08-18    ARI @ATL W 12-6   5  5  4  4  1  0  2     6    0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 9th P
    4 Blue Moon Odom    1969-05-04(2) OAK  SEP W 11-7   3  3  1  3  1  0  1     6    0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 9th P
    5 Dave Giusti       1966-08-21    HOU  CIN W 11-0   4  4  0  2  2  0  0     6    0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 9th P
    6 Babe Birrer       1955-07-19    DET  BAL W 12-4   2  2  2  2  0  0  2     6    0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 9th P

Birrer was the only pitcher since '54 to do it in relief.

Carpenter is just the 5th pitcher since 1954 to drive in 6 more runs than he allowed. No one has done better:

  Cnt Player            Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt  **RBI**  Runs Allowed           Net
+----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-------+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+
    1 Tony Cloninger    1966-07-03    ATL @SFG W 17-3     9           3                  6
    2 Robert Person     2002-06-02    PHI  MON W 18-3     7           1 (unearned)       6
    3 Dave Giusti       1966-08-21    HOU  CIN W 11-0     6           0                  6
    4 Babe Birrer       1955-07-19    DET  BAL W 12-4     6           0                  6

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Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!

Posted by Andy on October 1, 2009

The Phillies have hit a whopping 11 grand slams this year.

There are a couple of ways to find this data but the easiest is to go the the major league batting splits for 2009.

Here's a shared table from there for batting with the bases loaded.

Rk G PA HR RBI BB BA OBP SLG OPS
1 PHI 85 190 11 133 17 .245 .305 .491 .796
2 WSN 86 192 7 122 21 .244 .323 .406 .729
3 STL 78 170 7 108 13 .248 .312 .448 .760
4 CHW 69 141 7 107 9 .314 .340 .562 .902
5 DET 76 139 7 121 11 .357 .370 .625 .995
6 FLA 84 188 6 123 15 .241 .298 .395 .693
7 LAD 92 178 6 129 15 .279 .315 .490 .804
8 CLE 84 170 5 114 12 .271 .306 .436 .742
9 CHC 84 218 5 140 20 .282 .339 .459 .798
10 BAL 74 167 5 117 17 .301 .359 .466 .825
11 TBR 86 178 5 130 13 .295 .337 .503 .840
12 COL 74 139 5 117 13 .319 .374 .540 .914
13 MIN 87 159 5 134 14 .351 .390 .542 .932
14 NYM 75 159 4 88 8 .221 .252 .350 .602
15 SFG 67 144 4 103 11 .273 .306 .479 .785
16 MIL 90 203 4 151 18 .313 .350 .458 .808
17 OAK 80 168 4 139 14 .316 .357 .541 .898
18 ARI 77 149 3 86 13 .223 .289 .369 .658
19 TOR 80 167 3 106 9 .275 .299 .394 .694
20 TEX 67 142 3 91 4 .291 .296 .417 .713
21 KCR 75 132 2 68 8 .191 .227 .278 .506
22 NYY 90 192 2 126 11 .268 .292 .363 .655
23 PIT 63 139 2 87 11 .267 .324 .362 .686
24 HOU 63 110 2 72 6 .290 .309 .419 .728
25 SEA 58 123 2 82 7 .324 .336 .490 .826
26 SDP 87 194 1 105 16 .245 .304 .294 .599
27 CIN 68 136 1 78 6 .267 .294 .342 .636
28 BOS 88 220 1 137 17 .279 .327 .369 .696
29 ATL 85 173 0 105 17 .303 .347 .359 .706
30 LAA 77 148 0 103 13 .306 .338 .405 .743
TOT 2349 4928 119 3322 379 .278 .321 .432 .753
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 9/30/2009.

Pretty big discrepancy there, with the Phillies whacking 11 grannies and the Braves and Angels both coming up empty.

For comparison, last year the White Sox hit 12 grand slams. In 2007, four teams tied for the lead with 8. In 2006 the leader was the Indians with 14.

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