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December 5, 2007

4-hit post-season games

Filed under: Game Finders, Postseason — Andy @ 9:21 am

There have been 132 four-hit games in the post-season. Here are the guys to do it twice:

                   Games Link to Individual Games
+-----------------+-----+-------------------------+
 Robin Yount           2 Ind. Games
 Bernie Williams       2 Ind. Games
 Alex Rodriguez        2 Ind. Games
 Brooks Robinson       2 Ind. Games
 Mickey Rivers         2 Ind. Games
 Manny Ramirez         2 Ind. Games
 Paul Molitor          2 Ind. Games
 Derek Jeter           2 Ind. Games
 Steve Garvey          2 Ind. Games
 Nomar Garciaparra     2 Ind. Games
 George Brett          2 Ind. Games
 Roberto Alomar        2 Ind. Games

This accounts for 24 of the 4-hit games, meaning that 108 guys have done it exactly once. (Nobody has done it more than twice.) The full list, for those interested, is here.

As soon as I saw Paul Molitor’s name, I was curious how far apart his two games were. Indeed, he had a 5-hit game in the 1982 World Series with Milwaukee and then a 4-hit game in the 1993 ALCS with Toronto. That’s an 11-year gap.

For all the rest of the guys on the list, here is the gap between their 2 four-hit games (zero meaning that they did them both in the same year): Yount 0, Bernie 1, A-Rod 4, Brooks 1, Rivers 1,  Manny being Manny 8, Jeter 10, Garvey 10, Nomar 4, Brett 0, Alomar 1.

Wow, that’s something isn’t it? I find it amazing that 3 different guys have had 4-hit postseason games separated by a decade or more.

19 Comments »

  1. I looked that that list a bit more, and Paul Molitor is the only player of the 132 four-hit games to get FIVE hits in a WORLD SERIES game.

    Comment by Andy — December 5, 2007 @ 10:51 am

  2. Teams with 3 hitters with at least 4 hits in the same post season game.

    3 HITTERS:

    NYY 10/16/2004 :( http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS200410160.shtml
    BOS 10/10/1999 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS199910100.shtml
    STL(NL) 10/10/1946 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS194610100.shtml

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 1:38 pm

  3. Teams with 2 hitters with at least 4 hits in the same post-season game (1992-2007)

    CLE 10/13/2001 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE200110130.shtml
    ATL 10/14/1996 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN199610140.shtml
    TOR 10/05/1993 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA199310050.shtml
    TOR 10/11/1992 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK199210110.shtml

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 1:40 pm

  4. Teams with 2 hitters with at least 4 hits in the same post-season game (1901-1991)

    MIL 10/12/1982 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN198210120.shtml
    NYY 10/14/1981 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA198110140.shtml
    BAL 10/06/1969 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN196910060.shtml
    NYG 10/02/1921 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NY1/NY1192110070.shtml

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 1:40 pm

  5. Teams with at least one player with 4+ hits were 85-33. This includes the 11 games that I listed above (all wins) that account for 25 of the 4+ hit games that Andy listed.

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 1:52 pm

  6. One more from me.
    Of the 132 players with post season 4+ hit games, 3 of them had 4 extra base hits in those games: http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/j5Qn

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 2:00 pm

  7. You da man, Oscar, and you’re a damn sight more productive now than in your playing days. :)

    Comment by Andy — December 5, 2007 @ 2:25 pm

  8. Quiz: Of the 132 games 12 have come from the bottom 3rd of the lineup (4 from the 7 hole, 3 from 8 and 5 from 9). With the exception of a 1921 game from Frank Snyder (batting 8th) all of the games have occurred in since 1986. How many of the 11 can you name?

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 3:54 pm

  9. Here are your answers:
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/a5XM
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/PgUz
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/wDez

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 4:08 pm

  10. I have no idea how to put up a stat o’ the day section but I was wondering if people could expound on a few items for me…

    Most at-bats by a hall of fame player against Nolan Ryan without ever striking out.

    Most home runs by a player in his very first season while playing for two or more clubs

    List of intentional walks with the bases loaded

    Jim Bottomley’s 1928 and career stat lines show he is the only player with 20 or more 2B, 3B, and HR in a season AND 150 or more 2B, 3B, and HR in a career. That’s gotta mean something!

    Comment by Davie — December 5, 2007 @ 6:08 pm

  11. Davie -
    Bill Mazeroski is the HOF has the most AB against Ryan without striking out. http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/wDez (Julian Javier is the overall leader with 16 AB)

    The PI “franchises played for” filter doesn’t seem to work.

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 6:32 pm

  12. Davie,

    You can put ideas like that in the “suggestions”, which you should see listed under “pages” in the top left corner.

    There is no automated way, I don’t think, to use the PI to search for players playing for more than one team.

    The intentional walk with the bases loaded is an extremely rare event. I believe the only one from the last 20 years was given to Barry Bonds by Arizona a while back. Sean made a post a while ago that has some info on this (note the IBB column in his post here: http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/237)

    Comment by Andy — December 5, 2007 @ 6:55 pm

  13. Andy, can you remove the spam from that link

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 8:21 pm

  14. Free Pass—Players who were intentionally walked with bases loaded - Brief Article
    Baseball Digest, May, 2000 by Jerome Holtzman

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_5_59/ai_64150752

    Comment by OscarAzocar — December 5, 2007 @ 8:29 pm

  15. I can’t…can’t edit comments on Sean’s posts, only my own.

    Comment by Andy — December 5, 2007 @ 8:34 pm

  16. I’m sure I heard Mize was IBB’d with the bases loaded, but that Holtzman article doesn’t list him. It only mentions him as a reason why Medwick probably wasn’t IBB’d (Mize was his protection). On a quick Internet search I couldn’t find any confirmation of the Mize story.

    Comment by Johnny Twisto — December 7, 2007 @ 1:41 am

  17. 132 times is A LOT considering there have only been about 900 post season games total! That’s about once every 7 games or so! Seems to me that would be a lot more than the rate for the regular season. Can we get some exact numbers on comparing the frequency of 4-hit games in post-season vs. the regular season?

    Comment by kingturtle — December 8, 2007 @ 5:54 pm

  18. Oooh, that’s a nice thought Oliver. I’ll post on that one in the coming days.

    Comment by Andy — December 8, 2007 @ 6:12 pm

  19. Davie - I don’t know why you wanted to know this or if you’re ever going to read this, but the answer to #10 - Most home runs by a player in his very first season while playing for two or more clubs is 26 by Jose Cruz Jr. in 1997 ( http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/u2MM ).

    Comment by Raphy — January 21, 2008 @ 10:36 pm

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