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January 6, 2008

Tony Gwynn hit .400

Filed under: Gamelogs — Andy @ 10:51 am

When, you ask? Over a 162-game stretch from late 1993 to early 1995 (encompassing the entire strike-shortened 1994 season.)

If you haven’t checked out the gamelog summation tool, you should, You can find, for example, the 162-game stretch over which Tony Gwynn hit .400.

Tony Gwynn batting from career game #1551 (Jul 27, 1993) to game #1712 (May 13, 1995)

  G   PA  AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB IBB  SO HBP  SH  SF GDP  SB CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS
+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 162 704 624 121 251 53  1 15 100  68  25  22   2   1   9  26  10  0  .402  .457  .563 1.020

All I can think to say is…who da man?

13 Comments »

  1. I think that Wade Boggs hit over .400 in a 162 game stretch somewhere is his career, too.

    Comment by ImAShark — January 6, 2008 @ 7:03 pm

  2. Well, one of you capable PI users should look it up and post the answer for all of us.

    Comment by Andy — January 6, 2008 @ 7:18 pm

  3. I’m not capable enough to generate a report for anyone else to look at. However, I did find out that from games 1327 and 1488 of his career, inclusive (October 2, 1976 thru April 9, 1978), Rod Carew batted .396 for those 162 games he played in (missing 7 during that time).

    At least, I think that’s what I calculated. I can’t replicate the result.

    Comment by David in Toledo — January 6, 2008 @ 8:36 pm

  4. Google is easier in this case. (Now if we can get gamelogs for entire careers on one easy to copy and past page, then we’d have POWER!)

    Anyway:
    Wade Boggs batting from career game #467 (Jun 9, 1985) to game #628 (Jun 6, 1986)
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=boggswa01&t=b&year=1985#467:628:sum

    Comment by OscarAzocar — January 6, 2008 @ 8:36 pm

  5. Looking a little closer at Andy’s link: In 1993 Gwynn batted .358, but never hit in more than 9 games in a row! I wonder if that’s uncommon.

    Comment by OscarAzocar — January 6, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

  6. Roger Hornsby of the St Louis Cardinals averaged .402 between 1921-25.

    G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS BA OBP SLG
    696 3110 2679 615 1078 206 66 144 598 352 198 43 47 .402 .474 .690

    Then after hitting .317 in 1926 the Cards traded him to the New York Giants. He then averaged .377 over the next three seasons (1928-30).

    Jack

    Comment by jackfish — January 6, 2008 @ 11:46 pm

  7. Jack….obviously lots of guys have hit .400. I’m just pointing out how recently Gwynn did it.

    Comment by Andy — January 7, 2008 @ 8:26 am

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  10. How did you get the gamelog summation tool to function across multiple seasons? I can only seem to open gamelogs (and thus the summation tool)for one season at a time.

    Comment by birtelcom — January 8, 2008 @ 12:20 pm

  11. Good question, britelcom. It took me a while to figure this out. The easiest way I found to make it work was to change the game numbers the appear in the URL. If you do any summation, you’ll see the career game numbers appear in the URL. (See Oscar’s link in #4 comment above for an example.)
    To get it to work over multiple seasons, here is the trick: the YEAR that appears in the URL needs to be the year in which the first game in the summation appears. In other words, if summing games from 1993 to 1995, then that year must read 1993. If it reads any other year, it won’t work. So, for example, if you start doing some summing all within 1994, but then you select a starting game number that happens to go back to 1993, the summing suddenly won’t work unless you also think to change the year. Make sense?

    Comment by Andy — January 8, 2008 @ 12:27 pm

  12. Yes, with your answer plus Sean’s little blue box with advice at the very bottom of the gamelog screen (which appears when you highlight a game in the gamelog), I get it now. Thanks!

    Comment by birtelcom — January 9, 2008 @ 12:21 am

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