2-Out Game-Ending HBP Since 1954
Posted by Steve Lombardi on June 16, 2011
How many times since 1954 have there been 2-out game winning HBP? Here is the list:
| Yr# | Gm# | Date | Batter | Tm | Opp | Pitcher | Score | Inn | RoB | Out | Pit(cnt) | RBI | WPA | RE24 | Play Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1954-06-20 (1) | Curt Roberts | PIT | MLN | Lew Burdette | tied 1-1 | b10 | 123 | 2 | 1 (0-0) | 1 | 0.34 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Marquez Scores; Thomas to 3B; Atwell to 2B | |
| 2 | 1 | 1958-07-06 | Jim Davenport | SFG | STL | Larry Jackson | tied 4-4 | b9 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 0.34 | 6.38 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Worthington Scores; Kirkland to 3B; Mays to 2B | ||
| 3 | 1 | 1961-04-28 | Ken Hunt | LAA | MIN | Bill Pleis | tied 5-5 | b12 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 0.34 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Pearson Scores; Aspromonte to 3B; Kluszewski to 2B; Hunt to 1B | ||
| 4 | 1 | 1965-07-15 | Clete Boyer | NYY | WSA | Steve Ridzik | tied 1-1 | b12 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 0.35 | 6.38 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Barker Scores; Howard to 3B; Tresh to 2B | ||
| 5 | 1 | 1971-07-29 | Fred Scherman | DET | KCR | Tom Burgmeier | tied 9-9 | b9 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 0.35 | 6.37 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Cash Scores; Northrup to 3B; McAuliffe to 2B | ||
| 6 | 1 | 1972-09-22 | Wes Parker | LAD | SFG | Jim Willoughby | tied 0-0 | b11 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 0.35 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Paciorek Scores; Cey to 3B; Mota to 2B | ||
| 7 | 1 | 1975-06-22 | Rico Carty | CLE | MIL | Eduardo Rodriguez | tied 2-2 | b10 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 0.34 | 6.38 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Lowenstein Scores; Manning to 3B; Powell to 2B | ||
| 8 | 1 | 1979-05-23 | Steve Kemp | DET | NYY | Jim Kaat | tied 3-3 | b9 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 0.34 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Wagner Scores; LeFlore to 3B; Whitaker to 2B | ||
| 9 | 1 | 1986-05-19 | Marc Sullivan | BOS | MIN | Ron Davis | tied 7-7 | b9 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 0.34 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Boggs Scores; Buckner to 3B; Rice to 2B | ||
| 10 | 1 | 1993-09-27 | Gary Gaetti | KCR | CLE | Jerry DiPoto | tied 5-5 | b9 | 123 | 2 | 3 (0-2) | 1 | 0.34 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Jose Scores/unER; Macfarlane to 3B; Gwynn to 2B | |
| 11 | 1 | 1997-06-16 | Troy O'Leary | BOS | PHI | Ricky Bottalico | tied 4-4 | b10 | 123 | 2 | 1 (0-0) | 1 | 0.34 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Naehring Scores; Valentin to 3B; Benjamin to 2B | |
| 12 | 1 | 1997-08-03 | Luis Gonzalez | HOU | NYM | Greg McMichael | tied 2-2 | b9 | 123 | 2 | 3 (0-2) | 1 | 0.34 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Biggio Scores; Howard to 3B; Bagwell to 2B | |
| 13 | 1 | 2002-07-20 | Olmedo Saenz | OAK | TEX | Dave Burba | tied 5-5 | b9 | 123 | 2 | 2 (1-0) | 1 | 0.34 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Chavez Scores; Dye to 3B; Mabry to 2B | |
| 14 | 1 | 2002-07-21 | Raul Ibanez | KCR | CLE | Heath Murray | tied 12-12 | b10 | 123 | 2 | 4 (2-1) | 1 | 0.33 | 6.39 | *ENDED GAME*:Hit By Pitch; Mayne Scores; Knoblauch to 3B; Randa to 2B |
It almost never happens - yet, in 2002, it happened on back-to-back days. Ain't baseball great?
June 16th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Did anybody fight?
June 16th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Fred Scherman? Wow! Martin had someone left on the bench (Ike Brown and maybe even Cesar Gutierrez). He pinch hit for Tony Taylor and someone would have to play second if the game was tied - but Martin didn't want to lose his ace reliever which was smart since Scherman was his sixth pitcher of the day and I think Martin would rather eat his hat than put in someone like Les Cain.
Bob Lemon probably had five ulcers in the ninth inning. The Royals were up by three with one out, and then Nelson gave up two hits. No worries, they have Abernathy and Burgmeier. He may have gotten a bit panicky when Horton walked but after Abernathy fanned Freehan he probably was breathing easier. I don't know why he all of a sudden LaRussa'd it and brought in Burgmeier for platoon advantages with the bases loaded and two out when Abernathy was darn good himself. But HBP, two-run single, walk and HBP and there...you...go.
Marc Sullivan! When you hit a batter with a career OPS+ of 32 to lose a game, Ron Davis, you deserve all the guff you get!
June 16th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Don't forget Homer Simpson Steve!
June 16th, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Why are the WPAs and LIs not always the same? Do the WPA calculations vary based on the year?
June 16th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I think you missed one...I was at a September 11, 2010 Yankees/Rangers game @ the Ballpark that ended in the bottom of the 9th when Mariano Rivera hit Jeff Franceur with a pitch with the bases loaded.
June 16th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
@5
There was only one out when Francoeur was hit.
Something similar has happened with unassisted triple plays. There have been, I think, 14 of them since 1901 yet two of them occurred on consecutive days, May 30, 1927 by Jimmy Cooney and May 31, 1927 by Johnny Neun.
June 16th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Why are the WPAs and LIs not always the same? Do the WPA calculations vary based on the year?
They vary based on the scoring environment, so yes, they change by year and park. Actually, it's very interesting to see those slight variations for the same situation. I hadn't noticed till you pointed it out. You see in 2002, a high-scoring season, there was a slightly better chance of scoring that winning run than in the lower scoring mid-60s or early '70s, so the WPA is .33 compared to .35.
June 16th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Why are the WPAs and LIs not always the same? Do the WPA calculations vary based on the year?
June 16th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Ron Davis? Harrumph.
A poor man's Ryne Duren.
June 16th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
I love seeing blog post on here that include my favorite player of all time, Gary Gaetti.
June 16th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
A guy named Hunt in an HBP list, and it wasn't Ron. Go figure!
Actually, of Ron Hunt's 243 career HBP (6th all-time), he never had a "walk-off" HBP with any number of outs.
June 16th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Olmedo Saenz (the first of the 2002 games) had a semi-specialty in bases-loaded HBP. He had 5 HBP in 81 career PAs with the sacks full -- a rate of 40 HBP per 650 PAs, about twice his already high overall HBP rate. Three of the five came in separate games against Boston.
June 16th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
@ Kenh Homer Simpson's walkoff HBP does not count as it occurred in a company softball league and not MLB 🙂 Also, I do not think it is clear in the episode if there were two outs at the time of the play.
In that episode, it seems like no one pinch ran for the unconcious Homer. Wouldn't someone have to take his spot at first base even though the game was over with the HBP? All of Mr. Burns' ringers were unavailable due to their various mishaps. Perhaps Roger Clemens, clucking like a chicken but still with the team, was put in as Homer's pinch runner.
June 16th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Fred Scherman - I remember hearing that on the radio. Odd that a pitcher would become the winning pitcher via a walk-off HBP. A bounce-back year for the Tigers in the final year of Orioles' A.L. domination.
June 16th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
#9 "Kong": Was a Tiger fan living in Minn. back in '86, that was the year that "R. D." (Davis) wore out his welcome with fans of a Twins team three years into clawing their way back to respectability. Late April, 3 straight awful appearances and I saw one where he was showered with boos (4/26) after the roof caved in on Twins (+ almost literally - T-Storm caused a tear in the roof, then RD gave up a homer to Wally Joyner to blow their lead and the game). And so it was just a few weeks later that he hit a batter to end the game. A couple more months, and he was a Chicago Cub.
June 16th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
OK, another Fred Scherman post. he entered the game after Dean Chance walked Freddie Patek to start the top of the 9th. Patek was caught stealing, but Scherman then gave up a run on a couple of singles (with a WP in the middle). I think the Tigers may have been out or nearly out of batters on their bench. They had already used 6 position players as replacements.
In the bottom of the 9th, Tom Burgmeier reliever Ted Abernathy (who had relieved Roger Nelson - maybe Lemon was channeling LaRussa). Burgmeier had the based loaded, but a 9-6 lead. He hit Norm Cash with a pitch, gave up a two run single to Jim Northrup (RIP), walked McCauliffe to load the bases *again), then hit Scherman with a pitch to end the game. In the first ten years of Burgmeier's career, he had 2 or fewer HBP's in 9 of the seasons. In 1971, he hit 7.
It was the only time in his ML career Fred Scherman was HBP.
June 16th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Steve, I like the fact that your thread title says "game-ending" and not "walk off". In fact, the dreaded "walk off" phrase has only been used once in here. 🙂
I guess you might not walk off after being HBP to win the game, you might be writhing in pain in the dirt.
With the bases loaded do you think Ron Hunt or Olmedo Saenz might crowd the plate just a little bit? How about loosening the uniform?
June 16th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Funny that in '86 the Red Sox were the beneificiaries of one of these, because in Game 4 of the ALCS that year, Calvin Schiraldi gave up the winning run on a HBP to put them in 1 3-1 hole. (The game before the Donnie moore / Dave Henderson game.) I don;t have the chance to look it up rigth now, but IIRC, it was Downing and I THINK there were two outs.
June 16th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Great Post, thanks.
June 16th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Braves win on a balk-off, lol
June 16th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Hate to Thread Hijack and sorry of someone already posted this:
5 Days after the game ended!!!
The 2 run Double by Andrew McCutchen of Pittsburgh on Saturday 6/11/2011 against The New York Mets was ruled an error by the 3rd Mets Baseman.
So the 10 game hitting streak McCutchen had at the time ended with that game.
McCutchen had 2 RBI's taken away.
Mets pitcher RA Dickey had the 2 runs taken off his ERA.
Sean will have to amend the Box score.
The Pirates still won the game 3-2
Here's an article and Video of the play in question.
http://espn.go.com/blog/the-gms-office/post/_/id/411/mlb-overturns-scoring-call
June 16th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
@20
I tried to do an event search to see if this had ever happened; can't find any evidence that it has......anybody want to take a shot?
June 16th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Better MLB article and much better video on McCutchen's lost double from Saturday 6/11/2011 vs Mets.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110616&content_id=20595702&vkey=news_pit&c_id=pit
June 16th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
@21/@23 re: McCutchen's "double" --
I wrote the following for a Saturday roundup that I wound up not posting due to technical difficulties:
A challenge for you armchair official scorers: Should poor fielding technique play a role in the scorer's judgment? In Pittsburgh tonight, Andrew McCutchen hit a sharp ground ball to Mets fill-in 3B Daniel Murphy with 2 out and men on 1st and 2nd. The ball was about 2 feet to Murphy's right, but instead of getting in front of it, he fell to a prone position and contorted awkwardly as he tried to backhand it. The ball caromed off his glove (or maybe his knee) [note: turns out it was Murphy's knee brace] and went well into foul ground, and both runners came around to score. It was ruled a double and 2 RBI for McCutchen. My opinion: I can see giving a single, maybe, but no RBI. Had Murphy played the ball properly, the worst that could have happened was a single and the runners move up one base. How can you score a double when the fielder's combination of poor technique and bad hands caused the extra advancement?
June 17th, 2011 at 12:49 am
I'm most surprised to see both Lew Burdette & Jim Kaat on the list. Both pitchers were well known for their control and both led the league in fewest BB/9 multiple times.
June 17th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
@13
Jay, I'm mystified that you don't think company softball leagues don't count.
June 17th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
@6 I have read that Johnny Neun was yelling "I am running into history" while beating Glenn Myatt to 2nd base. I suspect if there had not been an unassisted triple play the day before he would have thrown to 2nd to complete the triple play.