Three players with 2 triples in a game on the same day
Posted by Andy on August 17, 2011
I already remarked on Bryan Petersen's 2-triple game, but two other guys also had two triples in a game yesterday:
| Rk | Player | Date | Tm | Opp | Rslt | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | WPA | RE24 | BOP | Pos. Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alejandro de Aza | 2011-08-16 | CHW | CLE | W 8-7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.190 | 1.858 | 1.699 | 2 | CF RF |
| 2 | Bryan Petersen | 2011-08-16 | FLA | COL | W 6-5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.129 | 1.657 | .710 | 2 | LF |
| 3 | Nick Hundley | 2011-08-16 | SDP | NYM | W 6-1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.184 | 2.610 | .670 | 6 | C |
When is that last time this happened?
It took a bit of digging, but the last time was in 1948:
| Rk | Player | Date | Tm | Opp | Rslt | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | BOP | Pos. Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 783 | Joe DiMaggio | 1948-06-13 | NYY | CLE | W 5-3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | CF |
| 784 | Johnny Lipon | 1948-06-13 (1) | DET | WSH | W 9-3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | SS |
| 785 | Bob Dillinger | 1948-06-13 (2) | SLB | PHA | L 1-3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3B |
It's a bit more common for two players to do it on the same day. That's happened as recently as September 16, 2006, when Aaron Miles and Bernie Castro both did it.
August 17th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Andy, I was researching the same question, and I came up with a more recent date: July 27, 1958. Bill Tuttle and Roger Maris for the A's against the Orioles, and Solly Hemus for the Phillies against the Dodgers (first game of doubleheader).
August 17th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Right you are! I missed that one.
Generated 8/17/2011.
August 17th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Must be the phase of the moon...I heard on SC this morning that the White Sox had 5 triples last night. This is the first time that's happened since 1921, I think they said.
August 17th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
@ Kahuna Tuna:
Your comment got me thinking of other times two players for the same each had two triples in the same game. Only twice since that '58 game, in '62 and '66. 12 times from 1919-1925 but never from 1926 until the '58 game you mentioned. The fact that it occurred 12 times in a 7-year span, then not for 32 years, again 3 times over 9 years, and not in the 44 years since. Bizarre to me. http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=CFJLs
August 17th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
@ Larry:
First time the White Sox did that since twice in 1920, actually.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=teoRp
The first for any team since the 1986 Phillies, but the Sox came awfully close to losing last night, which would've been the first since they beat the Tigers in 1929.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=IVDy4
August 17th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Max, in that 32-year drought between teammates' two-triple games, there were two near-misses — mirages, so to speak: August 3, 1930, when the Braves' Buster Chatham hit two triples in the first game of a doubleheader and the Phillies' Pinky Whitney hit two triples in the second game, and May 1, 1949, when the Senators' Gil Coan and the Athletics' Elmer Valo each hit two triples in the first game of a doubleheader. (And the Athletics' Sam Chapman had hit two triples in a game between the same two teams on April 30.)
Indians teammates Lyn Lary and Jeff Heath had two-triple games on consecutive days on May 20 and May 21, 1937, against the Red Sox and Senators, respectively. Same for Senators teammates Heinie Manush and Joe Cronin on July 23 and July 24, 1932, against the Athletics and Red Sox. Several pairs of teammates had two-triple games on consecutive days in the late '20s.
August 17th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
April 22 to 25, 1925, Cubs at Pirates, four-game series. On 4/22, Pirates teammates Clyde Barnhart, Johnny Morrison (pitcher!) and Pie Traynor each triple twice in a 6-1 Pirates victory. On 4/23, Cubs shortstop Ike McAuley triples twice (Cubs, 10-9), and on 4/24, Cubs first baseman Charlie Grimm triples twice (Cubs, 7-2). Neither team hit any triples in the 4/25 game, won by the Cubs, 4-3, on a solo homer by Grimm and a three-run homer by catcher Gabby Hartnett.
Four other players hit one triple each during the series, including Pittsburgh's Kiki Cuyler, who had had a two-triple game of his own against the Cubs the previous week.
August 17th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
@7 Kahuna
That 1925-04-22 game is the only one in the game-searchable era where a team had 3 2-triple players, and that date is the only date with 4 players with 2 triples (the Phillies also had a player that day with 2 triples).
Other days on which 3 players had 2 triples:
1919-09-06
1920-08-03
1920-09-17
1921-04-16
1930-08-03
1930-08-09 (less than a week apart!)
August 17th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
@2, Kahuna
Just to clarify, I think Andy's correct that 1948 was the last time (before yesterday) that there were 3 games on the same day with a player getting two triples.
The 1958-07-27 date you identified had 2 games with a player getting two triples, but one of those games had 2 different players turning the trick.
August 17th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Exactly right, Whiz. One other interesting note about the three two-triple games of September 17, 1920: Two of the games were turned in by teammates in a 6-4 victory over the Yankees. Those teammates were both within less than two weeks of the ends of their big-league careers — Happy Felsch and Joe Jackson.
August 17th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
eh, KT got at what I was going for--the fact that 2 came in the same game is beside my original intent.
August 17th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Pretty strange that the White Sox had a total of 8 triples through the 1st 120 games & then have 5 in game 121. Also doing it at home in a small park that doesn't give up many triples.
August 17th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
@ 6, Kahuna Tuna:
Impressive research! Who came the closest since '66?
August 18th, 2011 at 12:15 am
This year's Tigers, June 9 and 11 against the Mariners, Alex Ávila and Austin Jackson, respectively.
August 25th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Andy, when I first read this post, I somehow read "Carbo" instead of "Castro," and I was surprised for a second to hear that ol' Bernie was still active in 2006, let alone able to leg out two triples in a game.