Comments on: Tony Gwynn hit .400

By: Stat of the Day » Most games with a SB in the first 50 games of a career

Stat of the Day » Most games with a SB in the first 50 games of a career — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:11:09 +0000

[...] here for more on the gamelog summation [...]

By: birtelcom

birtelcom — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:21:27 +0000

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!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:27:23 +0000

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?

By: birtelcom

birtelcom — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:20:18 +0000

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.

By: Stat of the Day » Matt Williams hit 62 HR

Stat of the Day » Matt Williams hit 62 HR — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:22:25 +0000

[...] as you saw a couple of days ago, Tony Gwynn once hit over .400 over a 162-game stretch from 1993 to [...]

By: More Spring Training Thoughts

More Spring Training Thoughts — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:48:39 +0000

[...] @ B-R.com’s Stat of the Day notes that Tony Gwynn once hit .400 over a 162-game [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:26:38 +0000

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

By: jackfish

jackfish — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:46:30 +0000

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

By: OscarAzocar

OscarAzocar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:08:54 +0000

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.

By: OscarAzocar

OscarAzocar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:36:53 +0000

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