Early RBI Basket Full Of Eggs
Posted by Steve Lombardi on April 12, 2009
Inspired by Nick Swisher, via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Game Finder, here's a list of batters who have had 3 or more 3+ RBI games within their team’s first five games of the season, since 1954:
Year Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+ Dave Winfield 1991 3 Ind. Games Bill White 1962 3 Ind. Games Terry Steinbach 1994 3 Ind. Games Manny Ramirez 1998 3 Ind. Games Mark McGwire 1998 3 Ind. Games Willie Mays 1964 3 Ind. Games Charles Johnson 2000 3 Ind. Games Lou Brock 1967 3 Ind. Games
And, here's the most games like this in a career:
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Dave Winfield 13 Ind. Games Manny Ramirez 12 Ind. Games Ernie Banks 9 Ind. Games Rafael Palmeiro 8 Ind. Games Andres Galarraga 8 Ind. Games Jim Edmonds 8 Ind. Games Orlando Cepeda 8 Ind. Games Hank Aaron 8 Ind. Games
Maybe Dave Winfield should have been called "Mr. April" instead of "Mr. May"?