Big game for Albert Pujols

Posted by Andy on May 15, 2009

This past Sunday was a big day for Albert Pujols. When he walked in the top of the 3rd inning, he avoided tying his career high for most consecutive games without reaching base at all. What's his career high? Would you believe just 3 games?

 StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  2004-09-21  2004-09-23     3      9    0    0   0   0   0    0    4    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2001-07-04  2001-07-06     3     14    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL

  2009-05-08  2009-05-09     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2008-09-16  2008-09-17     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2008-06-05  2008-06-06     2      5    0    0   0   0   0    0    3    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2007-08-23  2007-08-24     2      7    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2007-07-24  2007-07-25     2      9    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2007-05-13  2007-05-14     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2007-05-05  2007-05-06     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2006-09-08  2006-09-09     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   1  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2006-06-03  2006-06-22     2      5    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2005-07-06  2005-07-07     2      4    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2004-08-07  2004-08-08     2      9    1    0   0   0   0    0    3    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2004-06-12  2004-06-13     2      9    1    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2003-06-30  2003-07-01     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2003-04-19  2003-04-20     2      2    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2003-04-09  2003-04-10     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2002-08-04  2002-08-06     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2002-06-25  2002-06-26     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    3    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2001-07-08  2001-07-12     2      5    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2001-06-29  2001-06-30     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2001-06-15  2001-06-16     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2001-05-18  2001-05-19     2      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL
  2001-04-04  2001-04-05     2      6    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 STL

To me, it's incredible that the guy has never had 4 games in a row where he hasn't reached base.

Active career OBP leader Todd Helton has had 1 streak of 4 games and 3 streaks of 3 each:

 StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  1997-09-19  1997-09-26     4      7    0    0   0   0   0    1    0    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 COL                                         

  2007-05-15  2007-05-17     3     11    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 COL                                         
  2003-05-31  2003-06-02     3     12    0    0   0   0   0    0    4    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 COL                                         
  2000-06-22  2000-06-24     3      8    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 COL

Pujols is current secondly in OBP, and the #3 (semi-) active guy is Manny Ramirez.

 StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  1997-05-07  1997-05-17     4     13    0    0   0   0   0    1    5    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 CLE                                         
  1993-09-04  1993-09-08     4     15    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 CLE                                         

  2007-06-25  2007-06-27     3     10    0    0   0   0   0    0    3    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 BOS                                         
  2004-10-03  2005-04-05     3     10    0    0   0   0   0    0    4    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 BOS                                         
  2001-05-27  2001-05-30     3     12    1    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 BOS                                         
  1999-10-02  2000-04-03     3      9    0    0   0   0   0    0    4    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 CLE                                         
  1994-05-27  1994-05-29     3     10    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 CLE                                         
  1994-05-18  1994-05-20     3     10    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 CLE                                         
  1993-09-14  1993-09-19     3      6    0    0   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 CLE

Man-Ram has 2 different 4-game streaks and a whole bunch of 3-game jobs.

To be fair, Ramirez and Helton have played for a lot longer than Pujols, so Albert still has a shot at his own 4-game streak.

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One Response to “Big game for Albert Pujols”

Raphy Says:
May 15th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Interesting stat Andy.

Ichiro also has only gone 3 games and also only twice. Both of those streaks happened within one 2 week period in 2006.

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