In this game a little while ago, Oakland's first 7 hits were all doubles. I was wondering if they'd finish with no hits other than doubles, but that didn't happen.

Here is the record (since 1954) for most hits in a game where all of the hits are doubles:

  Cnt Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt  PA  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS LOB Batrs
+----+-------------+---+----+-------+---+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+-----+
    1 1998-08-18    ATL  SFG W  8-4   38  31  8  9  9  0  0   8  4   1  1   1  1  1   0   0  0  0   6    11

Wow, 9 hits, all for doubles. Turns out no team has done this feat with 8, 7, or 6 doubles, but a bunch have done it with 5:

  Cnt Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt  PA  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS LOB Batrs
+----+-------------+---+----+-------+---+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+-----+
    1 2005-09-25    SEA @DET L  1-8   33  31  1  5  5  0  0   1  2   0  3   0  0  0   0   0  0  0   5    11

    2 1998-05-13    OAK @TOR W  4-2   41  32  4  5  5  0  0   4  6   0 10   1  2  0   2   0  0  0  10    10

    3 1997-05-11    PHI  COL W  3-1   34  26  3  5  5  0  0   3  5   0  8   0  2  0   1   1  2  1   7    11

    4 1979-07-27(2) MON  PIT L  1-9   34  31  1  5  5  0  0   1  3   0  9   0  0  0   0   1  0  0   6    16

    5 1964-07-18    HOU @SFG W  2-1   36  31  2  5  5  0  0   2  3   0  8   1  1  0   0   0  0  0   7     9

I checked this manually by entering, for example, 2B = 12 and H = 12 into the team batting game finder (which returned no games) and then ticking the numbers each down by 1 until finding the answer.

Here are 4 hits, all doubles:

  Cnt Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt  PA  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS LOB Batrs
+----+-------------+---+----+-------+---+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+-----+
    1 2005-09-02    ARI  SFG L  3-6   35  30  3  4  4  0  0   3  5   1 14   0  0  0   0   0  0  1   5    15

    2 2003-09-17    OAK @ANA W  2-1   31  31  2  4  4  0  0   2  0   0  6   0  0  0   0   0  0  0   2    10

    3 2001-07-27    KCR @OAK L  0-5   32  29  0  4  4  0  0   0  2   1  7   0  1  0   0   0  1  1   5     9

    4 1996-08-06    BOS  TOR W  3-2   31  29  3  4  4  0  0   3  2   0  9   0  0  0   1   0  0  0   4    11

    5 1994-05-17    CAL  CHW L  2-10  35  31  2  4  4  0  0   1  4   0 10   0  0  0   1   1  1  0   6    10

    6 1986-07-08    MIN  DET L  1-5   36  30  1  4  4  0  0   1  5   0  4   1  0  0   0   1  1  0   8    10

    7 1979-04-22    PIT @HOU L  2-3   34  31  2  4  4  0  0   1  3   0  7   0  0  0   0   0  1  0   5    12

    8 1958-05-14    SFG @STL L  2-3   34  29  2  4  4  0  0   1  4   0  6   0  1  0   0   0  2  1   5    14

And the rest of the lists are too long to post in their entirety. Three doubles/hits has been done 35 times, 2 doubles/hits has been done 75 times,  and one double being the lonely hit to break up a no-hitter has been done 132 times.

Check back tomorrow for the same thing with triples...

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