Post-season hit streaks
Posted by Andy on August 3, 2009
I suspect that this has been posted here before, but I was just looking at post-season hit streaks:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Manny Ramirez 2003-10-14 2004-10-27 17 73 11 24 4 0 3 12 12 10 0 0 .329 .400 .507 .907 BOS Derek Jeter 1998-10-13 1999-10-27 17 70 16 26 3 2 1 7 13 8 3 1 .371 .436 .514 .950 NYY Hank Bauer 1956-10-03 1958-10-04 17 76 10 24 2 1 6 16 13 1 1 0 .316 .325 .605 .930 NYY Pat Borders 1991-10-12 1993-10-06 16 59 5 22 4 0 2 8 3 3 0 0 .373 .391 .542 .933 TOR Marquis Grissom 1995-10-03 1996-10-02 15 69 11 26 3 1 3 5 10 2 6 2 .377 .403 .580 .983 ATL Rickey Henderson 1989-10-04 1990-10-19 15 61 14 25 4 3 4 12 6 10 13 2 .410 .486 .770 1.256 OAK David Ortiz 2004-10-26 2007-10-20 14 45 15 18 6 0 4 7 7 13 0 0 .400 .525 .800 1.325 BOS Tim Raines 1981-10-19 1996-10-11 14 62 11 21 5 0 0 1 5 6 1 1 .339 .397 .419 .816 MON-CHW-NYY Brooks Robinson 1970-10-03 1971-10-12 14 54 12 25 5 0 3 13 5 2 0 0 .463 .474 .722 1.196 BAL
I recalled that Ramirez and Jeter shared the lead with fairly recent streaks. I had totally forgotten about Pat Borders' performance. He hit particularly well in the 1992 playoffs, with 16 hits in 42 AB, including 3 doubles, 2 homers, and 6 RBI.
Another interesting thing is the length of time for Tim Raines' streak, far longer than the others on this list. He went from a playoff appearance in 1981 with the Expos to a 1996 appearance with the Yankees. Not to mention the fact that the streak includes hitting in all 6 ALCS games in 1993 with the White Sox. Sheesh.
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I'd like to see a stat for which player has the best percentage for getting at least one hit per game. Ichiro would be really high on this list. It seems he gets at least one hit almost every game.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
A lot of these players are very good in the postseason on this list the one and most of them should be in the hall of fame (well not all of them), for example Manny Ramirez (even though was tested positive for steroids in 2003. But is in the 500 home run club. David Ortiz (who only has 300+ home runs) and did test positive for steroids in 2003 has hall of fame potential is a very good hitter in the postseason and another potentially hall of famer Derek Jeter is just an all around awesome player and I'm not saying this just because I am a Yankee fan. I've seen him do amazing hits and great streaks in the postseason when you have a hitting streak in the postseason like around 5+ games you are a pretty good MLB player