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It’s A Bush Move

Posted by Steve Lombardi on April 21, 2010

A fun list via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Game Finder...

American League Players with the most appearances in a game, since the D.H. came into play (in 1973), as a pinch hitter batting for the #9 hitter in the line-up:

Rk Player #Matching   PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP
1 Randy Bush 133 Ind. Games 136 114 29 7 0 4 18 21 27 .254 .368 .421 .789 0 1 4 0 3
2 Jerry Hairston 116 Ind. Games 120 103 22 4 0 1 9 17 16 .214 .325 .282 .607 0 0 1 0 2
3 Jamie Quirk 114 Ind. Games 122 114 24 6 1 1 10 7 31 .211 .254 .307 .561 0 1 0 0 1
4 Jim Dwyer 114 Ind. Games 115 95 27 8 0 4 18 16 17 .284 .374 .495 .869 0 4 3 0 4
5 Rick Miller 109 Ind. Games 114 96 32 7 2 0 16 14 18 .333 .411 .448 .859 2 2 2 0 2
6 Johnny Grubb 105 Ind. Games 111 95 33 5 0 7 24 12 13 .347 .423 .621 1.044 0 2 0 2 3
7 Terry Crowley 94 Ind. Games 85 79 21 2 0 2 8 6 11 .266 .318 .367 .685 0 0 0 0 3
8 Frank Catalanotto 83 Ind. Games 96 86 29 5 3 3 13 10 10 .337 .406 .570 .976 0 0 0 0 1
9 Jesse Levis 81 Ind. Games 104 94 21 1 0 0 5 9 14 .223 .291 .234 .525 1 0 0 0 1
10 Matt Stairs 79 Ind. Games 86 69 18 2 0 3 9 15 18 .261 .407 .420 .827 0 0 4 2 1
11 Jorge Posada 76 Ind. Games 107 87 21 3 0 2 15 16 31 .241 .346 .345 .691 0 4 1 0 4
12 Ruben Sierra 75 Ind. Games 80 76 18 3 0 2 16 3 20 .237 .263 .355 .618 0 1 0 0 0
13 Jorge Orta 73 Ind. Games 77 72 20 2 1 1 14 4 14 .278 .312 .375 .687 0 1 2 0 0
14 Rick Leach 71 Ind. Games 73 59 17 2 2 1 14 11 7 .288 .384 .441 .824 0 3 2 0 4
15 Dave Bergman 70 Ind. Games 71 58 10 1 1 0 6 10 9 .172 .282 .224 .506 0 3 0 0 2
16 Greg Myers 67 Ind. Games 89 84 25 5 0 2 17 5 14 .298 .337 .429 .766 0 0 2 0 4
17 Ron Hassey 67 Ind. Games 68 60 15 1 0 1 7 6 9 .250 .324 .317 .640 0 1 2 1 1
18 Scott Bradley 67 Ind. Games 70 63 16 1 1 0 6 6 10 .254 .314 .302 .616 0 1 2 0 4
19 Tony Solaita 66 Ind. Games 60 52 14 2 0 2 9 7 18 .269 .350 .423 .773 0 1 0 0 1
20 Ben Oglivie 66 Ind. Games 66 56 11 1 2 0 7 9 12 .196 .308 .286 .593 1 0 2 0 1
21 Pat Kelly 66 Ind. Games 68 60 15 4 0 3 12 8 22 .250 .338 .467 .805 0 0 0 0 1
22 John Lowenstein 65 Ind. Games 64 55 16 3 0 2 8 9 11 .291 .391 .455 .845 0 0 2 0 1
23 Charlie Moore 64 Ind. Games 85 78 25 3 1 0 3 6 11 .321 .376 .385 .761 0 0 0 1 1
24 Bill Stein 62 Ind. Games 72 68 18 5 0 0 13 2 12 .265 .292 .338 .630 0 1 1 1 3
25 Chip Hale 60 Ind. Games 70 60 17 3 0 1 13 8 9 .283 .371 .383 .755 0 1 0 1 0
26 Oscar Gamble 59 Ind. Games 60 53 14 1 0 3 12 6 6 .264 .350 .453 .803 0 0 0 1 1
27 Lou Whitaker 58 Ind. Games 82 72 16 4 1 1 13 9 16 .222 .305 .347 .652 0 1 1 0 0
28 Tony Muser 58 Ind. Games 59 53 16 4 0 0 9 6 6 .302 .373 .377 .750 0 0 0 0 4
29 Jim Norris 57 Ind. Games 62 46 12 2 0 0 7 15 8 .261 .435 .304 .740 0 1 2 0 2
30 Ken Phelps 56 Ind. Games 53 46 7 1 0 2 7 7 16 .152 .264 .304 .568 0 0 1 0 1
31 Larry Milbourne 55 Ind. Games 83 76 28 3 1 1 6 5 5 .368 .402 .474 .876 1 1 0 0 3
32 Harold Baines 55 Ind. Games 54 46 18 1 0 2 14 5 12 .391 .426 .543 .969 0 3 1 0 0
33 Hal McRae 54 Ind. Games 53 51 13 1 0 1 6 2 5 .255 .283 .333 .616 0 0 1 0 4
34 Bob Jones 54 Ind. Games 50 44 8 0 0 0 5 4 11 .182 .240 .182 .422 0 2 0 0 4
35 Cliff Johnson 54 Ind. Games 54 45 11 2 0 3 12 9 11 .244 .370 .489 .859 0 0 1 0 1
36 Thad Bosley 54 Ind. Games 58 53 14 2 0 0 5 3 17 .264 .298 .302 .600 1 1 1 0 2
37 Dan Meyer 53 Ind. Games 53 51 10 0 0 1 1 2 5 .196 .226 .255 .481 0 0 0 0 2
38 Jim Holt 52 Ind. Games 54 49 13 3 0 0 5 3 5 .265 .333 .327 .660 0 0 0 2 3
39 Rick Dempsey 52 Ind. Games 59 52 12 3 0 1 7 7 4 .231 .322 .346 .668 0 0 0 0 3
40 Steve Braun 52 Ind. Games 57 50 15 2 0 0 6 7 7 .300 .386 .340 .726 0 0 0 0 0
41 Geno Petralli 51 Ind. Games 60 50 13 2 1 2 18 8 12 .260 .356 .460 .816 1 1 1 0 3
42 Gates Brown 51 Ind. Games 48 39 9 1 0 3 7 8 8 .231 .375 .487 .862 0 0 0 1 1
43 Roy Smalley 50 Ind. Games 57 51 15 3 0 2 11 6 10 .294 .368 .471 .839 0 0 0 0 0
44 Dion James 50 Ind. Games 53 48 6 0 0 1 4 5 13 .125 .208 .188 .395 0 0 0 0 2
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 4/21/2010.

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Randy Bush would probably like to thank guys such as Houston Jimenez, Ron Washington, Lenny Faedo, Alvaro Espinoza and Pat Meares for making this "record" possible...

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4 Responses to “It’s A Bush Move”

  1. Steve Lombardi Says:
    April 21st, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    Johnny Grubb was a killer in this role.

  2. rico petrocelli Says:
    April 22nd, 2010 at 12:38 am

    Johnny Grubb!

  3. Kahuna Tuna Says:
    April 22nd, 2010 at 10:32 am

    Grubb was 5 for 30 (.457 OPS) in four-plus years in the NL pinch-hitting in the #9 spot. He hit a sacrifice fly in this late-1974 game (saved by Randy Jones) to score the winning run in the seventh inning. In his other 27 games in this role (21 of which the Padres lost) Grubb contributed little. Of course, those were his age-23 to age-27 seasons, when the Padres were awful and Grubb usually started.

  4. Kahuna Tuna Says:
    April 22nd, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    Gates Brown racked up all 51 of his appearances in the final two years of his career, 1974 and 1975.

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