Pounding Out The Hits…11 Times
Posted by Steve Lombardi on May 19, 2008
Recently - from May 2nd to May 12th, to be exact - the Boston Red Sox went 11 straight games with 11+ hits. Wondering what other teams have done this, since 1956, I turned to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Team Batting Streak Finder - and, here's the answer:
Team StreakStart Streak End Games W L AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Opponents +-------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ BOS 2008-05-02 2008-05-12 11 7 4 409 73 137 36 1 17 70 69 41 13 1 .335 .400 .553 .953 TBR,DET,MIN SEA 1992-08-16 1992-08-28 11 8 3 405 70 135 26 3 12 68 72 45 14 2 .333 .402 .501 .903 MIN,BAL,BOS,CLE STL 1979-05-27 1979-06-08 11 8 3 419 83 164 29 9 15 78 48 38 14 6 .391 .436 .611 1.047 MON,NYM,LAD,SFG,SDP
It's happened just three times since 1956: Boston this year, Seattle in 1992 and St. Louis in 1979. That's quite a feat.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
[...] around with Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index today, I noticed that the Boston Red Sox have been on a hot streak with their bats. In fact, to date, in games during the month of May, the Red Sox have the following [...]
May 21st, 2008 at 9:21 am
In the 1979 STL streak, Templeton, Hernandez and Hendricks hit safely in all eleven games. Templeton amassed 30 hits in the eleven games, while Hernandez and Hendricks had 22 each. Three players with simultaneous 11-game hitting streaks. It is probably impossible to figure out, but I'd love to know the record for a three-player simultaneous hitting streak.
By the way, only 3 of the hits during the eleven games were by pitchers. 2 by Denny and 1 by Vuckovich.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 am
For that matter, who else has amassed 30 hits in 11 games?