Adrian Gonzalez has homered in 4 straight games
Posted by Andy on May 16, 2011
Here are the longest consecutive-game HR streaks in Adrian Gonzalez's career:
| Rk | Strk Start | End | Games | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SO | BB | SB | CS | Tm | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2009-05-10 | 2009-05-15 | 5 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .412 | .500 | 1.471 | 1.971 | SDP |
| 2 | 2011-05-10 | 2011-05-14 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .389 | .400 | 1.278 | 1.678 | BOS |
| 3 | 2010-04-21 | 2010-04-25 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | 1.125 | 1.500 | SDP |
| 4 | 2009-05-30 | 2009-06-02 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .417 | .611 | 1.417 | 2.028 | SDP |
| 5 | 2009-07-27 | 2009-07-29 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .417 | .500 | 1.250 | 1.750 | SDP |
| 6 | 2007-09-29 | 2007-10-01 | 3 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .529 | 1.125 | 1.654 | SDP |
He has a chance to tie his own career high.
May 16th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Adrian Gonzalez didn't homer last night
May 16th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
I didn't see last night's game. Did he hit a HR, or am I misreading that headline.
May 16th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Oh yeah, I'm behind a day. Never mind!
May 16th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
It's too bad Gonzalez didn't HR last night. I'm sure the Red Sox would love for their franchise record of 5 straight games with a HR to be held by someone other than Jose Canseco....
P.S. OK, alright -- that record is shared by George Scott, Dick Stuart, Ted Williams and Jimmie Foxx. The Williams streak featured 6 HRs in 11 AB (with 7 walks), including 1 as a pinch-hitter. In the game that ended the streak, Williams went 3 for 3 with 3 walks.
May 16th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Andy, can you think of any way to answer this question via the Play Index?
"Has any batter ever homered 3 times in the same game against one reliever?"
I was wondering that yesterday when Bautista came up against Slowey in the 8th, having already hit 2 HRs off Slowey. I can't think of any way to check it except brute force, and even I am not up for that much slogging.
May 16th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
@5 I did some modified "brute force" work to find the most recent time it happened.
I searched for games with Relievers... HR>=3; BF>=19 (figuring 19 is the min. batters faced to face the same batter 3 times) Then using excel, cross-referenced dates with players hitting 3+ HR and got this one from 2001.
Mike Cameron hit 3 off Jim Parque in this game, although Parque did pitch 6 innings, and came in after only 0.1 innings from the starter.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA200205020.shtml
May 16th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
@5, Hysteria1978 -- Thanks for that slogging!
7 HRs by Seattle in that game, 2 by the host White Sox -- yep, that was 2002 alright.