13 Responses to “8 or More Total Bases in Consecutive Games, since 2006”

1. Josh G Says:
   May 27th, 2011 at 9:18 pm

   On average five times a year- a little surprised it doesn't happen more. It seems like you could get 2 home runs in back to back games with a hot player more often, and then of course that's not the only way do it.

2. Zachary Says:
   May 27th, 2011 at 10:46 pm

   Well, you figure that hitting 2 home runs in one game is pretty hard to do, and doing so twice in a row is just statistically improbable. Half of the guys on the list needed to chip in some doubles or triples in addition to homering. That's obviously very hard to do, so about once every 5 or 6 weeks seems about right to me.

3. Corey Says:
   May 27th, 2011 at 10:46 pm

   bautista doing it in only 6 AB

4. Neil L. Says:
   May 27th, 2011 at 10:54 pm

   People on the list twice in the last five years

   Jorge Posada, Carlos Beltran, Alfonso Soriano, ..... what is the common denominator of these hitters? Streaky? When you're hot you're hot?

   Four different Carlos's on the list. Hmm.....

5. Carl Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 12:03 am

   Since 2000, only Richard Hidalgo and Jeff DaVanon have done it 3 games in a row. (Jeff DaVanon? Really??) In 2000, he hit 2 HR in a game 3 games in a row. In a season where he hit 12 HR, total. Pretty remarkable.

6. John Autin Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 12:08 am

   @5, Carl -- I was waiting for someone to notice that DaVanon hit 12 HRs that year, so you take the (imaginary) prize. In fact, those were the only multi-HR games of DaVanon's 528-game career.

7. Neil L. Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 12:30 am

   @5
   Carl, nice catch. Whodda thunk a fringe player could hit half of his season home runs in three consecutive games.

   And two HR per game at that

8. Jimbo Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 12:54 am

   Must've been the greatest week while he pondered whether he was going to become the next Babe Ruth.

9. Jimbo Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 12:54 am

   Greatest week of his life.

10. Carl Says:
    May 28th, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    From what I can tell, no one has done it 4 games in a row, and most of the guys who have done it 3 were power hitters.

    Ruth was able to do it once, in '21.

    One guy (don't remember who) did it only hitting 4 HR - a bunch of doubles and triples filled it out.

11. bluejaysstatsgeek Says:
    May 30th, 2011 at 11:12 am

    Add Corey Patterson (who's raking it!) to the list:

    9 TB on Saturday:

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR201105280.shtml

    8 TB on Sunday:

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR201105290.shtml

    I hope he can continue to be productive until (or if) Snider is ready to return.

12. John Autin Says:
    May 30th, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    @11, BJSG -- I hate to be a wet blanket, but check your math on Corey's total base counts. According to the box scores on B-R, he had 8 TB on Saturday (4 singles, 1 HR) and 7 on Sunday (3 singles, 1 HR). Here's his game log for this year:
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=patteco01&t=b&year=

13. bluejaysstatsgeek Says:
    May 30th, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    Mr. Autin:

    You are absolutely correct. I counted the HR in both the HR and hits category.

    BJSG