Consecutive losses with at least 2 homers
Posted by Andy on March 5, 2009
Since 1956, here are the most consecutive losses a team has had with at least 2 HR:
Team StreakStart Streak End Games W L AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Opponents +-------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ CHW 2006-07-24 2006-08-02 5 0 5 174 21 45 5 0 11 21 31 7 2 0 .259 .287 .477 .764 MIN,BAL,KCR KCR 2004-04-13 2004-04-17 5 0 5 185 30 49 8 0 16 30 34 16 1 0 .265 .322 .568 .890 CHW,MIN HOU 2001-06-15 2001-06-27 5 0 5 183 28 47 9 0 16 27 43 13 0 1 .257 .307 .568 .875 TEX,CIN,ARI CLE 2001-05-28 2001-06-10 5 0 5 177 27 52 8 1 14 26 29 17 1 3 .294 .354 .588 .942 DET,NYY,MIN,CIN CLE 2000-05-05 2000-05-19 5 0 5 196 35 63 13 0 11 34 36 19 6 1 .321 .381 .556 .937 TOR,MIN,KCR,NYY TOR 1999-09-05 1999-09-14 5 0 5 173 22 48 6 0 11 22 29 15 4 2 .277 .333 .503 .836 KCR,SEA,DET,NYY SEA 1998-03-31 1998-04-08 5 0 5 180 31 51 8 1 12 30 32 22 2 1 .283 .369 .539 .908 CLE,BOS,NYY SEA 1997-08-19 1997-08-28 5 0 5 179 31 52 8 2 15 30 38 22 8 3 .291 .366 .609 .975 CLE,NYY,BOS,COL
Let me explain what this actually means. For the search, I did a team batting streak finder, considered only losses, and then looked for losses with at least 2 HR. So don't confuse this with most consecutive games with 2 HR that were losses. The streaks above might include games in between that were wins, and those wins might have featured 2 HR or more.
My point in doing the search was to show, unsurprisingly, that these streaks are all recent, in an era when hitting 2 homers in a game as a team is far more common than it used to be (and less likely to lead to a team victory.)
Here is what you might have thought I was searching for. These are consecutive games that were all losses and all featured 2+ HR for the losing team:
Team StreakStart Streak End Games W L AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Opponents +-------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ KCR 2004-04-13 2004-04-17 5 0 5 185 30 49 8 0 16 30 34 16 1 0 .265 .322 .568 .890 CHW,MIN CIN 2007-05-24 2007-05-27 4 0 4 148 22 41 5 0 12 21 26 14 0 0 .277 .348 .554 .902 WSN,PIT MIL 2001-09-26 2001-09-29 4 0 4 149 37 45 13 1 11 37 42 22 7 0 .302 .389 .624 1.013 ARI,COL PIT 2000-07-14 2000-07-17 4 0 4 140 16 35 4 1 10 15 30 12 1 0 .250 .314 .507 .821 CLE,LAD TBD 2000-05-15 2000-05-19 4 0 4 133 24 32 5 0 10 24 23 19 0 0 .241 .333 .504 .837 TEX,SEA TOR 1999-09-05 1999-09-10 4 0 4 134 16 37 5 0 9 16 14 13 4 1 .276 .338 .515 .853 KCR,SEA,DET ARI 1998-09-27 1999-04-07 4 0 4 145 14 29 3 0 10 14 38 9 2 0 .200 .266 .428 .694 SDP,LAD BAL 1979-08-05 1979-08-08 4 0 4 132 15 35 5 0 8 15 25 9 1 2 .265 .303 .485 .788 NYY,MIL BOS 1963-08-07 1963-08-10 4 0 4 138 15 32 2 0 9 14 21 7 0 0 .232 .267 .442 .709 DET,MIN CHC 1957-07-18 1957-07-20 4 0 4 140 16 32 5 1 9 16 34 11 1 0 .229 .283 .471 .754 PIT,BRO
So the KC streak is the only one from the original search still standing.
March 5th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Nice. There's something wrong with the links (or my computer) as they failed to take me anywhere. I wanted to look at that Milwaukee streak in 2001, where they scored 37 runs in 4 games and lost all 4.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Gerry - They are games 152-155 on this page.
The Brewers lost 15-9, 13-11, 6-5 and 14-12. After all that futile scoring they gave up and lost the next 2 games 10-0 and 5-1.
Its not surprising to note that the 4 game streak consisted of games in Arizona and Colorado.