This is our old blog. It hasn't been active since 2011. Please see the link above for our current blog or click the logo above to see all of the great data and content on this site.
«
»

Most games with an RBI, team’s first 10 games

Posted by Andy on April 10, 2009

Since 1954, nobody has ever had an RBI in each of his team's first 10 games, but several guys have had an RBI in at least 9 of the first 10:

                   Year Games Link to Individual Games
+-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+
 Dave Winfield     1988     9 Ind. Games                
 Brooks Robinson   1966     9 Ind. Games                
 Tony Oliva        1970     9 Ind. Games                
 Willie McCovey    1969     9 Ind. Games                
 Willie Mays       1964     9 Ind. Games                
 Bob Allison       1960     9 Ind. Games

Mays and Robinson lead the way with 18 total RBI over their game-10 stretches.

Related posts:

    Longest runs at .400 Batting Average
    Teams with the most players appearing in 150+ games
    “The” search feature
    Teams with the most players appearing in 100+ games
    2 or More Streaks of 5 Consecutive Games with a Home run

This entry was posted on Friday, April 10th, 2009 at 8:07 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Most games with an RBI, team’s first 10 games”

  1. whiz Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    Joe Torre had the longest hitting streak to start the season, 22 games (for players playing all of their team's games). It was in his MVP season, 1971.

    I also noticed that 1971 was his only year as a full-time player where he played only one position (3B). Coincidence?

  2. JohnnyTwisto Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    I'm not sure how much it mattered that he played solely 3B and no 1B, but it's certainly no coincidence that that was the season he moved off catcher for good.

«
»