All runs scored coming on homers
Posted by Andy on September 15, 2011
Following on a comment from another thread here are the players since 1901 to score all of their runs on home runs, minimum 3 homers:
| Rk | Player | HR | R | Year | Age | Tm | G | PA | AB | H | 2B | 3B | RBI | BB | SO | Pos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew Joyce | 3 | 3 | 2009 | 24 | TBR | 11 | 37 | 32 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 7 | .188 | .270 | .500 | .770 | /98D |
| 2 | Alex Escobar | 3 | 3 | 2001 | 22 | NYM | 18 | 53 | 50 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 19 | .200 | .245 | .400 | .645 | /*89 |
| 3 | Keith McDonald | 3 | 3 | 2000 | 27 | STL | 6 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .429 | .556 | 1.714 | 2.270 | /*2 |
| 4 | Damon Minor | 3 | 3 | 2000 | 26 | SFG | 10 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .444 | .545 | 1.444 | 1.990 | /3 |
| 5 | Alex Fernandez | 3 | 3 | 1999 | 29 | FLA | 25 | 46 | 43 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | .233 | .233 | .465 | .698 | *1 |
| 6 | Billy Ashley | 3 | 3 | 1998 | 27 | BOS | 13 | 26 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 11 | .292 | .346 | .792 | 1.138 | /D37 |
| 7 | Mike Busch | 3 | 3 | 1995 | 26 | LAD | 13 | 17 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | .235 | .235 | .765 | 1.000 | *5/3 |
| 8 | Bill Bathe | 3 | 3 | 1990 | 29 | SFG | 52 | 56 | 48 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 12 | .229 | .321 | .458 | .780 | /2 |
| 9 | Mickey Klutts | 3 | 3 | 1983 | 28 | TOR | 22 | 45 | 43 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 11 | .256 | .289 | .465 | .754 | *5/D |
| 10 | Walt Terrell | 3 | 3 | 1983 | 25 | NYM | 21 | 48 | 44 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 17 | .182 | .200 | .409 | .609 | *1 |
| 11 | Vic Wertz | 3 | 3 | 1963 | 38 | TOT | 41 | 55 | 49 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 6 | .122 | .218 | .306 | .524 | /3 |
| 12 | Doug Camilli | 3 | 3 | 1961 | 24 | LAD | 13 | 31 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | .133 | .161 | .433 | .595 | *2 |
| 13 | Bill Nicholson | 3 | 3 | 1950 | 35 | PHI | 41 | 66 | 58 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 16 | .224 | .318 | .448 | .766 | 9 |
Alex Fernandez and Walt Terrell stick right out...
September 15th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
So if you go back to the previous October, Bill Bathe scored the final four runs of his career on home runs.
September 15th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
To me, Keith McDonald sticks out, because his only three hits of 2000 were home runs. Not only that, but those three homers were his only CAREER hits!!
September 15th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Walt Terrell hit his 3 career HRs in a span of 18 days in 1983.
Two came in one game, off Fergie Jenkins (in Wrigley, natch) -- a pair of 2-run HRs, in consecutive innings, driving in all the Mets' runs in a 4-1 win.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN198308060.shtml
The other was a 3-run shot off Gary Lucas in an 8-3 win in San Diego, following a pinch-single by Dave Kingman. (How's that for role reversal?) Terrell also doubled and singled in the game, and went the distance.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN198308230.shtml
In each case, Terrell hit the only home run(s) of the game.
In his other 185 career ABs, Terrell had 18 hits (.097), no HRs, 3 RBI, and 86 strikeouts (.465 K average).
September 15th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
@2
Keith McDonald was discussed on these blogs fairly recently. He is one of two players to homer in his first two ML at-bats. Bob Nieman is the other.
September 15th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
A career OPS of 1.788 for Mcdonald. Not bad.
I'd like to see a list of some of the most impressive "super short" careers. For example, what is the most at bats any player had in their career, finishing with a .400 average?
Domingo Martinez was a .409 hitter in his 22 career at bats. Surely there are some players that beat that.
September 15th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Mickey Klutts makes an appearance! Did you know his rookie card is more than 30 bucks! I suppose it helps that Paul Molitor and Alan Trammell were on it as well 🙂 (as is UL Washington, the guy with the great sneer who played with a toothpick in his mouth).
September 15th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
It would be interesting, but more difficult, if you included players who also scored while on base when their teammate hit a homerun.
September 15th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
I remember Mike Busch was one of the "replacement players" from 1995 who was shunned by his teammates and cheered by the fans. As I recall, he got the real silent treatment in the dugout after he hit his first homer, and it got some national attention as it kind of summed up the mood of the players and the fans in the season after the strike....
September 15th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
This will probably go unnoticed, but couldn't think of anywhere to put it.
For a site that is so far over on the pro-sabermetric side, I'm surprised there has been no discussion to Keith Law's recent review of "Moneyball", and more importantly, Michael Lewis' response.
September 15th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
@5
Glenn Williams with .425 in 40 AB is the highest.
September 15th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Thanks Richard.
Hard to imagine a guy going 17-40 and then never getting another at bat. But he was just a .245 hitter in the minors, so I guess for once the guys in charge paid attention to the large sample size and pretty much ignored the small one.
Here's more odd questions.
What's the most PA's any player ever had without ever reaching base? Getting a hit? Scoring a run? Hitting a home run?
How about for pitchers. Most innings pitched never giving up a hit? A run? A home run? Never recording a strikeout? Never getting a batter out?
September 15th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
This site is so far on the pro-sabermetric side? Let me guess, Obama is a Marxist, too?
September 15th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
@3 Terrell probably knew he had to hit it out of the Murph if he was going to successfully score the baserunning-challenged Kingman...Is Adam Dunn the 21st century Dave Kingman?
September 15th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
@11
I did a search for most AB without a base hit. P Randy Tate had 47 AB. The most for a position player is 27 by Larry Littleton. In case you're interested the most AB in a season without a hit is 70 by P Bob Buhl.
September 15th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
@10
Clarification: I meant that Glenn Williams had the highest number of AB with a >.400 BA.
September 15th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Is there really a question in there somewhere, or you just waiting for the Prozac to kick in?
September 15th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
@2,
Might we say that McDonald's .000 career BAbip in 11 PA/ 9 AB makes him one of the unluckiest player in the history of baseball? Granted it is only 4 balls in play...
September 16th, 2011 at 12:33 am
Mike Busch, 1995
.235 OBP
.765 SLG
Hard to get a bigger discrepancy.
September 16th, 2011 at 12:55 am
Chuck, I've only just heard about K-Law's review, haven't read him or Lewis yet.
I'm wondering, though, if you assume that one's opinion of sabermetrics would be a controlling factor in one's opinion of the film? I have very low expectations of the film -- first, because at least half of all baseball movies are god-awful, and second, because of the inherent challenges in dramatizing what is essentially a clash of ideas, much less doing so within a Hollywood box.
September 16th, 2011 at 1:24 am
John,
Lewis interviewed Law extensively as part of his research for the book, a point Lewis makes clear in his comments of yesterday.
What Law said in his review is the complete opposite of what he said initially.
Law is as pro-sabermetric as anyone, and yet is ESPN's scouting "guru".
So, he essentially wears two hats, and, conveniently, has two opinions.
One of Law's comments in his review referred to "Bill James' bullshit..."
Law basically denied everything he said to Lewis during his research for the book, and took it one step further in accusing Lewis of attacking him personally and uttering "ad hominem attacks without substance."
Maybe it's a bit too early, but I'm surprised no one, especially Lewis, hasn't taken this further.
September 16th, 2011 at 7:18 am
@4....just off the top of my head I thought Gary Gaetti did this as well?
September 16th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Too bad Alex Fernandez spent the almost the entirety of his twenties in the AL pre interleague play. He might have been seen as one of those dangerous hitting pitchers (Dontrelle Willis Type) had he racked up 3 or 4 dingers every yr in the NL
September 19th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Quick and dirty analysis: Correlation between average pitcher age and winning percentage for all teams in the years 2006-2010 (150 team years): .3765.
That's statistically significant, and it's not surprising. Older pitchers make more money and can be had by richer teams, who have a better chance of winning than poorer teams.
September 19th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Oops. Wrong thread. Ignore that.