Big game for Albert Pujols
Posted by Andy on May 15, 2009
This past Sunday was a big day for Albert Pujols. When he walked in the top of the 3rd inning, he avoided tying his career high for most consecutive games without reaching base at all. What's his career high? Would you believe just 3 games?
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2004-09-21 2004-09-23 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2001-07-04 2001-07-06 3 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2009-05-08 2009-05-09 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2008-09-16 2008-09-17 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2008-06-05 2008-06-06 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2007-08-23 2007-08-24 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2007-07-24 2007-07-25 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2007-05-13 2007-05-14 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2007-05-05 2007-05-06 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2006-09-08 2006-09-09 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2006-06-03 2006-06-22 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2005-07-06 2005-07-07 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2004-08-07 2004-08-08 2 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2004-06-12 2004-06-13 2 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2003-06-30 2003-07-01 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2003-04-19 2003-04-20 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2003-04-09 2003-04-10 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2002-08-04 2002-08-06 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2002-06-25 2002-06-26 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2001-07-08 2001-07-12 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2001-06-29 2001-06-30 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2001-06-15 2001-06-16 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2001-05-18 2001-05-19 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL 2001-04-04 2001-04-05 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 STL
To me, it's incredible that the guy has never had 4 games in a row where he hasn't reached base.
Active career OBP leader Todd Helton has had 1 streak of 4 games and 3 streaks of 3 each:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1997-09-19 1997-09-26 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 COL 2007-05-15 2007-05-17 3 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 COL 2003-05-31 2003-06-02 3 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 COL 2000-06-22 2000-06-24 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 COL
Pujols is current secondly in OBP, and the #3 (semi-) active guy is Manny Ramirez.
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1997-05-07 1997-05-17 4 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 CLE 1993-09-04 1993-09-08 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 CLE 2007-06-25 2007-06-27 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 BOS 2004-10-03 2005-04-05 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 BOS 2001-05-27 2001-05-30 3 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 BOS 1999-10-02 2000-04-03 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 CLE 1994-05-27 1994-05-29 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 CLE 1994-05-18 1994-05-20 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 CLE 1993-09-14 1993-09-19 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 CLE
Man-Ram has 2 different 4-game streaks and a whole bunch of 3-game jobs.
To be fair, Ramirez and Helton have played for a lot longer than Pujols, so Albert still has a shot at his own 4-game streak.
May 15th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Interesting stat Andy.
Ichiro also has only gone 3 games and also only twice. Both of those streaks happened within one 2 week period in 2006.
http://www.bb-ref.com/play-index/shareit/ugzt