Johnny Damon’s extra base hits
Posted by Andy on May 14, 2009
Johnny Damon is on a tear and you know what that means: this must be his contract year.
Anyway, he's got the longest streak of consecutive games with an extra-base hit so far this season (with 9) and it's still going:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Johnny Damon 2009-05-04 2009-05-13 9 40 10 17 6 1 5 16 8 2 0 0 .425 .452 1.000 1.452 NYY Russell Branyan 2009-05-01 2009-05-06 6 25 4 7 3 0 3 5 5 2 0 0 .280 .321 .760 1.081 SEA Torii Hunter 2009-04-11 2009-04-18 6 21 7 8 3 0 4 7 4 3 1 0 .381 .440 1.095 1.535 LAA Alberto Callaspo 2009-04-29 2009-05-03 5 19 8 8 7 0 0 4 1 3 0 0 .421 .500 .789 1.289 KCR Chris Duncan 2009-04-12 2009-04-16 5 19 4 9 4 1 1 7 4 1 0 1 .474 .500 .947 1.447 STL Evan Longoria 2009-04-08 2009-04-12 5 23 5 12 4 0 5 8 2 0 1 0 .522 .522 1.348 1.870 TBR
You have to go back to 2006 to finder a longer streak than Damon's:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Chipper Jones 2006-06-26 2006-07-16 14 57 16 31 8 1 7 22 5 8 0 0 .544 .600 1.088 1.688 ATL Alex Rodriguez 2006-09-27 2007-04-11 11 40 14 17 6 0 7 20 6 6 1 0 .425 .510 1.100 1.610 NYY Bobby Abreu 2005-05-07 2005-05-18 11 38 11 21 4 0 9 18 6 9 2 0 .553 .625 1.368 1.993 PHI Johnny Damon 2009-05-04 2009-05-13 9 40 10 17 6 1 5 16 8 2 0 0 .425 .452 1.000 1.452 NYY Chase Utley 2008-05-25 2008-06-03 9 34 12 15 2 0 7 20 2 6 2 0 .441 .512 1.118 1.630 PHI Derrek Lee 2007-04-23 2007-05-04 9 40 7 22 10 0 2 10 6 3 0 1 .550 .581 .950 1.531 CHC
Shout out to Peter Abraham for mentioning Damon's streak in the first place.
May 14th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Damon has also scored a run in each of those 9 games. Only 4 players have had longer streaks since 1954 (all were 10 games): Chipper Jones (2006), Bobby Abreu (2005), Ken Griffey Jr (1993), and Don Mattingly (1987). Griffey and Mattingly's streaks both included 8-game HR streaks. Abreu hit HRs in 9 of the 10 games in his streak (first 5 and last 4), with 2 doubles in the game in which he did not homer.
Damon could become the 5th with a 10 game streak tonight.
May 14th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I am surprised there has not been a longer run-scoring streak.
May 14th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
There are longer run scoring streaks. I was talking about streaks where the player had an extra base hit AND a run scored.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Oops, my bad.
It appears the longest run-scoring streak since '54 is Kenny Lofton with 18 in 2000. Not unlikely there's a longer one perhaps from the 1890s or 1920s or '30s.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
And Damon makes it ten in a row with a double and a run scored.
Lofton's run streak is the longest since 1954. Jim Thome had a streak of 17 to start the 2006 season, which is impressive in its own right.