2+ Career Post-Season Sudden Death Games With WPA.=.2
Posted by Steve Lombardi on October 6, 2011
Here are the players to have 2+ post-season "sudden death" games in their career where their WPA in the game was .2 or better:
| Rk | Player | #Matching | PA | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SH | SF | IBB | HBP | GDP | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tony Womack | 2 | Ind. Games | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .600 | 1.100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Mickey Mantle | 2 | Ind. Games | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .800 | 1.300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Keith Hernandez | 2 | Ind. Games | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .429 | .500 | .429 | .929 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Yogi Berra | 2 | Ind. Games | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | .429 | .600 | 1.714 | 2.314 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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Tony Womack. Ain't baseball great?
October 6th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
You've provided the hitters list. On the Pitching WPA side
--John Smoltz had a WPA over .3 in Game 7s in both the NLCS and the World Series in 199
--Bob Gibson's complete game victories in Game 7s of the 1964 and 1967 World Series both produced WPAs over .2
-- Mariano Rivera has had two sudden death game appearances with WPAs over .2.
October 6th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
The year in the Smoltz reference above should of course be to 1991.
October 6th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Great stuff, love this list. It was fun to look at http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/RodAx and guess out who else would be on the list before looking.
(Mazeroski... check. Aaron Boone... check. Etc..)
October 6th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
What about most (highest?) total WPA in sudden death games?
October 6th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
DBAcks fan here and any Dback fan will tell you the 2nd & 3rd biggest hits in DBacks history are courtesy of Tony Womack - game ender in Game 5 of the 01 LDS against St Louis (+.39 WPA) and the hugely underrated game-tying double down the line off Rivera in the 01 WS. (+.50 WPA, far bigger than Gonzalez's .16 WPA for the game-winner)
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19791569
Couldn't find the WS hit quickly but I'm sure it can be dug up without trying too hard
October 6th, 2011 at 9:14 pm
BSK@4: Among batters it's Francisco Cabrera, 1992 NLCS, come-from-behind walk-off pinch-hit with two outs and the bases loaded for Braves against the Pirates.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Birtelcom-
Is that the highest career total? Or single-game total? I could imagine it being both, but my question was specifically about the latter: if you add up each player's TOTAL WPA from all sudden-death games, whose is the highest?
October 7th, 2011 at 12:38 am
Not CC's!
bleaahhhh
October 7th, 2011 at 1:11 am
Cabrera's has been the highest single game WPA in any post-season sudden death game, according to PI. As for career total WPA, PI doesn't produce that easily, and it would take a little while with Excel to figure it. I do know the leader is not Cabrera, who had just that one plate appearance in a sudden death game, and Cabrera's WPA total from that one PA is topped as a career number by at least Tony Womack's total over the four sudden death games he appeared in over his career. Whether others top Womack would take some time to determine.
October 7th, 2011 at 4:04 am
@4.
Highest single-game WPA in sudden-death games.
Here's the list for WPA over 0.5.
- Francisco Cabrera ATL 0.737 1992-10-14 NLCS
- Hal Smith PIT 0.636 1960-10-13 WS
- Troy O'Leary BOS 0.532 1999-10-11 ALDS
- Jose Cruz HOU 0.530 1980-10-12 NLCS