Consecutive Games with an RBI by a Shortstop
Posted by Raphy on July 2, 2009
Last night Hanley Ramirez knocked in a run for the tenth consecutive game. According to the linked article, this is the longest streak for a National League shortstop since RBI became an official statistic in 1920. Here are the longest streaks by shortstops in both leagues since 1954:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Guillen 2007-06-16 2007-06-28 11 35 11 16 3 0 4 17 3 5 1 1 .457 .500 .886 1.386 DET Hanley Ramirez 2009-06-21 2009-07-01 10 40 10 19 5 0 5 24 3 4 3 2 .475 .523 .975 1.498 FLA Alex Rodriguez 2001-07-30 2001-08-09 10 46 11 15 1 0 5 15 12 2 1 0 .326 .347 .674 1.021 TEX Miguel Tejada 2005-04-08 2005-04-17 9 39 10 16 4 1 3 18 6 3 0 0 .410 .442 .795 1.237 BAL Derek Jeter 2004-05-23 2004-06-02 9 44 9 18 7 0 4 12 9 0 2 0 .409 .435 .841 1.276 NYY Miguel Tejada 2002-08-03 2002-08-11 8 36 4 11 1 0 3 12 4 2 0 0 .306 .350 .583 .933 OAK Miguel Tejada 2002-07-17 2002-07-25 8 37 6 11 1 0 5 10 5 0 0 0 .297 .316 .730 1.046 OAK Miguel Tejada 2001-09-08 2001-09-22 8 30 9 12 1 0 3 12 2 4 1 1 .400 .457 .733 1.190 OAK Carlos Guillen 2000-07-19 2000-08-08 8 34 8 16 3 0 1 8 2 2 0 1 .471 .500 .647 1.147 SEA Rich Aurilia 2000-07-01 2000-07-09 8 30 4 13 0 0 2 11 7 1 0 0 .433 .452 .633 1.085 SFG Nomar Garciaparra 1998-07-25 1998-08-02 8 33 11 15 1 0 5 17 3 2 0 0 .455 .472 .939 1.411 BOS Dale Sveum 1987-04-09 1987-04-17 8 30 7 14 5 0 1 10 4 5 0 1 .467 .543 .733 1.276 MIL Billy Grabarkewit 1970-05-03 1970-06-24 8 33 12 12 4 1 1 13 10 4 0 1 .364 .436 .636 1.072 LAD
Miguel Tejada is really well represented here.
What about other positions? Here are the leaders since 1954:
Position Leader StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Pitcher Carlos Zambrano 2008-07-19 2008-08-26 8 19 4 8 2 0 3 8 4 0 0 0 .421 .421 1.000 1.421 CHC Catcher Mike Piazza 2000-06-14 2000-07-02 15 63 14 22 3 0 8 28 9 4 0 0 .349 .388 .778 1.166 NYM 1B Bob Watson 1978-06-24 1978-07-03 11 38 4 17 4 0 1 13 2 5 2 0 .447 .489 .632 1.121 HOU 2B Jorge Cantu 2005-09-19 2006-04-05 11 41 7 13 1 0 4 16 3 1 0 0 .317 .304 .634 .938 TBD Frank White 1983-06-10 1983-06-22 11 42 4 10 3 0 1 13 3 1 3 0 .238 .239 .381 .620 KCR 3B Jorge Cantu 2008-05-30 2008-06-10 11 47 9 17 5 0 5 13 5 0 0 0 .362 .360 .787 1.147 FLA Doug DeCinces 1978-09-22 1979-04-06 11 41 7 15 3 0 4 14 5 4 1 0 .366 .422 .732 1.154 BAL SS Carlos Guillen 2007-06-16 2007-06-28 11 35 11 16 3 0 4 17 3 5 1 1 .457 .500 .886 1.386 DET LF Cliff Floyd 2000-09-21 2001-04-09 14 49 16 22 5 0 6 24 8 9 2 0 .449 .532 .918 1.450 FLA CF Kirby Puckett 1988-09-15 1988-09-25 11 48 10 23 6 0 1 15 7 1 0 2 .479 .480 .667 1.147 MIN Andy Van Slyke 1988-06-09 1988-06-20 11 41 7 16 3 2 2 16 9 5 1 0 .390 .420 .707 1.127 PIT Ron LeFlore 1979-09-07 1979-09-30 11 43 10 18 2 2 4 13 11 2 8 1 .419 .444 .837 1.281 DET RF Larry Parrish 1984-06-10 1984-06-20 11 40 10 16 4 0 5 18 9 4 1 1 .400 .457 .875 1.332 TEX Gary Woods 1980-09-05 1980-10-02 11 40 7 16 3 0 2 14 4 2 1 0 .400 .429 .625 1.054 HOU DH Mike Sweeney 1999-06-08 1999-07-04 11 46 12 22 5 0 3 18 4 4 1 0 .478 .528 .783 1.311 KCR
Jorge Cantu - RBI machine?!?
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
For those of you who care, the all-time (pre-1954) record is 17 games, set by Oscar Grimes in 1922.
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 am
Oscar Grimes was 7 years old in 1922. Maybe Ray Grimes? Either way, it's pretty shocking that such a record would be held by someone I've never heard of.
How odd that the record at most positions is 11 games.
And surprising that a catcher would have the post-'54 record, though of course positional generalities don't mean much when you talk about individuals.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 am
Zambrano is actually 6 games. He came in during one game during that "streak" as a pinch hitter or whatever. For the games that he started, then yes it is 8 games.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?n1=zambrca01&t=b&year=2008
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 am
Wow, look at those OPS's - everyone posted an OPS of .933 or above during his streak except for Frank White, who managed his streak with a .620 O[S.
So can one of these streaks be broken by merely playing a different position? For example, could Parrish have gotten an RBI in a twelfth straight game but lost his streak by doing it at third base? Or would the streak remain intact but not continue, because the RBI came at a different position?
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:38 am
Actually, now that I looked more closely, Frank White's .620 OPS is made even more anomalous by the fact that all of the record-holders (save for White, of course) not only managed an OPS better than .933 but also posted a slugging percentage higher than White;s on-base percentage added to his slugging percentage.
July 5th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I was just going by what Baseball Library said. Please don't mock me in such a way.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:12 am
If you're serious, I wasn't mocking you at all.