Rare Double Nickel
Posted by Steve Lombardi on August 21, 2009
Since 1954, there's only been one big league player to have two games where he's scored 5+ runs and driven-in 5+ runs. Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Game Finder, here's all the players since '54 with a game where they had 5+ R with 5+ RBI:
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Alex Rodriguez 2 Ind. Games Darryl Strawberry 1 Ind. Games Willie Stargell 1 Ind. Games Jarrod Saltalamac 1 Ind. Games Luis Rivas 1 Ind. Games Cal Ripken 1 Ind. Games Larry Parrish 1 Ind. Games Paul Molitor 1 Ind. Games Minnie Minoso 1 Ind. Games Mark McGwire 1 Ind. Games Tino Martinez 1 Ind. Games Jeffrey Hammonds 1 Ind. Games Ken Griffey 1 Ind. Games Shawn Green 1 Ind. Games Brian Giles 1 Ind. Games Steve Garvey 1 Ind. Games George Foster 1 Ind. Games Don Demeter 1 Ind. Games Carlos Delgado 1 Ind. Games Rocky Colavito 1 Ind. Games Jeff Cirillo 1 Ind. Games Sean Casey 1 Ind. Games Rod Carew 1 Ind. Games Edgardo Alfonzo 1 Ind. Games Joe Adcock 1 Ind. Games
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:12 am
Luis oh-for-thRivas's appearance on that list is rather incongruous.