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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

One Response to “Rare Double Nickel”

  1. JohnnyTwisto Says:

    Luis oh-for-thRivas's appearance on that list is rather incongruous.