Hardball Sasquatch: 3 Bags 5 Games In A Row
Posted by Steve Lombardi on September 16, 2009
How many players, since 1954, have hit a triple in 4 consecutive games (or more)? Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Streak Finder, we can look for things like this...let's do it in slices...first, 1954 through 1979:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Billy Williams 1963-05-08 1963-05-11 4 13 2 6 0 4 0 5 3 3 1 0 .462 .563 1.077 1.640 CHC
Next, how about 1980 through 2005:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Nomar Garciaparra 2003-05-31 2003-06-04 4 19 7 8 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 .421 .421 .895 1.316 BOS Sammy Sosa 1994-05-14 1994-05-17 4 14 3 8 0 4 1 4 1 1 1 2 .571 .600 1.357 1.957 CHC Tom Herr 1981-04-20 1981-04-25 4 15 1 5 0 4 0 8 1 0 0 0 .333 .333 .867 1.200 STL
Lastly, no one has done this, meaning hit a triple in four straight games, to date, since 2003.
Will we ever see someone hit a triple in 5 straight games? Well, we haven't seen it happen since 1954. So, while anything is possible, I don't like the odds of this happening - any time soon.
It's interesting that, for the four times, since 1954, that a player has hit a triple in 4 consecutive games, that it's never happened after June 4th in a baseball season. I guess no one wants to run that much once it starts getting hot outside. 😉