Garret Anderson / RBI game streak
Posted by Andy on September 7, 2007
From the last 10 years, longest streaks with at least 1 RBI in each game:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 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 Mike Sweeney 1999-06-23 1999-07-04 13 52 14 23 4 0 4 19 5 5 1 0 .442 .508 .750 1.258 KCR Garret Anderson 2007-08-26 2007-09-06 11 40 12 19 3 0 7 21 3 7 1 0 .475 .531 1.075 1.606 LAA 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
Anderson's is active. Aside from missed playing time, he's put together a pretty nice season in 2007, recovering a bit over substandard seasons in 2004-2006. (Although had he not had those 10 RBI in one game, it might not look quite as good.)
How about Piazza getting 28 RBI in 15 games? Is that a record? In those 15 games he had 3 doubles and 8 homers. Many of his RBIs came on singles, of which he had 11. Kind of amazing that with 28 RBI, he slugged "only" .778 over that period.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
What is the longest rbi streak ever?
September 7th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
17 - Ray Grimes, Chicago Cubs - June 27 through July 2, 1922
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MLB_individual_streaks
September 7th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Thats too many games in too few days.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_rbi1.shtml
has the streak ending on a more logical date July 23.
Of course once someone post an error it on Wikipedia, it spreads all over the internet like wildfire.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Here are the leaders by decade. Piazza for the 00's.
1990s: Mike Sweeney 1999-06-23 1999-07-04 13
1980s: 4 tied at 11 (Puckett, Van Slyke, Larry Parrish, F White)
1970s: Doug DeCinces 1978-09-22 1979-04-06 11
1960s: 2 tied at 10 (Monday and B White)
1957-59: 4 tied at 8 (F Robinson, Cerv, Dick Brown, and Hank Aaron twice)
That's as far back as the PI Streak Finder can go, so OscarAzocar's answer looks to be correct. Piazza has the longest streak since at least 1957, though, perhaps much longer.
September 7th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
The Garret Anderson "active streak" is what gets me.
There should be an "active streak check box" on those PI streak pages, eh?
September 7th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I agree that would be useful. The problem is that there are about a million useful things that could be added. Sean's busy doing things like adding minors.baseball-reference.com
September 7th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Wikipedia has the wrong ending date for Grimes. His record breaking streak ended on July 23, 1922.
Jack
September 7th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Garret Anderson just got an RBI in his 12th straight game.