16 Responses to “Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!”

1. gerry Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 8:26 am

   If I'm reading the table right, Oakland and Minnesota are making more of their bases-loaded opportunities than Philadelphia is. They have far fewer grand slams, but they have more RBI, even though they have fewer bases-loaded PA.

2. Andy Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 8:31 am

   I forgot to write above that the table shows bases loaded situations...thanks Gerry.

3. bland3080 Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 8:56 am

   What about individual leaders, I think of the 12 white sox grannys last year, Alexei Ramirez hit 4 of them, as a rookie! Also, who has the most in one single year? I think Robin Ventura or Manny Ramirez had a mean streak one year.

4. Andy Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 10:13 am

   Mattingly had 6 in 1987:

   http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/tKaB9

   That is the record, although in the back of my mind I feel like somebody tied it since then...perhaps Manny?

5. statboy Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 11:51 am

   Travis Hafner also had 6, in 2006.

6. Rich Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 12:28 pm

   The plate appearances reveal which teams had the most chances with the bases loaded this season?

7. Andy Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 12:46 pm

   Right.

8. dave Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 1:47 pm

   The team with the worst record in baseball--nationals--has the 2nd most grand slams this year (tied with other clubs) and the team with the 2nd best record in baseball--angels--has no grand slams.
   HA!

9. dave Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 1:48 pm

   The team with the worst record in baseball--nationals--has the 2nd most grand slams this year (tied with other clubs) and the team with the 2nd best record in baseball--angels--has no grand slams.
   HA!

   Obviously these homers don't point to winning!

10. apreziosi Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    Dave: Proving that grand slams are rally killers! 🙂

11. Djibouti Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Hafner with the bases loaded in '06:
    16 PA, 8 H, 6 HR, 30 RBI, 2.420 OPS
    in '07:
    17 PA, 2 H, 1 HR, 12 RBI, 0.711 OPS
    in '08:
    6 PA, 0 H, 0 HR, 2 RBI, 0.000 OPS
    in '09:
    13 PA, 2 H, 1 HR, 12 RBI, 0.397 OPS

    "One of these things is not like the others"

    '06 was also the year that Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a GS on the first pitch he saw as a major leaguer. I thought it was against Randy Johnson, but on looking it up, turns out it was against Edinson Volquez. I know somebody recently hit a HR off Johnson in their first career at-bat. Not that that's improbable, but it's one of those "nowhere to go but down" moments.

12. JohnnyTwisto Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Marcus Thames.

13. JohnnyTwisto Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    (I don't know if that still counts as recent, it must have been 2002.)

14. TheGoofyOne Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    I found the Angels' lack of a grand slam amazing for half a second. Then I realized that in addition to their great power, they've got great speed. If you don't play station to station, even a team combining light hitters and power hitters might not get many slams.

15. DoubleDiamond Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    The Phillies' first win this year, in their third game of the season, featured an inning late in the game (7th, I think) in which they scored something like 8 runs, to take the lead after going into the inning trailing 10-3. They had several bases loaded situations in that inning, especially with two out, but worked walks and got lucky with some errors, if I recall correctly. The next day, I read a quote from Matt Stairs saying, to the effect, that when he came up to pinch hit with the bases loaded during that inning, he tried to get a walk rather than a slam because the grand slam could have become a rally killer. I had never heard anyone say this before, but as I was listening to that very at bat on the car radio, I had thought the same thing.

    Later in the season, Stairs did get a pinch hit grand slam in the 9th inning of a game in Washington in which the Phillies trailed by a large margin. They did put some runners on base after that but fell one run short of catching up.

16. rico petrocelli Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    I was at the game where Mattingly hit his 6th -- Off Bruse Hurst, a lefty, who never ever gave up many homers and basically none to lefties. A titanic upper deck shot to right. Even as a Sox fan I had to scream it was so beautiful. And Hurst basically shat his pants. He was so stunned he had to leave the game.