After last night's crazy Phillies-Cardinals game, this year Jimmy Rollins has 28 HR, 36 doubles, 36 stolen bases, and 18 triples. That means he needs just 2 more triples to join the 3-member 20/20/20/20 club, which Curtis Granderson also joined this year.

If he gets to 20 triples, that means 2 players will have 20+ triples this year. Guess when the last time was that happened? Hit the jump to see.

To make this list, hit the Batting Season Finder, set 3B >= 20, and sort by Years w/ players:

 Year Number Players Matching
+----+------+-----------------------------------------+
 1912      7 Joe Jackson / Chief Wilson / Sam Crawford / Frank Baker / Honus Wagner / Red Murray / Ty Cobb
 1911      5 Frank Schulte / Ty Cobb / Larry Doyle / Mike Mitchell / Birdie Cree
 1913      4 Dots Miller / Sam Crawford / Vic Saier / Tris Speaker
 1928      3 Heinie Manush / Jim Bottomley / Earle Combs
 1926      3 Lou Gehrig / Curt Walker / Paul Waner
 1920      3 Hy Myers / Rogers Hornsby / Joe Jackson
 1903      3 Buck Freeman / Sam Crawford / Bill Bradley
 1902      3 Sam Crawford / Tommy Leach / Jimmy Williams
 1930      2 Adam Comorosky / Earle Combs
 1925      2 Kiki Cuyler / Goose Goslin
 1924      2 Rabbit Maranville / Edd Roush
 1906      2 Elmer Flick / George Stone
 1901      2 Jimmy Williams / Bill Keister

So these are ALL the seasons since 1901 in which at least 2 players hit 20 triples. Not since 1930 has it been done! By the way, two players had 19 triples in a season as recently as 1984, when Juan Samuel and Ryne Sandberg did it.

Also, in that Phillies/Cards game last night, the Phillies used 6 relief pitchers after Kyle Kendrick, and all of them ended up with season ERAs over 5.00 by the end of the game. I imagine that this is a record, although I know of no way to determine if that is so.

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