And Utley Makes Three
Posted by Steve Lombardi on October 29, 2009
Last night, Chase Utley became just the 3rd National League batter, ever, to hit 2+ homeruns in Game 1 of a World Series as a visiting player. He joins Greg Vaughn and Andruw Jones. Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Post-Season Batting Game Finder, here's the list of all N.L. batters to hit 2+ homers in a post-season game as a visiting player:
Cnt Player Date Series G Tm Opp GmReslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions +----+-----------------+-------------+------+-+---+----+-------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+ 1 Chase Utley 2009-10-28 WS 1 PHI @NYY W 6-1 5 4 2 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3rd 2B 2 Pat Burrell 2008-10-05 NLDS 4 PHI @MIL W 6-2 4 4 2 3 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th LF 3 Carlos Beltran 2006-10-15 NLCS 4 NYM @STL W 12-5 5 3 4 3 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3rd CF 4 Carlos Beltran 2004-10-11 NLDS 5 HOU @ATL W 12-3 5 5 3 4 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd CF 5 Aramis Ramirez 2003-10-11 NLCS 4 CHC @FLA W 8-3 5 4 2 3 0 0 2 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th 3B 6 Chipper Jones 2003-10-04 NLDS 4 ATL @CHC W 6-4 5 3 2 2 0 0 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3rd LF 7 Rich Aurilia 2002-10-10 NLCS 2 SFG @STL W 4-1 4 3 2 2 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd SS 8 Edgardo Alfonzo 1999-10-05 NLDS 1 NYM @ARI W 8-4 5 5 2 2 0 0 2 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd 2B 9 Greg Vaughn 1998-10-17 WS 1 SDP @NYY L 6-9 4 4 3 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3rd LF 10 Andruw Jones 1996-10-20 WS 1 ATL @NYY W 12-1 4 4 3 3 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7th LF 11 Marquis Grissom 1995-10-04 NLDS 2 ATL @COL W 7-4 6 6 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1st CF 12 Chipper Jones 1995-10-03 NLDS 1 ATL @COL W 5-4 5 5 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3rd 3B 13 Chris Sabo 1990-10-19 WS 3 CIN @OAK W 8-3 5 4 2 2 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6th 3B 14 Will Clark 1989-10-04 NLCS 1 SFG @CHC W 11-3 5 4 4 4 1 0 2 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3rd 1B 15 Gary Carter 1986-10-22 WS 4 NYM @BOS W 6-2 4 4 2 3 1 0 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th C 16 Willie McGee 1982-10-15 WS 3 STL @MIL W 6-2 4 3 2 2 0 0 2 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8th CF 17 Steve Garvey 1978-10-04 NLCS 1 LAD @PHI W 9-5 5 5 3 3 0 1 2 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th 1B 18 Johnny Bench 1976-10-21 WS 4 CIN @NYY W 7-2 4 4 2 2 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7th C 19 Bob Robertson 1971-10-03 NLCS 2 PIT @SFG W 9-4 5 5 4 4 1 0 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th 1B 20 Charlie Neal 1959-10-02 WS 2 LAD @CHW W 4-3 5 5 2 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd 2B 21 Bob Elliott 1948-10-10 WS 5 BSN @CLE W 11-5 5 4 3 2 0 0 2 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th 3B Games found: 21.
October 30th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Not only third time, but third time at the Yankees in the Torre/Girardi era...but the other two guys were on teams that lost the Series.