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Do-over: All of a team’s hits are homers

Posted by Andy on November 14, 2009

More than two years ago, I posted on this blog about games in which all of a single team's hits were home runs. Check out the old post right here.

It turns out that with the new version of the PI, this entire study can be done in a single search.

Just go to the Team Batting Game Finder, set the arithmetic criterion in the lower right box to H = 1* HR (which boils down to hits = homers) and here are the results:

Rk Date Tm Opp Rslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO
1 1989-06-24 CLE TEX W 7-3 35 33 7 6 0 0 6 7 2 10
2 2004-07-15 NYY DET W 5-1 34 32 5 5 0 0 5 5 2 7
3 2002-06-14 LAD ANA L 4-8 32 31 4 4 0 0 4 4 1 8
4 2000-04-03 OAK DET L 4-7 34 31 4 4 0 0 4 4 3 9
5 2001-08-12 OAK NYY W 4-2 30 29 4 3 0 0 3 4 1 11
6 1987-05-27 TEX DET L 3-4 32 30 3 3 0 0 3 3 2 5
7 1987-04-13 CLE NYY L 3-11 32 30 3 3 0 0 3 3 2 10
8 1986-09-24 OAK CHW W 4-2 32 26 4 3 0 0 3 4 6 5
9 1964-08-14 SFG MLN W 3-0 30 28 3 3 0 0 3 3 2 4
10 2007-05-31 TOR CHW W 2-0 26 26 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 6
11 2006-08-27 BOS SEA L 3-6 35 28 3 2 0 0 2 2 7 7
12 2005-05-01 LAA MIN W 2-1 30 28 2 2 0 0 2 2 2 7
13 2004-08-10 STL FLA W 2-1 35 32 2 2 0 0 2 2 3 9
14 2004-08-01 BOS MIN L 3-4 31 27 3 2 0 0 2 3 1 13
15 2004-06-15 PHI DET L 3-10 34 29 3 2 0 0 2 2 3 10
16 2003-09-02 BOS CHW W 2-1 29 28 2 2 0 0 2 2 1 5
17 2002-04-09 TOR NYY L 2-5 31 30 2 2 0 0 2 2 1 11
18 2000-05-20 PHI COL L 3-4 32 29 3 2 0 0 2 3 3 5
19 1999-07-10 STL SFG L 2-4 31 29 2 2 0 0 2 2 2 11
20 1998-07-03 CLE KCR W 2-1 32 28 2 2 0 0 2 2 4 7
21 1998-06-22 NYM BAL L 2-7 29 29 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 7
22 1996-04-12 MIN BAL L 2-3 29 28 2 2 0 0 2 2 1 5
23 1994-07-05 SFG NYM L 2-4 29 29 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 9
24 1990-07-24 BAL DET L 2-8 36 29 2 2 0 0 2 2 6 7
25 1987-09-13 CHW SEA W 2-0 33 30 2 2 0 0 2 2 3 9
Rk Date Tm Opp Rslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO
26 1987-09-09 MIN CHW W 2-1 27 25 2 2 0 0 2 2 2 3
27 1986-04-24 SEA OAK W 3-1 33 28 3 2 0 0 2 3 5 16
28 1985-04-14 CHC MON W 4-2 29 27 4 2 0 0 2 3 2 7
29 1983-07-17 PHI CIN L 2-5 32 28 2 2 0 0 2 2 4 4
30 1981-10-03 SEA TOR L 3-4 33 27 3 2 0 0 2 3 5 4
31 1975-07-03 NYY CLE L 2-3 30 29 2 2 0 0 2 2 1 5
32 1975-07-02 (1) MIL BOS L 3-6 33 30 3 2 0 0 2 3 3 6
33 1974-07-31 CHW CAL L 4-14 34 29 4 2 0 0 2 4 4 7
34 1974-05-15 SFG CIN L 3-4 35 31 3 2 0 0 2 3 4 4
35 1973-09-23 BAL MIL W 2-1 32 29 2 2 0 0 2 2 3 6
36 1970-09-23 OAK MIN L 4-7 38 29 4 2 0 0 2 4 9 9
37 1963-05-22 NYM LAD L 3-7 32 29 3 2 0 0 2 3 3 6
38 1962-06-20 (2) MLN NYM W 3-2 25 20 3 2 0 0 2 3 5 6
39 1960-06-14 MLN CHC L 2-3 32 28 2 2 0 0 2 2 3 5
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 11/13/2009.

To keep the table short, I lopped off all the results with 1 homer and 0 homers. You can view the full list here.

Incidentally, at the top of the Team Batting Game Finder, you can select to find games where the most teams (i.e. 2) have accomplished the given criteria in any game. I checked, and there has never been a game where both teams have had all their hits go long.

Related posts:

    All of a team’s hits (or both teams’ hits) are XHB
    All of a team’s hits are homers
    Most homers in a season where all hits are homers
    Both teams score more runs than hits
    Both Teams More Runs Than Hits In Same Game

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10 Responses to “Do-over: All of a team’s hits are homers”

  1. When all of the Yanks hits were home runs | River Avenue Blues Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 11:10 am

    [...] the Baseball Reference Blog, Andy takes a look at games wherein all of a team’s hits were home runs. There are 39 such [...]

  2. dave Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    not to mention the 4 games since 1954 where both teams in a game had all of their hits be extra base hits (and only once since 1966!)

  3. ImAShark2 Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    Sup. I used to be ImAShark here, but for some reason all of a sudden I couldn't post. There were a lot of blogs that I would have liked to comment on, but I just got around to making a new account. So I will just say that this is a very interesting stat, and I was wondering if anyone knew of some pre-1954 games that could be added to this list (specifically 3+ hits for homers)?

  4. statboy Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    The "all of a team's hits are doubles" record (since 1954) is pretty crazy. The record is NINE by the 1998 Braves, and the next highest is only FIVE.
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL199808180.shtml

  5. Andy Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    ImAShark--I don't know what happened to your account, but what I do know is that when I look at comments automatically blocked due to the use of foul language, there are more in there from you than from everyone else combined. Such garbage has no place here. If you keep your comments clean and polite, I'm sure there will be no trouble going forward. You've had some insightful comments in the past...keep the good stuff coming!

  6. ImAShark2 Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    Okay, but I think my last comments were just saying that Derek Jeter's last name was pronouncer as Jetter. I don't really remember writing any curses, but anyone, I will make insightful comments from now on.

  7. ImAShark2 Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    I mean anyway.

  8. rico petrocelli Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    I thought it was pronounced " (Tax) Jeeter"

    http://homerderby.com/archives/4017

  9. ImAShark2 Says:
    November 30th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    I pronounce it as Jetter, though.

  10. Andy Says:
    November 30th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    I call myself the best-looking man in the world, but that doesn't make it true.

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