Team hits for the cycle
Posted by Andy on October 3, 2007
During the TV broadcast of the Rockies-Phillies game, one of the announcers mentioned that the Rockies have 4 hits so far--a single, a double, a triple, and a homer. This game might not finish that way (it's the 8th inning at the moment) but here are the 56 regular-season games since 1957 that did finish that way, with a team having 4 total hits, one of each variety.
Plus, it happened once in the post-season, when the Indians beat the Red Sox 4-0 in Game 2 of the 1995 ALDS.
I have a feeling that the post-season portion of the Play Index is going to get used a ton in the next few weeks. Let's all give Sean a big cheer!
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Josh Beckett just posted his 3rd postseason shutout. Two other pitchers, Whitey Ford and Mordecai Brown have three, and Christy Mathewson has four.
Mordecai did the second one exactly one year after the first and the third one year and a day after the second.
Christy got his first three over five days. He pitched the first, third, and fifth games of the 1905 World Series and got shutouts in all of them!
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I keep waiting for Ron Darling to say "and this statistic we got from baseball-reference.com" .
Truly, this blog has the best in stats.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
And only seconds after I made that post, Ron Darling said that Jeff Salazar started off this season with the Rockies. Er....Salazar played in 2006 for the Rockies.
Will someone tell him to correct what he said? Or are the producers looking at the same wrong information?