Alan Knicely
Posted by Andy on December 26, 2007
Since Mr. Knice Guy got shortchanged yesterday, I thought I'd use the PI batter-vs-pitcher feature to point out some of his career performances.
Knicely had only 12 career homers, but he did manage two off of the same guy: HOFer Dennis Eckersley:
PA AB H 2B 3B **HR** RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP G_miss YR_miss +-----------------+---+---+---+--+--+------+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+-------+ Dennis Eckersley 7 7 2 0 0 2 4 0 3 .286 .286 1.143 1.429 0 0 0 0 0 Jim Barr 3 2 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 .500 .667 2.000 2.667 0 0 0 1 0 Bill Campbell 2 2 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.500 3.500 0 0 0 0 0 Pete Falcone 7 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 .200 .429 .800 1.229 0 0 0 0 0 Dave Goltz 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000 0 0 0 0 0 Rick Honeycutt 6 6 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 .167 .167 .667 .834 0 0 0 0 0 Frank Pastore 3 3 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000 0 0 0 0 0 Don Robinson 3 2 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 .500 .667 2.000 2.667 0 0 0 0 0 Bruce Ruffin 7 6 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 .167 .286 .667 .953 0 0 0 0 0 Mike Scott 5 4 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 .250 .400 1.000 1.400 0 0 0 0 0 Bob Welch 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000 0 0 0 0 0
They came in consecutive starts for Eck in 1985 while he was with the Cubs and Knicely was with the Reds. The first was a 6th-inning 3-run job that put the Reds ahead 4-2. The second one came leading off the 9th inning (Eck had pitched the whole game to that point), making the score 4-2 Cubs, and then Lee Smith relieved to record the save. (Baseball is weird like this sometimes. Knicely homered twice off just one pitcher, and they came 5 days apart and made the score 4-2 in each case.)
Knicely had 600 career PAs, and here are all the pitchers against which he had at least 10:
PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG **OPS** SH SF IBB HBP GDP G_miss YR_miss +-----------------+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+------+-------+ Shane Rawley 10 6 3 1 0 0 1 4 0 .500 .700 .667 1.367 0 0 0 0 1 Tim Lollar 10 7 3 0 0 0 0 3 1 .429 .600 .429 1.029 0 0 0 0 0 Jerry Reuss 18 14 5 1 0 0 3 3 2 .357 .444 .429 .873 0 1 2 0 2 Joaquin Andujar 11 10 3 1 0 0 2 1 1 .300 .364 .400 .764 0 0 0 0 0 Chris Welsh 13 13 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 .308 .308 .308 .616 0 0 0 0 0 Fernando Valenzue 22 19 4 1 0 0 3 3 8 .211 .318 .263 .581 0 0 0 0 0 Dave Dravecky 13 12 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 .250 .308 .250 .558 0 0 0 0 0 Steve Carlton 20 17 3 1 0 0 2 2 4 .176 .263 .235 .498 1 0 0 0 2 Orel Hershiser 11 8 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 .125 .182 .125 .307 0 2 0 0 0 Atlee Hammaker 19 19 2 0 0 0 1 0 5 .105 .105 .105 .210 0 0 0 0 1
Not a ton of production there, but thems the facts.
One other interesting tidbit: of those 12 career homers, two came in his only PA against that opposing pitcher, giving him the perfect lifetime OPS of 5.000:
PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG **OPS** SH SF IBB HBP GDP G_miss YR_miss +-----------------+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+------+-------+ Dave Goltz 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000 0 0 0 0 0 Bob Welch 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000 0 0 0 0 0
Is that knice or what?