Four times on base / Jacoby Ellsbury
Posted by Andy on July 3, 2007
Continuing with the on-base theme, we note that yesterday Jacoby Ellsbury of the Red Sox got on base 4 times in just his third career major league game.
Using the PI Game Finder, here are the last 20 players to get on base at least 4 times in one game, among the first three games of their major league career:
Cnt CarGm Player Date Tm Opp GmReslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB TOB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions +----+-----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+ 1 3 Jacoby Ellsbury 2007-07-02 BOS TEX W 7-3 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9th CF 2 3 Yunel Escobar 2007-06-04 ATL FLA L 4-6 4 4 2 4 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8th 3B 3 3 Akinori Iwamura 2007-04-06 TBD TOR W 6-5 4 4 2 4 0 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6th 3B 4 3 Delmon Young 2006-08-31 TBD @CHW W 5-3 5 5 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd RF 5 1 Mike Rouse 2006-06-09 OAK @NYY W 6-5 4 3 2 3 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9th 2B 6 1 Kevin Frandsen 2006-04-28 SFG ARI W 10-2 5 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2nd 2B 7 3 Ian Kinsler 2006-04-06 TEX DET L 6-10 4 3 2 3 1 0 1 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9th 2B 8 2 Nick Markakis 2006-04-05 BAL TBD W 16-6 6 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd RF LF 9 3 Mike Jacobs 2005-08-23 NYM @ARI W 14-1 5 3 2 2 0 0 1 2 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7th 1B 10 3 Nick Swisher 2004-09-05 OAK @TOR L 5-13 4 2 1 2 0 0 1 2 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 9th CF LF 11 2 Ryan Church 2004-08-22 MON @COL W 8-2 5 4 0 3 0 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th LF 12 3 Bucky Jacobsen 2004-07-18 SEA CLE W 7-5 4 2 1 2 0 0 1 2 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th DH 13 2 Josh Willingham 2004-07-07 FLA PIT L 3-4 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6th LF 14 2 Brian Dallimore 2004-04-30 SFG FLA W 12-9 5 3 3 3 0 0 1 4 1 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd 3B 15 2 Chad Tracy 2004-04-22 ARI @MIL W 11-9 8 8 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7th 3B 16 1 Kazuo Matsui 2004-04-06 NYM @ATL W 7-2 5 3 1 3 2 0 1 3 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1st SS 17 1 Joe Mauer 2004-04-05 MIN CLE W 7-4 5 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8th C 18 2 Justin Morneau 2003-06-11 MIN COL W 7-4 5 4 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th DH 19 2 Ramon Santiago 2002-05-18 DET TEX W 8-7 4 3 2 3 1 1 0 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9th SS 20 2 Endy Chavez 2001-05-30 KCR @TEX W 11-2 5 4 1 3 1 0 0 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9th LF 21 3 Donaldo Mendez 2001-04-08 SDP @COL W 11-3 5 4 2 3 0 0 1 2 1 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8th SS
How about Brian Dallimore? In his second career game, he scored 3 runs and batted in four, while going 3-for-3 with a walk. And yet, he may never play in the majors again.
This is a list of pretty good players. For this any many other reasons, Ellsbury has got a good-looking future ahead of him.