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Catchers Leading Off in the Post-Season

Posted by Raphy on October 9, 2010

Catcher John Jaso batted lead-off for the Rays in Saturday's game vs. the Rangers. Jaso becomes the third different catcher to start a post-season game in the 1 hole. Here are all the previous games:

Rk Player Date Series Gm# Tm Opp Rslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS WPA RE24 aLI BOP Pos. Summary
1 Jason Kendall 2006-10-14 ALCS 4 OAK DET L 3-6 5 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.027 -0.365 .958 1 C
2 Jason Kendall 2006-10-13 ALCS 3 OAK DET L 0-3 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.038 -0.377 .910 1 C
3 Jason Kendall 2006-10-11 ALCS 2 OAK DET L 5-8 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.089 -0.762 1.014 1 C
4 Jason Kendall 2006-10-10 ALCS 1 OAK DET L 1-5 5 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.114 1.211 .628 1 C
5 Jason Kendall 2006-10-06 ALDS 3 OAK MIN W 8-3 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.038 -0.652 .444 1 C
6 Jason Kendall 2006-10-04 ALDS 2 OAK MIN W 5-2 5 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.046 -0.131 1.216 1 C
7 Jason Kendall 2006-10-03 ALDS 1 OAK MIN W 3-2 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.084 -1.012 .807 1 C
8 Roger Bresnahan 1905-10-14 WS 5 NYG PHA W 2-0 4 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.011 0.591 .865 1 C
9 Roger Bresnahan 1905-10-13 WS 4 NYG PHA W 1-0 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.065 0.814 .812 1 C
10 Roger Bresnahan 1905-10-12 WS 3 NYG PHA W 9-0 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.046 0.055 .324 1 C
11 Roger Bresnahan 1905-10-10 WS 2 NYG PHA L 0-3 4 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.041 0.517 .865 1 C
12 Roger Bresnahan 1905-10-09 WS 1 NYG PHA W 3-0 5 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.053 1.161 1.263 1 C
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 10/10/2010.

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2 Responses to “Catchers Leading Off in the Post-Season”

  1. TheGoof Says:
    October 10th, 2010 at 12:04 pm

    Kendall reached every game but one, but scored only once. A .303 OBP (unless I missed something) and 1 run? Not a good way to lead off. Bresnahan, on the other hand, appears to have been a good choice.

  2. Tmckelv Says:
    October 11th, 2010 at 8:32 am

    I wonder if Bresnahan was thinking about his WPA 105 years ago? 🙂

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