Willie Harris, now of the Braves, got 6 hits in a 9-inning game yesterday. This is an easy search to do on the PI Game Finder.

The last 15 fellow to do it are:

  Cnt Player            Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt PA AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions

+----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+

    1 Willie Harris     2007-07-21    ATL  STL W 14-6   6  6  4  6  0  2  0   6  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  1  0 1st CF LF
    2 Chone Figgins     2007-06-18    LAA  HOU W 10-9   6  6  1  6  1  1  0   3  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  1  0 2nd 3B
    3 Raul Ibanez       2004-09-22    SEA @ANA W 16-6   6  6  1  6  0  0  0   5  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  1 3rd RF LF
    4 Joe Randa         2004-09-09(1) KCR @DET W 26-5   7  7  6  6  1  0  0   2  0   0  1   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 5th 3B
    5 Omar Vizquel      2004-08-31    CLE @NYY W 22-0   7  7  3  6  2  0  0   4  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 2nd SS
    6 Carlos Pena       2004-05-27    DET @KCR W 17-7   6  6  4  6  1  0  2   5  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 8th 1B
    7 Frank Catalanotto 2004-05-01(2) TOR @CHW W 10-6   6  6  2  6  1  0  0   2  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 2nd LF
    8 Shawn Green       2002-05-23    LAD @MIL W 16-3   6  6  6  6  1  0  4   7  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 3rd RF
    9 Damion Easley     2001-08-08    DET @TEX W 19-6   6  6  3  6  0  0  1   3  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 7th 2B
   10 Edgardo Alfonzo   1999-08-30    NYM @HOU W 17-1   6  6  6  6  1  0  3   5  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 2nd 2B
   11 Cal Ripken        1999-06-13    BAL @ATL W 22-1   6  6  5  6  1  0  2   6  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 6th 3B
   12 Lance Johnson     1995-09-23    CHW @MIN W 14-4   6  6  4  6  0  3  0   4  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 1st CF
   13 Andres Galarraga  1995-07-03    COL  HOU W 15-10  6  6  4  6  1  0  2   5  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 5th 1B
   14 Sammy Sosa        1993-07-02    CHC @COL W 11-8   6  6  2  6  1  0  0   2  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  3  1 4th RF
   15 Wally Backman     1990-04-27    PIT @SDP W  9-4   6  6  1  6  1  0  0   2  0   0  0   0  0  0   0   0  0  0 1st 3B

What do you notice? Well, to get 6 hits in 9 innings, your team needs to score a whole bunch of runs so you can get 6 ABs. For all these guys, only Wally Backman's team scored fewer than 10 runs.

There are a ton of interesting things about this list of games. For starters:

• The 1990 game Backman did it in was fascinating. (Click on the date above next to Backman's name to see the box score.) First of all, they would have scored more runs if not for leaving so many LOB (left on base.) Backman had one hit where the runner was thrown out at home to end the inning. Bobby Bonilla had a terrible day: Fly out in the 1st inning, stranding a runner at third, followed by a ground out in the 3rd inning, stranding another runner at 3rd, followed by a fly out in the 5th, and then a strikeout in the 6th to leave the bases loaded, followed by another ground out. Ending three innings with runners at 3rd is not good. And everybody's favorite Barry Bonds had a couple of homers in this game.
• Two players, Joe Randa and Omar Vizquel, actually had 7 at-bats in which to get their 6 hits.
• Shawn Green turned the trick while hitting 4 home runs.
• Edgardo Elfonzo had 3 HR himself.

By the way, since 1957, 6 hits in a 9-inning game has been achieved 25 times. It was done an additional 23 times in games that went extra innings.

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