Scoring Less Than The Butabi Brothers

Here’s a fun little sort via Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index:

From 1956 to 2008, Playing for Yankees, In the team’s first 35 games, Games where Runs = Zero Scored, sorted by greatest number of games matching selected criteria in a game:

                   Year Games Link to Individual Games
+-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+
 Alvaro Espinoza   1990    30 Ind. Games
 Bobby Richardson  1960    29 Ind. Games
 Bill Skowron      1960    28 Ind. Games
 Clete Boyer       1966    28 Ind. Games
 Sandy Alomar      1975    28 Ind. Games
 Bobby Richardson  1961    27 Ind. Games
 Gene Michael      1968    27 Ind. Games
 Jim Mason         1974    27 Ind. Games
 Roger Maris       1966    27 Ind. Games
 Alvaro Espinoza   1989    27 Ind. Games
 Robinson Cano     2008    27 Ind. Games
 Gene Michael      1971    26 Ind. Games
 Jim Mason         1975    26 Ind. Games
 Bucky Dent        1977    26 Ind. Games

Not exactly a group that Robinson Cano, coming into this season, probably wanted to join. Lots of really bad hitting infielders in there - along with Roger Maris in his last, and worst, Yankees season.

May 8, 2008 | Filed Under Math Class