So, You Had A Big Day…
Posted by Steve Lombardi on December 3rd, 2008 · Comments (4)
Just playing around with Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index Batting Game Finder, I asked it to show me, since 1956 (of course) who had the most games with: TOB>=3, XBH>=3, R>=3, and RBI>=3
I was very surprised to see Joe Carter on the top of this list.
Next, I decided to filter it down to just “Yankees.” Those with more two or more such games can be found below. I was very surprised to see that more Yankees didn’t have these types of “big days” more often. And, only 5 Yankees have done it more than twice for the team since 1956. Very interesting…
Games Link to Individual Games -----------------+-----+------------------------- Alex Rodriguez 4 Ind. Games Tino Martinez 4 Ind. Games Mickey Mantle 4 Ind. Games Dave Winfield 3 Ind. Games Bobby Murcer 3 Ind. Games Bernie Williams 2 Ind. Games Tom Tresh 2 Ind. Games Darryl Strawberry 2 Ind. Games Bill Skowron 2 Ind. Games Jorge Posada 2 Ind. Games Paul O'Neill 2 Ind. Games Jerry Mumphrey 2 Ind. Games Don Mattingly 2 Ind. Games Roger Maris 2 Ind. Games Tony Clark 2 Ind. Games Robinson Cano 2 Ind. Games
I’ll bet that the four times A-Rod’s done it were all in huge blowout games where all those runs and hits meant nothing to the final score. Boy does A-Rod suck.
Make that bet three of the four being blowout wins and one being a loss and you’d win:
http://tinyurl.com/68b3tu
i was at that Tampa game, the 19-8 one, and yes at first it was a blowout but, Wright made it VERY interesting and w/o A-Rod the Yanks coulda easily lost that 1…
Amusingly enough, the link you provided takes me to the boxscore and play by play which showed me that A-Rod actually drove in the first two runs of the game. He then batted a second time in that inning and drove in two more. But runs only count in the 7th inning or later, as we all know.
Silly A-Rod, he should’ve known the guys on his team would bail him out and drive in 9 other runs in that inning. His stat-padding obsession got the best of him.
(Never mind of course that he was the 2005 AL MVP and was arguably the only damn reason the Yanks made the playoffs that season anyway, other than the Chacon/Small combination and RJ’s monster September).