While reading today's
Elias Says... on ESPN, two items caught my interest:
- Craig Biggio hit three doubles Saturday, two of them going to left field and one to center. Biggio had 67 extra-base hits during the regular season, 64 of which were hit to left field (he had two to center, one to right). Biggio had the highest percentage of pulled extra-base hits among players with at least 50 extra-base hits this season.
This made me think of the other night when Chone Figgins legged out a triple hit to left, and I thought "Wow, you don't see that often". And then a light bulb. In one of my
Triples and Stolen Bases posts, I wondered how a player could hit so many doubles but so few triples--especially those with a bunch of stolen bases--and postulated that they were "anti-hustlers". But maybe they were just right-handed extreme pull hitters? Here are the single-season leaders, again. Anybody know about these guys?
Name | Year | SB | 3B | 2B |
Miguel Dilone | 1978 | 50 | 0 | 8 |
Mariano Duncan | 1986 | 48 | 0 | 7 |
Davey Lopes | 1985 | 47 | 0 | 11 |
Jose Canseco | 1988 | 40 | 0 | 34 |
Rickey Henderson | 1999 | 37 | 0 | 30 |
Bob Dernier | 1983 | 35 | 0 | 10 |
Eric Davis | 1993 | 33 | 0 | 17 |
Frank Taveras | 1980 | 32 | 0 | 27 |
Derek Jeter | 2002 | 32 | 0 | 26 |
Larry Lintz | 1976 | 31 | 0 | 0 |
Lenny Dykstra | 1992 | 30 | 0 | 18 |
Jeff Bagwell | 1999 | 30 | 0 | 35 |
And this one:
- Aaron Small, 10-0 during the regular season, was the first pitcher ever to lose a postseason game following a season in which he was 5-0 or better. Two pitchers suffered postseason losses after seasons in which they were 4-0: Larry Gura of the 1976 Royals and Chad Qualls of the 2004 Astros.
Gee, if you read this blog,
you would have (pretty much) known this already....Hmm, maybe they're readers??
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