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A three-day, head-spinning carnival of extra-base hits In 2019, the Washington Nationals did something cool. I’m talking about something really outrageous, something they did in 3 straight games that barely anyone has actually ever done in two. See ever given that 1994, big league groups have for the a lot of part tape-recorded around three extra-base hits per video game:.
31(prior to falling back down under three in 2020). Even taking into account all of MLB hitting a bunch more of those suckers that season, the Nats still did something entirely overwelming.
For three straight games in mid-August, they smashed at least 10 extra-base hits, more than tripling (XBH term) even 2019’s souped-up typical each time. That’s three straight video games in which they got an average of more than one extra-base hit out of each area in their lineup. And being a National League team, that’s in spite of having to devote among those spots to a pitcher.
It broke down thus:.
August 17– six doubles, 4 homers.
August 18– two doubles, one triple, eight homers.
August 19– 7 doubles, 4 homers.
The first two video games protested the Makers. From their viewpoint, it is the only circumstances of a team allowing at least 10 extra-base hits in back-to-back games in which:.
there wasn’t a designated player in the opposing lineup.
the games weren’t at Coors Field.
Ok, that has to do with enough from Milwaukee’s viewpoint. Proceeding to those 3 games played by Washington (the last of which can be found in Pittsburgh).
Each and every single among the 10 Nationals position gamers who began a minimum of one of the three games taped several extra-base throughout those 72 hours. Did Howie Kendrick, who came off the bench to homer and double in his only look:.
It was all their routine gamers going through a mini-surge at the precise very same time.
It’s difficult to overemphasize simply how impressive it is to have a single game with 10 of ’em. There were 7 groups that season who didn’t have one such video game all year. Another 13 did so precisely as soon as. To put it simply:.
And keep in mind, that’s even regardless of all of MLB producing the extra-basiest season ever. Let’s take a walk through major league history returning to the turn of the 20 th century, shall we? MLB when discussed 70 years with no group reaching double-digit XBH in simply two consecutive games– it makes the notion of three directly merely amazing:.
Some extra historic context regarding how that feat associates with the rest of MLB’s teams:.
as alluded to earlier and as you can tell by the scarcity of dots above, the 2019 Nats carried out in three straight video games something 22 of the other 29 MLB clubs have actually never ever carried out in 2 straight games going back to1900
12 of the other 29 MLB teams have not had 3 video games in any whole season with a minimum of 10 extra-base hits, not to mention consecutively.
the Brewers and Diamondbacks have never in their entire history had two such video games in any entire season– it needs to be duplicated: the 2019 Nationals did in three consecutive games something that 2 clubs have actually never done two times in a complete season.
this:.
there are a couple of teams because time that have had as lots of as 8 extra-base hits in 3 straight video games, however they live in the American League; the most XBH any other National League team has ever reached in each of three straight video games is 7.
and speaking of the National League, while the 2019 Nats had a total of 32 extra-base hits throughout those three games, essentially no one in NL history has ever even come particularly close to that figure:.
Some easy procedure of removal ostensibly exposes five NL groups (Marlins, Reds, Padres, Giants, and Diamondbacks) that have actually never had as lots of as 25 extra-base hits in any 3-game stretch of their history. And when the two Pennsylvania teams last did so, it preceded the creation of bubble gum.
All those extra-base hits resulted in a minimum of 13 runs in each of the 3 games. That’s uncommon enough that it was just the second time in the 21 st century a big league team pulled that off (the Cubs then also did so a couple of weeks later on).
The extra-base hits? Three straight games with at least 10 when anyone doing so in 2 straight is like a Halley’s Comet sighting? Definitely the best part of their 2019 season.
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