While fiddling around in Baseball-Reference (my Christmas gift to myself was a subscription to Play Index), I came across something very curious:
Derrek Lee is the all-time record holder in consecutive games with at least 1 double.
I'm not saying that the streak (which is 8 – there are a hundred or so 7 game streaks) is as untouchable as 56 consecutive games with a hit, but it's a pretty interesting bit of trivia nonetheless. It wasn't as if Derrek Lee hit an incredible number of doubles, either; he had 9 seasons with 30 doubles or more (the same total as Aramis Ramirez and Alfonso Soriano).
One last thing – when I think of really great doubles hitters, I think of Craig Biggio, but Biggio never had a streak of more than 5.
(This is only the 1993-2012 list. BRef chokes when you feed it larger pools of data.)
| 1 | Derrek Lee | 2007-04-23 | 2007-05-02 | 8 | 37 | 6 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .541 | .564 | .892 | 1.456 | CHC |
| 2 | Brian Roberts | 2004-08-09 | 2004-08-15 | 7 | 32 | 10 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .531 | .571 | .781 | 1.353 | BAL |
| 3 | Carlos Delgado | 2000-07-22 | 2000-07-29 | 7 | 27 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .444 | .516 | .815 | 1.331 | TOR |
| 4 | Jeff Kent | 1999-04-22 | 1999-04-29 | 7 | 29 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | .276 | .382 | .517 | .900 | SFG |
| 5 | Gary Disarcina | 1998-08-19 | 1998-08-26 | 7 | 28 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .393 | .393 | .643 | 1.036 | ANA |
| 6 | Todd Walker | 1998-04-22 | 1998-05-02 | 7 | 28 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .500 | .531 | .750 | 1.281 | MIN |
| 7 | Andrew McCutchen | 2011-06-30 | 2011-07-04 | 6 | 24 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .458 | .500 | .917 | 1.417 | PIT |
| 8 | Conor Jackson | 2010-05-19 | 2010-05-25 | 6 | 24 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .500 | .833 | ARI |
| 9 | Martin Prado | 2009-06-30 | 2009-07-05 | 6 | 26 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .577 | .621 | 1.000 | 1.621 | ATL |
| 10 | Kendrys Morales | 2009-06-12 | 2009-06-19 | 6 | 23 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .348 | .400 | .870 | 1.270 | LAA |
| 11 | Lyle Overbay | 2009-05-29 | 2009-06-06 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .421 | .522 | .895 | 1.416 | TOR |
| 12 | Justin Morneau | 2008-08-24 | 2008-08-29 | 6 | 26 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .481 | .885 | 1.366 | MIN |
| 13 | Albert Pujols | 2007-09-05 | 2007-09-10 | 6 | 22 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .455 | .556 | .818 | 1.374 | STL |
| 14 | Conor Jackson | 2007-05-28 | 2007-06-05 | 6 | 27 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .370 | .393 | .704 | 1.097 | ARI |
| 15 | Conor Jackson | 2006-05-01 | 2006-05-07 | 6 | 24 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .423 | .667 | 1.090 | ARI |
| 16 | Maicer Izturis | 2005-06-29 | 2005-07-04 | 6 | 25 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .360 | .360 | .600 | .960 | LAA |
| 17 | Jason Varitek | 2004-08-21 | 2004-09-01 | 6 | 24 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .556 | 1.000 | 1.556 | BOS |
| 18 | Magglio Ordonez | 2003-07-20 | 2003-07-25 | 6 | 23 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .652 | .704 | 1.174 | 1.878 | CHW |
| 19 | Mike Sweeney | 2001-05-10 | 2001-05-15 | 6 | 27 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .444 | .464 | .778 | 1.242 | KCR |
| 20 | Richard Hidalgo | 2000-09-03 | 2000-09-08 | 6 | 24 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .417 | .407 | .667 | 1.074 | HOU |
| 21 | Bobby Abreu | 2000-06-23 | 2000-06-29 | 6 | 26 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .423 | .483 | .692 | 1.175 | PHI |
| 22 | Wade Boggs | 1997-09-07 | 1997-09-14 | 6 | 22 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .545 | .593 | 1.000 | 1.593 | NYY |
| 23 | Ed Sprague | 1997-04-05 | 1997-04-14 | 6 | 22 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .375 | .591 | .966 | TOR |
| 24 | Edgar Martinez | 1996-05-23 | 1996-05-29 | 6 | 25 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .444 | .960 | 1.404 | SEA |
| 25 | Kenny Lofton | 1994-06-17 | 1994-06-22 | 6 | 23 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .565 | .643 | .957 | 1.599 | CLE |
So does that make Todd Walker the Willie Keeler of doubles?
Lou wrote:
My favorite bit is actually that Conor Jackson had 3 streaks of 6 while being completely unremarkable in every other way.
Another piece of trivia: last year the high streak for the Cubs was 3, by…
Dave Sappelt.
Interesting.
I’ve never had trouble using Play Index going through all the years they have available (1876?). Wonder if it’s a new glitch.
I’m having problems with the website loading properly. Seems to have happened over the weekend. Have issues at home, on the phone, and at work.
@ WaLi:
I had the same thing last week. dmick had me refresh and/or clear cookies and reload. Works fine on Chrome on my laptop and on my phone now.
dmick89 wrote:
It’s fine for other areas, but in Streak Finder it wants you to use 4 different time frames for your runs, and 75% it still times out when doing so.
@ mikeakaleroy:
Yeah, try this. Should fix the problem. First, try reloading the page and then clear you cache if the first doesn’t work. (let me know in the new thread if it works)
new shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/commentary-and-analysis/muskat-work-in-progress-but-cubs-aim-to-be-competitive.html