Post-Season On-Base and Hit Streaks

Most Consecutive Post-Season Games With At Least One Time On Base:
1. Miguel Cabrera 28 games (current streak)
2. Chase Utley 27 games
3. Boog Powell 25 games
T4. Carlos Beltran and Carlos Ruiz 24 games
T6. Lou Gehrig and Lance Berkman 23 games
T8. Joe Morgan and Rickey Henderson 22 games
T10. Derek Jeter and Barry Bonds 21 games

With respect to post-season hit streaks (consecutive post-season games with at least one hit), the record is 17 games, jointly held by Hank Bauer, Derek Jeter and Manny Ramirez.

Yoenis Cespedes has a current post-season hit streak going of 9 games.  If Yoenis gets a hit in tonight’s game, he will match Babe Ruth’s current post-season hit streak of ten games.

Yes, the Babe has hits in each of his ten most recent post-season games, and should he mount an unlikely post-retirement, post-death comeback Ruth could challenge the 17-game record.  The longest currently active post-season hit streak is 12, held by Al Dark, who is still alive, though at age 91 his opportunities to break the 17-game record are probably limited.  After Dark (so to speak), the holder of the next-longest current streak is Billy Martin, with hits in his last 11 post-season games.  As with the Babe, death will probably interfere with Billy’s extending that streak, though with PEDs these days, who knows?  Three actually living, albeit long-retired, guys have, like the Babe, ten-game current streaks: Hall of Famers Barry Larkin and Ryne Sandberg, plus Roy White, the fine Yankee outfielder of the 1960s and 70s.  And there is one guy with a ten-game active post-game hit streak who does have a real chance to extend it someday, Pablo Sandoval.

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Jim Bouldin
11 years ago

🙂

But remember, Al Dark didn’t have to bat against Sonny Gray. Personally, I think it would be very illuminating if he did.

CursedClevelander
CursedClevelander
11 years ago
Reply to  Jim Bouldin

If he managed to get on base, do you think Devon White would pinch-run?

Jim Bouldin
11 years ago

No reason you couldn’t do that, but might want to consider Tim Raines there as well, that might make Sonny a little more gray.

Lawrence Azrin
Lawrence Azrin
11 years ago
Reply to  Jim Bouldin

@4/Jim Bouldin,

But sometimes after it Raines, it then (Razor) Shines. BTW, the two were teammates with the Expos 1983-85.

Doug
Editor
11 years ago
Reply to  Lawrence Azrin

If it got too bright, you would need (Delino De)shields against the sun.

DeShields was also a Raines teammate, on the 1990 Spos

Voomo Zanzibar
Voomo Zanzibar
11 years ago
Reply to  birtelcom

Leiter was surprisingly tough against righties, but I’d eschew the articulate southpaw for Sun-Woo Kim.

David Horwich
David Horwich
11 years ago
Reply to  Voomo Zanzibar

And then you could pinch-hit for him with Wally Moon, and bring in Blue Moon Odom to relieve him.

Jim Bouldin
11 years ago
Reply to  David Horwich

Look, I’m for strategic decision making as much as the next guy but when it comes to upsetting the tides with dual moon thing you can count me straight out.

David Horwich
David Horwich
11 years ago
Reply to  David Horwich

Just wait until the first baseball game on Mars!

Voomo Zanzibar
Voomo Zanzibar
11 years ago

Barring injury next year, at the All Star break Adrian Beltre will be 3rd all-time at defensive games at 3B.

Four more full seasons (through age 38) averaging
150 hits, 25 doubles, and 25 homers, and he’ll be sitting on

3000
600
475

He already has 70.5 WAR.
Has anyone else ever so quietly put together a hall of fame career?

Voomo Zanzibar
Voomo Zanzibar
11 years ago
Reply to  Voomo Zanzibar

He did record his first ever negative Rfield (-5).

Range factor has gone
2.98
2.84
2.76
2.43
2.27

League range factor has dipped from 2.68 to 2.51 in that time, as we know there are less balls being put in play.

So, his elite D is declining, somewhat.

CursedClevelander
CursedClevelander
11 years ago
Reply to  Voomo Zanzibar

I think it was mostly quiet because of some disappointing years in Seattle. I mean, I was too young at the time to notice things like this outside of my own Indians, but going back I see he was a big time prospect (BA’s #3 guy going into the 1998 season). It took him a while to get going with the bat, but then he had that gigantic 2004 season (.334/.388/629, 48 HRs, 9.6 bWAR, just a monster year in every facet of the game), signed his big deal with Seattle (5 years for ~65 mil), had some not-so-great offensive… Read more »

Doug
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11 years ago
Reply to  Voomo Zanzibar

Beltre is just the 7th player since 1901 with 190+ hits in both his age 33 and age 34 seasons. He, Ichiro and Lou Brock are the only players to do that in the last 75 seasons. Here are career records for 3rd basemen through age 34. Rk Player WAR/pos From To Age G PA R H 2B 3B HR RBI BA OBP SLG OPS Tm 1 Eddie Mathews 94.1 1952 1966 20-34 2223 9532 1452 2201 338 70 493 1388 .273 .379 .517 .896 BSN-MLN-ATL 2 Mike Schmidt 88.0 1972 1984 22-34 1789 7524 1161 1642 292 51 425… Read more »

Andrew Daly
Andrew Daly
11 years ago

@cursedclevelander I believe that Beltre’s 5 years in Seattle would not have been looked at as disappointing or a failure if advanced stats were as widely recognized as they are today. He put up 21.2 bwar during his time in Seattle for an average of over 4.2 war a season. He was paid about 55 million during that time so assuming 1 win is worth 4 million dollars of salary he actually outperformed his often derided contract value. It’s also interesting to think about how Beltre is probably one of the very last players to be darastically undervalued by the… Read more »

CursedClevelander
CursedClevelander
11 years ago
Reply to  Andrew Daly

Well, I think he was probably worth the contract (elite 3B defense + decent offense), but I don’t think it’s only an advanced stats vs. basic stats argument about his under-performance. Was it fair to expect 48 HRs, a 163 OPS+ and a .428 wOBA every year? Certainly not. But when his highs during that 5-year period were 26 HRs, a 112 OPS+ and a .343 wOBA, I can see why people were disappointed, especially Mariners fans dreaming of MVP seasons from their new acquisition. Of course, it must sting even more to see him reel off wOBAs of .391,… Read more »

Andrew Daly
Andrew Daly
11 years ago

Although I am a dodger fan Adrian Beltre and David Ortiz are my favorite players in baseball. Who do you guys think has a better chance of making the Hall of Fame. I feel like both are considered borderline HOFers but I believe both should get in through the BBWAA. What do you guys think?

Abbott
Abbott
11 years ago
Reply to  Andrew Daly

No Edgar Martinez = No Dave Ortiz

CursedClevelander
CursedClevelander
11 years ago
Reply to  Andrew Daly

Ortiz has time to put up more numbers, and he has the Boston mystique/curse-breaking/playoff dynamism as an advantage over Gar, but Edgar’s poor HoF voting totals don’t bode well for Big Papi.

Beltre’s already accumulated HoF numbers for a 3B, and it seems he’s got lots more in the tank, but the BBWAA is famously terrible at recognizing great 3B. The list of 3B in the “Hall of Very Good” is really astounding: Ventura, Bando, Nettles, Cey, Boyer, Bell, Evans, Harrah…I’m sure I’m forgetting a few as well.

Lawrence Azrin
Lawrence Azrin
11 years ago

@18/CursedClevelander,

Stan Hack, Tommy Leach? Though I think that only Boyer has any chance at all with the Veteran’s Committee, with some people pointing out that he was almost as good as Ron Santo (4th on Santo’s Most Similar List). Of course, it took Santo 32 years to get in.

Doug
Editor
11 years ago

Cespedes did, of course, extend his hit streak last night. His 10 games now puts him into the top 10 for longest hit streak from the start of a post-season career. Rk Strk Start End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB BA OBP SLG OPS Tm 1 Marquis Grissom 1995-10-03 1996-10-02 15 69 11 26 3 1 3 5 2 .377 .403 .580 .982 ATL 2 Greg Luzinski 1976-10-09 1980-10-08 13 49 9 16 4 1 5 11 5 .327 .400 .755 1.155 PHI 3 Elvis Andrus 2010-10-06 2010-10-27 12 54 8 18 3 0 0 4… Read more »