All Howard, all the time
Posted by Trent McCotter at 7/22/2007 9:07 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
Ryan Howard, PHI NL, had another great game today (Sunday 7/22), which gives him the following active streaks going into Monday:
29 consecutive games reaching base safely
5 consecutive games reaching base 3 or more times
2 consecutive games reaching base 4 or more times
9 consecutive plate appearances reaching base safely (not counting a sac. fly he had on Sunday)
Let's see how those compare to the Phillies' franchise records for those feats.
Howard: 29 consecutive games reaching base safely. Club record: 56 games in a row, by Ed Delahanty in 1896 and Mike Schmidt 1981-1982. I guess Howard still has a ways to go there just to match the franchise record, let alone approach the MLB record of 84 games in a row reaching base (Ted Williams, 1949).
Howard: 5 consecutive games reaching base 3+ times. Club record: 10 games in a row, by Billy Hamilton in 1894. Not only is Hamilton's streak the Phils' record, but it's also tied for the MLB record (Ty Cobb, 1925, also had 10 straight). The longest streak by a Phillie in the last 50 years is 8 games, by their current second baseman Chase Utley, stretched over the end of 2005 and beginning of 2006.
Howard: 2 consecutive games reaching base 4+ times. Club record: 4 games in a row, by Billy Hamilton (in 1893 and twice in 1894) and Joe Sullivan in 1894. The MLB record is 5 games, accomplished most recently by Joe Mauer, MIN AL, in 2006. The last Phillie to get to 3 games in a row was (of course) Chase Utley, in Sept 2006.
Howard: 9 consecutive times reaching base safely. Club record: 14 straight times on base safely, by Billy Hamilton in 1893. The MLB record for these fascinating streaks is 17, by Frank Ward in 1893. Ted Williams holds the modern record of 16 straight times on base safely in 1957.
So even with a week of awesome games now, Howard still isn't really that close to the Phillies' franchise records, let alone the all-time MLB records. That's what 132 years of Major League Baseball allows us to do--everything that happens on the field today can be compared to what happened on the field in those previous 131 years.
A Century of Cobb
Ty Cobb's Batting Line from 100 years ago:
July 22, 1907: at home vs. PHI; 1-for-4 with an outfield assist against Hall of Famer Eddie Plank.
29 consecutive games reaching base safely
5 consecutive games reaching base 3 or more times
2 consecutive games reaching base 4 or more times
9 consecutive plate appearances reaching base safely (not counting a sac. fly he had on Sunday)
Let's see how those compare to the Phillies' franchise records for those feats.
Howard: 29 consecutive games reaching base safely. Club record: 56 games in a row, by Ed Delahanty in 1896 and Mike Schmidt 1981-1982. I guess Howard still has a ways to go there just to match the franchise record, let alone approach the MLB record of 84 games in a row reaching base (Ted Williams, 1949).
Howard: 5 consecutive games reaching base 3+ times. Club record: 10 games in a row, by Billy Hamilton in 1894. Not only is Hamilton's streak the Phils' record, but it's also tied for the MLB record (Ty Cobb, 1925, also had 10 straight). The longest streak by a Phillie in the last 50 years is 8 games, by their current second baseman Chase Utley, stretched over the end of 2005 and beginning of 2006.
Howard: 2 consecutive games reaching base 4+ times. Club record: 4 games in a row, by Billy Hamilton (in 1893 and twice in 1894) and Joe Sullivan in 1894. The MLB record is 5 games, accomplished most recently by Joe Mauer, MIN AL, in 2006. The last Phillie to get to 3 games in a row was (of course) Chase Utley, in Sept 2006.
Howard: 9 consecutive times reaching base safely. Club record: 14 straight times on base safely, by Billy Hamilton in 1893. The MLB record for these fascinating streaks is 17, by Frank Ward in 1893. Ted Williams holds the modern record of 16 straight times on base safely in 1957.
So even with a week of awesome games now, Howard still isn't really that close to the Phillies' franchise records, let alone the all-time MLB records. That's what 132 years of Major League Baseball allows us to do--everything that happens on the field today can be compared to what happened on the field in those previous 131 years.
A Century of Cobb
Ty Cobb's Batting Line from 100 years ago:
July 22, 1907: at home vs. PHI; 1-for-4 with an outfield assist against Hall of Famer Eddie Plank.
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