Pedro Alvarez, in photos from the last two days, approaching home plate after homering. Photos are courtesy of US Presswire.
Pedro Alvarez of the Pirates has hit 2 homers in each of the Pirates’ last two games.
Here are the last 10 times a guy has gone for 2 homers over each of 2 games:
| Strk Start | End | Games | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Napoli | 2011-09-27 | 2011-09-28 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Pedro Alvarez | 2010-07-20 | 2010-07-21 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| Carlos Quentin | 2010-07-10 | 2010-07-11 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| Luke Scott | 2009-05-28 | 2009-05-29 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| Carlos Delgado | 2008-09-07 | 2008-09-09 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Joe Crede | 2008-06-06 | 2008-06-07 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| Alfonso Soriano | 2008-05-16 | 2008-05-17 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Ryan Braun | 2008-05-11 | 2008-05-12 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Chipper Jones | 2008-04-17 | 2008-04-18 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Mark Teixeira | 2007-08-19 | 2007-08-20 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
The last time a Pirates player hit 2 homers in 2 straight games was in 2010, When Pedro Alvarez himself did it on July 20th and 21st. Before that? You have to go all the way back to Jason Thompson in 1984.
The last guy to hit 2 homers in 3 straight games was Jeff DeVanon in June of 2003.
And, is there an example of someone hitting 2 homers each in 4 or more consecutive games, or is three the record?
Kenny, no — the longest streak of multi-HR games (at least since 1918) is 3, shared by Gus Zernial (1951), the original Frank Thomas (1962), Lee May (1969) and Jeff DaVanon (2003).
That was 2003 for DaVanon, not 2004.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=davanje02&t=b&year=2003
Bizarre typo by me.
The streak like this I remember best is Nate Colbert on Aug 1, 1972. He homered twice in the first game of a double-header and three times in the second game. Colbert also homered twice two days previously (Jul 30 – second game) and once two days later (Aug 3).
Frank Howard had a hot streak from 5-12-68 to 5-18-68. Over 6 games he hit 10 HRs, all coming within a span of 20 AB. The sequence of HRs by game was 2-2-1-2-1-2.
Wow. Pretty impressive anytime, but amazing for 1968.
I guess it’s true what they say about black being more slimming.
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