Can I get a little help? Guys who got 5 hits without an RBI or a run scored |

The title says it all…here are the guys since 1918 to have such a game:

Rk	Player	Date	Tm	Opp	Rslt	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	BOP	Pos. Summary
1	Adam Kennedy	2009-08-15	OAK	CHW	L 1-8	5	5	5	1	0	1	3B
2	Aaron Miles	2008-06-22	STL	BOS	L 3-5	6	6	5	0	0	2	SS 2B
3	Curtis Granderson	2005-09-18	DET	LAA	L 3-5	5	5	5	1	0	1	CF
4	Geoff Blum	2003-04-19	HOU	MIL	L 2-3	7	7	5	1	0	2	3B
5	Warren Morris	2000-06-10	PIT	KCR	L 1-2	6	6	5	0	0	1	2B
6	Jason Kendall	1999-05-03	PIT	SFG	W 9-8	5	5	5	2	0	5	C
7	Jeff Blauser	1996-06-10	ATL	NYM	L 3-8	5	5	5	0	0	6	SS
8	Jose Vizcaino	1995-09-23	NYM	FLA	L 3-4	5	5	5	1	0	2	SS
9	Rafael Palmeiro	1990-06-30	TEX	BOS	W 6-5	5	5	5	2	0	3	1B
10	Darren Daulton	1989-09-20	PHI	CHC	W 9-8	5	5	5	1	0	8	C
11	Lenny Harris	1989-08-23	LAD	MON	W 1-0	9	9	5	0	0	3	LF
12	Richie Hebner	1978-07-30	PHI	CIN	L 3-5	5	5	5	0	0	5	1B
13	Cesar Tovar	1974-08-14	TEX	MIL	L 5-6	5	5	5	0	0	2	LF
14	Matty Alou	1970-08-19	PIT	SFG	L 4-7	5	5	5	0	0	1	CF
15	Pete Rose	1970-07-10 (2)	CIN	ATL	W 3-1	5	5	5	0	0	1	RF
16	Roberto Clemente	1968-07-13	PIT	PHI	L 2-3	8	7	5	0	1	3	RF
17	Lee Thomas	1961-09-05 (1)	LAA	KCA	L 3-7	5	5	5	1	0	2	RF
18	Hank Aaron	1958-08-27	MLN	SFG	L 2-3	6	6	5	0	0	4	RF
19	Bill Virdon	1956-09-03 (2)	PIT	BRO	W 3-2	5	5	5	1	0	1	CF
20	Stan Lopata	1955-06-19 (1)	PHI	CHC	W 1-0	6	6	5	1	0	3	C 1B
21	Bobby Estalella	1945-07-21	PHA	DET	T 1-1	10	10	5	1	0	4	CF
22	Joe Medwick	1940-06-04	STL	BRO	L 1-10	5	5	5	3	0	4	LF
23	Cecil Travis	1937-08-03	WSH	SLB	W 3-2	6	6	5	2	0	3	SS
24	Bob O’Farrell	1927-08-16	STL	BSN	W 5-3	6	6	5	0	0	7	C
25	Buck Herzog	1918-08-01	BSN	PIT	L 0-2	10	9	5	0	0	1	2B

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Steven

13 years ago

Then there was Felix Millan, who once had four hits in four at-bats, only to be erased each time by a double play off the bat of Joe Torre.

Voomo Zanzibar

24 innings, and no resolution:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHA/PHA194507210.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

And 19.2 innings, Zero earned runs, from a guy who would get a Ring, and not pitch in the Majors after that year:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=muellle01&t=p&year=1945

Reply to Voomo Zanzibar

The set-up men were probably in the South Pacific.

Lawrence Azrin

Reply to Steven

Those Broadway shows can run for a real long time.

Reply to Lawrence Azrin

Including Damn Yankees.

Well played, sir. (slow “golf clap”)

Neil L.

A thought-provoking list, Andy, thanks! You must have been sitting on this one for a while. The list shrinks to just 14 games if you restrict it to 9 innings or less. It is even more uncommon not to score or drive in a run in a nine-inning game than a long low-scoring one. Talk about batters isolated on a desert island in the batting order. Unfortunately there is on play by play data on Joe Medwick’s three-double, nine-inning game in 1940. His team hit into no double plays in that game. Roberto Clemente’s triple came with two out in… Read more »

Reply to Neil L.

Eight days after Medwick’s big game, he was traded to those same Dodgers.

Always nice to see Buck Herzog, with whom I share a last name!

Doug

In the Jason Kendall game, the 4 batters ahead of him scored 7 runs, but also drove in 7. Kendall came up with the bases empty four times, once after a home run. The Pirates’ opponent the Giants also had a 5 for 5 gamee by Jeff Kent, but he had 2 runs scored and 5 RBI on the strength of a cycle plus a single. In the other 9-8 game on the list, all the Phillies runs were scored and driven in by the batters ahead of Darren Daulton, who led off an inning 4 times. Similar story for… Read more »

On the flip side of the coin are these 11 games.

http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/osUpG

All have no hits in 4 or more AB, no walks or HBP, but 2 or more runs and RBI.

Evil Squirrel

Reply to Doug

That list reminds me of this game I remember watching on TV….

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199808180.shtml

Scott Servais was compiling a rather interesting box score line (3 0 0 3) by collecting RBI’s on three groundouts in his first 3 at bats. Then he ruined it by getting a single leading off the 8th inning in his fourth AB….

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John Autin

It’s too bad there’s no Victorino, Ka’aihue or Agbayani on this list. There ought to be a “Five-Oh” connection, no?