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Giving up more triples than homers

Posted by Andy
Jamey Carroll tripling against the Phillies,
while wearing a retro uni, no less
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These days, triples are pretty rare while homers are fairly common. For example, in 2011, teams averaged 0.18 triples and 0.94 homers per game, or about 5 homers for every triple hit.

It follows, then that most pitchers give up more homers than triples, and that has been the case for many, many years.

However, it used to be the case that about once per year, a pitcher would give up at least 10 triples, but fewer homers than triples. It hasn't been done in a long time now, but click through for the list of guys to do it since 1950.



Rk Player Year 3B HR IP Tm
1 Danny Jackson 1985 10 7 208.0 KCR
2 Bob Shirley 1984 12 8 114.1 NYY
3 John Denny 1983 10 9 242.2 PHI
4 Rich Gale 1982 13 9 170.1 SFG
5 Juan Eichelberger 1981 12 5 141.1 SDP
6 Ed Whitson 1980 12 7 211.2 SFG
7 Luis Tiant 1980 11 10 136.1 NYY
8 Dick Ruthven 1980 13 9 223.1 PHI
9 David Clyde 1978 10 4 153.1 CLE
10 Randy Jones 1978 11 6 253.0 SDP
11 Tom Underwood 1976 10 9 155.2 PHI
12 Larry Christenson 1976 17 8 168.2 PHI
13 Charlie Williams 1975 11 2 98.0 SFG
14 John Montefusco 1975 12 11 243.2 SFG
15 Bruce Dal Canton 1970 11 7 84.2 PIT
16 Blue Moon Odom 1968 10 9 231.1 OAK
17 Larry Jackson 1968 10 9 243.2 PHI
18 Chris Short 1967 10 9 199.1 PHI
19 Chris Short 1963 16 12 198.0 PHI
20 Bob Bruce 1963 10 7 170.1 HOU
21 Joe Nuxhall 1961 13 12 128.0 KCA
22 Curt Simmons 1958 12 11 168.1 PHI
23 Curt Simmons 1957 14 11 212.0 PHI
24 Ted Abernathy 1957 10 9 85.0 WSH
25 Erv Palica 1955 12 10 169.2 BAL
26 Camilo Pascual 1955 10 5 129.0 WSH
27 Saul Rogovin 1955 11 8 144.0 TOT
28 Bob Turley 1954 12 7 247.1 BAL
29 Alex Kellner 1953 10 8 201.2 PHA
30 Bob Cain 1953 10 8 99.2 SLB
31 Mike Blyzka 1953 10 6 94.1 SLB
32 Marv Grissom 1952 10 6 166.0 CHW
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 12/27/2011.

I would imagine that most of these guys did it either because of the dimensions of the ballpark they pitched in primarily or by being a fairly extreme ground ball pitcher.

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