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4 HRs in a Double-Digit Loss

Posted by Raphy
The Detroit Tigers' season ended in a disappointing 15-5 game six ALCS loss, despite home runs from Jhonny Peralta, Austin Jackson and a pair from Miguel Cabrera. At the time, JA mentioned in a comment that it was interesting that they lost by double digits despite hitting 4 HRs. In fact, it was the first time in postseason history that a team has done this, and since 1919 it has only occurred 15 times in the regular season. Here are the fifteen, courtesy of the Baseball-Reference.com Team Batting Streak finder.



Rk
Date
ScoreGamesWLABRH2B3BHRRBISOBBSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSOpp
1NYM2005-09-286-1610136610104610300.278.350.639.989PHI
2SDP2005-05-085-15101355800455200.229.270.571.842STL
3ARI2003-09-239-201013891231497610.316.409.7631.172COL
4MIN2002-09-214-14101344820448100.235.257.647.904CHW
5TOR1999-09-244-18101364900447410.250.341.583.925CLE
6TEX1998-06-136-18101366810466400.222.300.583.883ANA
7BOS1980-05-318-191013581210683400.343.410.8861.296MIL
8MIL1979-08-298-181013881100487100.289.308.605.913KCR
9ATL1977-04-246-161014261300467310.310.370.595.965LAD
10ATL1970-08-0110-20101391015104105200.385.405.7181.123PIT
11CIN1965-08-057-181013277004711700.219.359.594.953SFG
12BOS1965-05-255-17101355820453000.229.229.629.857MIN
13KCA1962-08-197-211013671102472000.306.297.7501.047NYY
14DET1951-08-189-201013891240587600.316.409.8161.225SLB
15DET1946-09-155-151013751110452301.297.366.6491.015WSH
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 11/4/2011.

The table above piqued my curiosity about multiple HR games and the success of the teams who hit them. Here is a brief summary.

Since 1919  2 teams have hit more than 8 home runs in game and both won handily. On September 14, 1987 the Blue Jays teed off on the Orioles and beat them 18-3 on the power of 10 home runs.  Twelve years later the Reds hit 9 homers in beating the Phillies 22-3.

The other HR games from 1919-2011 are summarized in the chart below.

HRs Games W L WP
10 Run
Losses
Worst Game
(net runs)
Teams Date
8 18 18 0 1.000
0 +1 ATL@CHC 05/28/2006
7 56 54 2 .964
0  -2
2 games
6 232 212 20 .914
1 -11 BOS vs. MIL 05/31/1980
5 933 818 115 .877
1 -11DET@SLA 8/18/1951
4 3,937 3,256 676 .828
13 -14
2 games
3 14,074 10,610 3,445 .755
69 -17 LAD@CHC 5/20/1967
2 42,246 28,013 14,173 .664
352 -23 KCA vs. CHW 4/23/1955
1 99,843 53,832 45,786 .540
1358 -22
2 games
0 153,353 60,127 92,725 .393
3433 -27 BAL vs. TEX 8/22/2007



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