The Joy of Sox · Oct 3, 2022
All Nine (And Only Nine) Batters In A Game Each Get One Hit
Last Friday, the Guardians beat the Royals 6-3. They totaled nine hits, one by each of the nine players in the lineup. All nine batters played the entire game.
In AL/NL history, this has now happened 24 times since 1901.
The Red Sox have done it once: July 14, 1940, in a 7-3 win at home over the Browns. The game was limited to seven innings; as the second game of a doubleheader, it was likely called for darkness or because one or both teams needed to catch a scheuled train.
For whatever reason, this phenomom was far more common in the first two decades of the 1900s.
Dividing them up:
1901-1917: 10 times in 17 years
1918-1989:\u00a0 7 times in 72 years
1990-2022:\u00a0 7 times in 33 years
