Grienke six total bases on Saturday ties him with fourth best total base performance by a LA Dodger pitcher

The Dodgers have had thirteen games in which a pitcher has had at least six total bases, putting Zach Grienke’s performance on the leaderboard. It was a little surprising when I created this list to find that Chad Billingsley was on the list twice. I expected Don Drysdale to dominant the list. I do remember everyone below as being known as a good hitter except for Hideo Nomo. Darren Dreifort of course came out of Wichita State as a two way player who hit a ton of home runs in college.

Zach came within two feet of tying Claude Osteen and Don Drysdale for the second best performance.

One final note. The Dodgers won every single one of these games.  The margin on Saturday was 17 – 0, the previous highest margin of victory was the 19 – 3 drubbing that Claude Osteen put on the Giants in 1970.  Maybe we should look at that game some time. How about on the next May 26th?

Player                   Date  Tm Opp   Rslt PA R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI
Darren Dreifort    2000-08-08 LAD CHC  W 7-5  4 2 3  0  0  2  9   2
Claude Osteen      1970-05-26 LAD SFG W 19-3  5 3 4  1  0  1  8   4
Don Drysdale       1958-08-23 LAD MLN W 10-1  4 2 2  0  0  2  8   4
Randy Wolf         2009-08-16 LAD ARI  W 9-3  4 2 3  1  0  1  7   3
Kevin Brown        2002-04-07 LAD COL  W 6-4  4 2 3  1  0  1  7   2
Don Drysdale       1959-06-20 LAD CIN  W 9-2  4 2 2  0  1  1  7   3
Zack Greinke       2014-09-13 LAD SFG W 17-0  4 2 2  1  0  1  6   2
Chad Billingsley   2011-06-05 LAD CIN  W 9-6  3 1 2  1  0  1  6   3
Chad Billingsley   2009-07-05 LAD SDP  W 7-6  5 1 2  1  0  1  6   1
Hideo Nomo         2003-07-17 LAD STL  W 6-3  2 1 2  1  0  1  6   3
Rick Rhoden        1977-08-21 LAD CHC  W 5-1  4 1 3  0  0  1  6   2
Andy Messersmith   1975-04-25 LAD SFG  W 6-5  4 2 3  3  0  0  6   1
Larry Sherry       1959-08-15 LAD STL  W 4-3  4 1 3  0  0  1  6   3

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Generated 9/15/2014.