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Players with more runs scored than Plate Appearances

downtowndowntown Posts: 671 ✭✭✭
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I have found 3 players (all with the Oakland A's) who have achieved this in a career. Are there others?

Allen Lewis (1967-1973) 47-R 31-PA
Don Hopkins (1975-1976) 25-R 8-PA

and the all-time leader
Herb Washington 33-R 0-PA
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  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Jerome MacDougal
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    Herb Washington is the easy one. He is a good answer for many a trivia Q image

    No need for a glove or bat when you play pinch runner everyday
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  • PigsPigs Posts: 761
    How could Herb not want to bat or the A's not give him an AB at least one time? That's just not right. Did the freakin guy even take PB or did he just run around the bases to warm up? Stanger than fiction.
  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    I'm sure there are others - 2 types come to mind.

    1. AL pitchers during the DH but pre-interleague play era. They could be used as pinch runners.

    2. Guys who had just a few games played in the majors, and may not have even batted.

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  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,261 ✭✭✭✭
    Herb was asked if he wanted to bat and he declined. It was the right thing to do. It made his time in the bigs very unique.
  • mrpeanut39mrpeanut39 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I have found 3 players (all with the Oakland A's) who have achieved this in a career. Are there others?

    Allen Lewis (1967-1973) 47-R 31-PA
    Don Hopkins (1975-1976) 25-R 8-PA

    and the all-time leader
    Herb Washington 33-R 0-PA >>



    It seemed like the A's from this era always reserved a roster spot for a pinch runner or two. A couple other guys who don't quite meet your criteria, but who were basically pinch runners were Larry Lintz and Matt Alexander.

    Lintz actually had a career before he came to Oakland and it looks like he finished his career as a pinch runner. Matt Alexander left Oakland to become a pinch runner with the Pirates from 77 to 81. The common thread is that Chuck Tanner was Oakland's manager in 76. He must have liked the idea of the pinch runner as he brought Alexander along with him to Pittsburgh in 1977.
    "I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
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