[OttoC]

Going back though the 1967 season using Retrosheet data, I only found six instances of Red Sox batters having back-to-back bunt hits before last night's occurrence.

• 09/13/1972 @ NYA 5th Doug Griffin (RBI), Lynn McGlothen off Rob Gardner
  
• 04/14/1973 @ NYA 7th Tommy Harper , Luis Aparicio off Fritz Peterson
  
• 09/14/1975 v MIL 7th Cecil Cooper , Denny Doyle off Rick Austin
  
• 10/01/1976 v BAL 7th Butch Hobson , Denny Doyle off Fred Holdsworth
  
• 10/03/1985 @ BAL 7th Mike Greenwell , Rick Miller off Brad Havens
  
• 07/16/1994 @ OAK 1st Otis Nixon (lead-off), Tim Naehring off Ron Darling
  
• 04/21/2007 v NYA 2nd Coco Crisp , Alex Cora off Jeff Karstens

[reggiecleveland]

Have two players ever bunted for consecutive hits against two different pitchers?

[OttoC]

reggiecleveland, on Apr 22 2007, 11:11 AM, said:

Have two players ever bunted for consecutive hits against two different pitchers?

I don't know, but I'd be surprised if it had not happened.

[reggiecleveland]

OttoC, on Apr 22 2007, 09:24 AM, said:

I don't know, but I'd be surprised if it had not happened.

Did you manually go throught the score sheets to find the Red Sox bunt hits or is there a way to search.

[DLew On Roids]

I don't know how Otto did it, but if you download play-by-play data into a spreadsheet, it's pretty easy to write an Excel macro that will scroll down the list of plays until it finds two consecutive bunt singles.

[BenRS]

Reggie: He probably wrote a program that did it (fortran?).

edit: or not

This post has been edited by BenRS: 22 April 2007 - 02:07 PM

[OttoC]

I have Retrosheet event files (play-by-play) in an Access database and I simply did a query for Boston batting at home and on the road for HitValue>0 and BuntFlag="T". Then, I copied the result of that query to Excel, sorted it by date, game, inning and event number. That allowed me use a formula like if a2=a1 then t else "". Since there were so few instances, I visually inspected each t and the record immediately preceding to see if the inning was the same and the event numbers were approximately proximate. There were a few more bells and whistles, but that is the gist of what I did.

Note: I currenty only have Red Sox games going back through 1967 and all teams from 2000 through 2006. I haven't gotten around to building a database with all Retrosheet's data because of the sheer amount of data. For example, the database for all teams from 2000 through 2006 has 1,355,268 records, each with 97 fields.