Game Winning RBIs : Pete Alonso

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

I'm just finishing a Roger Maris biography and I was amazed at how many times, during the chapters on the 1961 season, Johnny Blanchard was mentioned as having tied or won games with clutch hits.

I checked his 1961 splits on BBR, and, though they were impressive, I am far too lazy to cut and paste them in for you...but you are welcome to check them out your own selves:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...&year=1961&t=b


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I've attached Johnny Blanchard's '61 clutch stats. Pretty damned clutch: .365 BA and .827 slugging in "late and close" at bats with 7 Home Runs.
.347 BA and .674 slugging in "high leverage" at bats with 5 Home Runs.

[cgjackson222]

For comparison, here are Pete Alonso's 2022 clutch stats as of today.

He's slugging .681 with 2 outs and Runners in Scoring position, but only slugging .391 in late and close.

He's slugging a nice .575 in "High Leverage" situations 7 Home Runs and 43 RBIs.

[cgjackson222]

Nugget from tonight's broadcast: Alonso leads the National League with 113 RBIs. 99 have come in Mets wins. Seems impossible.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

Nugget from tonight's broadcast: Alonso leads the National League with 113 RBIs. 99 have come in Mets wins. Seems impossible.

Straw that stirs the drink.........