{"id":28024,"date":"2014-05-31T12:56:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=28024"},"modified":"2014-05-31T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T17:06:14","slug":"baseball-triple-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/baseball-triple-doubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Triple Doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/twinstrivia.com\/\">Twinstrivia.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The other day SABR member Clem Comley, who also follows basketball, wondered who the triple doubles leader might be in baseball history.&#160; His search defined a &#8216;baseball triple double&#8217; as a player who had 2 or more runs, 2 or more hits or 2 or more RBIs in a single game.&#160; He used Retrosheet (1913-2014) in his calculations and determined that the all-time baseball leader in triple doubles was Babe Ruth with 247.&#160; Lou Gehrig was second with 204, Willie Mays and Alex (A-Rod) Rodriguez were tied for third with 191 and Hank Aaron was fifth with 188.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To see a list of the top 43 from 1961-2014, and the top 14 Minnesota Twins, <a href=\"http:\/\/twinstrivia.com\/2014\/05\/30\/baseball-triple-doubles\/\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Twinstrivia.com: &#8220;The other day SABR member Clem Comley, who also follows basketball, wondered who the triple doubles leader might be in baseball history.&#160; His search defined a &#8216;baseball triple double&#8217; as a player who had 2 or more runs, 2 or more hits or 2 or more RBIs in a single game.&#160; He used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}