Just another LAD July Triple leaderboard

Phil Gurnee ♦ July 23, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

When Chris Taylor hit his triple last night, that gave him three in the month of July. Which gave me an excuse to see who has hit the most LAD triples in the month of July.

No surprise that the 3-Dog is tied at the top with Maury Wills.  Who can forget triple fever with Puig in July of 2014?

I never saw Charlie Neal play or John Roseboro as a Dodger only as a Senator.  John Roseboro is on this list twice. Very impressive for a catcher.  Johnny only had forty-four triples but he did have 39 by the age of 30.  I’ll show you just how impressive that is for a LAD, especially for a catcher.

The biggest surprise on this list has to be Casey Blake. Casey only hit 18 triples in his whole career which spanned 5091 plate appearances so for him to hit three in one month in only 106 plate appearances is quite the anomaly.

Player            Split Year 3B  PA
Willie Davis       July 1962  5 117
Yasiel Puig        July 2014  5  87
Maury Wills        July 1969  5 142
Charlie Neal       July 1959  4 120
Brett Butler       July 1993  4 124
John Roseboro      July 1962  4  90
Casey Blake        July 2009  3 106
Willie Davis       July 1970  3 115
Cesar Izturis      July 2004  3 129
John Roseboro      July 1961  3  93
Reggie Smith       July 1976  3  96
 Chris Taylor       July 2017  3  65
Willie Davis       July 1968  3 108
Rafael Furcal      July 2009  3 119
Davey Lopes        July 1976  3 112
Wes Parker         July 1970  3 116
Maury Wills        July 1965  3 131
Willie Crawford    July 1971  3  91
Willie Davis       July 1969  3 104
Pedro Guerrero     July 1983  3 118
Raul Mondesi       July 1998  3 111
Bill Russell       July 1977  3 114

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So, because John Roseboro showed up on this list twice we have to see who has the most LAD triples as a catcher.

Okay, this is crazy. No one is even close to John Roseboro. No one. Also, John Roseboro never hit another triple after leaving the Dodgers the in 1967.

Player          3B From   To   PA
John Roseboro   44 1958 1967 4505
Steve Yeager    16 1972 1985 3869
Tom Haller      14 1968 1971 1637
Mike Scioscia   12 1980 1992 5057

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Generated 7/23/2017.