What I found fascinating was that Bowker is the first
player in the entire history of the Giants to hit home
runs in his first two games. Neither Mays, McCovey,
Ott, Will Clark, Johnny LeMaster (LOL), or anyone else
did that.

Tom Stillman

--- btimmer <btimmermann@...> wrote:

> John Bowker of the Giants had an extra-base hit in
> each of his first
> three games in the majors, although he didn't get
> one in his fourth.
> The last person I could find who started out with
> such a stretch was
> Joel Hanrahan (a pitcher!) of Washington last year.
>
> Using Baseball-reference.com's Play Index, the only
> two players with
> streaks longer to start their career were Jason Bay
> (who got traded in
> the middle of it and sat out a few months) and Coco
> Laboy.
>
> Has anybody looked into this relatively arcane
> record?
>
> Bob Timmermann
>
>




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