Consistancy - Singletons I

The current theme is consistancy, which I'll define as scoring the same number of runs--and only that exact number of runs--several times in a game. For the first few days, I'll concentrate on games in which one or both teams built picket fences.

April 9, 1982
San Diego 7, Los Angeles 4

SD   0  0  1    1  1  1    1  1  1  -   7 10  0
LA   0  0  0    1  0  3    0  0  0  -   4 10  1

Today's Boxscore

What's the most single runs a team has scored in a game without a multi-run inning? How about seven! It's happened eleven times since 1969 (including two extra-inning games), and even once this year. I chose to begin with this SD-LA game because it's the only one in which the team scored a lone wolf in seven consecutive frames!

Here are the fun facts. The ones were definitely wild in this one:

• Seven ribbies for seven players: seven Padres had exactly one RBI!
• Six Padres scored exactly one run.
  
• Eight Padres either struck out once or walked once, but none did both.
  
• Opposing pitcher Ted Power earned this line:
  

           IP     H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR
  Power     2     1   1   1   1   1   0

• The winning pitcher went to 1-0, while the loser dropped to, of course 1-1. And Gary Lucas earned save number one.
• Believe it or not, there were actually no solo homers the game.
• Oddly, only three of the Padre runs came in on hits. Three ground balls and a suicide squeeze accounted for the other four.
• They almost blew the streak in the ninth. After they already scored their singleton, they had a man on third with only one out. Luckily (for us, that is!), a foul-out and a fly-out ended that threat, and put San Diego in the Esoterica Hall of Fame!