My goodness those early Padre teams were terrible. In '69, Cito Gaston scored 20 runs in 419 plate appearances. He hit 2 homeruns, so he actually was driven in 18 times. He was on base 113* times to score those 18 runs. Yowza is correct. 11 times he whacked doubles and 7 were triples. I wonder how many times he was driven home from 2B/3B, Uh...those teams were lousy. I've always felt that Enzo Hernandez is the poster boy for lineup futility. In '71 he lead-off in 137 of the 141 games he played. He had an OBP that year of .289!! Quite the lead-off hitter. Even worse, he was .194-.254-.218 in his 134 PA's leading-off games. Sigh. Ollie "Dowtown" Brown, with his .346 OBP, was the natural lead-off hitter with that team. But no, he batted 5th with his 9 homers. Sigh.
Zunino was driven in 17 times (minus homers) and was on base 76 times* to get do it. The M's were a model of efficiency compared to those Padres.
*Not counting the times they ended up on 1B when grounding into FC's.
For his MiLB career, Dario Pizzano is 201-208-178-159** (and the lowest number is the K's)! No wonder I love our little Ivy Leaguer!
As Huey Lewis said, Doc, "It's Hip to be Square!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5YkmjalDg
**Pizzano can't help being square! '12=35-29-30-37 '13=75-70-61-48 '14=65-76-68-54 '15=26-33-19-20
Give him a Kewpie Dolly and ticket to Tacoma with a June Uber ride on standby for the dash to Safeco!