Molitor also remains the last Major League player to drive in or more runs in a season while hitting fewer than 10 home runs 9 HR, RBIs. Milwaukee Brewers Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Paul Molitor. Edit source History Talk 0. Weight lbs. Born August 22, age 53 Hometown St. Categories Milwaukee Brewers players Add category. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. Bats Position Throws Right. While he was injured the major-league baseball players went on strike; when they returned, it was decided to split the season into two halves.
The team edged the Tigers to win the East Division second-half race and the right to meet the first-half champion New York Yankees in the divisional playoff series. Molitor collected five hits in the series against the Bronx Bombers and hit a home run to win Game Three, but New York won the series three games to two. Rodgers decided to move Molitor again in , this time to third base, and Molitor was getting frustrated.
The team started the season slowly, and, with the Brewers floundering in fifth place on June 2, Dalton replaced Rodgers with Harvey Kuenn. In an injury-free year, Molitor played in games, led the league with runs scored, stole 41 bases, and collected hits, third in the league behind teammates Yount and first-baseman Cecil Cooper He was positioned to lead the Brewers into their first League Championship Series.
The Brewers bounced back when the best-of-five series moved to Milwaukee, and they won the next three games at home. Molitor homered again, this time hitting one over the fence at County Stadium. For the series, Molitor keyed the Brewers offense by slugging.
Louis Cardinals. In the first game, Molitor set a fall classic record with five hits, all singles, to lead the Brewers to a win. He had three infield singles and a broken-bat bloop. But a fourth win proved elusive. Back home at Busch, the Cardinals won Game Six Molitor, who hit. After their season, the Brewers suffered a letdown in With the sore wrist, Molitor struggled through the worst slump of his career, a 2-for stretch in which he went hitless in the last 25 at-bats. He batted.
In the end, Molitor was not forced to testify when Peters went to trial, and he avoided punishment from the baseball authorities as well, but his name and those of four other players came out in public early in the season at the trial.
In the spring of , Molitor was diagnosed with a slight tear in the medial collateral ligament in his right [throwing] elbow. He opened the season limited to designated-hitter duties and in late April tried a few games at third base. The elbow, however, was growing increasingly sensitive, and with Molitor hitting just. Named after Tommy John, a pitcher who successfully resumed his career after this surgery, the procedure consists of replacing a ligament in the elbow with a tendon from elsewhere in the body.
On July 2, Molitor doubled and scored the winning run against Boston for his 1,th hit. Paul natives Dave Winfield and Jack Morris. His season appeared to be relatively injury-free until the end of August, when he missed two weeks with a sprained ankle. Molitor suffered though another injury-plagued season in He tore his hamstring on May 9 charging a bunt in Anaheim. He hit a home run when he returned on May 30 but played in just three games before he aggravated the injury and went back on the disabled list.
Molitor returned on June 17 for two games before again tearing his hamstring chasing a fly ball while playing left field. In one of the best games of his career, on August 19, Molitor led the Brewers to a win in Cleveland by slugging two home runs and two doubles. He finished the year with a.
Milwaukee started the season red-hot, tying the modern major-league record with 13 straight wins from the opening bell. Molitor helped key the streak by batting. Unfortunately, the injury bug struck once more when he was caught in a rundown between third and home and again tore his hamstring. Out four weeks, he came back, but then missed games with groin and elbow injuries before re-injuring his hamstring. When Molitor returned to the lineup on July 16 at home against California he had one hit, a double in four at-bats.
Now limited to designated-hitter duties, over the next couple of weeks as Molitor consistently rapped out hits, he began attracting attention for his consecutive-game hitting streak.
As the pressure on Molitor mounted, he tried to keep the streak in perspective. Three nights later Molitor was at home against Cleveland and going for his 40th consecutive game with a hit, which would tie Ty Cobb for sixth on the all-time list. Hitless in his first four at-bats, Molitor was on deck in the 10th inning when Rick Manning singled home the winning run.
What I was really doing was telling him to go back to third. That was probably the most emotional moment of the streak for me. Buoyed by the streak, Molitor turned in his best season statistically. He led the league in doubles with 41 and runs scored with , an astounding accomplishment considering he played in only games.
He also stole a career-high 45 bases and during the streak became the 33 rd major leaguer to steal second, third, and home in the same inning. His on-base percentage of. Molitor was named the starting American League second baseman in the All-Star Game, despite appearing in only one game at the position. At the end of the season, Molitor had been moved over to second base briefly, and that was where he was placed on the ballot for Molitor began the season on the disabled list with a dislocated finger, but he recovered quickly and joined the team in mid-April.
He remained healthy throughout the remainder of the season, and again received his performance bonus when he played in games. In another strong season, despite one of the longest slumps of his career after the All-Star break, Molitor hit. A regular at third base through the bulk of the season, he was switched to second near its conclusion by manager Tom Trebelhorn.
The Brewers had two young shortstop prospects, Bill Spiers and Gary Sheffield, and Trebelhorn wanted to get them both into the lineup, one at short, the other at third. Molitor, Sheffield, Spiers, Gantner, and Dale Sveum, the starting shortstop in and , were all vying for three positions second, third, and short.
Unfortunately for the Brewers, as the injury bug bit, the Brewers actually found themselves with too few alternatives, not too many. The year-old Molitor was bothered by a sore shoulder in spring training, then fractured his thumb.
He missed a month, and when he returned Trebelhorn put him at second to reduce the strain on his shoulder. Trebelhorn shifted him to first base, which riled regular first baseman Greg Brock and triggered his agent complaining to Dalton.
Molitor hit. Already slated for shoulder surgery, he underwent a separate surgery on his forearm to repair the injury. Molitor returned to full-time duty in but, no longer able to throw, was now limited to designated hitter and first base.
For some reason Molitor flourished as a designated hitter — his position during the game hitting streak — and over the remainder of his career he had some of his best seasons despite his advanced age he turned 35 in August.
On May 15 in Minnesota, Molitor hit for the cycle, and later in the year he singled off Bret Saberhagen for his 2,th hit. Overall, belying his injury reputation, Molitor played in games and led the league in plate appearances and at-bats. He performed well in all those opportunities: he batted. Molitor thrived in his new role.
But the Brewers faced a difficult decision at the end of the season. While his teammates mourned, Molitor moved on with some trepidation but ready to embrace his new opportunity. He moved his family to Toronto and showed up at spring training ahead of schedule. Molitor, who opted to wear number 19 on his Toronto uniform in honor of Yount, joined a veteran team that had won the World Series the year before.
He was slated to replace a St. Paul native, designated-hitter Dave Winfield, in the Blue Jays lineup Winfield had moved on to the Twins , and join another hometown product, pitcher Jack Morris. Molitor quickly endeared himself to the fans north of the border. In May, he hit. Molitor also drove in , scored runs, and led the league with hits. Molitor was able to set aside the resulting uproar for the postseason. For the series Molitor hit. Set to appear in his second World Series, Molitor became the center of speculation.
The Phillies and Jays split the two opening games in Toronto, and the question of the hour was how Cito Gaston would use Molitor in Philadelphia, the National League city, where he was unable to employ a designated hitter. The move paid off. He later slugged a solo home run and a single in a win. Gaston felt he could run this risk because the Phillies were mostly a left-handed-hitting team.
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