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OZZIE ALBIES
FRONT OFFICE 2020 POSTSEASON major league notes
• Was Atlanta’s starting second baseman for all 12
• Awards: N.L. All-Star (2018), Louisville Slugger
of its postseason games…Hit .277/.327/.447 (13-
for-47) with two home runs, four RBI and eight Silver Slugger (2019; 2B).
• Earned his first career All-Star honor in
runs scored.
his first full major-league season, getting
• His two home runs and eight runs scored selected as a reserve in 2018…Had 52
MANAGER & STAFF • Had 13 hits in 12 games, fourth most by a second 29 doubles, three triples and 20 home
were both records for a Braves second
extra-base hits prior to the break, hitting
baseman in a single postseason.
runs…That was one off the franchise
baseman in a single postseason in franchise
record for most extra-bases before the
history…Only Mark Lemke (20 in 1996 and 14 in
1991) and Bret Boone (19 in 1999) had more. All-Star Game (Aaron, 53 in 1959)…Had a
franchise-record 22 such hits by the end
• Recorded at least one hit in nine games. of April, the second most in history.
• Had a hit in his first three games, after also • Became the first second baseman in
OZZIE ALBIES the 2019 NLDS…The seven-game hitting Led all qualified N.L. players at his position
franchise history to win a Silver Slugger…
collecting hits in the final four games of
in 2019 in batting average (.295) and
streak was tied for the second longest
slugging percentage (.500).
such streak in Braves postseason history
among players his age, 23, or younger… • Teammate Ronald Acuña Jr. also won a
Chipper Jones had an eight-game streak Silver Slugger award that season…Albies
in 1995, also as a 23-year-old. played the season at age 22, while Acuña
SEASON IN REVIEW two games of the NLCS vs. Los Angeles, hitting • Has 450 hits since debuting in August 2017,
• His two homers and four RBI came in the first
Jr. was 21…They are the only teammates
in major-league history age 22 or younger
one homer and driving in two in each game.
to win Silver Sluggers in the same season.
• Is the only second baseman in franchise
history to homer multiple times in the
postseason, yet alone in consecutive through just 404 career games…That is the fifth
most hits in the N.L. in that time, trailing Freddie
games. Freeman (504), Charlie Blackmon (503), Nolan
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT He is the only player in major-league • Led the National League in hits in 2019
Arenado (464) and Trevor Story (464).
• Both homers came in the ninth inning…
with 189, becoming the fifth Atlanta-era
history to hit ninth-inning homers in
back-to-back playoff games.
player (since 1966) to lead the league in
that category, joining Freddie Freeman
• His homer in Game 1 capped a four-run
inning…3B Austin Riley homered to start
Ralph Garr (1974) and Felipe Alou (1966
the frame…Riley (23 years, 193 days) and (2018), Terry Pendleton (1991 and 1992),
Albies (23 years, 279 days) are the first and 1968)…His 189 hits were an Atlanta-
BRAVES HISTORY to hit a home run in the same inning in • Teammate Freddie Freeman had an
era record for a second baseman.
pair of teammates age 23 or younger
N.L.-best 191 hits the year prior, 2018…
postseason history.
• All four of his extra-base hits in the postseason
to have a player lead the league in hits in
came in consecutive games (2B in Game 3 of the The Braves became the first N.L. team
DS, HRs in Games 1-2 of the LCS, 2B in Game 3 consecutive seasons since the Cubs in
of the LCS)…That matches the longest extra-base 2005 and 2006…Derrek Lee had 199 in
2005, while Juan Pierre had 204 in 2006.
hit streak in major-league postseason history for • Since his first full season in 2018, has 113 games
OPPONENTS Charlie Keller (1 2B, 1 3B, 3 HR) first set the with multiple hits, sixth most in the N.L.
any player his age, 23, or younger…The Yankees’
mark in 1939, and the Rays’ Evan Longoria later
matched it in 2008 (2 2B, 4 HR)…Both players • Has a single-game career-best four
hits on five occasions, including four
were also 23. which came in August 2019…Did so in
consecutive games, on 8/6 and 8/7 at
Minnesota…Is just the eighth Braves player
MISCELLANEOUS 74 2021 ATLANTA BRAVES MEDIA GUIDE to-back four-hit games, and the first since
in the live-ball era (since 1920) with back-
Matt Diaz in 2006.