The 2023 Opening Day is just seven weeks away. The Milwaukee Brewers will take on the Chicago Cubs in Chicago for the second straight season.
Milwaukee lost Opening Day last season 5-4. The Crew had 10 hits in the game, including two each by Willy Adames, Rowdy Tellez, and Andrew McCutchen.
With 54 Opening Day games in their history, who has the most career hits for the Brewers on Opening Day?
Paul Molitor and Robin Yount rank 1-2 on this list
As you might expect, two of the greatest Milwaukee Brewers are 1-2 in this stat. Paul Molitor had 16 career Opening Day hits as a Brewer followed by fellow Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Yount who had 15 Opening Day base hits for Milwaukee.
Here are the Brewers players who have at least seven career Opening Day hits for the team.
Brewers players with seven or more career Opening Day hits
16-Paul Molitor
15-Robin Yount
11-Rickie Weeks, Cecil Cooper, Jim Gantner, Ryan Braun
10-Jeff Cirillo
8-Carlos Gomez, Geoff Jenkins
7-Greg Vaughn, Prince Fielder, Don Money
Looking at Opening Day batting averages, a few different Brewers players jump to the top of the list. Based on those Brewers with five or more Opening Day hits, Chuckie Carr has the highest batting average of a Brewers player on Opening Day. Carr went 5-for-9 in two Opening Day games for the Brewers, including a four-hit game on April 2, 1996, versus the Angels. Carr is one of four Milwaukee Brewers to collect four hits on Opening Day; the others: Carlos Gomez (4-5-2010), Dave Nilsson (4-5-1994) and Jose Valentin (4-2-1996).
Best career Opening Day batting averages by Brewers players
Here are the Brewers who had a career batting average of .400 or better on Opening Day (minimum of five career Opening Day hits to qualify for the list).
.556-Chuckie Carr
.500-Jeff Cirillo
.500-Dave Nilsson
.429-Aramis Ramirez
.400-Jose Valentin
.400-Fernando Vina
The MLB record for most career Opening Day hits is 31 held by Pete Rose. He is followed by Joe Judge, Jeff Kent and Carl Yastrzemski with 28; Rod Carew and Babe Ruth with 27; and Barry Bonds, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Fred McGriff, Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson with 25.
Of MLB players with 16 or more career Opening Day hits, Jeff Kent, Adrian Gonzalez and Gabby Hartnett have the best career Opening Day batting averages, each with .467.
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