Youk ties Rice for 2nd place on Red Sox career HBP list

Yesterday, Kevin Youkilis took an HBP from David Hernandez in the 10th inning against Baltimore, making that his 64 career plunk. That ties him with Jim Rice on the Red Sox career HBP list, and leaves him just 7 plunks shy of Mo Vaughn's record total of 71. Since Youk got hit a career high 16 times last season, there's every reason to expect that 2010 will end with Kevin Youkilis as the most plunked batter in Red Sox franchise history. In order to see how Youk has stacked up against Vaughn in the art of HBPs, below is a side by side comparison of Youk's career HBP splits against Mo Vaughn's Red Sox totals (Not including Mo's work with other teams). It's worth mentioning that Mo Vaughn frequently wore a very large arm protector, which would not have been legal in any of the seasons since Youk joined the league. The league banned the use of giant arm protectors in 2000, although some players (Barry Bonds) used a grandfather clause to continue using them. This is where I'm obliged to mention that Craig Biggio, the modern master of the plunk and Seton Hall teammate of Vaughns, conformed to the new arm guard rule after 2000, even though he could have used the grandfather clause and kept the huge police-dog-training-sleeve style guard.

HBPs by pitching team
Team	Mo	Youk
Yankees	7	12
Mariners	13	4
Orioles	5	9
Tigers	9	5
Blue Jays	7	7
A's	6	2
Brewers	7	0
Rays	0	7
White Sox	1	5
Angels	7	4
Twins	4	1
Indians	2	2
Royals	2	1
Cardinals	0	2
Phillies	0	1
Mets	0	1
Marlins	0	1
Rangers	1	0
Total	71	64

HBPs by pitcher splits
Pitcher	Mo	Youk
Lefthanders	37	13
Righthanders	34	51
Lefthanded Venezuelans	1	1
Cubans	0	3
New Yorkers	5	1
Americans	64	50
Roosters*	5	10
Last initial S	5	10
Mike Mussina	1	1

*- Pitchers born in the Chinese year of the Rooster

HBPs by Situation
Situation	Mo	Youk
Bases Loaded	1	2
1st inning	14	7
9th inning	5	6
extra innings	1	2
no outs	20	21
1 out	20	22
2 outs	31	21
Run scored*	16	26
in red sox wins	43	44
in red sox losses	28	20
in losses to the hated yankees	4	7
at Fenway	37	33
at Yankee Stadia (old and new)	5	5
Full Moon	2	1
Sundays	9	9
Saturdays	16	10
Odd numbered days of the month	41	32
Even numbered days of the month	30	32
April	9	10
May	10	12
June	12	15
July	11	6
August	11	14
September	18	7

*- Runs Scored indicates instances where the player scored a run after reaching base on the HBP, although in some instances it may have been a pinch-runner who did the actual scoring.

Mike Mussina is the only pitcher who plunked both Youkilis and Vaughn while they played for the Red Sox, although Andy Pettitte has hit them both, but got Vaughn while he played for the Mets. Mussina plunked Vaughn while pitching for the Orioles, and Youk as a Yankee. Hopefully this information will help you further enjoy watching Kevin Youkilis ascend into the Red Sox history books, in this grittiest of fashions. Perhaps after he gets this record, next year he'll go after the team's single season record - 35 by Don Baylor in 1986. (That's also the AL single season record, and only David Eckstein has gotten within 10 HBPs of it since it was set. Eckstein had 27 in 2002.)