#12 - FIRST BASEMAN - PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES. 3 in the Pirates' organization, behind Andrew McCutchen and Brad Lincoln. with a .992 fielding percentage behind Cincinnati's Brandon Phillips (.996)...Made his fourth straight Opening Day start at second base; the longest streak by a Bucco player since Carlos Garcia from 1993-1996...Hit a walkoff home run on Opening Day to beat the Cubs, 1-0, in 10 innings- it was his first career walkoff hit of any kind in the Majors...Recorded his second career two-homer game on 4/14 at Cincinnati...Teamed up with Gaby Sanchez to hit back-to-back home runs twice in the game on 4/14 - just the second set of Pittsburgh teammates to do so (also Toby Atwell and Jerry Lynch on 4/27/54 vs. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by … Cincinnati)...Connected off LHP Manny Parra for his fifth career home run batting right-handed on 4/15 at Cincinnati...Was tied for the National League lead in home runs after hitting his sixth on 4/20...Reached base safely in all five plate appearances on 5/1 at Baltimore (game two) and in seven straight PA's from 5/1-2...Went 3-for-4 with three runs scored while batting second on 5/2 vs. Toronto...Hit game-winning three-run homer in seventh inning of Pittsburgh's 6-4 win vs. St. Louis on 5/9; also had seasonhigh four RBI...Hit safely in 11 straight games from 5/20-30 (16-for-45; .356)...Tied for fifth among N.L.
1B Neil Walker assigned to Lehigh Valley IronPigs. 0 HR. Latest on Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Neil Walker including news, stats, videos, highlights and more on ESPN Neil Martin Walker…Married, wife's name is Nikki (12/3/11); has one daughter, Nora Vail (8/23/16), and one son, Nolan Forest (11/4/19)…2004 graduate of Pine-Richland High School (PA)…His father Tom pitched professionally in the majors with MTL (1972-74; '77), DET (1975), STL (1976) and CAL (1977)…Tom helped load supplies on Roberto Clemente's plane that ultimately crashed on New Year's … batters with 35 hits during the month of May; hit .313 with four home runs and 17 RBI during the month...Had three hits and three RBI on 6/2 at San Diego and hit a two-run homer the following night...Started each of the first 58 games thru 6/3 - the longest streak of consecutive starts at the beginning of a season since Jason Bay in 2007 (79)...Had an emergency appendectomy on 6/9 and was placed on the 15-day disabled list...Played one rehab game with High-A Bradenton on 6/22...Faced Gerrit Cole in a simulated game in Tampa on 6/23...Was recalled from rehab and reinstated from D.L. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC.
Walker was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 1, 2009, with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Profile: Neil Walker is an average second baseman. Neil Walker Stats. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Many thanks to him. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Bat: S. Throw: R. Born: September 10, 1985 Pittsburgh, … Neil Walker. January 22, 2020 Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent 1B Neil Walker to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 1 RBI. Neil Walker was born on Tuesday, September 10, 1985, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After three minor league seasons, At the beginning of the 2007 season, Baseball America rated him No. Louis...The 4-5-4 triple play is believed to be the first in major league history....Had a hit from both sides of the plate in the same inning (first inning) on August 13 at St. Louis....Set a career-high with six RBI on September 23 at Colorado while going 4-for-5.Started at second base in Pittsburgh's NL Wild Card Game match-up with Chicago.Was named to the Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger team, the first Pittsburgh second baseman to win the award since Johnny Ray in 1983...Established club record for most home runs (23) in a season by a middle infielder; previous high of 19 was held by Hall-of-Fame second baseman Bill Mazeroski in 1958 and Hall-of-Fame shortstop Arky Vaughan in 1935...Extended his club record to five straight seasons with at least 10 home runs while playing second base...Ranked first among National League second basemen in home runs, slugging percentage (.469) and OPS (.811); ranked second in RBI (76) behind Chase Utley (77)...Produced a .280 average and two home runs while batting right handed and a .269 average and 21 homers batting left handed; the first time in his big league career he batted higher against LHP...Made 135 appearances (132 starts) at second base and ranked second in the N.L. .217 AVG. Height/Weight: 6' 2"/214 lbs. Was a defensive replacement in 7-2 Wild Card win over Oakland, and went 1x4 with an RBI in three games during ALDS vs. Boston.Played in 113 games in his first season with New York before having a season-ending lumbar micro discectomy procedure September 8...Matched a career-high with 23 home runs (also 2014 with Pittsburgh)...His 23 home runs were third-most in a single-season by a Mets second baseman (Edgardo Alfonzo holds the top two spots with 27 home runs in 1999 and 25 homers in 2000)...His 23 home runs were the most among National League second basemen...Homered in back-to-back games five times, the most times he's done so in a single-season in his career...Batted .330 (33-100) with eight home runs and 16 RBI versus lefthanded pitching...The eight home runs off lefthanded pitching were the most he's hit in a single-season in his career...Had six career homers off lefthanded pitching entering this season...Finished the month of April with 19 RBI, his most ever in the month of April...His previous best was 11 RBI in April of 2014...His nine home runs in April tied a franchise record for the month of April...Dave Kingman (1976), Carlos Delgado (2006) and John Buck (2013) also hit nine home runs in April...Homered off José Quintana to give the Mets a win in an eventual 1-0 game on May 30 vs. Chicago-AL...Was the 28th 1-0 win decided by a home run for the Mets in team history...Prior to his season-ending surgery, Walker was batting .440 (40-91) with three doubles, one triple, seven home runs, 15 RBI and 19 runs scored from July 27-August 27 (23 games)...Had five, three-hit games and one, four-hit game in that time.Led all NL second basemen in extra-base hits (50), home runs (16) and slugging percentage (.428)... Had two putouts and one assist as part of a 4-5-4 triple play on May 9 vs. St.