[WriteRight]

Actually, that was Roberto's final regular season at bat. The final hit of his career came in Game 5 of the 1972 NL playoff at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, a game won by the Reds when George Foster scored on a wild pitch by Pirate pitcher Bob Moose.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"George Foster scored on a wild pitch by Pirate pitcher Bob Moose."

And Bob Moose was not long for this world at that time as he died in a car crash a few years later. A lifelong Pittsburgh fan, I'll never forget my brothers and I crying when our mother told us that he had went down in a plane crash. For years, I fantasized that maybe he was living on a deserted island somewhere and would get picked up. Roberto's son got drafted by the Phillies I believe but I don't think he ever made it to the big leagues.

[carton253]

I remember that game. My dad and uncle were at Riverfront. I was stuck watching it at home. Big Red Machine!!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yes, the Pirates were in the playoffs in ‘72, so he got some hits in the playoffs. But the 3,000 hits in his career are regular season hits only.

This is true for all players stats. When they tell us “so and so won 300 games”, “so and so hit 500 home runs”, “so and so had 3000 hits”, they always mean just the regular season statistics. Playoff statistics go in a separate category.