The Giants offense exploded at Coors Field Tuesday night as they beat the Rockies 23-5. Alex Dickerson played a historic game going five for six with three home runs and two doubles and six RBI. His sixteen total bases ties the club record held by Willie Mays.

He also posts a Baseball Musings Batter Game Score of 106. I devised this metric for use in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings, to parallel how Bill James uses his pitcher game scores to rank pitchers. The scale is the same; a neutral game gets a score of 50. The higher the score, the better the game. Most players on a given day come in between 30 at the low end and 80 at the high end. A game score over 100 is rare and indicates a great feat.

With data going back through the 1920 season, this was the 93rd 100+ game score in the Day by Day Database. Shawn Green holds the record at 119 for his 5/23/2002 game that resulted in a six for six with four home runs and a double. Mays’s 16 total bases game scored 104 (4/30/1961), and Mays had another 104 game on 5/13/1958 where he went four for five with two triples and two home runs.

Congratulations to Dickerson for joining many of the all-time greats with this tremendous game.

Top five in the Batter Rankings today go to Trea Turner, Jose Abreu, Anthony Rendon, Nelson Cruz, and Manny Machado. The top five are only separated by about four points.