Close one on 5/8/05…

7–Reyes, SS
5–Wright, 3B
3–Cairo, 2B
4–Woodward, 1B
11–Castro, C

Not quite as aesthetically pleasing as 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9, but six times in August of 1974:

15 - Grote, C
7 - Kranepool, 1B
17 - Millan, 2B
3 - Harrelson, SS
11 - Garrett, 3B

With Torre (9) inserted for Garrett at third and/or Phillips (5) in for Harrelson, it happened a few times in 1975 as well.

And because I’m in major procrastination mode, from September 18, 2005:

31 - Piazza, C
27 - Jacobs, 1B
1 - Hernandez, 2B
7 - Reyes, SS
5 - Wright, 3B

I remember this well because it was the first (not counting the catcher) all-1980s-born infield in Mets history.

I was definitely going for aesthetic pleasure with the 1,3,5,7,9 thingy. I didn’t mean to indicate there hadn’t been an all-odd infield before.

However… can we find a game with an all-odd (or all-even) lineup? Milner and Staub are pesky even-stevens in the first set; Diaz and Floyd ruin your second example.

Curse you Karim Garcia! From May 30, 2004:

57 - Valent, LF
25 - Matsui, SS
31 - Piazza, 1B
43 - Spencer, CF
20 - Garcia, RF
23 - Phillips, C
27 - Zeile, 3B
9 - Wigginton, 2B
29 - Trachsel, P

No doubt you’ve already run the numbers on this metric, but how does this lineup rank for quantity? They add up to 264, with only Wiggy below 20.

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There must have been a Kranepool - Weis - Harrelson - Charles - Martin infield at least once in 1969.