Schmidt and Howard

So flipping over to the Phillies Brewers game yesterday, they posted a stat when Howard was up saying that Howard's 6 straight seasons of 30+ homers and 100+ RBIs is a franchise record.

I thought Schmidt had to have had more consecutive seasons than 6 but that maybe the '82 strike screwed up his streak.

It turns out that Schmidt hit 35 homers in 82, but only 87 RBIs. In fact, it is the RBIs that stopped him several years, though he just missed 100:

1975 - 38, 95

1981- 31, 91

1982 - 35, 87

1985 - 33, 93

But the year that really jumped out at me was 1978. Schmidt hit only 21 HRs and 78 RBIs. Baseball-reference says he played in 145 games, so it wasn't a major injury, but I can't recall - being only 11 at the time - why Schmidt slumped so badly that year. It's a huge anomaly, particularly homer-wise, for a guy who averaged 37/107 over the course of his career.