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Batting average (BA) is the average number of hits per at-bat (BA=H/AB). A perfect batting average would be 1.000 (read: "one thousand"). A batting average of .300 ("three hundred") is considered to be excellent, which means the best hitters fail to get a hit in 70% of their at-bats.
Josh Gibson has the highest major-league career batting average (.372). He is also the most recent player to hit .400 in a season (1943). In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 is a nearly unachievable goal.
His hitting improved modestly in 1980 and 1981, enough that even with another sub-.200 in his final season of 1982 he raised his career batting average to .215. [4] Mendoza returned to his native land in 1983 and played seven seasons in the Mexican League, and achieved a more than respectable .291 career batting average in that league.
In cricket, a player's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out.Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player's skill as a batter.
Traditionally, statistics such as batting average (the number of hits divided by the number of at bats) and earned run average (the average number of runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings, less errors and other events out of the pitcher's control) have dominated attention in the statistical world of baseball.
In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner , to drive runners home or to advance runners along the bases for others to drive home, but the techniques ...
For example, Player A gets 100 hits in 400 at bats over 510 plate appearances, which works out to a .250 batting average (equivalent to one hit in every four at-bats). Alternatively, Player B gets 110 hits in 400 at bats over 490 plate appearances during the same season, finishing with a .275 batting average.
Also batting a thousand. Getting everything in a series of items right. Getting everything in a series of items right. In baseball, someone with a batting average of one thousand (written as 1.000) has had a hit for every at bat in the relevant time period (e.g., in a game ).