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For individual players, leaders in stolen bases for a career, single season, and single game are provided, along with leaders in stolen base percentage for a single season and career. Team records for stolen bases in a single season are also provided. Stolen bases were not officially noted in a baseball game's summary until 1886, and it was not ...
Record Player # Season Most wins Old Hoss Radbourn: 60 1884: Most losses John Coleman: 48 1883 Lowest E.R.A. Eugene Bremer: 0.711 1937: Most strikeouts Matt Kilroy: 513 1886: Most shutouts George Bradley Pete Alexander: 16 1876 1916: Most innings pitched Will White: 680 1879: Most complete games Will White 75 1879: Lowest WHIP Hilton Smith.6176 ...
Max Carey led the National League in stolen bases ten times, the most times of any player. Maury Wills led the National League in stolen bases in six consecutive seasons. Vince Coleman is the only other player to do so. John Montgomery Ward was the first player to lead the National League in stolen bases for different teams.
Henderson's record for the most postseason stolen bases was broken by Kenny Lofton's 34th career steal during the 2007 ALCS; [137] Henderson is the only American League player to steal more than 100 bases in a single season (having accomplished the feat three times), [100] and he is the all-time stolen base leader for the Oakland A's.
Stolen bases were more common in baseball's dead-ball era, when teams relied more on stolen bases and hit and run plays than on home runs. [2] Rickey Henderson holds the MLB career stolen base record with 1,406. [3] He is the only MLB player to have reached the 1,000 stolen bases milestone in his career.
Between 2000 and 2009, the Major League leader in stolen bases finished each year with an average of 64, and that number dropped to 57 in the 2010s—a decade in which no player stole 70 bases in a season. Ronald Acuña Jr.'s 73 stolen bases in 2023, coinciding with the aforementioned rule changes that aided base stealers, are the most in a ...
Single-season batting records Statistic Player Record Season Ref Batting average: Babe Herman.393 1930 [19] On-base percentage: Mike Griffin.466 1894 [20] Slugging percentage: Babe Herman.678 1930 [19] On-base plus slugging: Babe Herman: 1.132 1930 [19] Hits: Babe Herman: 241 1930 [19] Total bases: Babe Herman: 416 1930 [19] Singles: Willie ...
The all-time best single season record belongs to the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who posted baseball's only perfect record at 67–0 (57–0 against National Association of Base Ball Players clubs) in 1869, prior to Major League baseball. Their record stretched to 81–0 across the 1870 season before losing 8–7 in eleven innings to the ...