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In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player in each league wins the "RBI crown" [4] or "RBI title" [5] [6] each season by hitting the most runs batted in that year. The first RBI champion in the National League (NL) was Deacon White ; in the league's inaugural 1876 season, White hit 60 RBIs for the Chicago White Stockings . [ 7 ]
RBI [2] Player Team Year Years record stood 60: Deacon White * Chicago White Stockings: 1876: 3 62: Charley Jones: Boston Red Caps: 1879: 1 62: John O'Rourke (r) Boston Red Caps: 1879: 1 74: Cap Anson * Chicago White Stockings: 1880: 1 82: Cap Anson * Chicago White Stockings: 1881: 1 83: Cap Anson * Chicago White Stockings: 1882: 1 97: Dan ...
The list on this page is compiled from Baseball-Reference, which credits RBIs from 1907 to 1919 as recorded by baseball writer and historian Ernest Lanigan. One difference between the lists is that Babe Ruth is ranked third by Baseball Reference, but seventh by MLB, which does not count Ruth's 224 RBI compiled before 1920.
The 2018 edition of the Official Baseball Rules of Major League Baseball (MLB), Rule 9.04 Runs Batted In, reads: [6] A run batted in is a statistic credited to a batter whose action at bat causes one or more runs to score, as outlined in Rule 9.04. (a) The official scorer shall credit the batter with a run batted in for every run that scores
The Chicago Colts, New York Giants, 1964 St. Louis Cardinals and 1999 Colorado Rockies accomplished their feats on the road, meaning they scored in all 9 innings they batted and are the sole instances of a team scoring a run in 9 innings.
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
Fernando Tatís holds the MLB mark of 8 RBI in a single inning, set in 1999 with two grand slams. Alex Rodriguez set the AL mark with 7 RBI, in a game in which he reached 30 HR and 100 RBI for a record 13th consecutive season. Cody Bellinger is the most recent player to tie the 6-RBI mark, doing so on June 6, 2021.
List of Major League Baseball records includes the following lists of the superlative statistics of Major League Baseball (MLB): General.