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Major League Triple Crown Winners. Triple crown categories are Batting Average, Home Runs and Runs Batted In for batters and Wins, Strikeouts and ERA for pitchers.
Walter Johnson holds the highest win total by an AL pitching Triple Crown winner, with 36 in 1913. Among AL pitching Triple Crown winners, Pedro Martínez registered the highest season strikeout total, with 313 in 1999.
Here is the complete list of pitchers who have won a Triple Crown in the American League or National League since 1913, which is when earned runs and ERA became official stats. In that time, a total of 22 pitchers have accomplished the feat a combined 31 times.
The Triple Crown of pitching is "awarded" to the pitcher who leads — or ties — his league in three major pitching areas: 1: wins, 2: strikeouts, and 3: earned run average. All three of those categories must be led or tied at the end of the season in order to be part of a Triple Crown performance.
Here is a closer look at each of the men who have accomplished this impressive hitting feat: 2012 -- Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers (AL): Miggy captured baseball's first Triple Crown in 45 years by batting .330 with 44 homers and 139 RBIs.
Can you name the post-1950 MLB pitching Triple Crown winners?
A Major League Baseball Triple Crown is recorded by: a hitter who leads either the American League or National League in batting average , home runs , and runs batted in in the same season. a pitcher who leads either the American League or National League in earned run average , wins , and strikeouts in the same season.
Every Triple Crown Winner in MLB History | Baseball Almanac. The Triple Crown is "awarded" (received or honored with as no physical award exists) to the hitter who leads his own League in all three of these hitting statistics: 1: Home runs. 2: Batting average. 3: Runs batted in. All three categories must be led or tied at the end of the season ...
Twenty players have won the Triple Crown since in the history of the Major Leagues. Of those, Rogers Hornsby and Ted Williams each won it twice, as did Negro Leaguers Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. Williams came within a hair of winning a third Triple Crown in 1949.
The most recent Triple Crown winners for pitching are Clayton Kershaw and Justin Verlander, who won for the NL and AL respectively in 2011 (the first season since 1924 to see Triple Crown winners in both leagues).