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Lenny Harris had 212 hits in 804 pinch hit at bats, both records in Major League Baseball.. In baseball, a pinch hitter (PH) is a substitute batter.Batters can be substituted at any time while the ball is dead (not in active play); the manager may use any player who has not yet entered the game as a substitute.
Hit two home runs as a pinch hitter. [8] Warren Spahn † 35 35 [9] Red Ruffing † 34 36 Hit two home runs as a pinch hitter. [10] Earl Wilson: 33 35 Hit two home runs as a pinch hitter. [11] Don Drysdale † 29 29 [12] John Clarkson † 24 24 [23] Bob Gibson † 24 24 [24] Carlos Zambrano: 24 24 [25] Walter Johnson † 23 24 Hit one home run ...
A successful hit occurs when the batter reaches a base: reaching only first base is a single; reaching second base, a double; third base, a triple; and a hit that allows the batter to touch all bases in order on the same play is a home run—whether the ball is hit over the fence does not matter (if the ball is not hit over the fence and the ...
Pinch-hitter Jason Heyward broke an eighth-inning tie with a three-run homer and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for a 6-3 victory over the reeling Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night. Heyward lined ...
The 15-year veteran is batting just .208 with a .682 on-base-plus-slugging percentage, six homers and 28 RBIs in 63 games this season, but he has three pinch-hit homers during his career, and a ...
The 1993 book had Gibson hitting 146 home runs in the 501 "official" Negro League games they were able to account for in his 17-year career, about one home run every 3.4 games. Babe Ruth, in 22 seasons (several of them in the dead-ball era), hit 714 in 2503 games, or one home run every 3.5 games. The large gap in the numbers for Gibson reflects ...
Bo Naylor had a pinch-hit, three-run homer in the sixth inning to give the Cleveland Guardians a 5-4 win over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday and another home series win for the AL Central leaders.
On a game-winning hit, a batter is credited for the full number of bases only if "the batter runs out his hit." (Rule 9.06(f)) A game-winning home run is allowed to complete before the game ends, even if it puts the home team ahead by more than one run. (Rule 7.01(g)(3), Exception; also 9.06(g))