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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.
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto enˈrike kleˈmente (ɣ)walˈkeɾ]; [a] August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.
The modern-era (post-1900) record for highest batting average for a season is held by Nap Lajoie, who hit .426 in 1901, [14] the first year of play for the American League. The modern-era record for lowest batting average for a player that qualified for the batting title is held by Chris Davis, who hit .168 in 2018. [15]
Shawn Green, for example, established a new major league record with 19 total bases and finished with a total of five extra-base hits, [4] tying a National League record that was also achieved by Larry Twitchell during the latter's six-hit game. [5] Four of Green's six hits were home runs, equaling the record for most home runs in one game. [4]
In addition, Oscar Charleston won batting championships in the Negro National League and Eastern Colored League. Charleston also holds the third all-time highest career batting average of .363 during a span of 21 years (1920-1941). In 1921, Charleston posted a career-best batting average of .434 with the St. Louis Giants. [33]
Josh Gibson has the highest career batting average in major league history with .372. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred."
Since then, Gibson not only holds the new record for career batting average, but also the records for career OPS with 1.177 and slugging percentage with .718, as well as the single-season records in all three categories. Gibson set the both single-season records for OPS and slugging in the 1937 season with 1.474 and .974, respectively, and the ...
Sandy Koufax had a .179 batting average against in 1965, the best in Major League Baseball for that season. [1]In baseball statistics, batting average against (denoted by BAA or AVG), also known as opponents' batting average (denoted by OBA), [a] is a statistic that measures a pitcher's ability to prevent hits during official at bats.