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An April 1925 newspaper article about players on baseball's "disabled list", as the injured list was then known. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the injured list (IL) is a method for teams to remove their injured players from the roster in order to summon healthy players. Before the 2019 season, it was known as the disabled list (DL).
Designated list – when the Active or Reserve List Limit has been reached for a particular club, and the club desires to add an additional player, one player from that club must be designated, meaning giving notice to the Commissioner to release or assign that player within 10 days. Such players do not count towards the player limits, but ...
Outfielders often use the sound of bat-meeting-ball as a clue to how far a ball has been hit. As physicist Robert Adair has written, "When a baseball is hit straight at an outfielder he cannot quickly judge the angle of ascent and the distance the ball will travel. If he waits until the trajectory is well defined, he has waited too long and ...
The site has season, career, and minor league records (when available, back to 1888) for everyone who has played Major League Baseball, year-by-year team pages, all final league standings, all postseason numbers, voting results for all historic awards such as the Cy Young Award and MVP, head-to-head batter vs. pitcher career totals, individual statistical leaders for each season and all-time ...
The Complete Baseball Record & Fact Book. Sporting News Publishing Company. 2008. pp. 131– 133. OCLC 234952886. "Six-hit games (from 1900 onwards)". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Archived from the original on November 8, 2016 "Six hit games from 1916 to 2013". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. May 29, 2013
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. It can alternatively be described as the league's hitters' combined batting average against the pitcher.
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
Chuck Klein hit the first of two cycles to occur in July 1931, also the first of his career; his second came two seasons later. The last cycle of the 1930s was hit by Arky Vaughn. Ted Williams hit for the cycle on July 21, 1946, after spending the three previous seasons serving in the military during World War II.