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Total includes 15 triples in his one year in the Federal League, giving 167 triples in his Major League career. The 1901–1903 records for a single season are included because some historians do not recognize any record set prior to the "modern era" which began in 1901.
The following is a list of single-game baseball records and unusual events. The following criteria are used for inclusion: The following criteria are used for inclusion: Only events occurring within a single plate appearance , inning , or game are included; cumulative or aggregate records achieved over more than one game are not listed.
A walk-off triple (one that ends a game) occurs very infrequently. In general, game-winning hits with a runner on first base are walk-off doubles, since it is quite common for runners starting on first base to score on a double (as it is to make it from first to third on a single). For example, in 2019, there was not a single walk-off triple.
He also began to emerge as one of the better fielding second basemen in the National League. He led the league in putouts and double plays turned, and was third in the league with a .983 fielding percentage. On August 5, 1980, Flynn tied a major league record with three triples in one game. [16] He also scored all three times.
Tony Lazzeri (left), Rudy York (center) and Nomar Garciaparra (right) are the only players to amass 10 runs batted in and hit two grand slams in the same game. In baseball, a run batted in (RBI) is awarded to a batter for each runner who scores as a result of the batter's action, including a hit, fielder's choice, sacrifice fly, sacrifice bunt, catcher's interference, or a walk or hit by pitch ...
As of 2013, he is one of only four players (Crawford, Stan Musial, and Willie Wilson) to lead the league in triples as many as five times. He is also one of a handful of players to collect three triples in one game, doing so on September 23, 1995, in the White Sox' 14–4 victory over the Minnesota Twins at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
Charlie Blackmon is the active leader in triples with 68. Ty Cobb, sliding into third base, ranks second all-time in career triples with 295. Honus Wagner holds the National League record for triples with 252 and is third overall in major league history. Jake Beckley hit 244 triples between 1888 and 1906. Roger Connor hit 233 triples between ...
Below is the list of 112 instances in which Major League Baseball players have hit 20 or more triples in a single season. Active players are in bold.However, with the retirement of Curtis Granderson in 2020, as of May 2020, none of the players on this list are currently active players in MLB.