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The term "Triple Crown" generally refers to the batting achievement of leading a league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) over the same season. [1] [2] The term "Pitching Triple Crown" refers to the pitching achievement of leading a league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average (ERA).
The perceived significance of the RBI is displayed by the fact that it is one of the three categories that compose the triple crown.In addition, career RBIs are often cited in debates over who should be elected to the Hall of Fame.
Shohei Ohtani finished three hits short of bringing a Triple Crown into the 50-50 club. ... (58) and RBI (144) but came up short of the batting title at .322, behind Bobby Witt Jr. and Vladimir ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player in each league wins the "RBI crown" [4] or "RBI title" [5] [6] each season by hitting the most runs batted in that year. The first RBI champion in the National League (NL) was Deacon White; in the league's inaugural 1876 season, White hit 60 RBIs for the Chicago White Stockings. [7]
In 2012, Cabrera became the first player since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967 to win the batting Triple Crown, leading the AL with a .330 batting average, 44 home runs, and 139 runs batted in (RBI), earning him the AL MVP award that year. In the first half of 2013, Cabrera was on pace to shatter his numbers from his prior Triple Crown season. He ...
RBI: Career runs batted in. * denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame. Bold: denotes active player. [a] List. Stats updated as of the end of the 2024 season.
Ohtani had an RBI triple, Mickey Moniak hit a two-run homer and Patrick Sandoval pitched two-hit ball into the eighth inning of the Angels' 5-1 victory over New York on Tuesday night.
As the category of runs batted in (RBI) was not generally recognized at the time, Hines was only given credit as the first "Triple Crown" winner years later. On May 8, 1878, he took part in what is believed to have been an unassisted triple play .