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Most points per game in an NBA Championship series; 41.0 by Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls (vs. Phoenix Suns), 1993; Triple-double per game average in the NBA Finals; LeBron James: 33.6 points, 12.0 rebounds, and 10.0 assists, Cleveland Cavaliers (vs. Golden State Warriors), 2017; Only players to score at least 30 points in every game
In 421 career games (17 starts, 10 in 1962 alone), from 1961 to 1972 Hamilton had a 40–31 record with 42 saves and a 3.05 earned run average. He pitched one inning during the Yankees 1963 World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers and two innings during the Yankees' 1964 World Series loss to the St. Louis Cardinals , including one save.
Most innings pitched Cy Young: 7,354 + 2 ⁄ 3: Most hit batsmen Gus Weyhing: 278 Most home runs allowed Jamie Moyer: 522 Most complete games Cy Young: 749 Lowest earned-run average: Ed Walsh: 1.82 Lowest walks plus hits per inning pitched: Addie Joss.968 Most saves Mariano Rivera: 652 Highest win–loss percentage Spud Chandler: 71.7% Most ...
Highest points per game average on Christmas Day (min. 2 games played), career; 43.3 by Tracy McGrady (3 games played) [62] Highest scoring average in season openers, career; Michael Jordan (30.8 ppg in 14 games played) [64] Only player to score 40 points against all 30 teams, career
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game. New York: Copernicus Books, 2001. ISBN 0-387-98816-5. A book on new statistics for baseball. MLB Record Book by: MLB.com; Alan Schwarz, The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics (New York: St. Martin's, 2005). ISBN 0-312-32223-2.
Graph showing, by year, the average number of runs per MLB game By the late 1960s, the balance between pitching and hitting had swung in favor of the pitchers. In 1968—later nicknamed "the year of the pitcher" [ 69 ] —Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski won the American League batting title with an average of just .301, the lowest in the ...
Ty Cobb was the first player to reach 3,000 games played. Cobb's record of 3,035 games played lasted for 46 seasons until Hank Aaron would break the record. Aaron's record was subsequently broken by Carl Yastrzemski in 1983 and finally broken the following season by Pete Rose, who currently holds the record for most games played at 3,562.