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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 ...
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.
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 Will White: 680 1879: Most complete games Will White 75 1879: Lowest WHIP Hilton Smith.6176 1944: Most saves Francisco Rodríguez: 62 2008: Highest win/loss percentage Roy Face: 94.7% 1959: Most hits allowed John Coleman 772 1883: Most earned runs allowed John Coleman 291 1883: Fastest pitch thrown Aroldis Chapman: 105.8 ...
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 ...
MLB debut; June 19, 1952, for the Pittsburgh Pirates: Last MLB appearance; October 1, 1967, for the San Francisco Giants: MLB statistics; Batting average.286: Hits: 2,138: Home runs: 39: Runs batted in: 707: Stats at Baseball Reference Teams; Pittsburgh Pirates (1952, 1955–1962) St. Louis Cardinals (1963–1965) Philadelphia Phillies (1966 ...
The following is a list of records for a game, season, or career that were broken in each Major League Baseball season by players, teams, or others. This does not include dates when additional stats were recorded by the same player above one's own record set (unless broken by someone else in between) or records by a team that do not lead the majors.