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A starting pitcher who is replaced by a pinch hitter in the final half inning of a game will still be credited with a complete game. Cy Young is the all-time leader in complete games with 749 and the only player to complete more than 700 games. Pud Galvin is second all-time with 646 career complete games and the only other player to complete ...
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The complete game was essentially an expectation in the early 20th century and pitchers completed almost all of the games they started. In modern baseball, the feat is much more rare and no pitcher has reached 30 complete games in a season since 1975; in the 21st century, a pitcher has thrown 10 or more complete games in a season only twice.
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
List of World Series single-game records; ... See also. List of Major League Baseball leaders This page was last edited on 20 November 2024, at 17:54 (UTC). Text ...
For a player to accomplish this, he would have to average 30 complete games over 25 seasons to get to 750. Between 2000 and 2009, the Major League leaders in complete games averaged eight per season, and only two pitchers in the 21st century have had 10 complete games in any season (CC Sabathia with 10 in 2008 and James Shields with 11 in 2011 ...
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 mph 2010 [16] Fastest pitch for strikeout Ben ...
Jesse Orosco, the all-time leader in games played as a pitcher. Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.