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Baseball statistics sites such as Baseball-Reference.com [4] and The Baseball Cube [5] credit holds to players in games played before 1999 based on the record of the game situation when the pitcher entered and left the game. However, the hold totals do not always agree from site to site, or with MLB.com from 1999 onward.
To blow a game is to lose it after having the lead. "We had the game in hand and we blew it." To blow a pitch ("by" a batter) is to throw one so fast the batter is unable to keep up (with it). To blow a save is to lose a lead or the game after coming into the game in a "save situation". This has a technical meaning in baseball statistics.
[1] [2] In addition, milestones achieved in a single season include hitting 50 home runs, [3] while three other single-season statistical clubs—the 20–20–20 club, [4] [5] 20–50 club, 30–30 club [6] [7] and 40–40 club — include achievements from multiple statistical categories.
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.
Alfonso Soriano, the fourth player to join the 40–40 club, commemorated the occasion in 2006 by retrieving the bag from second base after his 40th steal.. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 40–40 club is the group of batters, currently six, who have collected 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season.
Negro Leagues legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Josh Gibson will become MLB’s single-season record holder in batting average (.466 in 1943), slugging percentage (.974 in 1937) and OPS (1.474 in ...
In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at-bats , through the following formula, where AB is the number of at-bats for a given player, and 1B , 2B , 3B , and HR are the number of singles , doubles , triples , and home runs , respectively:
By reaching the milestone, he also became the first player to hit 30 and then 40 home runs in a single season, breaking his own record of 29 from the 1919 season. [4] Ruth subsequently became the first player to reach the 50 home run club on four occasions, repeating the achievement in 1921, 1927, and 1928.