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unusual facts about at bats



Hal Dues

He threw his only MLB complete game on July 8 against the Philadelphia Phillies, a six-hit, 8–1 victory at Veterans Stadium; Dues helped himself as a batsman that day, with two hits in four at bats with a run batted in and a run scored.

Tookie Gilbert

Gilbert was a formidable slugger during his minor league career in the Class AA Southern Association, where he played for the Nashville Vols, and led the American Association in homers with 29 in 1951 while a member of the Minneapolis Millers, but as a major leaguer he batted only .203 in 183 games played and 482 at bats in appearances for the 1950 and 1953 Giants.

Vern Morgan

Morgan's Major League playing career consisted of 31 games and 71 at bats for the 19541955 Chicago Cubs.


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Aaron Miles

He had his first home run as a Dodger and first in over 530 at-bats over two years vs Minnesota Twins starter Brian Duensing at Target Field on June 28, 2011.

Andy Kosco

He was traded again to the California Angels (for Tommie Reynolds) and to the Boston Red Sox (for Chris Coletta) before completing his professional baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds, with whom he batted .280 in 118 at-bats in 1973 on a team that won the National League West title but lost to the New York Mets in the NLCS.

Chris Aguila

While Hermida was sidelined, Aguila got most of the at bats in right field until the Marlins signed Joe Borchard; afterwards, Aguila was part of a platoon in center field with Eric Reed and Reggie Abercrombie.

Danny Kravitz

With the Athletics the remainder of the season, Kravitz was part of a catching platoon with Pete Daley and received the most playing time of his career, batting .234 with 4 home runs and 14 runs batted in in 175 at-bats.

Darrin Jackson

Became the third player in Cubs history (joining Dale Long and Carmen Fanzone) to homer in consecutive pinch-hit at-bats, going deep against St. Louis' Ken Dayley Aug. 14 and Cincinnati's Tom Browning Aug. 16 ...

Dave DeBusschere

In 22 career at bats, he had only one hit, a single off Bennie Daniels on July 17, 1963.

Duke Snider

Duke rebounded that year to hit .308 with 25 home runs and 88 RBI in 400 at bats while platooning in center field with Don Demeter.

Fred Lake

His professional debut came with the Boston Beaneaters in 1891, but he was in and out of the major leagues, amassing a total of 125 at-bats in five seasons.

Gil Coan

In 1947, Coan made 21 hits in 42 at bats for a .500 batting average to collect the highest BA for any player who had 30 or more at-bats in a major league season, setting a record that was surpassed by Rudy Pemberton in 1996 with a .512 BA (21-for-41).

Jay Buhner

The song "Bad to the Bone" was played during each of Buhner's home at-bats.

Johnny Temple

Temple enjoyed his best year in 1959, with career-highs in batting average (.311), home runs (8), RBI (67), runs (102), hits (186), at-bats (598), doubles (35) and triples (6).

Meeker, Oklahoma

In six career Series starts, he was 4-2 with 32 strikeouts and a low 1.79 earned run average, and is still remembered for striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin in their consecutive at-bats in the 1934 All-Star Game.

My Hood

"My Hood" was Derek Jeter's walk-out music for his at bats during the 2006 Major League baseball season.

Shigeo Nagashima

Nagashima made his professional debut in April 1958, and struck out in all four of his at-bats against Masaichi Kaneda (coincidentally, Sadaharu Oh also struck out in all of his at-bats in his debut game against Kaneda).

Slugging percentage

The next year he slugged .846, and these records went unbroken until 2001, when Barry Bonds achieved 411 bases in 476 at-bats, bringing his slugging percentage to .863, unmatched since.

Tom Lawless

Lawless, who only hit two regular-season home runs his entire career, is also remembered for his dramatic game-winning home run in Game 4 of the 1987 World Series (he had hit .080 in 25 at-bats during the regular season.) "When it went over the wall, I thought" Lawless told reporters at the time.

Tom Upton

For the Ventura Yankees, Quincy Gems and Triplets in 1948, he hit .271 in 398 at-bats.