Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for being hit by pitchers — including career hit by pitch marks, single season hit by pitch plateaus and game related hut by pitch records.
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Hit By A Pitch RecordsMost Times Hit by a Pitch in a Career |
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Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Hit by Pitch In A Career | Top 1,000 |
AL | Don Baylor | Baltimore | 46 | 267 |
Oakland | 32 | ||||
California | 66 | ||||
New York | 60 | ||||
Boston | 59 | ||||
Minnesota | 4 | ||||
NL | Craig Biggio | Houston | 285 | 285 | |
ML | Hughie Jennings | Louisville [AA] | 9 | 287 | |
Louisville [NL] | 10 | ||||
Baltimore [NL] | 197 | ||||
Brooklyn [NL] | 40 | ||||
Philadelphia [NL] | 31 | ||||
Detroit [AL] | 0 | ||||
Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Hit By A Pitch RecordsSingle Season Hit by Pitch Records |
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Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Fewest Hit by Pitch League Leader | Full Season |
AL | Frankie Crosetti | New York | 5 | 1934 |
Frankie Pytlak | Cleveland | 1934 | |||
NL | Buddy Blattner | New York | 6 | 1946 | |
Andre Dawson | Montreal | 1980 | |||
Dan Driessen | Cincinnati | 1980 | |||
Tim Foli | Pittsburgh | 1980 | |||
Greg Luzinski | Philadelphia | 1980 | |||
Elliott Maddox | New York | 1980 | |||
Pete Rose | Philadelphia | 1980 | |||
Most Hit by Pitch In A Season | Top 500 |
AL | Don Baylor | Boston | 35 | 1986 |
NL | Hughie Jennings | Baltimore | 51 | 1896 | |
Most Hit by Pitch In A Season | Lefthander |
AL | Brady Anderson | Baltimore | 24 | 1999 |
NL | Steve Evans | St. Louis | 31 | 1910 | |
Most Hit by Pitch In A Season | Righthander |
AL | Don Baylor | Boston | 35 | 1986 |
NL | Hughie Jennings | Baltimore | 51 | 1896 | |
Most Hit by Pitch In A Season | Rookie |
AA | Tommy Tucker | Baltimore | 29 | 1887 |
AL | David Eckstein | Anaheim | 21 | 2001 | |
NL | Jonathan India | Cincinnati | 23 | 2021 | |
Frank Robinson | Cincinnati | 20 | 1956 | ||
Most Hit by Pitch In A Season | Switch-Hitter |
AA | Tommy Tucker | Baltimore | 33 | 1889 |
AL | Carl Everett | Texas (5) | 15 | 2003 | |
Chicago (10) | |||||
Gene Larkin | Minnesota | 1988 | |||
NL | F.P. Santangelo | Montreal | 25 | 1997 | |
Most At Bats In A Season | Zero HBP |
AL | Sandy Alomar | California | 689 | 1971 |
NL | Cesar Izturis | Los Angeles | 670 | 2004 | |
Most Seasons Leading The League |
AL | Minnie Minoso | Cleveland | 10 | 1951 |
Chicago | 1952 | ||||
Chicago | 1953 | ||||
Chicago | 1954 | ||||
Chicago | 1956 | ||||
Chicago | 1957 | ||||
Chicago | 1958 | ||||
Chicago | 1959 | ||||
Chicago | 1960 | ||||
Chicago | 1961 | ||||
NL | Ron Hunt | San Francisco | 7 | 1968 | |
San Francisco | 1969 | ||||
San Francisco | 1970 | ||||
Montreal | 1971 | ||||
Montreal | 1972 | ||||
Montreal | 1973 | ||||
Montreal / St. Louis | 1974 | ||||
Most Seasons Leading The League Consecutively |
AL | Minnie Minoso | Chicago | 6 | 1956-1961 |
Cleveland | |||||
NL | Ron Hunt | San Francisco | 7 | 1968-1974 | |
Montreal | |||||
St. Louis | |||||
Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Hit By A Pitch RecordsMost Times Hit by a Pitch in a Game |
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Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Hit by Pitch In A Game | Since 1901 |
AL | Nap Lajoie | Cleveland | 3 | 09-23-1908 |
Bert Daniels | New York | 06-20-1913 | |||
Wally Schang | New York | 05-15-1923 | |||
Sherm Lollar | Chicago | 06-08-1956 | |||
Bill Freehan | Detroit | 08-16-1968 | |||
Craig Kusick | Minnesota | 08-27-1975 | |||
Damion Easley | Detroit | 05-31-1999 | |||
Damion Easley | Detroit | 07-16-2002 | |||
Melvin Mora | Baltimore | 07-18-2002 | |||
Corey Koskie | Minnesota | 07-27-2004 | |||
Reed Johnson | Toronto | 04-16-2005 | |||
Jonny Gomes | Tampa Bay | 08-15-2005 | |||
Reed Johnson | Toronto | 04-07-2006 | |||
Reed Johnson | Toronto | 04-29-2006 | |||
Manny Ramirez | Boston | 07-05-2008 | |||
Austin Kearns | Cleveland | 07-05-2010 | |||
Brandon Guyer | Tampa Bay | 10-02-2015 | |||
Brandon Guyer | Tampa Bay | 04-21-2016 | |||
Jarrod Dyson | Seattle | 05-16-2017 | |||
Jurickson Profar | Texas | 06-09-2018 | |||
Jurickson Profar | Texas | 06-23-2018 | |||
NL | Frank Chance | Chicago | 3 | 07-26-1902 | |
Frank Chance | Chicago | 05-30-1904 | |||
Steve Evans | St. Louis | 08-03-1910 | |||
Mel Ott | New York | 09-15-1938 | |||
Ron Hunt | San Francisco | 04-29-1969 | |||
Tito Fuentes | San Francisco | 09-13-1973 | |||
Glenn Davis | Houston | 04-09-1990 | |||
Richard Hidalgo | Houston | 04-19-2000 | |||
Nomar Garciaparra | Los Angeles | 07-03-2006 | |||
Chase Utley | Philadelphia | 04-08-2008 | |||
Matt Carpenter | St. Louis | 06-04-2013 | |||
Tim Locastro | Arizona | 05-24-2019 | |||
Derek Dietrich | Cincinnati | 06-21-2019 | |||
Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Hit By A Pitch RecordsMost Times Hit by a Pitch in an Inning |
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Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Hit by Pitch In An Inning |
AL | Brady Anderson | Baltimore | 2 | 05-23-1999 |
1st Inning | |||||
Mike Hessman | Detroit | 09-08-2008 | |||
2nd Inning | |||||
Brandon Moss | Oakland | 04-25-2014 | |||
9th Inning | |||||
NL | Willard Schmidt | Cincinnati | 2 | 04-26-1959 | |
3rd Inning | |||||
Frank Thomas | New York | 04-29-1962 | |||
4th Inning | |||||
Andres Galarraga | Colorado | 07-12-1996 | |||
7th Inning | |||||
Jose Guillen | San Francisco | 09-23-2010 | |||
2nd Inning | |||||
David DeJesus | Chicago | 06-18-2012 | |||
7th Inning | |||||
Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Hit By A Pitch Records | Research by Baseball Almanac |
Did you know that Reed Johnson holds the Major League record for most games in a career with three hit by pitch? Reed set the mark on April 29, 2006, after being plunked for the third time in the same game, the third time in his career (April 7, 2006 and April 16, 2005 were the other two instances).
Frank Chance played in a double header on May 30, 1904, and became the only player to ever get hit by a pitch five times during a double header.
The Hall of Fame shared this about Hughie Jennings, the all-time hit by pitch leader, "The shortstop was hit by a pitch an astounding 287 times in his career. In one game in particular, he was hit in the head by a pitch in the third inning and remarkably, he continued to play the rest of the game. But, as soon as it finished, he collapsed and remained unconscious for the three days that followed."