Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for grounding into double plays — including career grounding into double play marks, single season grounding into double play plateaus and game related grounding into double play records.
"As far as I'm concerned, (Hank) Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due." - Mantle, Mickey. Baseball Digest. June 1970. Kuenster, John. Author. Page 8.
Grounding Into Double PlaysCareer Grounding Into Double Play Records |
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GIDP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most GIDP In A Career | Top 1,000 |
AL | Cal Ripken, Jr. | Baltimore | 350 | 350 |
NL | Hank Aaron | Milwaukee | 193 | 305 | |
Atlanta | 112 | ||||
ML | Albert Pujols | St. Louis [NL] | 232 | 426 | |
Los Angeles [AL] | 171 | ||||
Los Angeles [NL] | 10 | ||||
St. Louis [NL] | 13 | ||||
GIDP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Grounding Into Double PlaysSingle Season Grounding Into Double Play Records |
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GIDP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Fewest GIDP In A Season (150+ Games Played) |
AL | Dick McAuliffe | Detroit | 0 | 1968 |
NL | Craig Biggio | Houston | 0 | 1997 | |
Matt Carpenter | St. Louis | 2018 | |||
Augie Galan | Chicago | 1935 | |||
Fewest GIDP By A Rookie (150+ Games Played) |
AL | Ichiro Suzuki | Seattle | 3 | 2001 |
NL | Vince Coleman | St. Louis | 3 | 1985 | |
Most GIDP In A Season | Top 500 |
AL | Jim Rice | Boston | 36 | 1984 |
NL | Miguel Tejada | Houston | 32 | 2008 | |
Most GIDP In A Season | Lefthander |
AL | Ben Grieve | Oakland | 32 | 2000 |
NL | Sean Casey | Cincinnati | 27 | 2005 | |
A.J. Pierzynski | San Francisco | 2004 | |||
Most GIDP In A Season | Righthander |
AL | Jim Rice | Boston | 36 | 1984 |
NL | Miguel Tejada | Houston | 32 | 2008 | |
Most GIDP In A Season | Rookie |
AL | Billy Johnson | New York | 27 | 1943 |
Al Rosen | Cleveland | 1950 | |||
NL | Albert Pujols | St. Louis | 21 | 2001 | |
Most GIDP In A Season | Switch-Hitter |
AL | Dave Philley | Philadelphia | 29 | 1952 |
NL | Ted Simmons | St. Louis | 29 | 1973 | |
Most Seasons (In Fewest GIDP) |
AL | Ichiro Suzuki | Seattle | 4 | 2001 |
Seattle | 2003 | ||||
Seattle | 2005 | ||||
Seattle | 2006 | ||||
NL | Richie Ashburn | Philadelphia | 6 | 1951 | |
Philadelphia | 1952 | ||||
Philadelphia | 1953 | ||||
Philadelphia | 1954 | ||||
Philadelphia | 1958 | ||||
Chicago | 1960 | ||||
Most Seasons (In Most GIDP) |
AL | Jim Rice | Boston | 4 | 1982 |
Boston | 1983 | ||||
Boston | 1984 | ||||
Boston | 1985 | ||||
NL | Ernie Lombardi | Cincinnati | 4 | 1933 | |
Cincinnati | 1934 | ||||
Cincinnati | 1938 | ||||
New York | 1944 | ||||
ML | Miguel Tejada | Baltimore [AL] | 5 | 2004 | |
Baltimore [AL] | 2005 | ||||
Baltimore [AL] | 2006 | ||||
Houston [NL] | 2008 | ||||
Houston [NL] | 2009 | ||||
GIDP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Grounding Into Double PlaysGame Specific Grounding Into Double Play Records |
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GIDP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most GIDP In A Game |
AL | Goose Goslin | Detroit | 4 | 04-28-1934 |
NL | Joe Torre | New York | 4 | 07-21-1975 | |
GIDP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Grounding Into Double Plays Records | Research by Baseball Almanac |
The only right handed hitter in Major League history to play in more than one-hundred fifty games without grounding into a single double play during a season is Craig Biggio.
The only left handed hitter in Major League history to play in more than one-hundred fifty games without grounding into a single double play is Dick McAuliffe.
Did you know that the only switch hitter to play in more than one-hundred fifty games without grounding into a double play is Augie Galan?