Errors by Outfielders Records

Baseball Almanac invites you to examine error records for outfielders. Research is complete through completion of the previous season and includes all of the error record variations.

"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint." - Hall of Famer (and record holder for most consecutive seasons leading the league in errors committed) Reggie Jackson
Errors by Outfielders

Career Records

Record

Lg

Names

Team

Data

Most
In A Career

AL

Ty Cobb

Detroit

257

271

Philadelphia

14

NL

George Gore

Chicago

217

360

New York

136

St. Louis

7

Errors by Outfielders

Single Season Records

Record

Lg

Name(s)

Team

Data

Fewest
In A Season
(150+ Games)

AL

Rocky Colavito

Cleveland

0

1965

Brian Downing

California

1982

Vernon Wells

Toronto

2005

NL

Brett Butler

Los Angeles

0

1991

Brett Butler

Los Angeles

1993

Curt Flood

St. Louis

1966

Danny Litwhiler

Philadelphia

1942

Terry Puhl

Houston

1979

Luis Gonzalez

Arizona

2001

Fewest
In A Season
By The League Leader

AL

Albert Belle

Chicago

8

1998

Kenny Lofton

Cleveland

1998
NL

David Justice

Atlanta

8

1992

Most
In A Season

AL

Roy Johnson

Detroit

31

1929
NL

Fred Clarke

Louisville

49

1895

PL

Ed Beecher

Buffalo

52

1890

Most Seasons
Leading The League
(In Errors Committed)

AL

Reggie Jackson

Oakland

5

1968

Oakland

1970

Oakland

1972

Oakland

1975

Baltimore

1976

Burt Shotton

St. Louis

1912

St. Louis

1914

St. Louis

1915

St. Louis

1916

Washington

1918
NL

Lou Brock

Chicago

7

1964

St. Louis

1965

St. Louis

1966

St. Louis

1967

St. Louis

1968

St. Louis

1972

St. Louis

1973
Errors by Outfielders

Single Game, Inning & Consecutive Game Records

Record

Lg

Name(s)

Team

Data

Most
In A Game

AA

Jim Clinton

Baltimore

5

05-03-1884

AL

Kip Selbach

Baltimore

5

08-19-1902

NL

Charlie Bennett

Milwaukee

5

06-15-1878

Mike Dorgan

New York

05-24-1884

Jack Manning

Boston

05-01-1876

Jim O'Rourke

Boston

06-21-1877

Pop Snyder

Louisville

07-29-1876

Marty Sullivan

Chicago

05-18-1887

Mike Tiernan

New York

05-16-1887
UA

Fred Tenney

Washington

5

05-29-1884

Most
In An Inning

AL

Harry Bay

Cleveland

3

06-29-1905
9th Inning

Herschel Bennett

St. Louis

04-14-1925
8th Inning

Harry Heilmann

Detroit

05-22-1914
1st Inning

Scott Lusader

Detroit

09-09-1989
1st Inning

Kip Selbach

Washington

06-23-1904
8th Inning
NL

George Gore

Chicago

3

08-08-1883
1st Inning

Larry Herndon

San Francisco

09-06-1980
4th Inning

Most Consecutive
Games w/o An Error
[In A Career]

AL

Johnny Damon

Oakland

250

05-04-2001

Boston

08-30-2002
NL

Darren Lewis

San Francisco

369

07-13-1991
06-29-1994

Most Consecutive
Games w/o An Error
[In A Season]

AL

Rocky Colavito

Cleveland

162

04-13-1965
10-03-1965
NL

Brett Butler

Los Angeles

161

04-10-1991
10-06-1991

Record

Lg

Name(s)

Team

Data

Errors by Outfielders



The Major League record holder for errors by an outfielder is held by Dummy Hoy who had three-hundred eighty-four while playing in the National League, Players League, and American Association.

On May 1, 1920, the entire outfield from Boston; Walton Cruise, Les Mann, and Ray Powell, played in the longest game (twenty-six innings) without an error by an outfielder.

Darren Lewis, the National League record holder for career games without an error, had an additional twenty-three errorless games in the American League during the streak for a Major League career mark of three-hundred ninety-two.

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