The most sacrifice flies by a team, the most sacrifice flies by a player in a career & in a season, the fewest in a season, and other similar sac fly records are presented below and research is complete through completion of the previous season.
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Sacrifice Flies RecordsCareer Sacrifice Fly Records |
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Record | Lg | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Sac Flies In A Career (Top 1,000) |
AL | Cal Ripken, Jr. | Baltimore | 127 | 127 |
NL | Hank Aaron | Milwaukee | 72 | 113 | |
Atlanta | 41 | ||||
ML | Eddie Murray | Baltimore [AL] | 77 | 128 | |
Los Angeles [NL] | 19 | ||||
New York [NL] | 17 | ||||
Cleveland [AL] | 12 | ||||
Anaheim [AL] | 3 | ||||
Sacrifice Flies RecordsSingle Season Sacrifice Fly Records |
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Record | Lg | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Fewest Sac Flies In A Season |
AL | Too Many To List | n/a | 0 | n/a |
NL | Too Many To List | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
Most Sac Flies In A Season (Top 500) |
AL | Bobby Bonilla | Baltimore | 17 | 1996 |
Roy White | New York | 1971 | |||
NL | Gil Hodges | Brooklyn | 19 | 1954 | |
Most Sac Flies In A Season By A Lefthander |
AL | Don Mattingly | New York | 15 | 1985 |
NL | J.T. Snow | San Francisco | 14 | 2000 | |
Most Sac Flies In A Season By A Righthander |
AL | Juan Gonzalez | Cleveland | 16 | 2001 |
NL | Gil Hodges | Brooklyn | 19 | 1954 | |
Most Sac Flies In A Season By A Rookie |
AL | Gary Gaetti | Minnesota | 13 | 1982 |
NL | Willie Montanez | Philadelphia | 13 | 1971 | |
Most Sac Flies In A Season By A Switch-Hitter |
AL | Bobby Bonilla | Baltimore | 17 | 1996 |
Roy White | New York | 1971 | |||
NL | Bobby Bonilla | Pittsburgh | 15 | 1990 | |
Howard Johnson | New York | 1991 | |||
Sacrifice Flies RecordsGame Specific Sacrifice Fly Records |
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Record | Lg | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Sac Flies In A Game |
AL | George Bell | Toronto | 3 | 08-14-1990 |
Juan Gonzalez | Texas | 07-03-1999 | |||
Chad Kreuter | Detroit | 07-30-1994 | |||
Jose Lopez | Seattle | 04-15-2008 | |||
Edgar Martinez | Seattle | 08-03-2002 | |||
Don Mattingly | New York | 05-03-1986 | |||
Bob Meusel | New York | 09-15-1926 | |||
Russ Nixon | Boston | 08-31-1965 | |||
NL | Ernie Banks | Chicago | 3 | 06-02-1961 | |
Vince Coleman | St. Louis | 05-01-1986 | |||
Candy Maldonado | San Francisco | 08-29-1987 | |||
Sacrifice Flies RecordsSingle Season Team Specific Sacrifice Fly Records |
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Record | Lg | Team(s) | Data | ||
Fewest Sac Flies In A Season |
AL | California | 23 | 1967 | |
NL | San Diego | 19 | 1971 | ||
Most Sac Flies In A Season |
AL | Oakland | 77 | 1984 | |
NL | Colorado | 75 | 2000 | ||
Sacrifice Flies RecordsGame Specific Team Sacrifice Fly Records |
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Record | Lg | Team(s) | Data | ||
Most Sac Flies In A Game |
AL | Seattle (vs Oakland) | 5 | 08-07-1988 | |
Seattle (vs Kansas City) | 04-15-2008 | ||||
NL | Colorado (vs Pittsburgh) | 5 | 06-07-2006 | ||
Most Sac Flies In A Game (Both Teams) |
AL | Seattle (5) vs Kansas City (1) | 6 | 04-15-2008 | |
NL | Too Many To List | 5 | -- | ||
Most Sac Flies In An Inning |
AL | See Fast Fact #3 (below) | 3 | -- | |
NL | See Fast Fact #3 (below) | 3 | -- | ||
Record | Lg | Team(s) | Data | ||
Sacrifice Flies Records | Research by Baseball Almanac, Inc. |
Brooks Robinson led the American League in sacrifice flies during 1962 (10), 1964 (10), 1967 (8), and 1968 (8) — a league leading 4 times. Ron Santo & Johnny Bench led the National League in sacrifice flies during 1963 (11), 1967 (12) & 1969 (14) then 1970 (11), 1972 (12) & 1973 (10) — respectively, a league leading 3 times.
Did you know that in the entire history of baseball, three Major League players are tied for most at-bats without a single sacrifice fly in a season? Each had six-hundred eighty at-bats and zero sacrifice flies. They are: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds (1973), Frank Taveras of the Pittsburgh Pirates / New York Mets (1979) & Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins (1986).
The most sacrifice flies ever hit during an inning by an American League team is three: Chicago White Sox (vs Cleveland Indians) in the fifth inning on July 1, 1962, New York Yankees (vs Detroit Tigers) in the fourth inning on June 29, 2000 and the New York Yankees (vs Anaheim Angels) in the third inning on August 19, 2000. The National League team record is also three: New York Mets (vs the New York Yankees) in the second inning on June 24, 2005 and Houston Astros (vs the Texas Rangers) in the seventh inning on June 26, 2005.