MLB HIT BY PITCHER RECORDS

Major League Baseball Records for Hit Batsmen

Hit by a pitcher records, including career hit batsmen marks, single season hit batsmen plateaus and game related hit batsmen records, research by Baseball Almanac.

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"If the hitter is timid, (a pitcher) he has to remind the hitter he's timid." - Don Drysdale (National League hit batsmen leader for seasons in a career and consecutive seasons in a career)

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Career Hit Batsmen Records

Most Hit Batsmen
In A Career
(Top 1,000)
AL Walter Johnson Washington 205 205
NL Pink Hawley St. Louis 52 201
Pittsburgh 87
Cincinnati 42
New York 20
ML Gus Weyhing Philadelphia [AA] 144 277
Brooklyn [PL] 17
Philadelphia [NL] 53
Louisville [NL] 10
Washington [NL] 44
St. Louis [NL] 1
Brooklyn [NL] 2
Cleveland [AL] 4
Cincinnati [NL] 2

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Single Season Hit Batsmen Records

Most Hit Batsmen
In A Season
(Top 500)
AA Phil Knell Columbus 54 1891
AL Chick Fraser Philadelphia 32 1901
NL Joe McGinnity Brooklyn 41 1900
Most Innings (IP)
Without A Hit Batsmen
AL Alvin Crowder Washington 327.0 1932
NL Sandy Koufax Los Angeles 323.0 1966
Most Seasons
Leading The League
AL Howard Ehmke Detroit 6 1920
Detroit 1921
Detroit 1922
Boston 1923
Boston 1925
Philadelphia 1927
NL Don Drysdale Los Angeles 5 1958
Los Angeles 1959
Los Angeles 1960
Los Angeles 1961
Los Angeles 1965
Most Seasons
Leading The League
Consecutively
AL Tommy Byrne New York 5 1948-1952
St. Louis
NL Don Drysdale Los Angeles 4 1958-1961

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Hit Batsmen Game Records

Most Hit Batsmen
In A Game
AA Ed Knouff Baltimore 6 04-25-1887
AL James Baldwin Chicago 4 08-17-2000
Bert Blyleven Minnesota 04-22-1988
Tommy Byrne New York 07-05-1950
Mike Fornieles Boston 06-20-1962
Byron Houck Philadelphia 10-04-1912
Charley Hall Boston 04-27-1911
Orlando Hernandez Chicago 06-03-2005
Chief Hogsett St. Louis 05-31-1936
Tommy John Chicago 06-15-1968
Frank Lary Detroit 07-21-1960
Ken McBride Los Angeles 04-23-1964
Charlie Morton Houston 06-09-2018
Omar Olivares Anaheim 06-13-1999
Scott Schoeneweis Anaheim 06-07-2001
Steve Sparks Anaheim 05-22-1999
Tom Hughes Washington 04-18-1913
Victor Zambrano Tampa Bay 07-19-2003
Earl Whitehill Detroit 04-16-1924
NL John Grimes St. Louis 6 07-31-1897
Most Hit Batsmen
In An Inning
AL Raul Alcantara Oakland 3 09-05-2016
1st Inning
Bud Black Cleveland 07-08-1988
4th Inning
Bert Blyleven Minnesota 09-28-1988
2nd Inning
Cesar Cabral New York 04-18-2014
8th Inning
Bert Gallia Washington 06-20-1913
1st Inning
Harry Harper New York 08-25-1921
8th Inning
Tom Morgan New York 06-30-1954
3rd Inning
Mike Pelfrey Minnesota 05-03-2015
4th Inning
David Price Boston 07-07-2018
5th Inning
Steve Sparks Anaheim 05-22-1999
3rd Inning
Javier Vazquez New York 09-23-2010
7th Inning
Wilbur Wood Chicago 09-10-1977
1st Inning
Kirby Yates New York 06-27-2016
9th Inning
NL Ray Boggs Boston 3 09-17-1928
9th Inning
Matt Clement Chicago 05-28-2004
5th Inning
Tom Candiotti Los Angeles 09-13-1997
1st Inning
Dock Ellis Pittsburgh 05-01-1974
1st Inning
Mark Gardner Montreal 08-15-1992
1st Inning
Pink Hawley St. Louis 07-04-1894
1st Inning
Pink Hawley Pittsburgh 05-09-1896
7th Inning
Kazuhisa Ishii Los Angeles 07-23-2003
4th Inning
Joe Kennedy Arizona 08-14-2007
4th Inning
Brian Lawrence San Diego 04-22-2003
4th Inning
Pat Luby Chicago 09-05-1890
6th Inning
Sergio Mitre Florida 08-31-2007
2nd Inning
C.J. Nitkowski Houston 08-03-1998
8th Inning
Oliver Perez New York 09-28-2007
3rd Inning
Deacon Phillippe Pittsburgh 09-25-1905
1st Inning
Raul Sanchez Cincinnati 05-15-1960
8th Inning
Walter Thornton Chicago 05-18-1898
4th Inning
Pat Venditte San Francisco 05-06-2019
6th Inning
Jeff Weaver Los Angeles 08-21-2004
1st Inning
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baseball almanac fast facts

Did you know that the hit by a pitch during an inning record (above); Dock Ellis, Pink Hawley, C.J. Nitkowski, Steve Sparks, Walter Thornton, Javier Vazquez, Jeff Weaver, and Wilbur Wood all hit the batters in consecutive order?

The record for most hit batsmen by the same pitcher during two consecutive games is held by Sam Shaw, who struck nine batters June 13th and 15th of 1893.

On May 1, 1920, Leon Cadore of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Joe Oeschger of the Boston Braves faced off in a twenty-six inning game and neither pitcher struck a single batter setting the Major League record for longest game without a hit batsman. The same record in the American League belongs to Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox who pitched a twenty-one inning game on May 24, 1929, and did not strike a single batter.