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.
"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)
Hit by Pitcher RecordsCareer Hit Batsmen Records |
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HBP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
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 | ||||
HBP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Hit by Pitcher RecordsSingle Season Hit Batsmen Records |
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HBP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
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 | |
HBP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Hit by Pitcher RecordsHit Batsmen Game Records |
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HBP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
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 | |||||
HBP Records | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Hit By Pitcher Records | Research by Baseball Almanac |
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.