This is because it requires a ball to be hit solidly to a distant part of the field (ordinarily a line drive or fly ball near the foul line closest to right field), or the ball to take an irregular bounce in the outfield, usually against the wall, away from a fielder.
How rare is a triple? Around 2% or one in fifty hits are triples. Teams average around eight and a half hits per game. Multiply that by two because there are two teams playing in each game and you get 17 hits per game.
Rarest of all is the unassisted triple play by an outfielder, performed only once in professional baseball history, by Walter Carlisle. It is possible for a team to score on a triple play, but that is also phenomenally rare.
Triples increased in the 1880s and 1890s but have declined pretty steadily since except for renaissances in the 1910s and 1970s. The rate has hovered right around 2% for several years now. Doubles are quite interesting.
Jim Golden (1962) is the last pitcher to hit two triples in one game. The modern record (since 1900) for triples in a game is three, last done by Yasiel Puig (2014).
Bert Campaneris, A's
The most accomplished player on this list, Campaneris, a six-time All-Star, became the first player in AL/NL history to play all nine positions in an eventful game.
The triple steal last occurred in 1987 by the Atlanta Braves, although that one was on purpose. Jamey Carroll unintentionally instigated the action by roaming too far off first base. White Sox reliever Ehren Wasserman faked a throw to third, wheeled and threw to first.
Triples have become somewhat rare in Major League Baseball, less common than both the double and the home run.
Now, this has never happened in the major leagues, but in the minors. Only one time in professional baseball has a pitcher struck out 27 hitters in a nine-inning game. Ron Necciai accomplished this feat.
1,000 Hits[edit]
As of March 2021, there have been 1,346 players who have reached 1,000 hits in their career.
A no-hitter is a rare accomplishment for a pitcher or pitching staff—only 320 have been thrown in MLB history since 1876, an average of about two per year.
The 3,000-hit club is the group of 33 batters who have collected 3,000 or more regular-season hits in their careers in Major League Baseball (MLB), achieving a milestone "long considered the greatest measure of superior bat handling" and often described as a guarantee of eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Unassisted triple plays
The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs in one play. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.
In the entirety of major league history, there have been only 12 triple crowns. However, if you extend this out to include the Negro Leagues, and why would you not, then there have been 27 triple crown winners.
Over the 154 years of Major League Baseball history, and over 235,500 games played, there have been 24 official perfect games by the current definition. No pitcher has thrown more than one.
Pitching an altered baseball
Regardless of what pitch is being thrown, if a pitcher is caught applying any foreign substance to a baseball (saliva, petroleum jelly, etc. Also, purposely damaging the baseball (with sandpaper or a nail file) to create more spin is illegal.
The league age pitch counts for Little League Baseball® are as follows: Ages 13-16 – 95 pitches per day. Ages 11-12 – 85 pitches per day. Ages 9-10 – 75 pitches per day.
Brandon Belt holds the record for the longest at-bat by pitches in MLB history, having worked a 21-pitch at-bat on April 22, 2018. The San Francisco Giants first baseman faced Jaime Barria of the Los Angeles Angels when he hit 16 foul balls before eventually hitting a fly ball to right field.
An immaculate inning occurs in baseball when a pitcher strikes out all three batters he faces in one inning using the minimum possible number of pitches: nine. This has happened 114 times in Major League history and has been accomplished by 104 pitchers (79 right-handed and 25 left-handed).
Games Played (G) Grand Slam (GSH) Ground Into Double Play (GIDP) Groundout-to-Airout Ratio (GO/AO) Hit-by-pitch (HBP)
Definition. Total bases refer to the number of bases gained by a batter through his hits. A batter records one total base for a single, two total bases for a double, three total bases for a triple and four total bases for a home run.
In a game against the Cincinnati Reds on June 27, 1986, Thompson was caught stealing four times. That, by the way, is a single-game MLB record, and it's probably not one that Thompson is proud of. He ended up getting caught trying to steal 15 times that season, and 11 times the season after.
13 horses have won the Triple Crown: Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Citation (1948), Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977), Affirmed (1978), American Pharoah (2015), and Justify (2018).