The ODDEST STATLINES in MLB HISTORY - WEIRD BASEBALL STATS

Baseball is a game of numbers. It’s the one sport that has perfectly captured the abstract and defined it using terms such as OBP, Slugging, ERA, WHIP, and OPS.
To the casual fan, these are near-meaningless terms that get tossed aside, if for no other reason than they make us think about that Calculus course we failed our freshman year of college.
Over the course of 30 different teams playing 162 different games and a lifetime of seasons, we come to expect the usual set of numbers.
Anywhere from one to five hits in a game, sprinkle some walks in here or there, the occasional hit by pitch, the rare error…
But sometimes something catches our eye because it’s completely out of the ordinary.
Today, we’re counting down the oddest statlines in MLB history, and these are coming up, right after this.
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[@SurgingSpecs]

Khris Davis hitting .247 for 4 straight years

[@datad546]

IFPBSpectrum hell yeah

[@tugotiger]

YES

[@PineappleLizard]

Wait really?

[@grehhet161]

@@PineappleLizard yes lol www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/daviskh01.shtml

[@grrizzzy7]

Lol that’s amazing

[@jordanroman841]

As a Phillies fan damn Jamie Moyer was AWESOME. In about a 25 year career he never even threw a 90 MPH fastball

[@kvltizt]

More people to recognize his greatness. I'm not kidding either.

[@stephenmason9527]

And not only that, but in an era where average velocity really spiked...for a variety of reasons.

[@thomasturner5507]

He has given up the most homeruns in a career.

[@stephenmason9527]

Turner this is like a "Cy Young has the most career losses" remark to stating he has the most wins. Both are true, these things tend to happen if you pitch a lot... like *a lot a lot* Moyer has faced several times as many batters as most pitchers and more than multiple pitchers combined, and he pitched in the steroid era where absolutely everyone gave up homers

[@FoolishBaseball]

WELL WELL WELL

[@snappy452]

In todays game, Maddux would have been taken out after 7 innings and the Braves would have lost the game on a walkoff.

[@Il_Exile_lI]

Not really. The only time guys are allowed to finish games today is when they have a low pitch count. More accurately, in today's game Maddux would be basically the only pitcher with a lot of complete games.

[@cerealissoup84]

@@Il_Exile_lI thats why guys like Kyle Hendricks get complete games. Pitch to contact guys, not strikeout guys

[@Trillyana]

Kaz Matsui hit a home run in his first at-bat of the season for his first 3 Major League seasons.

[@kangarooman1710]

Trillyana and he was never much of a home run hitter

[@asd36f]

Jerry Brooks managed just 4 hits in 14 at-bats with the Dodgers in 1993 and the Marlins in 1996. Those 4 hits were a single, double, triple and home run. Brooks is the only player to have 4 career hits with each one of a different variety - a "career cycle".

[@joemichigan4945]

How about Juan Soto hitting a homerun in a game dated before his debut

[@scrappymark]

That’s pretty sweet

[@UnchainedAmerica]

How'd the fk did he managed to do that?

[@jraymond1988]

@@UnchainedAmerica I'm guessing it involved a rainout. So there was a makeup game that counted in the books as a previous game and Soto wasn't in the bigs when the game was originally supposed to occur.

[@joemichigan4945]

@@jraymond1988 Exactly right

[@AyeThatsHandsomePete]

8.9 percent of all batters, when the league formed in 1896? Jeeeesus that’s crazy.

[@mattschumacher4581]

BaldingJustice it formed in 1876

[@FivePointsVids]

IKR

[@AyeThatsHandsomePete]

Matt Schumacher yup, typo.

[@UnchainedAmerica]

Satchel Paige faced batters both in the Negro and MLB in his ever lasting career til his mid 50s.

[@AyeThatsHandsomePete]

Mylum O'Shinn arguably the best pitcher ever.

[@brentgranger7856]

I remember Evan Gattis' triples in 2015. Gattis is a fan-favorite here in Houston, especially since many Houston sports fans associate their best athletes with thick beards like (former Astro) Dallas Keuchel and James Harden. Another fan favorite, Josh Reddick, is a known fan of WWE and Ric "Nature Boy" Flair, so we shout "WOO! WOO! WOO!" whenever he comes to bat.

[@PinkStarburst717]

Houston loves that lumberjack

[@workingclassrunner]

I would have figured he hit all of them off Tal's Hill or something, but only 6 of those 11 were at home. Two of the other 5 were at Comerica Park in Detroit. The others were in cavernous AT&T Park in SF, cavernous Safeco in Seattle and XBH friendly Kaufmann Stadium in KC. And most of those teams were not known for great OF defense at the time. So yeah he had a bit of help, but still! 11 triples! From THAT guy!

[@UnchainedAmerica]

Gattis reminds me of Kirk Gibson and John Kruk.

[@7aflores7]

I miss Evan Gattis :(

[@cnking27]

I had him on my fantasy team that year and it was 10x10 head to head so triples were counted. It was glorious.

[@AshenFates]

Kyle Hendricks recently threw a maddux a complete game shutout in 81 pitches

[@omegablack80214]

There should be a video chronicling the LONG career of Julio Franco. The man time won't touch.

[@PinkStarburst717]

I used to always trade for him for some reason

[@grehhet161]

im a met fan, and we had a real good rivalry going on with the braves for many years. i ALWAYS liked franco - dude is a baseball machine. much respect to the man. hes a great guy overall on top of his achievements on the field. in the meantime, if you havent seen it, check this out - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmaVgJKqpMikl5o - vice did a little video on him which i liked. hope you enjoy too! ciao

[@omegablack80214]

@@grehhet161 I have seen that video, it was awesome.

[@Rico7Point5]

some where that dude is still swinging a bat

[@UnchainedAmerica]

Or Satchel Paige. That dude pitched beyond his first Social Security check.

[@hfield07]

fernando tatis hitting two grand slams in the same inning needs some love

[@FivePointsVids]

Lol i covered that in the unbreakable records vids it was on the list here

[@dennissvitak148]

...off of the same pitcher. That's what makes in unbelievable.

[@altqq1755]

@Harry Engel i was alive and live in atlanta. not really unheard of hear if you were alive?

[@dzelman444]

Moyer got told he could get out of a speeding ticket by throwing faster than he was driving. He did not get out of it.

[@HUCY1709]

Vinny Castilla 1996 and 1997 was odd. Same AVG, HR and BA in both consecutive seasons. Don't know if other player had done the same.

[@rpsnider85]

K. Davis from the A's, he's not done the others but has had a .247 BA the last 3 or 4 years. Consecutively.

[@Milordvega]

And they were very good numbers, something like .305, 46 homers, 115 RBIs right

[@Concatenate]

@@Milordvega .304/40/113.

[@Milordvega]

@@Concatenate And yet Vinny is not very highly regarded in the all-time lists for third basemen.

[@mkoerber44]

I have received over 15,000 5 star reviews

[@mrmacross]

Jamie Moyer should be the poster child for late bloomers. Who else makes his All-Star Debut in his 18th season at age 40? It's like he had a decade-long prime that started at the age 34.

[@ByloBand]

Greg Maddux is the greatest pitcher I've ever seen. Absolutely filthy.

[@UnchainedAmerica]

His mechanics were boring but his control was astonishing. Nothing flashy either. He was just consistenly smart.

[@tomfisher9089]

Why didn't he take a shower? There was one in every locker room.

[@andrewgranger3370]

Maddux wasn't just a great picther he was a smart ball player. He could pick up on anything. There is a story of him sitting in the dugout watching how the batter was standing and the pitchers delivery, then he looked at the first base coach and told guys in the dugout "Look out, someone is going to the hospital." The next pitch the batter hit a liner foul that struck the first base coach dead on. Dropped him like a stone. Maddux could tell what pitch was coming based on what had already happened in hte at bat, knew the batters stance would send the right pitch down the first base line and knew that pitch was coming. That guy was amazing.

[@Plasmawarrior]

Zero home runs. Just about as many times I made contact with the ball my whole life. I have more 3-pointers in my life than hits. 4-1 Ah the joys of middle school sports.

[@ketchup143]

that sounds like that could have been me. i couldn't make contact even with 4 strikes!

[@michaelalbertson7457]

I have a dubious home run. I hit a fair fly ball to the right field line and, it bounced right, past the foul line, and the ball rolled down the hill to a path. I can't run fast, and got home before the throw. But someone told me that it was bobbled. I choose to believe I would have made it anyway, and the throw to probably the first baseman probably hit rough dirt or a tuft of grass or a rock and bounced funny. But I will never know for sure, but am but 99.9% sure, 100% on a positive day. A summer day game where a bunch of friends played often. I was very young, Little League age. I could field, just couldn't hit the ball that far. If it wasn't for baseball, summer would have been the most boring time of the year for me.

[@mattrothmann]

You should do Archibald “moonlight” Graham. 1 game and 0 for everything else

[@flyboy2099]

Matthew Rothmann if yOu BuIlD iT, tHeY wIlL cOmE

[@jhawk889]

Lou Piniella getting thrown out at every base in one game

[@UnchainedAmerica]

They called him the Human Rain Delay...

[@JayTemple]

I'm so used to him as a manager that it took me a minute to realize you meant as a player.

[@jhawk889]

For anyone confused, Piniella had 4 ABs that game. In his first AB he was thrown out at home trying to stretch a triple into an inside the park home run. Why he thought that was a good idea given his speed I don't know. In his second AB he was thrown out at first on a routine grounder. His third AB ended when he tried stretching a single into a double. In his final AB, Lou hit a ball in the right field gap for what should've been a routine double, until he rounded second trying to stretch it into a triple. Once again, he was thrown out.

[@michaelalbertson7457]

@@UnchainedAmerica I think that was (also?) Mike Hargrove.

[@nohbuddy1]

Satchel Paige pitched a game in his 60s

[@unevenfilms5307]

Kyle Hendricks did the same thing as Greg Maddox did in 4 more pitches and Hendricks hit good in that game too.

[@Milordvega]

Randy Jones was a Cy Young Award winning pitcher for 1970's San Diego Padres, who threw even slower than Jamie Moyer. Pete Rose once accused him of throwing a 27 mph fastball

[@lucascongdon309]

Ed Vega same with Tim Wakefield or Steven Wright

[@cedricgist7614]

Great digging - great video!

[@jacobgonet5071]

Did you know I told Greg Maddux to paint my house? All he did was paint the corners😞

[@datad546]

Awesome baseball vid bro💯

[@dantheman5745]

_"* Actual Speed"_ ....LLLLLOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!! Awesome video. Could've watched all day.

[@bigpapihumbie7169]

I was so excited to see this

[@tomfisher9089]

There should be a video about Elmer Crotchgrabber who played from 1867 to 1880, and never even took a nap. During this time he hit 1354 HR and drove in 3789. He used a 48 lb bat and NEVER struck out. Unfortunately most of his games were night contests so no one actually witnessed much of his greatness. At the height of his fabulous career he earned 100 dollars for the entire 365 game schedule. He was accused of altering his performance by eating Udder Creme on his sandwiches. He is buried in an unmarked grave...somewhere.

[@zane6633]

i’m just waiting for someone to take this seriously

[@TheFaithfulAtheist]

I heard he was a huge influence on Sid Finch. We may never (again) see such greatness.

[@funnybones7771]

Jim Thome winning only one silver slugger in his career even though he has a career .554 slugging percentage and hit .600 four times. All the mean while ICHIRO, has three silver sluggers but never slugged more than .457 in his career.

[@VACATETHE48]

This is what happens when you're in the same league as Giambi, Delgado, Pujols, Teixeira and Morneau while in the peak of your career.

[@matthewweinman8247]

Cool vid keep it up

[@jacklowe74]

What about most birds hit by pitch?

[@FivePointsVids]

Randy Johnson

[@TheFaithfulAtheist]

Unbreakable

[@johnlarson7858]

Eric Gagne threw 82.1 innings three straight seasons.

[@brothaj3476]

I suggested this on dawson's videos, great video

[@FivePointsVids]

Thanks man

[@trey2325]

shoutout foolish baseball lmao love it

[@twotonewatermalone]

love the little Maddox reference

[@supersasukemaniac]

4,278. Ichiro's overall hit record combing his hits from his 9 years in Osaka playing for Orix Bluewave and his 18 MLB seasons.

[@dennissvitak148]

You don't get to count Ichiro's hits unless Pete Rose gets to count his AA and AAA hits. Rose STILL crushes him.

[@hypetrained]

Shoutout Foolish Baseball. Hopefully a handsome guy.

[@FivePointsVids]

Unlikely:)

[@vjekobasic7059]

This might be your best video so far!

[@tomfisher9089]

Not saying much is it?

[@brandonbouchez7195]

Ayyy my fav player Maddux gettin the shout out!

[@wstap12]

How about Harvey Haddix’s 12 inning perfect game with him still getting the loss?

[@behindthefern2846]

Plus three for the beard. I am dead. Lol

[@pineapplelover79]

Love it!

[@jacksonwaugh1958]

Can u make another one of these. These are really fun to watch.

[@luishumbertovega3900]

That guy at 7:43 is NOT Christy Mathewson, that's Jack Chesbro, who won 41 games in 1904, a record that will never be broken. Thanks for those entertaining videos !!! Blessings from San Juan PR

[@jamespaulaski5697]

You, UT, and Brandon are the only youtubers that I disable ad block for

[@FivePointsVids]

Appreciated bro

[@MadKingTylor]

In 2018 Rick Porcello of the Red Sox pitches against the Yankees and pitched an 86 pitch one hitter only allowing a solo home run and a hit batsman and no walks

[@randymcfallon]

Zero career home runs in an era when the league leaders only collected in the single digits is not shocking. What's more interesting is a guy having a 12 year career hitting under the Mendoza line.

[@jimbo-fk4dq]

Baseball sabremetrician: Clayton Kershaw has the best WHIP in baseball today. Oblivious person: Okay, but what about his Nae Nae?

[@hectorst24]

Does anybody know which version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is used in 5:12 and at the end of the video? Been looking for it some time, as it was used in other videos

[@FivePointsVids]

Its stock music on audioblocks

[@donkeydan5996]

Why would you put an ad at the beginning of the video

[@hillbillytrump6817]

Joe Nuxhall All us Reds fans miss you .The old left hander was so great to hear on 700 WLW

[@andrewhale8747]

Hillbilly Trump Nuxy is a legend. I’m glad we have the Cowboy to fill the void. Him and Marty are gold together. Gonna miss Marty after this year.

[@hillbillytrump6817]

@@andrewhale8747 Likewise , I actually delivered furniture to him around 15 years ago. I knew he was awesome before that but meeting him for a few hours was sweet.

[@FOnewmike]

When Urinating Tree uploads crap you can always count on FivePoints to pick up the slack.

[@johnlarson7858]

There is exactly one recorded baseball game that saw all 9 innings played with exactly one baseball. Of course, this was back when baseballs were prized by owners as they would do anything to reduce costs. Any baseballs that went into the stands were aggressively retrieved by club employees, and if fans insisted on keeping their souvenir, they were not only tossed, but sometimes had legal action brought against them for theft of club property. Today, I’ve seen baseballs removed from action that were not even used for one pitch. The ump would toss the pitcher a fresh ball...the pitcher determined there was something about this new ball deemed unfavorable...he would toss it back to the ump...who would then toss it over to the bellboy/home club to have it removed from action...only to be used later by minor league clubs...local youth leagues...or even in third world companies.

[@chapeltom9424]

Check out Ryan Verdugo's 92 pitch perfect game... A walk off perfect game too, as my Uni President 7 11 Lions Kuo Fu Lin homered to win it in the bottom of the 9th.

[@otaviofrn_adv]

0:15 A true brazilian meme Thanks FivePoints

[@nathaniellevesque2782]

8:47 There was a William Hulbert, who was the first president of the National League

[@cloudproud729]

I like stats a lot and I have some weird stats. I live in Denmark and the pitchers aren’t to good and I take advantage of that. I stand really close to the plate so if the pitcher throw inside he most of the time ends up hitting me so I have the record for most hbp in a game in our league at 5. My season hbp is 47. Then my walks cuz the pitchers are to scared throwing inside is 115. Cuz I stand so close to the plate and throwing inside hit me they go away and if the try to hit the zone away they hit my sweet spot.

[@owenschnitzler9340]

Carlos Baerga hitting two home runs in the same inning. And he was a switch hitter so it was one homer batting righty and the other batting lefty.

[@dennissvitak148]

No...Fernando Tatis hitting TWO GRAND SLAMS in the same inning, OFF THE SAME PITCHER.

[@MR_JESTER556]

i didnt know there was anyone else named moyer outside my family before this video

[@donovanwisdom310]

5:07 I didn't even know Cincinnai had a team in 1954... or that there was a city called "Cincinnai"

[@clammer23]

@4:57, look at the blast this was at 4:57. If you go to 4:47, press play and look in the sky to the right side. Look at the 2 people over the explosion.

[@DarkAudit]

Red Barrett nearly threw a DOUBLE Maddux. 58 pitches for the Boston Braves vs the Reds in 1944.

[@lovesupreme6154]

The back of some 1980 Topps card taught my young mind what a palindrome is. (Toby Harrah's last name is one, ironically it wasn't his card)

[@kvltizt]

Sammy Sosa added too much cream in his coffee.

[@littleboyblue2323]

Garrett Anderson went 11 years without getting hit by a pitch while leading baseball in plate appearances.

[@Howard_johnson]

You don’t learn about statistics in a calculus class... you learn about them in a statistics class :(

[@michaelalbertson7457]

One stat I would like to see changed is to give an RBI (or RBIs) for grounding or hitting into a double play, when a runner (or runners) scores. Even when I followed baseball in the 1960s, I never really liked the rule. Now you see so many strikeouts, pop ups, in bases loaded situations, that a batter who hits into double play did his job, he got the runner (or runners) home, unlike the strikeout and pop up kings. Being traditional, and as Kyle Seager has 100 RBIs while batting about .215, I looked up the stats, so I thought, about the lowest batting averages with 100 RBIs. No dice, it ain't on my phone. Annoying. Oh, well, I can live without it. But Kyle Seagar may hold the record after this year.

[@SolidSnake684]

More baseball!

[@cerealissoup84]

Rich hill had a perfect game go to extras a few years back

[@elliottryan13]

This video was odd because I know NOTHING about baseball! But it was great I'll give ya that one!

[@FivePointsVids]

Adam always appreciate your watch and comment.

[@elliottryan13]

@@FivePointsVids Always appreciate your vids brother

[@TheFaithfulAtheist]

You forgot Robin Ventura's record of getting hit 6 times in the same at bat.

[@beamerball666]

You should do this for Hockey and include Dan Carcillo's stat line of 0's during one of the winter classic games.

[@rogerszmodis]

That's not unusual. Dan Carcillio sucked ass.

[@slaymyface1357]

Is no one going to mention radbourn won 57 games in a season, or that babe ruth holds the record for longest complete game shutout with 14 innings and the win or what about johnny van Meer threw two no hitters in back to back games,or the fact ted williams went to two wars and still hit 521 homers, or what about when prince fielder hit a homerun out of tigers stadium of jerry frenconia at 12 or that prince and cecil fielder ended their careers with 319 homers, what about tommy brown hitting a homerun in a actual game at 17 as a dodger. To end it alllll off, bartlo the goat big sexy colón being the oldest person to hit there first homerun in a game, julio franco being the oldest to hit a homerun at 48

[@Ryguy-lg2xz]

Fluoride in drinking water except if you live in Portland

[@hookman73]

"He does NOT look like a 'Mike'." Haha!

[@DavidPerez-yh9yf]

I fucking love ur vids keep up the work

[@FivePointsVids]

Thanks David

[@SHXWK_YT]

can you do odd statlines in the nfl?

[@TheNewChevyRoll48]

Randy Johnson with one bird hit

[@stevenloeffler1266]

Critique MLS Stadiums

[@Dmolina3715]

I’d be so pissed if the game I bought Home plate tickets for only lasted two hours

[@heyitswesty]

Nice shoutout to foolish baseball bro he's great too.

[@FivePointsVids]

agreed!

[@YeeSoest]

Can't say it enough: To make that game this interesting... I bow to your infinite entertainment value. You shall now sell me doodoo! How much, good sir?

[@FivePointsVids]

YeeSoest use my code FIVEPOINTS for 15% off your bullshit...

[@YeeSoest]

@@FivePointsVids can't say no to a discount number 2, can i?

[@stupidas9466]

Sorry but the numbers don't add up when you say at the beginning that 32 teams play 162 different games. Exactly one half of those are the same games. When the jays play the tigers on a specific day the tigers are also playing the jays on that same exact day. Even the same time, weirdly enough!

[@JayTemple]

Joe Nuxhall would have gotten the kids' promotion instead of the bobblehead today.

[@revinevan87]

weren't homeruns in the 1800s actually homeruns, meaning you got all the way around the bases on a hit ball. ?

[@njackson6807]

3:21 Ah yes, Armando Galaraga

[@ETYPEJaguar38]

27 up 27 down non-perfect game recently happened in the Nippon Professional Baseball. In August 23, 2005, starting pitcher Fumiya Nishiguchi of the Seibu Lions throw 9 perfect innings against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, but the game went to extra innings because the game was tied at 0-0. Nishiguchi finally allowed a hit in the 10th inning, blowing a perfecto/no-hitter. He eventually got the W though.

[@ETYPEJaguar38]

Also another weird 'unofficial' perfect game happened in the Game 5 of the 2007 Japan Series. Daisuke Yamai of the Chunichi Dragons threw 8 perfect innings against the Nippon Ham Fighters, but he was replaced by the team's closer Hitoki Iwase in the 9th inning. Iwase eventually closed out the game with a shutout inning, sealing a Japan Series title for the Dragons.

[@FivePointsVids]

What manager does that????

[@ETYPEJaguar38]

@@FivePointsVids The manager of the Dragons at the time was Hiromitsu Ochiai, but apparently the pitching coach(Shigekazu Mori) made the decision because Yamai had a splinter and was bleeding.

[@Docwilson91]

Baseball: a statistics teacher’s favorite sport

[@Zoyx]

Carlos Silva pitched a mere 74 pitches in a 9 inning complete game back in 2005 for the Twins - coffeyvillewhirlwind.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/2005-carlos-silvas-74-pitch-complete-game/

[@antoinelalonde1488]

was that tommy kay at 3:02

[@nathanielmcdonald17]

5:58 lol, got em

[@fishyonme6673]

3:35 lol 😂😂😂

[@danielschell6523]

Critiquing ncaa softball women's world series in june do it

[@bryantsteury8910]

“French ditch” good name for a raunchy v

[@mikes7446]

Sammy is scary looking!

[@matthewvanzandt6589]

I love Toby Harrah

[@lonewolf2point069]

How guys that managed to go the whole season without a plate appearance. That aren't pitchers i mean. By my count the Oakland A's had at least 2 in the 1970's

[@dpower2449]

What about rich hill pitching 9 innings of perfect game, and 10 no hit innings, but lost the game

[@daviddechamplain5718]

In the 50's Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings, but lost the game in the 13th.

[@ketchup143]

and how many homers did the league leader have in the 1870s? 2? i think he got by just fine with 0 in those days.