Batters faced

In baseball statistics, Batters Faced (BF), also known as Total Batters Faced (TBF), is the number of batters who made a plate appearance before the pitcher in a game or in a season.

For a given game, the number of plate appearances for an offense is 3×(Innings) + (Runs scored) + (Runners left on base).

Major league records

The major league record for batters faced in a career belongs to Cy Young, who faced 29,565 batters between 1890 and 1911.[1] Will White of the Cincinnati Reds holds the single season record; he faced 2,906 batters in 1879.[2] The last pitcher to face 1,500 or more batters in a single season was Wilbur Wood of the 1973 Chicago White Sox.[3]

On May 1, 1920, Leon Cadore of the Brooklyn Robins faced 96 Boston Braves batters, an MLB single game record dating back to at least 1901.[4] Oakland's Steve McCatty is the last pitcher to face 50 or more batters in a game. McCatty pitched to 51 batters in a 14-inning complete game loss to the Seattle Mariners on August 10, 1980.[5]

Mike Myers made a record 314 appearances in which he faced just one opposing batter per game.[6]

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See also

References
  1. "Pitching Season & Career Finder: Spanning Multiple Seasons or entire Careers, From 1871 to 2020, (requiring BFP>=20000), sorted by greatest Batters Faced". Stathead. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  2. "Pitching Season & Career Finder: For Single Seasons, From 1871 to 2020, (requiring BFP>=2500), sorted by greatest Batters Faced". Stathead. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  3. "Pitching Season & Career Finder: For Single Seasons, From 1900 to 2020, (requiring BFP>=1500), sorted by most recent date". Stathead. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  4. "Pitching Game Finder: In years 1901 to 2020, (requiring BF>=85), sorted by greatest BF". Stathead. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  5. "Pitching Game Finder: In years 1976 to 2020, (requiring BF>=50), sorted by greatest BF". Stathead. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  6. "Pitching Game Finder: In years 1901 to 2020, (requiring BF=1), sorted by greatest number of games in all seasons matching the selected criteria". Stathead. Retrieved August 3, 2020.


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