QAB is short for Quality-At-Bat, a concept in baseball that gives credit to a batter for helping advance the team towards scoring a run. It is not to be confused with batting average, which merely focuses on the skills of a batter at making a hit. Winning a baseball match is more ab...
Welcome to Crooked Numbers, a monthly column dedicated to Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. The edition, rounding up the month of August, features RBI explosions, epic sweeps, same-named individuals and, of course, much more. Keeping track of this type of thing is a te...
BV West, routinely stalled at the plate after tying the ballgame in the second, broke the mold on their eighth and final hit of the ballgame – a one-out, RBI double by Barrett Donaldson that found its way into the sun’s rays and out of Weishaar’s sight i...
👀 LOOK AHEAD:D1Baseball projects the 2024 SEC baseball season With all that said, here’s a look at the top 20 catchers in college baseball heading into the 2024 season. Preseason All-Americans Cole Messina (South Carolina), Jacob Cozart (NC State) and Caden Bodine (Coastal Carolina) le...
Professional baseball has finally achieved Maximum Muncy. At long last, the sport's two infielders named Max Muncy -- improbably born exactly 12 years apart and completely unrelated -- finally met and played in the same game, an eventual 10-8 victory by rehabbing Muncy's Triple-A Oklahoma Ci...
CORPUS CHRISTI – Hooks Baseball is back in town for a two-week homestand, beginning with six games vs. the Amarillo Sod Poodles July 30-August 4 at Whataburger Field. Bark in the Park, presented by Animal Medical Corpus Christi, and Three Dollar Thursday specials fill out the lineup Augus...
FRISCO, Texas (September 16, 2024) – On Monday, Minor League Baseball announced that Frisco RoughRiders first baseman Abimelec Ortiz was named Texas League Player of the Week. Over the week, the Texas Rangers' 2021 signee hit .524 (11-for-21) with four homers, a double, eight RBI and...
With a big third inning and a go-ahead single in the top of the eighth, Kansas State baseball edged past Kansas, 5-4, on Friday at Hoglund Ballpark in the first game of the three-game Sunflower Showdown series. The Jayhawks (17-16, 5-5 in Big 12 play) ...
RBI Program Aims at Igniting Baseball Interest in Inner CitiesLorraine Kee Montre Of the Post-Dispatch
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Xander Bogaerts had an RBI single in the seventh inning, Jackson Merrell made a game-saving diving catch in the ninth inning, and Joe Musgrove had a solid return from the 60-day injured list as the San Diego Padres beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Monday night. ...