The batter is awarded a plate appearance but not an at bat. The player's HBP (hit by pitch) stat is upped by 1. There is no change to the player's batting average.
In the history of Major League Baseball as of 2009 there are 202 players with a career batting average of .300 or better.
Balls and strikes do not constitute a player's batting average. A batting average is calculated according to how many hits a batter has made divided by how many at-bats he has. For instance, Ichiro Suzuki had 680 At-Bats in the 2010 season. Out of those At-Bats he pulled in 214 hits. 214 divided by 680 is .315 and that is how you figure out a player's batting average.
A batting average of .333 represents a player's ratio of hits to at-bats in baseball. It means that the player gets a hit approximately 33.3% of the time they come up to bat. A .333 batting average is generally considered very good and indicates a high level of skill and consistency at the plate.
The highest batting average a player can have is 1.000, which would mean that he would have a hit every time he is at bat. Of course, this wouldn't count the times the batter may have been walked, since walks aren't considered "at-bats" and don't reflect upon his batting average.
how does a batting average measure a picther performance
Jennie Finch, a former professional softball player, had a career batting average of .278.
It depends. If the player has a low batting average, it can mean that they have a high slugging average (home runs) and focus more on hitting home runs than getting on the base. It can also mean, though, that the batter just has bad contact with hitting the ball or has bad strategizing.On the other hand, if a player has a high batting average, they are most likely not a slugger and focus more on strategizing (like hitting the ball where the infielders and outfielders can't reach it before the hitter gets on base).There are exceptions, though, like Joe DiMaggio and Hank Aaron, who both had relatively high slugging averages andbatting averages.
It can because players will beat out infield grounders for singles which will raise the player's batting average and, in turn, raise the team's batting average.
A fielder's choice is just like an out and lower's a player's batting average since the fielder chose to put out another player instead, usually the lead runner... On the other hand, a sacrifice does not count against the batter because his intention was to advance the runner at his own expense.
.320 ... to determine a player's batting average, divide the number of at bats into the number of hits.
Yes. A players batting average changes with every at bat unless the player has an average of .000 and does not get a hit, or a 1.000 average and gets a hit.