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• n  (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat
• n  (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds

• hitting average

News & Articles

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• Chicago Cubs: Four Random Stats You Might Be Unaware of in 2013
  COMMENTARY | There are plenty of stats that are mentioned on a daily basis to the point it would be hard to forget them. Others, though, are a bit more obscure. I don't mean "Player X's batting average when facing left-handed pitching between the hours of four and seven PM when coming off of a loss" type of obscure, but particular statistics that are not being mentioned ad nauseum. It may be ...
  June 13, 2013 - Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! Sports
• Rays notes: Slumping Scott takes extra BP
  ST. PETERSBURG DH Luke Scott took early batting practice Wednesday afternoon with hitting coach Derek Shelton. Scott entered Wednesday's game against the Red Sox with seven hits in his last 55 at-bats, a .127 average that dropped his batting average to a season-low .215.
  June 13, 2013 - The Tampa Tribune
• Japanese baseball officials admit to altering the baseball to increase offense
  Home runs and batting average have increased sharply in the NPB this season, and after months of denying that the ball had been altered in any way, Japanese baseball officials are admitting that they tinkered with it in order to “make the game more exciting” and increase offense: Players and fans had repeatedly quizzed Nippon…
  June 12, 2013 - NBC Sports: HardballTalk