Orel Hershiser Sacrifice Hits

Orel Hershiser Career Sacrifice Hits Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 124 sacrifice hits, an average of 7 sacrifice hits per season. 2000 was his best season with 0 sacrifice hits and his worst season was 1989 when he had 19 sacrifice hits. Orel Hershiser underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (12.210312326742), Baby Boomers (30.089099526066), Y (46.638888888889), mlb (12.394540549119), and SP (15.62969588551) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice hit, often referred to a sacrifice bunt, is a ball put into play in the infield allowing a runner on the bases to advance one or more bases but results in the hitter being called out at or before first base. This is often an done intentionally to move runners forward with a weaker hitter at the plate, for example a pitcher. A pitcher is charged with a sacrifice hit when it happens a plate appearance for which they are pitching. Generally, for Sacrifice Hits, lower is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Sacrifice Hits

Stats similar to Sacrifice Hits for Orel Hershiser

	Orel Hershiser Sacrifice Hits
Career	124
Season Avg.	7
162 Game Avg.	17
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Orel Hershiser Sacrifice Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly Sacrifice Hits for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Orel Hershiser Cumulative Sacrifice Hits by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Orel Hershiser's career Sacrifice Hits progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Orel Hershiser's career Sacrifice Hits at the end of that season.

Orel Hershiser Sacrifice Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Orel Hershiser and related player groups by summarizing Sacrifice Hits for each season played by Orel Hershiser. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Orel Hershiser Sacrifice Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Orel Hershiser Sacrifice Hits stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Orel Hershiser career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.