Dale Murphy Sacrifice Hit

Dale Murphy Career Sacrifice Hit Overview

During Dale Murphy's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 6 sacrifice hit, an average of 0 sacrifice hit per season. 1978 was his best season with 3 sacrifice hit and his worst season was 1976 when he had 0 sacrifice hit. Dale Murphy underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (28.8765), Baby Boomers (21.7974), Y (97.6136), mlb (27.1854), and CF (31.5345) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice hit (SH), 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. Generally, for Sacrifice Hit, higher is better. (Source)

Dale Murphy Lifetime Sacrifice Hit and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Sacrifice Hit for Dale Murphy

	Dale Murphy Sacrifice Hit	Dale Murphy Sacrifice Fly
Career	6	60
Season Avg.	0	3
162 Game Avg.	0	4
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Dale Murphy Sacrifice Hit By Year Line Chart

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

Dale Murphy Cumulative Sacrifice Hit by Year

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

Dale Murphy Sacrifice Hit By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Dale Murphy and related player groups by summarizing Sacrifice Hit for each season played by Dale Murphy. 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!

Dale Murphy Sacrifice Hit Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Dale Murphy Sacrifice Hit 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, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Dale Murphy 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.