Lou Gehrig Stats
How often did the Iron Horse score a run, drive in a run or hit a home run per at bat?
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Presented in this article are Lou Gehrig’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did the Iron Horse get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what, on average, Lou Gehrig accomplished for each official at bat he had in the major leagues.
How are the stats calculated out? Simply by dividing each stat listed by official at bats. Just like you do with hits for batting average. Here we are dividing total runs scored by total official at bats to get a player’s run average, total RBI’s by total official at bats for a player’s RBI average and total HR’s by total official at bats for a player’s HR average. For example: if a player has scored 1,000 runs in 5,000 official at bats his run average would be .200. If the player had 900 RBI’s his RBI average would be .180. And if he had 200 HR’s his HR average would be .040. So on average this player would have scored a run 20% of the time, driven in a run 18% of the time and hit a HR 4% of the time he recorded an official at bat in the major leagues.
Obviously the higher the averages the better the player was. Here is a rough guide to determine how a players averages stack up.
Run Average and RBI Average – anything over .150 is good. Anything above .200 is excellent, and the very best players in history have occasionally gone over .300 in some seasons.
HR Average – anything over .055 is good. Anything above .065 is really good and anything above .075 means one of the best HR hitters of all time.
Here are Lou Gehrig’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/HR’s/RBI’s) 8001/1888/493/1995.
Lou Gehrig’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .236
RBI Average – .249
HR Average – .062
So on average Lou Gehrig scored a run 23.6% of the time, drove in a run 24.9% of the time and hit a HR 6.2% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Gehrig earned his nickname “The Iron Horse” by playing in 2,130 consecutive games over a 15 year span. A record for 56 years until 1995 when Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it. Lou Gehrig was tragically stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at age 36 and the disease took his life just two years later. ALS is known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease” today.
Lou Gehrig was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939 and is generally considered one of the top 5 hitters in baseball history and his career run, RBI and HR averages certainly back that up.
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