Triple Crown (baseball)

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Rogers Hornsby (left) and Ted Williams (right) are the only MLB batters to have won the Triple Crown twice. Hornsby achieved this in 1922 and 1925, while Williams accomplished this in 1942 and 1947.

In baseball, a player earns a Triple Crown when he leads a league in three specific statistical categories in the same season. The term "Triple Crown" generally refers to the batting achievement of leading a league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) over the same season. [1] [2] The term "Pitching Triple Crown" refers to the pitching achievement of leading a league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average (ERA).

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The term "Triple Crown" is typically used when a player leads one league, such as the American League (AL) or the National League (NL), in the specified categories. A tie for a lead in any category, such as home runs, is sufficient to be considered the leader in that category. A "Major League Triple Crown" may be said to occur when a player leads all of Major League Baseball in all three categories.

Hitting Triple Crown

The term "Triple Crown" generally refers to the hitting achievement. A hitter who completes a season leading a league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) may be said to have won the "Triple Crown". [1] The term, unless modified, connotes the batting achievement; it is not necessary to refer to it as the "hitting" Triple Crown.

The Triple Crown reflects the ability of a hitter to excel in three important ways: to hit safely a high percentage of the time (batting average); to hit the ball long distances (home runs); and to produce when runners are on base, driving them home to score (RBI). It is an uncommon feat to lead all hitters in each of these categories. It has been accomplished 17 times in a major league season, most recently in 2012, by Miguel Cabrera. Cabrera's was the first since 1967, when Carl Yastrzemski accomplished the feat. Yastrzemski won the Triple Crown the year after Frank Robinson did, the only time back-to-back Triple Crowns occurred in baseball history.

Hiromitsu Ochiai and Oscar Charleston are the only players to have won three batting Triple Crowns in any league. Ochiai won in 1982, 1985, and 1986 while competing in the PL of the NPB; Charleston won in 1921 while playing in the NNL, and again in 1924 and 1925 while playing in the ECL. In the American major leagues, the most batting Triple Crowns won by a player is two. Rogers Hornsby was the first to accomplish it, winning his first in 1922 and then leading both major leagues in 1925 en route to his second Triple Crown, both with the St. Louis Cardinals. [3] [4] Ted Williams later matched this mark, leading both leagues in 1942 and the American League in 1947 while with the Boston Red Sox. [5] [6]

The Cardinals have won the most hitting Triple Crowns as a franchise with four. Along with Hornsby's two, Tip O'Neill won in the now-defunct American Association in 1887 while the team was known as the St. Louis Browns, [7] and Joe Medwick added the Cardinals' fourth in 1937. [8] Eleven of the thirteen eligible [9] players who have batting Triple Crowns have been elected to the Hall of Fame. [10] [11] Baseball writer and ESPN contributor Tim Kurkjian believes the Triple Crown has become more difficult to win with the advent of more hitters who choose to specialize in either hitting for batting average or power. [12]

Pitching Triple Crown

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the only pitcher in the history of professional baseball to win three pitching Triple Crowns consecutively Bs Yoshinobu Yamamoto 2019092202.jpg
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the only pitcher in the history of professional baseball to win three pitching Triple Crowns consecutively

A pitcher who leads the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average (ERA) is said to have won the "Pitching Triple Crown". [13] The term was previously defined as leading the league in wins, ERA, and winning percentage. It was used in that older sense to describe the (ultimately unsuccessful) pursuit of that goal by Johnny Antonelli of the New York Giants in 1954 [14] and also by Sandy Koufax in 1963. [15] Koufax was first described as having won the Pitching Triple Crown in the current sense after his 1965 season [16] though the older sense continued to be used. [17]

In contrast to the respective batting statistics, the Pitching Triple Crown statistics are more or less complementary (for example, a pitcher who is especially proficient at striking out batters is likely to give up fewer earned runs, and consequently more likely to win games); therefore, the accomplishment is not as rare as the batting crown.

Only one pitcher in the history of professional baseball has won three straight pitching Triple Crowns, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, achieving the feat in the NPB from 2021 to 2023.

In the major leagues, the Pitching Triple Crown has been accomplished 39 times. The most by one player is three, accomplished by three players. Grover Cleveland Alexander captured his first two in consecutive seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies (1915–1916), and won a third in 1920 with the Chicago Cubs. Alexander is the only pitcher to win a Pitching Triple Crown with more than one major league team. [18] [19] [20] Walter Johnson won his three Triple Crowns with the original Washington Senators, leading the league in all three categories in 1913, 1918, and 1924. [21] [22] [23] Sandy Koufax was the most recent to capture three Triple Crowns, winning his three within four seasons for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1963, 1965–1966); all of Koufax's crowns led both major leagues, the most for any player. [24] [25] [26]

Other major league pitchers who have won multiple Pitching Triple Crowns include Christy Mathewson (1905 and 1908 New York Giants), Lefty Grove (1930 and 1931 Philadelphia Athletics), Lefty Gomez (1934 and 1937 New York Yankees), and Roger Clemens (1997 and 1998 Toronto Blue Jays). [27]

One pitcher, Guy Hecker, won a Triple Crown in a defunct 19th century major league; he led the original American Association in wins, strikeouts, and ERA in 1884 while pitching for the Louisville Colonels. [28]

Eighteen of twenty-four major league pitchers who have won a Triple Crown and are eligible for the Hall of Fame have been inducted. [29] The Triple Crown winners who most recently became eligible for the Hall are Pedro Martínez and Randy Johnson. Both were elected to the Hall of Fame in 2015, each in their first year of eligibility. [30]

The most recent major league pitcher to achieve the feat is Shane Bieber in 2020. [31]

Major league records

The first major league pitcher to achieve the pitching Triple Crown was Tommy Bond, in the NL in 1877. The following year, Paul Hines became the first major leaguer to lead the NL in the three batting categories; he, Heinie Zimmerman, and Miguel Cabrera are the only three players to be AL or NL Triple Crown winners and not reach the Hall of Fame, although Cabrera as of 2023 is still playing so therefore ineligible. [10] [27] The highest home run total reached by a Crown winner was Mickey Mantle, with 52 in 1956. The highest RBI total belongs to Lou Gehrig, with 165 in 1934. Rogers Hornsby has the highest home run total by an NL winner, 42, from his 1922 season. The NL high for RBI is 154, set by Joe Medwick in 1937. Hugh Duffy's .440 average in his 1894 Triple Crown season is the highest batting average by any player in major league history. Nap Lajoie, in 1901, set the all-time AL single-season high in batting average with .426.

Among the major leaguers who earned the pitching Triple Crown, the lowest ERAs belong to Walter Johnson (1.14 in 1913 AL) and Grover Alexander (1.22 in 1915 NL). The highest win total belongs to Charles Radbourn, amassed in 1884, who in that year set a major league single-season record with at least 59 wins. [32] [33] Radbourn struck out 441 batters that season, the highest total for a Triple Crown winner. Walter Johnson holds the highest win total by an AL pitching Triple Crown winner, with 36, attained in 1913. Among AL pitching Triple Crown winners, Pedro Martínez registered the highest season strikeout total, with 313 in 1999. Since 1901, the major league pitcher with the highest season strikeout total in the course of a Triple Crown season is Sandy Koufax, striking out 382 in 1965.

Triple Crown winners

Key
YearLinks to the article about the corresponding Professional Baseball season
Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum or Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
Player is active
*Denotes "Major League" Triple Crown
§Player also won the MVP Award in the same year
HR Home runs
RBI Runs batted in
AVG Batting average
W Wins
K Strikeouts
ERA Earned run average
NL National League
AL American League
AA American Association
CL Central League
PL Pacific League
NNL Negro National League (1920–1931)
ECL Eastern Colored League
NAL Negro American League
NN2 Negro National League (1933–1948)

Major League Baseball

Batting

Research in 2015 restored the Chicago Cubs' Heinie Zimmerman of 1912 to the list. [34] There is doubt over whether Hugh Duffy's 1894 RBI totals were the highest. [35]

Miguel Cabrera is the most recent MLB batting Triple Crown winner, achieving it in 2012; the first since 1967. Miguel Cabrera (2011).jpg
Miguel Cabrera is the most recent MLB batting Triple Crown winner, achieving it in 2012; the first since 1967.
YearPlayerPositionTeamLeagueHRRBIAVGRef(s)
1878 Paul Hines Center fielder Providence Grays NL 450.358 [36]
1887 Tip O'Neill Left fielder St. Louis Browns AA 14123.435 [7]
1894 Hugh Duffy Outfielder Boston Beaneaters NL 18145.440 [37]
1901 Nap Lajoie Second baseman Philadelphia Athletics AL 14125.426 [38]
1909 Ty Cobb Right fielder Detroit Tigers AL 9*107*.377* [39] [40]
1912 Heinie Zimmerman Third baseman Chicago Cubs NL 14104.372 [41]
1922 Rogers Hornsby Second baseman St. Louis Cardinals NL 42152.401 [3]
1925 Rogers Hornsby Second baseman St. Louis Cardinals NL 39*143*.403* [4] [42]
1933 Jimmie Foxx § First baseman Philadelphia Athletics AL 48163.356 [43]
1933 Chuck Klein Right fielder Philadelphia Phillies NL 28120.368 [44]
1934 Lou Gehrig First baseman New York Yankees AL 49*165*.363* [45] [46]
1937 Joe Medwick § Left fielder St. Louis Cardinals NL 31154.374 [47]
1942 Ted Williams Left fielder Boston Red Sox AL 36*137*.356* [5] [48]
1947 Ted Williams Left fielder Boston Red Sox AL 32114.343 [6]
1956 Mickey Mantle § Center fielder New York Yankees AL 52*130*.353* [49] [50]
1966 Frank Robinson § Right fielder Baltimore Orioles AL 49122.316 [51]
1967 Carl Yastrzemski § Left fielder Boston Red Sox AL 44121.326 [52]
2012 Miguel Cabrera § Third baseman Detroit Tigers AL 44139.330 [53]

Pitching

Sandy Koufax won three Major League pitching Triple Crowns, two consecutively and all three within four seasons. Sandy Koufax.jpg
Sandy Koufax won three Major League pitching Triple Crowns, two consecutively and all three within four seasons.
Grover Cleveland Alexander won three National League pitching Triple Crowns (1915-1916, 1920) with two different teams. GC Alexander retouched.jpg
Grover Cleveland Alexander won three National League pitching Triple Crowns (1915–1916, 1920) with two different teams.
Walter Johnson won three American League pitching Triple Crowns with the Washington Senators. Walter Johnson 1924.jpg
Walter Johnson won three American League pitching Triple Crowns with the Washington Senators.
YearPlayerTeamLeagueERAWKRef(s)
1877 Tommy Bond Boston Red Caps NL 2.1140170 [54]
1884 Guy Hecker Louisville Colonels AA 1.8052385 [28]
1884 Charles Radbourn Providence Grays NL 1.3859441 [55]
1888 Tim Keefe New York Giants NL 1.7435335 [56]
1889 John Clarkson Boston Beaneaters NL 2.7349284 [57]
1894 Amos Rusie New York Giants NL 2.7836195 [58]
1901 Cy Young Boston Americans AL 1.6233158 [59]
1905 Christy Mathewson New York Giants NL 1.2731206 [60]
1905 Rube Waddell Philadelphia Athletics AL 1.4827287 [61]
1908 Christy Mathewson New York Giants NL 1.4337259 [62]
1913 Walter Johnson Washington Senators AL 1.14*36*243* [21] [63]
1915 Grover Cleveland Alexander Philadelphia Phillies NL 1.22*31*241* [18] [64]
1916 Grover Cleveland Alexander Philadelphia Phillies NL 1.5533167 [19]
1918 Walter Johnson Washington Senators AL 1.27*23*162* [22] [65]
1918 Hippo Vaughn Chicago Cubs NL 1.7422148 [66]
1920 Grover Cleveland Alexander Chicago Cubs NL 1.9127173 [20]
1924 Walter Johnson Washington Senators AL 2.7223158 [23]
1924 Dazzy Vance Brooklyn Robins NL 2.16*28*262* [67] [68]
1930 Lefty Grove Philadelphia Athletics AL 2.54*28*209* [69] [70]
1931 Lefty Grove § Philadelphia Athletics AL 2.06*31*175* [71] [72]
1934 Lefty Gomez New York Yankees AL 2.3326158 [73]
1937 Lefty Gomez New York Yankees AL 2.3321194 [74]
1939 Bucky Walters § Cincinnati Reds NL 2.2927137 [75]
1940 Bob Feller Cleveland Indians AL 2.6127261 [76]
1945 Hal Newhouser § Detroit Tigers AL 1.81*25*212* [77] [78]
1963 Sandy Koufax § Los Angeles Dodgers NL 1.88*25*306* [24] [79]
1965 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers NL 2.04*26*382* [25] [80]
1966 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers NL 1.73*27*317* [26] [81]
1972 Steve Carlton Philadelphia Phillies NL 1.9727310 [82]
1985 Dwight Gooden New York Mets NL 1.53*24*268* [83] [84]
1997 Roger Clemens Toronto Blue Jays AL 2.0521292 [85]
1998 Roger Clemens Toronto Blue Jays AL 2.6520271 [86]
1999 Pedro Martínez Boston Red Sox AL 2.0723313 [87]
2002 Randy Johnson Arizona Diamondbacks NL 2.3224334 [88]
2006 Johan Santana Minnesota Twins AL 2.77*19*245* [89] [90]
2007 Jake Peavy San Diego Padres NL 2.5419240 [91]
2011 Clayton Kershaw Los Angeles Dodgers NL 2.2821248 [92]
2011 Justin Verlander § Detroit Tigers AL 2.4024250 [93]
2020 [lower-alpha 1] Shane Bieber Cleveland Indians AL 1.63*8*122* [94]

Negro league baseball

On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball announced that the records of Negro league baseball from 1920 to 1948 would be designated as major league status. As such, seven different leagues that existed in that time period are now recognized as being on the same level as MLB. [95] Seven batters and three pitchers achieved the Triple Crown in that era. [96]

Batting

Oscar Charleston won three batting Triple Crowns, most for any American player Oscar Charleston Almendares.jpg
Oscar Charleston won three batting Triple Crowns, most for any American player
YearPlayerPositionTeamLeagueHRRBIAVGRef(s)
1921 Oscar Charleston Center fielder St. Louis Giants NNL 1591.433 [97]
1923 Oscar Johnson Outfielder Kansas City Monarchs NNL 20120.406 [98]
1924 Oscar Charleston Center fielder Harrisburg Giants ECL 1563.405 [99]
1925 Oscar Charleston Center fielder Harrisburg Giants ECL 2097.427 [100]
1926 Mule Suttles First baseman St. Louis Stars NNL 32130.425 [101]
1930 Willie Wells Shortstop St. Louis Stars NNL 17114.411 [102]
1936 Josh Gibson Catcher Pittsburgh Crawfords NNL2 1866.389 [103]
1937 Josh Gibson Catcher Homestead Grays NNL2 2073.417 [104]
1942 Ted Strong Right field Kansas City Monarchs NAL 632.364 [105]
1942 Lennie Pearson First baseman Newark Eagles NNL2 1156.347 [106]

Pitching

YearPlayerTeamLeagueERAWKRef(s)
1934 Slim Jones Philadelphia Stars NN2 1.2420164 [107]
1938 Ray Brown Homestead Grays NN2 1.881470 [108]
1943 Johnny Wright Homestead Grays NN2 2.541894 [109]

Nippon Professional Baseball

Batting

NPB Hall of Famer Hiromitsu Ochiai is tied with Oscar Charleston for the most batting Triple Crowns (three) in any league. Hiromitsu Ochiai.jpg
NPB Hall of Famer Hiromitsu Ochiai is tied with Oscar Charleston for the most batting Triple Crowns (three) in any league.
YearPlayerPositionTeamLeagueHRRBIAVGRef(s)
1938 Fall Haruyasu Nakajima § First Baseman Tokyo Giants JPBL 10*38*.361*[ citation needed ]
1965 Katsuya Nomura § Catcher Nankai Hawks PL 42110.320[ citation needed ]
1973 Sadaharu Oh § First Baseman Yomiuri Giants CL 51114.355[ citation needed ]
1974 Sadaharu Oh § First Baseman Yomiuri Giants CL 49107.332[ citation needed ]
1982 Hiromitsu Ochiai § Third Baseman Lotte Orions PL 3299.325[ citation needed ]
1984 Greg Wells § First baseman Hankyu Braves PL 37130.355[ citation needed ]
1985 Hiromitsu Ochiai § Third Baseman Lotte Orions PL 52146.367[ citation needed ]
1985 Randy Bass § First Baseman Hanshin Tigers CL 54134.350[ citation needed ]
1986 Hiromitsu Ochiai Third Baseman Lotte Orions PL 50116.360[ citation needed ]
1986 Randy Bass First Baseman Hanshin Tigers CL 47109.389[ citation needed ]
2004 Nobuhiko Matsunaka § Left Fielder Fukuoka Daiei Hawks PL 44120.358[ citation needed ]
2022 Munetaka Murakami Third Baseman Tokyo Yakult Swallows CL 56134.318[ citation needed ]

Pitching

Hideo Fujimoto had the lowest single season ERA of any triple crown winning season, regardless of league, with a 0.73 ERA Hideo Fujimoto.jpg
Hideo Fujimoto had the lowest single season ERA of any triple crown winning season, regardless of league, with a 0.73 ERA
YearPlayerTeamLeagueERAWKRef(s)
1937 Spring Eiji Sawamura § Tokyo Giants JPBL 0.81*24*196*[ citation needed ]
1938 Fall Victor Starffin Tokyo Giants JPBL 1.05*19*146*[ citation needed ]
1943 Hideo Fujimoto Tokyo Giants JPBL 0.73*34*253*[ citation needed ]
1948 Hiroshi Nakao Yomiuri Giants JPBL 1.84*27*187*[ citation needed ]
1954 Shigeru Sugishita § Chunichi Dragons CL 1.3932273[ citation needed ]
1954 Motoji Takuwa Nankai Hawks PL 1.5826275[ citation needed ]
1958 Masaichi Kaneda Kokutetsu Swallows CL 1.3031311[ citation needed ]
1958 Kazuhisa Inao § Nishitetsu Lions PL 1.4233334[ citation needed ]
1959 Tadashi Sugiura Nankai Hawks PL 1.4038336[ citation needed ]
1961 Hiroshi Gondo Chunichi Dragons CL 1.7035310[ citation needed ]
1961 Kazuhisa Inao Nishitetsu Lions PL 1.6942353[ citation needed ]
1978 Keishi Suzuki Kintetsu Buffaloes PL 2.0225178[ citation needed ]
1980 Isamu Kida Nippon Ham Fighters PL 2.2822225[ citation needed ]
1981 Suguru Egawa Yomiuri Giants CL 2.2920221[ citation needed ]
1985 Tatsuo Komatsu Chunichi Dragons CL 2.6517172[ citation needed ]
1990 Hideo Nomo Kintetsu Buffaloes PL 2.9118287[ citation needed ]
1999 Koji Uehara Yomiuri Giants CL 2.0920179[ citation needed ]
2006 Kazumi Saito Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks PL 1.7518205[ citation needed ]
2010 Kenta Maeda Hiroshima Carp CL 2.2115174[ citation needed ]
2018 Tomoyuki Sugano Yomiuri Giants CL 2.1415200[ citation needed ]
2020 Kodai Senga Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks PL 2.1611149[ citation needed ]
2021 Yoshinobu Yamamoto Orix Buffaloes PL 1.39*18*206*
2022 Yoshinobu Yamamoto Orix Buffaloes PL 1.68*15*205*
2023 Yoshinobu Yamamoto Orix Buffaloes PL 1.2116169

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Notes

    1. The major league season in 2020 was less than half the length of a typical season, starting in late July and condensed into 60 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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