slugging percentage

noun

variants or less commonly slugging average

baseball

: a statistic that reflects a batter's ability to get extra-base hits and that is expressed as a ratio (such as a rate per thousand) of the total number of bases reached on base hits (with one base for a single, two for a double, three for a triple, and four for a home run) to official times at bat

He drove in 118 runs, batted .289 and had the highest slugging percentage (.618) in the majors.

—Ron Fimrite

Quentin finished last week second in the American League in home runs (14), RBIs (48) and slugging percentage (.571) and sixth in on-base percentage (.396).

—Jon Heyman

The 28-year-old reached career-best figures in runs, RBIs, doubles (35), home runs (23) and slugging average (.505).

—Jim Allen

Examples of slugging percentage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Wallace, who played from 2012-15, is the Arkansas record holder in walks (235), runs (184), total bases (378), slugging percentage (.671) and on-base percentage (.557). —Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 19 June 2024

Josh Gibson, for example, now holds the record for highest career batting average (.372), slugging percentage (.718) and OPS (1.177). —Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024

He’s done so effectively, too, as the pitch has limited opponents to a .125 average and a .125 slugging percentage while garnering a 15.4% strikeout rate, a higher clip than his traditional four-seamer. —Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2024

Against all four-seamers, the Dodgers entered Wednesday ranked in the middle of the pack in the majors: 20th in batting average (.290), 15th in slugging percentage (.412) and 14th in whiff rate (21.4%). —Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above