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Baseball · Level 6: Advanced · Sub-level 6.1

Traditional Statistics

10 tests · 100 facts · updated 28 October 2026 · markdown

Batting average, home runs and the Triple Crown, pitcher wins, ERA, strikeouts and walks, fielding percentage, stolen base records, the save, the box score, and milestones and records.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Batting averageTake a test

  1. Hitting .300 means three hits in every ten at-bats.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Williams hit .406 for Boston in 1941.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. A walk and a single are both on base; a homer counts the same as a single.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Cobb finished at about .366.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. The batting champion has the best average among qualified hitters.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. A player with ten at-bats could otherwise lead with a fluke average.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. League batting averages have hovered around .250 in recent years.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. Higher averages are better.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Cobb about .366, Williams .344, Jeter .310.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. 180 hits divided by 600 at-bats is .300.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 2Home runs, RBIs and the Triple CrownTake a test

  1. A hitter who leads his league in all three wins the Triple Crown.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Cabrera led the American League in all three categories.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Bonds finished with 762 home runs.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Bonds hit 73 in 2001.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. A hitter can only drive in runners who are on base.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Maris broke Ruth's 60 and held the record until 1998.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Judge passed Maris's league record of 61.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 73, 62 and 61.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. 762, 755 and 714.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Leading in all three is the Triple Crown.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 3Pitcher wins and lossesTake a test

  1. A starter must go at least five innings and leave with the lead kept.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. A pitcher can pitch well and lose if his team does not score.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Cy Young won 511 games.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. The best pitcher in each league wins the Cy Young Award.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. DeGrom's 1.70 ERA won voters over despite poor run support.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Five-man rotations and bullpens limit each starter's decisions.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. If the lead changes after he leaves, he gets no decision.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 511, 417 and 355.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Five innings, a lead, and the bullpen holding it.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. With the game tied when he left, he gets neither result.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 4Earned run averageTake a test

  1. Runs that score because of errors are unearned and do not count.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Gibson's season helped lead MLB to lower the mound.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. The mound came down from 15 to 10 inches.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. League ERAs sit near four in recent seasons.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Poor fielding that is not scored as errors can raise a pitcher's ERA.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. 20 times nine divided by 90 is 2.00.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. One bad inning moves a small-innings ERA a long way.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. Lower ERAs are better.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. 1968, 1969 and 1973.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. In 1969 MLB lowered the mound to help hitters.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 5Strikeouts and walksTake a test

  1. Ryan struck out 5,714 batters.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Many strikeouts and few walks mark an effective pitcher.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Harder throwers and all-or-nothing swings pushed strikeouts up.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Kerry Wood, Roger Clemens and Max Scherzer have struck out 20.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Free runners lead to big innings.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Bonds drew 2,558 walks, many intentional.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. K% divides strikeouts by batters faced.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. Ryan 5,714, Johnson 4,875, then Kershaw.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. More strikeouts per walk is better.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Twenty strikeouts in nine innings is the shared record.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 6Errors and fielding percentageTake a test

  1. It divides successful chances by total chances.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. A slow fielder who reaches fewer balls makes fewer errors.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. The scorer judges whether ordinary effort would have made the play.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Gold Gloves have been given since 1957.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. 'The Wizard' was famed for his acrobatic defence.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Getting to hard chances gives more chances to misplay.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Maddux won the award 18 times.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. Higher is better.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. The scorer judges the play and posts the error.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Fielding percentage does not reward reaching hard balls.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 7Stolen base recordsTake a test

  1. Henderson stole 1,406 bases.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. His 130 steals remain the modern record.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Brock had 938 career steals.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Analytics showed that being caught costs more than a base gains.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Below about 70%, outs cost more than the bases gained.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. It marks rare power and speed together.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Acuña hit 41 homers and stole 73 bases.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1,406, 938 and 897.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Each step needs more homers and steals in one season.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Henderson lifted the base after breaking Brock's record.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 8The save statisticTake a test

  1. The Chicago sportswriter devised it in the 1960s.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. It was the first new official stat since RBIs in 1920.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Wins and ERA did not show what relievers did.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Managers began using closers to earn saves.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Holds credit relievers who hold a lead before the closer.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. A three-run ninth counts as much as a one-run escape.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Hoffman reached 600 in 2010; Rivera passed him in 2011.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. RBIs in 1920, saves in 1969; holds are still not official.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. More danger, harder save.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. A three-run lead in the ninth is still a save situation.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 9The box scoreTake a test

  1. Chadwick, a 19th-century writer, created the box score and many stats.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. At-bats exclude walks, hit-by-pitches and sacrifices.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. LOB counts runners stranded when an inning ends.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. IP shows how long the pitcher worked.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Each out is shown as .1, so 5.1 means five and a third.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. In the pitching line, H counts hits the pitcher gave up.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. The line score gives runs, hits and errors for each team.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. More innings and fewer earned runs make a better start.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Seven, then six and two-thirds, then six and a third.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Six innings is 18 outs, plus two more makes 20.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 10Milestones and recordsTake a test

  1. Rose collected 4,256 hits.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Fewer than forty players have reached 3,000 hits.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. The 500-homer club is a small group of sluggers.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Modern usage makes 300 wins extremely hard.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Ripken passed Lou Gehrig's 2,130 in 1995.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Gehrig played 2,130 straight games.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Ichiro had 1,278 hits in Japan and 3,089 in MLB.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 4,256, about 4,190 and 3,771.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. 1939, 1995 and 1998.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Ripken broke Gehrig's consecutive games record.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Sources

General baseball references, WBSC and league material, coaching manuals; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Numbered rules belong to the Rules category.

  • General baseball reference100