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

The Cubs ranked 21st in baseball with 170 home runs and 17th in slugging percentage (.393) in 2024. —Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024

Jones had slightly more RBIs and Gold Gloves; Edmonds had more hits and a better batting average, slugging percentage, OPS and OPS+ plus a World Series title. —Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024

For context, his career slugging percentage is .515. —Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024

The Orioles in 2024 ranked second in home runs (235), third in extra-base hits (530) and slugging percentage (.435), fourth in runs (786) and RBIs (759) and seventh in hits (1,391) and batting average (.250). —Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above