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

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

Most of the negative attention has focused on Judge’s 19 strikeouts and a slash line (batting average/on-base percentage/slugging percentage) of .150/.280/.325 and .605 on-base plus slugging. —Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

As a player, Venable hit .249 with a .315 on-base percentage and .404 slugging percentage in 967 major league games with the San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Dodgers. —Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above