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Baseball-Reference.com Play Index

Data runs from 1954 to 2009 for regular season data, 1933-Present for the All-Star Game, and 1903-Present for the Postseason.

See the description of these tools below

Non-Player Specific Tools

  • Batting Season Finder (all players)
  • Pitching Season Finder (all players)

  • Team Batting Event Finder (all players)
  • Team Pitching Event Finder (all players)

  • Team Inning Summary (records when a team is ahead or behind in an inning and runs scored by inning)
  • Team Batting Order Position Summary (detailed look at a team's batting order position)

  • Batting Game Finder (all players)
  • Pitching Game Finder (all players)
  • Team Batting Game Finder (all team totals)
  • Team Pitching Game Finder (all team totals)

  • Batting Streak Finder (all players)
  • Pitching Streak Finder (all players)
  • Team Batting Streak Finder (all team totals)
  • Team Pitching Streak Finder (all team totals)

  • All-Star Game Batting Event Finder
  • All-Star Game Pitching Event Finder
  • Postseason Batting Event Finder New!
  • Postseason Pitching Event Finder New!
  • All-Star Games and Postseason games are also an option on the game and streak finders

  • Game Search Tools, Every game score from 1871 on.
  • Standings for any date in major league history
  • Situational Records, Find the best home/road records and much, much more.
  • Streaks, Find the best N game stretches within a season or for a franchise.
  • Head-to-Head Records, Find each franchise's record against all others for any range of years.

  • Coming this season
  • Player Specific Tools

    Enter a player name and go to the PI tool

    Batting
    Batter vs. Pitchers
    Batting Event Finder
    Batting Game Finder
    Batting Streak Finder
    Batting Splits
    Batting Gamelogs
    Home Run Log
    Count Summary

    Pitching
    Pitcher vs. Batters
    Pitching Event Finder
    Pitching Game Finder
    Pitching Streak Finder
    Pitching Splits
    Pitching Gamelogs
    Home Run Log
    Count Summary

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    Tools are also linked to directly from the player's Baseball-Reference Page in the batting and pitching toolbars. You will also find links if you go to the gamelogs or splits for a player. This is a shortcut to the specific page for that player.

    Note: The search is done in the background as you type, so depending on your internet connection, the names appearing in the dropdown will differ from what you have typed in. Allow it a second and it should catch up.

    The five main tools for the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index are:

    The Batting or Pitching Season Finder. This tool allows you to search full-season or multi-year totals to find your own custom leaderboards. You can look at the entire history of baseball from 1871-2008 with every year, team, and position available, or you can filter the results in a vast number of ways: by specific years, by age, by first six seasons or last ten seasons, by American League only, by Cubs only, by switch-hitters, by catchers, by outfielder or infielder, by year of debut, but active or retired, by Hall of Famer, by height and weight, by living or deceased, or by a range of common statistical categories. Then you can sort the results by any common statistic, by the teams with the most players matching that category, by players with the most seasons matching that category, or by most recent, youngest, oldest, final year, or year of debut, and others.

    The Batting or Pitching Game Finder. This tool allows you to search player game totals (think 4 for 5 with 3 RBI, or 10-SO shutouts) filtering on any of a dozen or more choices. This can be done either on a single player level or on any batter in the last fifty years or on any pitcher. The same can be done for Team Batting or Team Pitching Totals.

    The Batting or Pitching Streak Finder. This tool allows you to search player games looking for the most consecutive games matching a particular set of criteria. This can be done either on a single player level or on any batter in the last fifty years or on any pitcher. The same can be done for Team Batting or Team Pitching Streaks. Note that when searching for batters, you should limit your searches to 10-15 years when searching through all games.

    The Batting or Pitching Event Finder. This tool is player specific and will out put a detailed summary and play-by-play list of all events of a specific type from a single year or an entire career. For example, you can see all of Harmon Killebrew's triples or even his outs to the second baseman.

    The Batter vs. Pitcher Tool. This tool presents a complete sortable list of batter or pitcher with totals for every opponent they faced by career or by year. Clicking on the player's name will lead you to a detailed output of their head-to-head plate appearances.

    Data runs from 1954 to 2009 for regular season data, 1933-Present for the All-Star Game, and 1903-Present for the Postseason.

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