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

Or their power numbers will fizzle (in 2021, a .429 slugging percentage in the regular season slipped to .392 in the playoffs). —Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024

The White Sox are ranked near the bottom in many major statistical categories, and entered Tuesday last in the MLB in hits, runs, home runs, batting average, runs batted in, total bases, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. —Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024

Doval’s sinker did not perform all that well last year (.303 batting average, .364 slugging percentage), but the results this season (.304 batting average, .435 slugging percentage) are even worse. —Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024

The offense is perhaps this team’s greatest strength, leading the majors in home runs (106) and slugging percentage (.451). —Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above