How to Use slugging percentage in a Sentence

slugging percentage

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  • The Rangers have the top team slugging percentage in the AL at .459.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 30 July 2023
  • The Angels have been near the top of all MLB teams in on-base plus slugging percentage.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • Their 58 runs are fewest in the A.L. and their slugging percentage is the lowest in the major leagues.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The Astros have the fifth-best team slugging percentage in MLB play at .423.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2022
  • To that point, the Padres’ slugging percentage at home ranks 28th in baseball.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2022
  • As a hitter, Ohtani leads the big leagues with 31 homers and ranks among the leaders in runs, RBIs and slugging percentage.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
  • While the slugging percentage likely won’t translate to MLB, the hit tool and speed should.
    — Chris Blessing, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the on-base-plus-slugging percentage of Betts has dropped more than 200 points.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • But Miami has the fifth-fewest runs in the majors, the least homers in the NL, and rank second to last in slugging percentage.
    — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 July 2018
  • The player with the next best on-base plus slugging percentage after Judge’s 1.119?
    — James Wagner, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The 2017 Astros ranked first in the majors in slugging percentage and last in strikeouts.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 23 June 2019
  • Meanwhile, the Yankees are 17-2 against the Orioles and in those games their team slugging percentage is equal to the career of Lou Gehrig.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • But Trout still entered this last week with the sixth-best OPS and fourth-best slugging percentage (.600) in baseball.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2022
  • Davis was a two-time All-Star in the 1980s, and his slugging percentage also went up during some of the later years of his career.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2021
  • That didn’t stop Ohtani, who has shaken his slow start and raised his on-base-plus-slugging percentage 195 points since June 1.
    — Maria Torres, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
  • The Wolverines feature an offense that was top three in the Big Ten in scoring and slugging percentage.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2022
  • Abreu led the league in hits, RBIs, slugging percentage, total bases and extra-base hits.
    — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Hiura, who has been sent to the minors twice in search of his swing, has four homers and a .304 slugging percentage and mostly watches from the bench these days.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 July 2021
  • Last year’s Tigers finished next to last in slugging percentage, too, and last in on-base percentage and runs scored.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2019
  • The Dodgers’ hope is that the impacts won’t be limited to just home runs, slugging percentage and bat speed, either.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • One, against their offense, which is tied for sixth in runs scored, eighth in on-base percentage and 10th in slugging percentage.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022
  • Three of her seven hits in the series were home runs, resulting in a team-best slugging percentage of .941.
    — Star Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
  • His slugging percentage is up more than 60 points and his OPS almost a hundred.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The outfielder was leading the majors in slugging percentage and OPS when he was hurt.
    — chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Rangers hitters have a collective .395 slugging percentage to rank sixth in the AL.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Cubs hitters have a collective .390 slugging percentage to rank ninth in the NL.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2022
  • In the Dodgers dugout, Mookie Betts, who had the worst slugging percentage in the majors against lefties, smiled at the chance to face the right-handed Anderson instead.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2020
  • As a hitter, Ohtani leads the majors in homers and the American League in slugging percentage, a Ruthian feat for certain.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Moustakas, who is splitting his time between third base and second base, has the fifth-most homers in baseball with the eighth-best slugging percentage at .584.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
  • Judge led the majors in a host of categories, including home runs (58), runs batted in, walks, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and total bases.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024

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