total bases
Americanplural noun
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Others on the short list include the Dodgers’ Shawn Green in 2002, who in a 16-3 win over the Brewers also doubled and singled to set a record with 19 total bases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
Accumulating 400 total bases in a season doesn’t have the panache of, say, batting .400.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
Bases advanced, in a nutshell, are total bases: a single counts as one, a double as two, a triple as three and a home run as four.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
Had Ohtani’s first-inning double, which hit the right-field wall on the fly, been a few feet higher Thursday, he would have matched Green’s four homers and 19 total bases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
His 131 total bases topped the big leagues and he was third in OPS at 1.024 behind the Yankees’ Aaron Judge and Houston’s Kyle Tucker.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
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