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In addition, Gwynns nine five-hit games rank second all-time to Pete Rose, who had 10. But this Saturday would have been Gwynn's 60th birthday. * Andres Galarraga (61 at-bats) and Howard Johnson (74 at-bats, five home runs) have struck out the most, 18 times each. Since Gwynn debuted in 1982, a hitter has finished a season with a batting average above .350 only 46 times. With the All-Star game in San Diego this season, it's impossible not to think about San Diego . Gwynn was hitting .390 as late as August 5, 1997, but cooled in late August and September and settled for a .372 average and his eighth batting title. I'm sure a lot of you had heard this stat before, but no matter how many times I hear it, it's unbelievable to me. Dodgers' Friedman hopes to retain Urias: 'We love having Jul Report: Padres expected to approach Soto, Hader about extens Maeda throws 2 scoreless innings despite Rays hearing PitchC Tatis: 'No wrong answers' for how Padres construct lineup, Report: Britton, Hand among relievers Cubs considering, Yankees' Boone: Stanton can have 'massive season' if healthy, Royals sign Jackie Bradley Jr. to minor-league contract. But baseball is a funny game, and so sometimes, a superstar finds 97 players struck out 20 or more times in May of 2014 alone (, If Gwynn went 0 for 4 for the next 295 games he would still have a career average over .300, per. He told The Washington Post that if a pitcher can change speeds, every hitter is helpless, limited by human vision. There was only one Tony Gwynn - SBNation.com It was the third straight game he failed to get a hit (even though he had been on fire that month and his batting average was still at .403 after the three hitless games). Damn. In fact, in 1994, Gwynn batted an absurd .397 in two-strike counts. They can identify pitches if there are different release points or if a curveball starts with an upward hump as it leaves the pitchers hand. If Maddux was the robot of pitchers, then Tony Gwynn is the robot of hitters. in a 162 game span covering the strike year of 1994 and the first half of 1995, Tony Gwynn hit over .400. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? Quarantine question: Which MLB player would teach your dream hitting It was very, very hard to fool Tony Gwynn. That season came in the middle of a five-year stretch where he batted .369. On June 21, Gwynn started a 19-game hitting streak in which he hit .429 with 36 hits and more power (he hit five homers). In the 73 years since Ted Williams last hit .400, all the other hitters who passed through the big leagues -- a group that includes Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Wade Boggs, yadda, yadda, yadda -- combined to do it only eight times.