{"id":22809,"date":"2025-06-14T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22809"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:22:29","slug":"interleague-batting-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/interleague-batting-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Interleague Batting Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>First introduced in 1997, games between teams in the American and National leagues started occurring in the regular season.\u00a0 In 2002, it expanded between the corresponding division in the opposite league to a rotation between all of the divisions.\u00a0 In 2023, it expanded again with each team playing every other team regardless of league.\u00a0 With the Cardinals coming to town to battle the White Sox this week, let\u2019s take a look at the offensive leaders for the 199 interleague games I have attended since the start of interleague play in 1997, including the World Series in both 2005 and 2016:<\/p>\n

Home Runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Hits<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Paul Konerko<\/span><\/td>\n23<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jermaine Dye<\/span><\/td>\n12<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jose Abreu<\/span><\/td>\n12<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexei Ramrez<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aramis Ramirez<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luis Robert<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlos Lee<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Runs<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Paul Konerko<\/span><\/td>\n89<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexei Ramirez<\/span><\/td>\n67<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jose Abreu<\/span><\/td>\n65<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A.J. Pierzynski<\/span><\/td>\n49<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derrek Lee<\/span><\/td>\n49<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

RBI<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Paul Konerko<\/span><\/td>\n44<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexei Ramirez<\/span><\/td>\n42<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jose Abreu<\/span><\/td>\n30<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jermaine Dye<\/span><\/td>\n27<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A.J. Pierzynski<\/span><\/td>\n26<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Doubles<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Paul Konerko<\/span><\/td>\n58<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jose Abreu<\/span><\/td>\n37<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexei Ramirez<\/span><\/td>\n36<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sammy Sosa<\/span><\/td>\n29<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aramis Ramirez<\/span><\/td>\n28<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlos Lee<\/span><\/td>\n28<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Triples<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Alexei Ramirez<\/span><\/td>\n16<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul Konerko<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jose Abreu<\/span><\/td>\n12<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derrek Lee<\/span><\/td>\n12<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jermaine Dye<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Batting Average (> 10 AB)<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Yolmer Sanchez<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Todd Walker<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tim Anderson<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Corey Patterson<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alfonso Soriano<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Willy Taveres<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Coghlan<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Stolen Bases<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Nick Madrigal<\/span><\/td>\n0.667<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cody Ross<\/span><\/td>\n0.583<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/span><\/td>\n0.545<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Troy O’Leary<\/span><\/td>\n0.545<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rondell White<\/span><\/td>\n0.538<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Games<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Willy Taveras<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alex Rios<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scott Podsednik<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nico Hoerner<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adam Engel<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ian Happ<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexei Ramirez<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First introduced in 1997, games between teams in the American and National leagues started occurring in the regular season.\u00a0 In 2002, it expanded between the corresponding division in the opposite league to a rotation between all of the divisions.\u00a0 In 2023, it expanded again with each team playing every other team regardless of league.\u00a0 With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[300,7622,128,268,130,131,57,2314,5092,137,903,141,7623,873,4187,8123,8489,10145,127,9711,2782,397,657,5985,877,5922,49,2443,7491],"class_list":["post-22809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-a-j-pierzynski","tag-adam-engel","tag-alex-rios","tag-alexei-ramirez","tag-alfonso-soriano","tag-aramis-ramirez","tag-cardinals","tag-carlos-lee","tag-chris-coghlan","tag-cody-ross","tag-corey-patterson","tag-derrek-lee","tag-ian-happ","tag-jermaine-dye","tag-jose-abreu","tag-luis-robert","tag-nick-madrigal","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-paul-konerko","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-rondell-white","tag-sammy-sosa","tag-scott-podsednik","tag-tim-anderson","tag-todd-walker","tag-troy-oleary","tag-white-sox","tag-willy-taveras","tag-yolmer-sanchez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22883,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809\/revisions\/22883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Paul Konerko<\/span><\/td>\n80<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexei Ramirez<\/span><\/td>\n55<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A.J. Pierzynski<\/span><\/td>\n53<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jose Abreu<\/span><\/td>\n47<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tim Anderson<\/span><\/td>\n39<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n