Batting Statistics

He, he. I like some of the literal translations. Very interesting.

Most of the terms in English can be found on the Baseball Statistics Wikipedia Page. That will give you a good idea of what they are and how they're calculated.

Let's hit this list.

試合数 - G: Games Played
打率 - BA: Batting Average
本塁打 - HR: Home Runs
打点 - RBI: Runs Batted In
打席 - PA: Plate Appearances
打数 - AB: At Bats
得点 - R: Runs Scored (aka RS)
安打 - H: Hits (includes singles, doubles, triples, and home runs)
二塁打 - 2B: Doubles
三塁打 - 3B: Triples
塁打数 - HR: Home Runs
盗塁 - SB: Stolen Bases
犠打 - SH: Sacrifice Hits/Sacrifice Bunts (but SB is already taken for Stolen Bases)
犠飛 - SF: Sacrifice Flies
四球 - BB: Bases on Balls/Walks (also denoted as W on Project Scoresheet)
死球 - HBP: Hit By Pitches (sometimes HP - but gets confused with pitchers' Hold Points)
三振 - K: Strike Outs
長打率 - SLG: Slugging Average
出塁率 - OBP: On Base Percentage

While being hit by a pitch results in the ball being declared "dead," and the Japanese announcers will call it a "デッドボール," "dead ball" has a different meaning in English. For example, if there is a play where interference is called (against a fielder or base runner), then the ball is declared "dead" and the penalty of the interference is carried out. Hitting a batter is but one way that a ball may die.

打 would be better pronounced "hit" in 英読み. 打率 as "Hit Rate" is actually a very good description of Batting Average. 打点 is runs (点) hit (打) in. 打席 is the hitting seat (each time one has a chance to hit). 安打 would use the "safe" meaning for 安, resulting in "hit safely."

Using the word "strike" for 打つ sounds more like the use in football (soccer), resulting in a completely different mental picture. It would work for kick-ball (a popular game when I was in elementary school where we played baseball on the baseball diamond with a soccer-like ball).

- For example, if there is a play where interference is called (against a fielder or base runner), then the ball is declared "dead" and the penalty of the interference is carried out. Hitting a batter is but one way that a ball may die.

For this, ボールデッド（になる） is often used in Japanese. If a ball park has a unique shape, there is usually a notice in the dugout that tells how to call a play when a ball goes into nooks and crannies. The word ボールデッド is used nine of ten times in the notice.

Thanks guys, so helpful!

Michael, the literal translations are a result of me not knowing the correct terminology in English! Like I said, I'm British. That's probably why I used "strike" as a translation of 打つ.　:P