Editing Extra-base hit (section)

==Major League Baseball leaders==
[[File:Hank Aaron 1960.png|thumb|right|200px|Hank Aaron holds the record for most extra-base hits, at 1,477.]]

===Career===
{{Further|List of Major League Baseball career extra base hits leaders}}
The record for most career extra-base hits is 1,477, held by [[Hank Aaron]].<ref name="career">{{cite web|title=Career Leaders & Records for Extra-Base Hits|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/XBH_career.shtml|work=[[Baseball-Reference.com]]|access-date=April 20, 2014}}</ref> Among players with at least 1,000 career hits, [[Mark McGwire]] is the only one to have had at least half of his hits go for extra bases.<ref>{{cite web |title=Batting Season Finder: For combined seasons, in the regular season, requiring Hits >= 1000 and Extra Base Hits >= 0.50 × Hits, sorted by descending Extra Base Hits. |url=https://stathead.com/tiny/8M8ej |access-date=March 24, 2024 |work=Stathead.com}}</ref>

===Season===
There have been 15 instances of a player recording 100 extra-base hits in a single season; [[Lou Gehrig]], [[Chuck Klein]] and [[Todd Helton]] are the only players to have achieved this twice, with Helton the only one to do so in consecutive seasons.<ref>{{cite web |title=Batting Season Finder: For single seasons, in the regular season, requiring Extra Base Hits >= 100, sorted by ascending Season. |url=https://stathead.com/tiny/otMvs |access-date=March 24, 2024 |work=Stathead.com}}</ref>

The top 5 are as follows: (totals are current through the end of the 2016 season)<ref name="singleseason">{{cite web|title=Single-Season Leaders & Records for Extra-Base Hits|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/XBH_season.shtml|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=June 11, 2015}}</ref>

#[[Babe Ruth]] (1921) – 119
#[[Lou Gehrig]] (1927) – 117
#[[Barry Bonds]] (2001) – 107
#[[Chuck Klein]] (1930) – 107
#[[Todd Helton]] (2001) – 105

===Single game===
The modern-era record for most extra-base hits by one batter, in one game, is five, held by 15 different players, including [[Lou Boudreau]], [[Joe Adcock]], [[Willie Stargell]], [[Steve Garvey]], [[Shawn Green]], [[Kelly Shoppach]], [[Josh Hamilton]], [[Jackie Bradley Jr.]], [[Kris Bryant]], [[José Ramírez (infielder)|José Ramírez]], [[Matt Carpenter (baseball)|Matt Carpenter]], [[Alex Dickerson]], [[Luis Urías]],<ref name="5XBH game">{{cite web |title=Batting Game Finder: For single games, in the regular season, requiring Extra Base Hits >= 5, sorted by descending Date. |url=https://stathead.com/tiny/MIvz9 |access-date=March 24, 2024 |website=Stathead.com}}</ref> [[Adolis García]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Garcia |first=Art |date=2023-04-23 |title=Adolis Garcia Bombs Way Into Texas Rangers, MLB Record Books |url=https://www.si.com/mlb/rangers/news/adolis-garcia-texas-rangers-major-league-baseball-records-home-runs-total-bases-oakland-athletics-recap#:~:text=Per%20Stathead%2C%20El%20Bombi's%20five,Brewers'%20Luis%20Ur%C3%ADas%20in%202021. |magazine=Sports Illustrated}}</ref> and most recently [[Shohei Ohtani]]. Adock, Green, and Hamilton did so while hitting [[List of Major League Baseball single-game home run leaders|four home runs]].<ref name="5XBH game" /> In the postseason, [[Albert Pujols]], [[Hideki Matsui]], [[Bob Robertson]], [[Frank Isbell]] and [[Enrique Hernández (baseball)|Enrique Hernández]] have all recorded four extra-base hits in a game.<ref>{{cite web|first=David |last=Schoenfield |date=October 11, 2011 |title=Pujols awesome; Brewer rotation in trouble |work=[[ESPN.com]] |url=http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/17453/pujols-awesome-brewer-rotation-in-trouble|access-date=June 28, 2017}}</ref>

===Consecutive games===
[[Paul Waner]] (1927) and [[Chipper Jones]] (2006) jointly hold the longest hitting streak for extra bases. Both players recorded extra-base hits in 14 consecutive games.{{cn|date=July 2022}}