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<\/p>\nOkay, this isn\u2019t even a \u201cdaily question\u201d in the sense of \u201ca question that fosters discussion.\u201d I\u2019m going to tell you the answer, eventually.<\/p>\n
Last night, Michael Harris II went 4-for-4 with a homer and a double. That\u2019s a pretty great batting line, but given that we saw a game last year where he went 4-for-4 and finished a single shy of the cycle because he had two triples, it wasn\u2019t a career-best day or whatever. (He also had a two-homer game late last year that I bet no one remembers that nominally yielded a higher wRC+ than last night\u2019s contest.)<\/p>\n
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But, he also did something else that was kind of amazing. Here\u2019s a plot of the pitch locations and types that led to his four hits:<\/p>\n
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Three of those are not very close to the zone\u2026 and one is maybe a ball, maybe not \u2014 at least in our brave (ly awesome) new ABS strike zone world.<\/p>\n
Baseball Savant lets us query the most hits a player has had outside the zone in a game, based on MLB\u2019s pitch-tracking technology all the way back to 2009. The leader of the query is Charlie Blackmon<\/a>, who somehow managed to do it five times in a 9-3 loss to the Twins at Coors Field back in 2014. So, Harris didn\u2019t quite a set a record for the pitch tracking era. But, say what you will about Pitch F\/X and MLB\u2019s 2009-2014 data, but it wasn\u2019t quite the level of\u2026 precision, I guess, that we expect from the Hawkeye cameras and Statcast that went into effect in 2015.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n If we limit the group to 2015-onward, then we get a set of five players that have had four hits on pitches outside the \u201crulebook\u201d (or, I guess, Hawkeye\/Statcast-defined) strike zone. The most recent was Gavin Lux<\/a> in April 2025. Before that, no one else had done it since 2019. Braves legend Eddie Rosario<\/a> did it back in 2017.<\/p>\n So, does Harris join this\u2026 illustrious group?<\/p>\n Apparently not. You see, that one changeup apparently juuuuuust clipped the ABS zone. So, Harris has to settle for four hits, only three of which came on not-defined-strikes.<\/p>\n But, wait. That hit on the \u201chigher\u201d changeup was a single. Harris had two extra-base hits, on pitches further away. Is that some kind of record?<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Alas, no. There are four players in the Statcast era with three extra-base hits on pitches outside the zone. One of them is Eddie Rosario, again, who \u2014 very bizarrely \u2014 did it in a different game than the game in which he had four hits on pitches outside the zone.<\/p>\n So, in conclusion, Harris did not tie a quirky record last night. He did come close. But, in the land of getting hits on pitches that aren\u2019t strikes, he hasn\u2019t quite dethroned Rosario. At least, not yet.<\/p>\n