88% season-shape match
Why he matters right now
Gabriel Moreno is top-10 in the majors in batting average
He is 8th in batting average at .299 — placements on MLB's own season boards, which rank every QUALIFIED hitter in the sport rather than the few dozen this site tracks. Qualified is MLB's own bar, and it is the reason a part-season player with a big number is not on these boards at all.
Same case as last night, moved numbers: his headline number went from .298 to .299 since September 3.
The case in 30 seconds
- .299 8th in batting average at .299 on MLB's season leaderboards MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
- .299 .846 OPS, 12 home runs, 68 RBI and 5 stolen bases over 111 games snapshot batting board — the union of MLB's top-10 hitting boards, then MLB's 3.1 PA per team game rule applied; not the league's full qualified pool
The honest caveat
A top-ten finish is a position on a board, not a verdict on a player. The men just below him on it are not meaningfully worse, and one good week moves several places.
What to watch next
Next up: at Houston Astros.
Every claim above, with its source (2)
- 8th in batting average at .299 on MLB's season leaderboards MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
- .846 OPS, 12 home runs, 68 RBI and 5 stolen bases over 111 games snapshot batting board — the union of MLB's top-10 hitting boards, then MLB's 3.1 PA per team game rule applied; not the league's full qualified pool
The evidence
What changed last night
1 HR, 1 RBI
L 1-3 vs Houston Astros · 2026-09-04
carries a .299 average into today
What to watch next
at Houston Astros
Daikin Park · 7:15 p.m. ET
Facing Ethan Pecko
Gabriel Moreno faces a right-hander in Ethan Pecko. He is hitting .307 with 8 home runs in 283 at-bats against right-handers this season.
Situational splits
| Split | AB | AVG | HR | RBI | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 283 | .307 | 8 | 41 | .869 |
| vs LHP | 115 | .278 | 4 | 27 | .790 |
| Home | 193 | .269 | 3 | 24 | .758 |
| Away | 205 | .327 | 9 | 44 | .930 |
| Day | 120 | .308 | 7 | 24 | .958 |
| Night | 278 | .295 | 5 | 44 | .798 |
2026 season, MLB Stats API. A split with no plate appearances is omitted rather than shown as zeroes.
111G
398AB
119H
.299AVG
12HR
68RBI
5SB
292B
13B
.846OPS
Chasing .400
.299Current AVG
68Consecutive hits needed to reach .400
81-for-100Needed over next 100 AB
1.125Rest-of-season AVG to finish .400 (63-for-56)
Status: IMPOSSIBLE
Milestone tracker
| Chase | Target | Current | Pace | Needed from here | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .350 AVG | .350 | .299 | .299 | .714 ROS | EXTREME |
| .380 AVG | .380 | .299 | .299 | .964 ROS | EXTREME |
| .400 AVG | .400 | .299 | .299 | 1.125 ROS | IMPOSSIBLE |
| .406 AVG | .406 | .299 | .299 | 1.179 ROS | IMPOSSIBLE |
| .466 AVG | .466 | .299 | .299 | 1.661 ROS | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 50 HR | 50 | 12 | 14 | 38 in 20 g · 1 per 1.5 AB | EXTREME |
| 60 HR | 60 | 12 | 14 | 48 in 20 g · 1 per 1.2 AB | EXTREME |
| 62 HR | 62 | 12 | 14 | 50 in 20 g · 1 per 1.1 AB | EXTREME |
| 70 HR | 70 | 12 | 14 | 58 in 20 g · 1 per 1.0 AB | EXTREME |
| 73 HR | 73 | 12 | 14 | 61 in 20 g · 1 per 0.9 AB | EXTREME |
| 200 Hits | 200 | 119 | 136 | 81 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 225 Hits | 225 | 119 | 136 | 106 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 250 Hits | 250 | 119 | 136 | 131 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 262 Hits | 262 | 119 | 136 | 143 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 50 SB | 50 | 5 | 6 | 45 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 80 SB | 80 | 5 | 6 | 75 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 100 SB | 100 | 5 | 6 | 95 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 130 SB | 130 | 5 | 6 | 125 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 50 2B | 50 | 29 | 33 | 21 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 60 2B | 60 | 29 | 33 | 31 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 67 2B | 67 | 29 | 33 | 38 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 20 3B | 20 | 1 | 1 | 19 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 25 3B | 25 | 1 | 1 | 24 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 36 3B | 36 | 1 | 1 | 35 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 125 RBI | 125 | 68 | 78 | 57 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 150 RBI | 150 | 68 | 78 | 82 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 175 RBI | 175 | 68 | 78 | 107 in 20 g | EXTREME |
| 191 RBI | 191 | 68 | 78 | 123 in 20 g | EXTREME |
Recent game log
Derived nightly from the snapshot ledger — each row is the difference between consecutive days; multi-day rows are labeled.
| Date | Opp | Result | AB | H | HR | RBI | R | SB | BB | K | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | Houston Astros | L 1-3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .299 |
| 2026-09-01 | Philadelphia Phillies | L 1-7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .298 |
| 2026-08-31 | Philadelphia Phillies | L 1-2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .300 |
| 2026-08-29 | San Francisco Giants | W 7-1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .302 |
| 2026-08-28 | San Francisco Giants | W 10-6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .299 |
| 2026-08-27 | San Francisco Giants | L 1-6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .303 |
| 2026-08-25 | Chicago Cubs | W 5-4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .303 |
| 2026-08-24 | Chicago Cubs | L 0-7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .303 |
| 2026-08-23 | Cincinnati Reds | W 5-3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .306 |
| 2026-08-22 | Cincinnati Reds | L 5-11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .307 |
Recent highlights
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