Yankees' Ben Rice matches Ruth, Gehrig, Berra in 4-player NYY baseball history
This is an absurd start.
Yankees' Ben Rice matches Ruth, Gehrig, Berra in 4-player NYY baseball history originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Ben Rice has written his name alongside Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Yogi Berra.
Those are the only three previous New York Yankees players to start a season with the same stats that Rice has. The key figures: a . 400 batting average, .
500 on-base percentage and . 860 slugging percentage through six games. MORE: Explaining the absurdity of 2 MLB players named Max Muncy Baseball Reference's Katie Sharp shared the history on X, noting that Ruth actually did it twice: Yankees Left-handed Batters with at least .
400 BA, . 500 OBP and . 860 SLG (min.