Ray Battle
HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 155 lb
BornMarch 17, 1918 · Rocky Mount, NC, USA
Seasons2 (1944–1945)
Homestead Grays 1944–1945
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 142 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 36 | 96 | 81 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .272 | .337 | .296 | .633 | 77.1 | 70.6 | .311 | 0.1 |
| 1945 | 46 | 147 | 129 | 15 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .155 | .232 | .178 | .411 | 26.9 | 15.9 | .212 | -0.8 |
Career totals
G
82
PA
243
AB
210
R
25
H
42
2B
1
3B
2
HR
0
RBI
22
BB
20
SO
2
SB
1
BA
.2000
OBP
.2727
SLG
.2238
OPS
.4965
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-06-13 | BBB @ HOM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1944-05-21 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-07-08 | PHS @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1944-07-12 | HOM @ NYC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-06-30 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-04-30 | HOM @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-30 | HOM @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-02 | HOM @ CLB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-03 | HOM @ CLB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-07 | NBY @ HOM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.