Nippon Professional Baseball
Single season batting

Nippon Professional Baseball

Section Title: Single season batting
Table Section Text: None

Player	Year

Batting average

United States Randy Bass	.389	1986

Japan Ichiro Suzuki	.387	2000

Japan Ichiro Suzuki	.385	1994

Home Runs

Netherlands Wladimir Balentien	60	2013

Venezuela Alex Cabrera	55	2002

United States Tuffy Rhodes	55	2001

Taiwan Sadaharu Oh	55	1964

United States Randy Bass	54	1985

RBIs

Japan Makoto Kozuru	161	1950

United States Bobby Rose	153	1999

Japan Makoto Imaoka	147	2005

Japan Fumio Fujimura	146	1950

Japan Hiromitsu Ochiai	146	1985

Hits

Japan Shogo Akiyama	216	2015

United States Matt Murton	214	2010

Japan Ichiro Suzuki	210	1994

Japan Norichika Aoki	209	2010

Stolen Bases

Japan Yutaka Fukumoto	106	1972

Japan Yutaka Fukumoto	95	1973

Japan Yutaka Fukumoto	94	1974

Strikeouts

United States Ralph Bryant	204	1993

United States Ralph Bryant	198	1990

United States Ralph Bryant	187	1989

United States Ralph Bryant	176	1992

Japan Akinori Iwamura	173	2004

Cuba Orestes Destrade	165	1990

Sentence(s)

American players hold highest single season batting average (Randy Bass, .389), and most strikeouts in a season by a hitter (Ralph Bryant, 204).

final_sentence: American players hold highest single season batting average (Randy Bass, .389), and most strikeouts in a season by a hitter (Ralph Bryant, 204).