In baseball, an intentional base on balls, usually referred to as an intentional walk and denoted in baseball scorekeeping by IBB, is a base on balls (walk) issued to a batter by a pitcher with the intent of removing the batter's opportunity to swing at the pitched ball. A pitch that is intentionally thrown far outside the strike zone for this purpose is referred to as an intentional ball.
Barry Bonds[1][2] is the all-time leader in intentional bases on balls with 688 career intentional walks. Bonds is the only player to be intentionally walked more than 400 times. Albert Pujols[3] is second all-time and the active leader with 315 career intentional bases on balls and the only other player to be intentionally walked over 300 times.
Rank | Rank amongst leaders in career intentional walks. A blank field indicates a tie. |
Player (2022 IBBs) | Number of intentional walks hit during the 2022 Major League Baseball season. |
IBB | Total career intentional walks |
* | denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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Bold | denotes active player.[a] |
Rank | Player (2022 IBBs) | IBB |
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Sammy Sosa | 154 | |
52 | Ernie Lombardi * | 153 |
53 | Luis Gonzalez | 150 |
Mark McGwire | 150 | |
Johnny Mize * | 150 | |
Tony Pérez * | 150 | |
57 | Mickey Mantle * | 148 |
Tim Raines * | 148 | |
59 | Joey Votto (0) | 147 |
60 | Mike Piazza * | 146 |
61 | Joe Mauer | 145 |
62 | Rod Carew * | 144 |
Garry Templeton | 144 | |
Mo Vaughn | 144 | |
65 | Andre Dawson * | 143 |
66 | José Cruz | 142 |
Ted Kluszewski | 142 | |
Eddie Mathews * | 142 | |
69 | Darrell Evans | 141 |
70 | Boog Powell | 140 |
71 | Dick Allen | 138 |
72 | Don Mattingly | 136 |
73 | Johnny Bench * | 135 |
Frank Howard | 135 | |
75 | Jimmie Foxx * | 133 |
Al Kaline * | 133 | |
77 | Robin Ventura | 132 |
78 | Bill Nicholson | 131 |
Tony Oliva * | 131 | |
Darryl Strawberry | 131 | |
81 | Keith Hernandez | 130 |
Gary Sheffield | 130 | |
83 | Ron Fairly | 129 |
Al López * | 129 | |
85 | Bobby Bonilla | 128 |
Mel Ott * | 128 | |
87 | Jack Clark | 127 |
Joe Torre * | 127 | |
89 | Ken Singleton | 125 |
90 | Lou Brock * | 124 |
91 | Leo Cárdenas | 122 |
Adam Dunn | 122 | |
93 | Bill Madlock | 121 |
94 | Brooks Robinson * | 120 |
95 | Víctor Martínez | 119 |
Tim McCarver | 119 | |
Al Oliver | 119 | |
98 | Johnny Edwards | 118 |
99 | Ron Cey | 117 |
Del Crandall | 117 | |
Larry Walker * | 117 |