When the Atlanta Braves captured the 2021 World Series on Tuesday night, Terrance Gore joined a select group of Major League Baseball players who have three World Series rings. He also has perhaps the strangest statistical numbers of anyone in that group.
The unbelievable statistics for Terrance Gore on his way to winning a third World Series with the Atlanta Braves
In his seventh season, Gore has earned a World Series ring as a member of the Kansas City Royals (2015), Los Angeles Dodgers (2020), and this year’s Braves squad. There’s one primary reason why Gore was a member of all of those teams: His speed. In fact, in the 102 games where Gore has appeared in his career, 62 of those games involved him being a pinch runner.
Over those seven seasons, Gore has just 77 regular-season plate appearances. Take away the 58 he racked up with the 2019 Royals and the 30-year-old Gore has 19 plate appearances over the other six seasons.
Think about these statistics for a moment:
In that 2019 season, Gore had three extra-base hits. Those are the only three extra-base hits of his career, meaning he has as many of those as he does World Series rings.
He has two more World Series rings than he has career RBI.
He has been hit by a pitch (three) as many times as his career as he has been a part of a title-winning team.
Gore, a Georgia native, signed a minor league deal with the Braves in the offseason and was a member of Atlanta’s nearby Triple-A team in Gwinnett until Atlanta selected his contract prior to the National League Division Series against the Milwaukee Brewers. Gore, a Georgia native who said he always wanted to play for the Braves, was finally getting his wish.
He would get one at-bat in the NLDS as his only 2021 postseason trip to the plate. He wouldn’t get into any of the World Series games, as a pinch runner or any other role.
But that doesn’t matter. At the end of the World Series, Gore was once again a champion. He may not have the swing of Jorge Soler or the glove of Carlos Correa, but Gore is a weapon on the base paths … and that’s enough for teams to want him on their roster as they battle for glory.