Major league baseball kept record of game-winning RBI, or GW RBI, in the years 1980-1988. The game-winning RBI was credited to the batter whose at-bat was responsible for bringing his team ahead for the final time in the game. For example, if a batter on the winning team brought his team ahead 3-2 from a 2-2 tie at some point during the game, his team later led 5-2 as a result of other batters, and then the opposing team scored two more runs before the final score was 5-4, the batter on the winning team who batted in the third run would be credited with the game-winning RBI, even though the losing team scored four runs. The debate over whether the RBI should be credited to the batter who drove in the third run or the batter who drove in the fifth run in such situations led to the statistic being abolished.

ESPN

ESPN

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 would continue to occasionally show "GW RBI" in their on-screen statistics well into the 1990s.

Game-winning RBI records

• Keith Hernandez
  Keith Hernandez
  Keith Barlow Hernandez is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. He is currently a baseball analyst working for the New York Mets, for whom he played from –, on SportsNet New York and WPIX television broadcasts...
  
   had 129 game-winning RBI while these records were kept, more than any other player.
• Hernandez also had the most in a single season (24 in 1985). Mike Greenwell
  Mike Greenwell
  Michael Lewis Greenwell is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire MLB career with the Boston Red Sox . He briefly played a few games for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan , before retiring. Greenwell was nicknamed "The Gator." He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
  
   had the most in the American League (23 in 1988).
• Wally Joyner
  Wally Joyner
  Wallace Keith "Wally" Joyner is a former first baseman and hitting coach in Major League Baseball. He played for four major league teams during a 16-year career, most notably for the California Angels, for whom he was an All-Star...
  
  , Jose Canseco
  José Canseco
  José Canseco Capas, Jr. is a Cuban-American professional baseball manager, outfielder, and designated hitter for the Yuma Scorpions of the North American League and former Major League Baseball player. He is the identical twin brother of former major league player and current teammate Ozzie Canseco...
  
  , and Mark McGwire
  Mark McGwire
  Mark David McGwire , nicknamed "Big Mac", is an American former professional baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He is currently the hitting coach for the St...
  
   each had 14 in their rookie years, the rookie record.
• Kirk Gibson
  Kirk Gibson
  Kirk Harold Gibson is a former Major League Baseball player and currently the manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks. As a player, Gibson was an outfielder who batted and threw left-handed...
  
  had the game-winning RBI in five consecutive games in 1986.

External links

• Unofficial Homepage of the Game-winning RBI