Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In baseball statistics, a player has a plate appearance (denoted by PA) every time he: Has an at bat (AB) Receives a base on balls (BB) Receives a hit by pitch (HBP) Hits a sacrifice fly (SF) Hits a sacrifice bunt (S) Reaches base because of interference A batter does not have a plate appearance if, while he was at bat, the inning ended some other way (for example, a teammate on base is caught stealing (CS)). This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.