塁打

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 塁打, read るいだ, denotes the baseball statistic totaling bases gained through hits.
• Basic usage: It denotes a batter’s total bases in one game and the cumulative total recorded for a season.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Total bases, not number of hits
  • It is a baseball statistic summing bases gained from hits, not merely counting the hits themselves.