In baseball, hit by pitch (HBP) is a situation in which a batter or his clothing or equipment (other than his bat) is struck directly by a pitch from the pitcher; the batter is called a hit batsman (HB).
Being hit by a pitch is often caused by a batter standing too close to, or "crowding", home plate.
This is a list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers who have the most hit batsmen of all time.
Gus Weyhing (277)[1][2] holds the dubious record for most hit batsmen in a career.
Chick Fraser (219),[3] Pink Hawley (210),[4] and Walter Johnson (205)[5] are the only other pitchers to hit 200 or more batters in their careers.