triple-crown season meaning - English dictionary

Noun: A specific sports season, particularly in baseball, during which a single player achieves the triple crown. In baseball, this means the player leads their league in three major statistical categories: batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) for the same season.

This term is used to refer to and highlight the specific year or season in which this rare and prestigious accomplishment occurred. * The 1967 season is remembered as Carl Yastrzemski's triple-crown season. * Achieving a triple-crown season is one of the hardest feats in modern baseball. * Analysts debated whether any player would have another triple-crown season in the current era.

The term can be used in a broader, metaphorical sense outside of sports to describe a period where an individual or entity achieves three major, defining successes. * For the tech company, the last fiscal year was a triple-crown season, as it led the market in sales, innovation, and customer satisfaction.