1885 Philadelphia Athletics Statistics

Record: 55-57-1, Finished 4th in American Association (Schedule and Results)

Manager: Harry Stovey (55-57-1)

Ballpark: Jefferson Street Grounds

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 106, Pitching - 106
One-year: Batting - 103, Pitching - 102

Pythagorean W-L: 61-51, 764 Runs, 691 Runs Allowed

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Apr 18, PHA vs. NYP
Apr 20, PHA vs. NYP
Apr 22, PHA vs. BRO
Apr 23, PHA vs. BRO
Apr 24, PHA @ NYP
Apr 25, PHA @ NYP
Apr 27, PHA vs. BRO
Apr 29, PHA @ NYP
Apr 30, PHA @ NYP

May 2, PHA @ BAL
May 4, PHA @ BRO
May 5, PHA @ BRO
May 7, PHA @ STL
May 8, PHA @ STL
May 9, PHA @ STL
May 10, PHA @ STL
May 12, PHA @ LOU
May 13, PHA @ LOU
May 15, PHA @ LOU
May 16, PHA @ LOU
May 18, PHA @ PIT
May 19, PHA @ PIT
May 20, PHA @ PIT
May 21, PHA @ PIT
May 24, PHA @ CIN
May 25, PHA @ CIN
May 26, PHA @ CIN
May 27, PHA @ CIN
May 30, PHA vs. CIN
May 30, PHA vs. CIN

Jun 1, PHA vs. CIN
Jun 2, PHA vs. CIN
Jun 4, PHA vs. STL
Jun 5, PHA vs. STL
Jun 6, PHA vs. STL
Jun 8, PHA vs. STL
Jun 10, PHA vs. LOU
Jun 11, PHA vs. LOU
Jun 13, PHA vs. LOU
Jun 15, PHA vs. LOU
Jun 16, PHA vs. PIT
Jun 17, PHA vs. PIT
Jun 18, PHA vs. PIT
Jun 20, PHA vs. PIT
Jun 23, PHA @ BAL
Jun 24, PHA @ BAL
Jun 25, PHA @ BRO
Jun 26, PHA @ BRO
Jun 27, PHA vs. BAL
Jun 29, PHA vs. BAL
Jun 30, PHA vs. NYP

Jul 1, PHA vs. NYP
Jul 4, PHA @ PIT
Jul 4, PHA @ PIT
Jul 6, PHA @ PIT
Jul 7, PHA @ PIT
Jul 9, PHA @ CIN
Jul 10, PHA @ CIN
Jul 11, PHA @ CIN
Jul 12, PHA @ CIN
Jul 14, PHA @ STL
Jul 15, PHA @ STL
Jul 16, PHA @ STL
Jul 18, PHA @ STL
Jul 19, PHA @ LOU
Jul 21, PHA @ LOU
Jul 22, PHA @ LOU
Jul 23, PHA @ LOU
Jul 27, PHA @ BAL
Jul 28, PHA @ BAL
Jul 29, PHA @ BAL
Jul 30, PHA @ BRO
Jul 31, PHA @ BRO

Aug 4, PHA @ BAL
Aug 5, PHA @ BAL
Aug 6, PHA @ BRO
Aug 7, PHA @ BRO
Aug 10, PHA vs. BRO
Aug 11, PHA vs. BAL
Aug 12, PHA vs. BAL
Aug 13, PHA vs. BRO
Aug 15, PHA vs. BRO
Aug 17, PHA vs. NYP
Aug 18, PHA vs. NYP
Aug 19, PHA @ NYP
Aug 20, PHA @ NYP
Aug 21, PHA vs. NYP
Aug 22, PHA vs. NYP
Aug 24, PHA vs. BAL
Aug 26, PHA vs. BRO
Aug 28, PHA @ NYP
Aug 31, PHA @ NYP

Sep 2, PHA vs. BAL
Sep 3, PHA vs. BAL
Sep 4, PHA vs. BAL
Sep 5, PHA vs. BAL
Sep 8, PHA vs. CIN
Sep 11, PHA vs. CIN
Sep 12, PHA vs. CIN
Sep 14, PHA vs. CIN
Sep 15, PHA vs. STL
Sep 16, PHA vs. STL
Sep 17, PHA vs. STL
Sep 19, PHA vs. STL
Sep 21, PHA vs. LOU
Sep 23, PHA vs. LOU
Sep 24, PHA vs. LOU
Sep 26, PHA vs. LOU
Sep 28, PHA vs. PIT
Sep 29, PHA vs. PIT
Sep 30, PHA vs. PIT

Oct 1, PHA vs. PIT
Oct 5, PHA vs. BRO

Top 12 Players

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Team Batting

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Team Batting
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	John Milligan	23	67	273	265	35	71	15	4	2	39			7		.268	.289	.377	.667	104	100		1
2	1B	Harry Stovey	28	112	529	486	130	153	27	9	13	75			39		.315	.371	.488	.858	163	237		4
3	2B	Cub Stricker	26	106	426	398	71	93	9	3	1	41			21		.234	.284	.279	.563	74	111		7
4	SS	Sadie Houck	29	93	405	388	74	99	10	9	0	54			10		.255	.286	.327	.614	89	127		7
5	3B	Fred Corey	30	94	404	384	61	94	14	8	1	38			17		.245	.282	.331	.613	88	127		3
6	OF	John Coleman*	22	96	426	398	71	119	15	11	3	70			25		.299	.345	.415	.760	133	165		3
7	OF	Blondie Purcell	31	66	323	304	71	90	15	5	0	22			16		.296	.337	.378	.716	120	115		3
8	OF	Henry Larkin	25	108	485	453	114	149	37	14	8	88			26		.329	.373	.525	.899	175	238		6
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	C	Jack O'Brien	25	62	250	225	35	60	9	1	2	30			20		.267	.340	.342	.682	111	77		5
10	3B	George Strief	28	44	184	175	19	48	8	5	0	27			9		.274	.310	.377	.687	111	66		0
11	OF	Lon Knight	32	29	129	119	17	25	1	1	0	14			9		.210	.271	.235	.507	57	28		1
12	1B	Jim Powell	25	19	78	75	5	12	0	3	0	5			1		.160	.192	.240	.432	33	18		2
13	C	Marshall Quinton?	33	7	31	29	6	6	1	0	0	4			1		.207	.258	.241	.499	55	7		1
14	C	Eddie Fusselback	28	5	19	19	2	6	1	0	0	2			0		.316	.316	.368	.684	110	7		0
15	OF	Orator Shafer*	33	2	10	9	1	2	0	1	0	1			1		.222	.300	.444	.744	127	4		0
16	UT	Frank Siffell?	21	3	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0			0		.100	.100	.100	.200	-38	1		0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
17	P	Bobby Mathews	33	48	189	179	22	30	3	0	0	12			10		.168	.212	.184	.396	23	33		0
18	P	Tom Lovett	21	16	61	58	9	13	0	1	0	3			3		.224	.262	.259	.521	61	15		0
19	P	Ed Knouff	18	14	50	48	5	9	0	0	0	2			2		.188	.220	.188	.408	26	9		0
20	P	Ed Cushman	33	10	38	37	5	7	1	0	0	2			1		.189	.211	.216	.427	32	8		0
21	P	Bill Vinton	20	7	29	26	5	4	2	0	0	4			3		.154	.241	.231	.472	46	6		0
22	P	Billy Taylor	30	6	21	21	0	4	0	0	0	2			0		.190	.190	.190	.381	18	4		0
23	P	Bill Hughes*	25	4	18	16	3	3	1	1	0	1			1		.188	.278	.375	.653	100	6		1
24	P	Bob Emslie	26	4	12	12	1	1	0	0	0	0			0		.083	.083	.083	.167	-49	1		0
25	P	Jim Conway	26	2	8	6	2	0	0	0	0	0			1		.000	.250	.000	.250	-18	0		1
26	P	Phenomenal Smith*	20	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0			0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0
		Team Totals	27.1	113	4410	4142	764	1099	169	76	30	536			223		.265	.310	.365	.675	107	1510		45
		Rank in 8 AA teams				1	1	1	1	4	1				4	3	1	1	1	1		1		3
		Non-Pitcher Totals	27.0	113	4000	3753	715	1031	163	75	30	511			203		.275	.320	.382	.702	115	1434		44
		Pitcher Totals	27.9	113	410	389	49	68	6	1	0	25			20		.175	.217	.195	.412	28	76		1
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

Team Pitching

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Team Pitching
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Bobby Mathews	33	30	17	.638	2.43	48	48	0	46	2	0	422.1	394	229	114	3	57		286	20	1	19	1766	142	2.17	1.068	8.4	0.1	1.2	6.1	5.02
2	SP	Tom Lovett	21	7	8	.467	3.70	16	16	0	15	1	0	138.2	130	96	57	3	38		56	5	3	19	594	93	3.28	1.212	8.4	0.2	2.5	3.6	1.47
3	SP	Ed Knouff	18	7	6	.538	3.65	14	13	2	12	0	0	106.0	103	76	43	0	44		43	9	2	16	505	95	3.57	1.387	8.7	0.0	3.7	3.7	0.98
4	SP	Ed Cushman*	33	3	7	.300	3.52	10	10	0	10	0	0	87.0	101	77	34	1	17		37	3	0	13	396	98	2.87	1.356	10.4	0.1	1.8	3.8	2.18
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
5	RP	John Coleman	22	2	2	.500	3.43	8	3	4	3	0	0	60.1	82	46	23	0	5		12	0	0	6	229	101	2.73	1.442	12.2	0.0	0.7	1.8	2.40
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
6		Bill Vinton	20	4	3	.571	2.45	7	7	0	6	2	0	55.0	46	41	15	1	15		34	4	1	4	249	141	2.92	1.109	7.5	0.2	2.5	5.6	2.27
7		Billy Taylor	30	1	5	.167	3.27	6	6	0	6	0	0	52.1	68	35	19	0	9		11	1	0	6	208	106	3.03	1.471	11.7	0.0	1.5	1.9	1.22
8		Bob Emslie	26	0	4	.000	6.28	4	4	0	3	0	0	28.2	37	30	20	1	6		9	0	0	3	133	56	3.33	1.500	11.6	0.3	1.9	2.8	1.50
9		Bill Hughes*	25	0	2	.000	4.86	2	2	0	2	0	0	16.2	18	17	9	0	10		4	2	0	4	79	73	4.56	1.680	9.7	0.0	5.4	2.2	0.40
10		Jim Conway	26	0	1	.000	7.30	2	2	0	1	0	0	12.1	19	16	10	0	2		0	0	0	2	55	49	3.37	1.703	13.9	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.00
11		Fred Corey	30	1	0	1.000	7.00	1	1	0	1	0	0	9.0	18	9	7	2	1		3	0	0	1	44	52	5.44	2.111	18.0	2.0	1.0	3.0	3.00
12		Blondie Purcell	31	0	1	.000	6.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	11	9	4	0	2		3	0	0	2	28	62	2.88	2.167	16.5	0.0	3.0	4.5	1.50
13		Lon Knight	32	0	0		1.80	1	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	4	1	1	0	2		1	0	0	1	21	208	3.68	1.200	7.2	0.0	3.6	1.8	0.50
14		Phenomenal Smith*	20	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	7	9	4	0	4		7	1	0	2	24	42	3.13	2.750	15.8	0.0	9.0	15.8	1.75
		Team Totals	27.7	55	57	.491	3.23	113	113	8	105	5	0	1003.1	1038	691	360	11	212		506	45	7	98	4331	107	2.78	1.246	9.3	0.1	1.9	4.5	2.39
		Rank in 8 AA teams		4	5		4				4	4	5	2	7	8	4	1	5		1
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W