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1896 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

Record: 66-63-2, Finished 6th in National League (Schedule and Results)

Manager: Connie Mack (66-63-2)

Ballpark: Exposition Park III

Attendance: 197,000 (9th of 12)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 96, Pitching - 96
One-year: Batting - 93, Pitching - 93

Pythagorean W-L: 68-61, 787 Runs, 741 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 16, PIT @ CIN
Apr 17, PIT @ CIN
Apr 18, PIT @ CIN
Apr 21, PIT vs. LOU
Apr 22, PIT vs. LOU
Apr 23, PIT vs. LOU
Apr 25, PIT vs. CLV
Apr 28, PIT vs. CLV
Apr 29, PIT vs. CLV
Apr 30, PIT @ LOU

May 2, PIT @ LOU
May 4, PIT vs. BLN
May 5, PIT vs. BLN
May 6, PIT vs. BLN
May 7, PIT vs. WHS
May 8, PIT vs. WHS
May 9, PIT vs. WHS
May 11, PIT vs. NYG
May 12, PIT vs. NYG
May 14, PIT vs. BSN
May 15, PIT vs. BSN
May 16, PIT vs. BSN
May 19, PIT vs. BRO
May 20, PIT vs. BRO
May 21, PIT vs. PHI
May 22, PIT vs. PHI
May 23, PIT vs. PHI
May 27, PIT @ BSN
May 28, PIT @ BSN
May 29, PIT @ WHS
May 30, PIT vs. WHS
May 30, PIT vs. WHS

Jun 1, PIT @ BLN
Jun 2, PIT @ BLN
Jun 3, PIT @ BLN
Jun 4, PIT @ PHI
Jun 5, PIT @ PHI
Jun 6, PIT @ PHI
Jun 8, PIT @ BRO
Jun 9, PIT @ BRO
Jun 10, PIT @ BRO
Jun 11, PIT @ NYG
Jun 12, PIT @ NYG
Jun 13, PIT @ NYG
Jun 15, PIT vs. CHC
Jun 17, PIT vs. CHC
Jun 18, PIT vs. STL
Jun 19, PIT vs. STL
Jun 20, PIT vs. STL
Jun 22, PIT @ CLV
Jun 23, PIT @ CLV
Jun 24, PIT @ CLV
Jun 25, PIT @ CHC
Jun 26, PIT @ CHC
Jun 27, PIT @ CHC
Jun 29, PIT @ STL
Jun 30, PIT @ STL

Jul 1, PIT @ STL
Jul 3, PIT vs. CIN
Jul 4, PIT vs. CIN
Jul 4, PIT vs. CIN
Jul 6, PIT @ WHS
Jul 7, PIT @ WHS
Jul 8, PIT vs. WHS
Jul 9, PIT vs. BRO
Jul 10, PIT vs. BRO
Jul 10, PIT vs. BRO
Jul 11, PIT vs. BRO
Jul 13, PIT vs. BSN
Jul 14, PIT vs. BSN
Jul 15, PIT vs. BSN
Jul 16, PIT vs. PHI
Jul 17, PIT vs. PHI
Jul 18, PIT vs. PHI
Jul 21, PIT vs. BLN
Jul 21, PIT vs. BLN
Jul 23, PIT vs. NYG
Jul 23, PIT vs. NYG
Jul 25, PIT vs. NYG
Jul 25, PIT vs. NYG
Jul 27, PIT @ CHC
Jul 28, PIT @ CHC
Jul 29, PIT @ CHC
Jul 30, PIT @ CIN
Jul 31, PIT @ CIN

Aug 3, PIT @ LOU
Aug 4, PIT @ LOU
Aug 5, PIT @ LOU
Aug 6, PIT @ CIN
Aug 7, PIT @ CLV
Aug 8, PIT @ CLV
Aug 10, PIT @ CLV
Aug 11, PIT vs. STL
Aug 12, PIT vs. STL
Aug 14, PIT vs. CLV
Aug 15, PIT vs. CLV
Aug 17, PIT vs. CLV
Aug 17, PIT vs. CLV
Aug 19, PIT @ BRO
Aug 20, PIT @ BRO
Aug 21, PIT @ BRO
Aug 22, PIT @ BSN
Aug 22, PIT @ BSN
Aug 24, PIT @ BSN
Aug 25, PIT @ BSN
Aug 26, PIT @ WHS
Aug 27, PIT @ WHS
Aug 28, PIT @ WHS
Aug 29, PIT @ BLN
Aug 31, PIT @ BLN

Sep 1, PIT @ BLN
Sep 2, PIT @ PHI
Sep 3, PIT @ PHI
Sep 4, PIT @ PHI
Sep 7, PIT @ NYG
Sep 7, PIT @ NYG
Sep 8, PIT @ NYG
Sep 9, PIT vs. CHC
Sep 10, PIT vs. CHC
Sep 11, PIT vs. CHC
Sep 12, PIT vs. CHC
Sep 14, PIT vs. CIN
Sep 16, PIT vs. CIN
Sep 16, PIT vs. CIN
Sep 17, PIT vs. LOU
Sep 18, PIT vs. LOU
Sep 21, PIT vs. LOU
Sep 21, PIT vs. LOU
Sep 24, PIT @ STL
Sep 25, PIT @ STL
Sep 26, PIT @ STL

Top 12 Players

Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images.

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	Joe Sugden#	25	80	338	301	42	89	5	7	0	36	5		19	9	.296	.348	.359	.706	89	108		5	13
2	1B	Jake Beckley*	28	59	258	217	44	55	7	5	3	32	8		22	28	.253	.349	.373	.723	94	81		10	9
3	2B	Dick Padden	25	61	239	219	33	53	4	8	2	24	8		14	9	.242	.294	.361	.654	75	79		2	4
4	SS	Bones Ely	33	128	598	537	85	153	15	9	3	77	18		33	33	.285	.326	.363	.689	85	195		0	28
5	3B	Denny Lyons	30	118	519	436	77	134	25	6	4	71	13		67	25	.307	.406	.420	.825	121	183		5	11
6	OF	Elmer Smith*	28	122	572	484	121	175	21	14	6	94	33		74	18	.362	.454	.500	.954	155	242		8	6
7	OF	Jake Stenzel	29	114	525	479	104	173	26	14	2	82	57		32	13	.361	.410	.486	.897	140	233		8	6
8	OF	Patsy Donovan*	31	131	624	573	113	183	20	5	3	59	48		35	18	.319	.370	.387	.757	103	222		11	5
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	Bill Merritt	25	77	311	282	26	82	8	2	1	42	3		18	10	.291	.336	.344	.680	82	97		1	10
10	2B	Lou Bierbauer*	30	59	265	258	33	74	10	6	0	39	7		5	7	.287	.300	.372	.672	80	96		0	2
11	1B	Harry Davis	22	44	187	168	24	32	5	6	0	23	9		13	21	.190	.257	.292	.548	47	49		2	4
12	1B	Connie Mack	33	33	126	120	9	26	4	1	0	16	0		5	8	.217	.248	.267	.515	38	32		0	1
13	OF	Joe Wright*	27	15	53	52	5	16	2	1	0	6	1		1	2	.308	.321	.385	.705	88	20		0	0
14	3B	Jud Smith	27	10	39	35	6	12	2	1	0	4	3		2	2	.343	.395	.457	.852	128	16		1	1
15	2B	Harry Truby?	28	8	35	32	1	5	0	0	0	3	1		2	4	.156	.206	.156	.362	-2	5		0	1
16	1B	Abel Lizotte?	26	7	32	29	3	3	0	0	0	3	1		2	2	.103	.161	.103	.265	-28	3		0	1
17	C	Eddie Boyle	22	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
18	SS	Tom Delahanty	24	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	79	1		0	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
19	P	Frank Killen*	25	55	204	173	29	40	4	5	2	25	1		26	31	.231	.338	.347	.685	84	60		2	3
20	P	Pink Hawley*	23	50	170	163	19	39	9	4	1	21	1		1	22	.239	.257	.362	.619	65	59		3	3
21	P	Jim Hughey?	27	25	70	65	4	14	1	0	0	5	0		5	8	.215	.271	.231	.502	35	15		0	0
22	P	Charlie Hastings?	25	17	41	37	5	8	1	0	0	3	0		4	7	.216	.293	.243	.536	44	9		0	0
23	P	John Foreman*	21	9	27	20	2	3	0	0	0	2	0		7	7	.150	.370	.150	.520	42	3		0	0
24	P	Elmer Horton	29	2	7	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
25	P	Jot Goar	26	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-11	1		0	0
		Team Totals	28.4	131	5254	4701	787	1371	169	94	27	667	217		387	286	.292	.353	.385	.738	98	1809		58	108
		Rank in 12 NL teams				4	8	6	9	3	10		7		7	6	7	8	9	9		6		4
		Non-Pitcher Totals	28.9	131	4729	4230	727	1266	154	85	24	611	215		344	210	.299	.359	.393	.752	101	1662		53	102
		Pitcher Totals	24.5	131	525	471	60	105	15	9	3	56	2		43	76	.223	.295	.312	.607	63	147		5	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

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	Frank Killen*	25	30	18	.625	3.41	52	50	1	44	5	0	432.1	476	244	164	7	119		134	14	1	9	1850	123	3.81	1.376	9.9	0.1	2.5	2.8	1.13
2	SP	Pink Hawley	23	22	21	.512	3.57	49	43	6	37	2	0	378.0	382	197	150	2	157		137	28	0	17	1652	117	4.10	1.426	9.1	0.0	3.7	3.3	0.87
3	SP	Jim Hughey	27	6	8	.429	4.99	25	14	9	11	0	0	155.0	171	108	86	3	67		48	7	0	4	690	84	4.36	1.535	9.9	0.2	3.9	2.8	0.72
4	SP	Charlie Hastings?	25	5	10	.333	5.88	17	13	4	9	0	1	104.0	126	86	68	1	44		19	7	0	5	476	71	4.52	1.635	10.9	0.1	3.8	1.6	0.43
5	SP	John Foreman*	21	3	3	.500	6.57	9	9	0	5	0	0	61.2	73	55	45	4	35		18	8	0	5	293	64	5.64	1.751	10.7	0.6	5.1	2.6	0.51
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		Elmer Horton	29	0	2	.000	9.60	2	2	0	2	0	0	15.0	22	18	16	0	9		3	1	0	0	75	45	4.89	2.067	13.2	0.0	5.4	1.8	0.33
7		Jot Goar	26	0	1	.000	16.88	3	0	3	0	0	0	13.1	36	33	25	1	8		3	1	0	2	83	25	5.84	3.300	24.3	0.7	5.4	2.0	0.38
		Team Totals	24.5	66	63	.512	4.30	131	131	23	108	7	1	1159.1	1286	741	554	18	439		362	66	1	42	5119	98	4.18	1.488	10.0	0.1	3.4	2.8	0.82
		Rank in 12 NL teams		6	7		6				6	4	8	4	4	4	6	1	9		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