1878 Providence Grays Statistics

1879 Season

Record: 33-27-2, Finished 3rd in National League (Schedule and Results)

Manager: Tom York (33-27-2)

Ballparks: Union Grounds and Messer Street Grounds

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 96
One-year: Batting - 98, Pitching - 97

Pythagorean W-L: 31-29, 353 Runs, 337 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

May 1, PRO vs. BSN
May 4, PRO @ BSN
May 8, PRO vs. BSN
May 11, PRO @ BSN
May 15, PRO vs. BSN
May 18, PRO @ BSN
May 22, PRO vs. BSN
May 25, PRO @ BSN
May 28, PRO vs. MLG

Jun 1, PRO vs. MLG
Jun 3, PRO vs. MLG
Jun 4, PRO vs. CHC
Jun 6, PRO vs. CHC
Jun 13, PRO vs. CIN
Jun 14, PRO vs. CIN
Jun 15, PRO vs. CIN
Jun 19, PRO vs. IND
Jun 20, PRO vs. IND
Jun 25, PRO @ MLG
Jun 27, PRO @ MLG

Jul 2, PRO @ CHC
Jul 4, PRO @ CHC
Jul 6, PRO @ CHC
Jul 9, PRO @ CIN
Jul 11, PRO @ CIN
Jul 15, PRO @ CIN
Jul 16, PRO @ IND
Jul 18, PRO @ IND
Jul 20, PRO @ IND
Jul 23, PRO vs. MLG
Jul 25, PRO vs. MLG
Jul 26, PRO vs. MLG
Jul 27, PRO vs. MLG
Jul 31, PRO vs. CIN

Aug 2, PRO vs. CIN
Aug 3, PRO vs. CIN
Aug 7, PRO vs. IND
Aug 8, PRO vs. IND
Aug 9, PRO vs. IND
Aug 9, PRO vs. IND
Aug 10, PRO vs. IND
Aug 12, PRO vs. CHC
Aug 13, PRO vs. CHC
Aug 14, PRO vs. CHC
Aug 15, PRO vs. CHC
Aug 22, PRO @ IND
Aug 23, PRO @ IND
Aug 24, PRO @ IND
Aug 27, PRO @ CIN
Aug 29, PRO @ CIN

Sep 2, PRO @ CIN
Sep 3, PRO @ CHC
Sep 4, PRO @ CHC
Sep 5, PRO @ CHC
Sep 7, PRO @ CHC
Sep 10, PRO @ MLG
Sep 12, PRO @ MLG
Sep 14, PRO @ MLG
Sep 26, PRO @ BSN
Sep 27, PRO vs. BSN
Sep 28, PRO @ BSN
Sep 30, PRO vs. BSN

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	Lew Brown	20	58	250	243	44	74	21	6	1	43			7	37	.305	.324	.453	.777	153	110
2	1B	Tim Murnane*	27	49	196	188	35	45	6	1	0	14			8	12	.239	.270	.282	.552	82	53
3	2B	Charlie Sweasy	30	55	219	212	23	37	3	0	0	8			7	23	.175	.201	.189	.390	29	40
4	SS	Tom Carey	31	61	253	253	33	60	10	3	0	24			0	14	.237	.237	.300	.538	75	76
5	3B	Bill Hague	26	62	255	250	21	51	3	0	0	25			5	34	.204	.220	.216	.436	43	54
6	OF	Tom York*	27	62	277	269	56	83	19	10	1	26			8	19	.309	.329	.465	.793	158	125
7	OF	Dick Higham*	26	62	286	281	60	90	22	1	1	29			5	16	.320	.332	.416	.749	144	117
8	OF	Paul Hines	23	62	259	257	42	92	13	4	4	50			2	10	.358	.363	.486	.849	177	125
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	Doug Allison	31	19	77	76	9	22	2	0	0	7			1	8	.289	.299	.316	.614	102	24
10	2B	Lip Pike*	33	5	23	22	4	5	0	1	0	4			1	1	.227	.261	.318	.579	89	7
11	IF	Fred Corey	23	7	21	21	3	3	0	0	0	1			0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	-6	3
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
12	P	John Ward*	18	37	140	138	14	27	5	4	1	15			2	13	.196	.207	.312	.519	68	43
13	P	Tricky Nichols	27	11	51	49	2	9	2	0	0	2			2	10	.184	.216	.224	.440	45	11
14	P	Harry Wheeler	20	7	29	27	7	4	0	0	0	1			2	15	.148	.207	.148	.355	18	4
15	P	Tom Healey?	25	3	9	9	0	2	1	0	0	2			0	4	.222	.222	.333	.556	80	3
16	P	Cherokee Fisher	33	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0			0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0
		Team Totals	25.9	62	2348	2298	353	604	107	30	8	251			50	218	.263	.279	.346	.624	104	795
		Rank in 6 NL teams				3	2	3	1	1	1				5	6	3	3	2	2		2
		Non-Pitcher Totals	26.5	62	2095	2051	327	559	99	26	7	230			44	174	.273	.288	.356	.644	110	731
		Pitcher Totals	20.9	62	253	247	26	45	8	4	1	21			6	44	.182	.202	.259	.461	50	64
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	John Ward	18	22	13	.629	1.51	37	37	0	37	6	0	334.0	308	151	56	3	34		116		0	26	1365	147	2.26	1.024	8.3	0.1	0.9	3.1	3.41
2	SP	Tricky Nichols	27	4	7	.364	4.22	11	10	1	10	0	0	98.0	157	98	46	0	8		21		0	9	464	53	2.35	1.684	14.4	0.0	0.7	1.9	2.63
3	SP	Harry Wheeler	20	6	1	.857	3.48	7	6	1	6	0	0	62.0	70	40	24	1	25		25		0	13	280	64	3.15	1.532	10.2	0.1	3.6	3.6	1.00
4	SP	Fred Corey	23	1	2	.333	2.35	5	5	0	2	0	0	23.0	22	10	6	0	7		7		0	1	95	97	2.84	1.261	8.6	0.0	2.7	2.7	1.00
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		Tom Healey	25	0	3	.000	3.00	3	3	0	3	0	0	24.0	27	17	8	1	7		2		0	6	104	76	3.79	1.417	10.1	0.4	2.6	0.8	0.29
6		Cherokee Fisher	33	0	1	.000	4.00	1	1	0	1	0	0	9.0	14	12	4	0	0		2		0	1	46	60	2.09	1.556	14.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
7		Doug Allison	31	0	0		1.80	1	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	11	5	1	0	1		0		0	0	26	140	3.14	2.400	19.8	0.0	1.8	0.0	0.00
8		Lew Brown	20	0	0		18.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	4	2	0	4		0		0	2	8	21	14.54	4.000	0.0	0.0	36.0	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	20.7	33	27	.550	2.38	62	62	3	59	6	0	556.0	609	337	147	5	86		173		0	58	2388	94	2.49	1.250	9.9	0.1	1.4	2.8	2.01
		Rank in 6 NL teams		3	4		5				3	2	2	2	5	5	4	5	5		5
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