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1889 Washington Nationals Statistics

1888 Season

Record: 41-83-3, Finished 8th in National League (Schedule and Results)

Managers: John Morrill (13-38) and Arthur Irwin (28-45-3)

Ballpark: Swampoodle Grounds

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 92, Pitching - 96
One-year: Batting - 92, Pitching - 96

Pythagorean W-L: 43-81, 632 Runs, 892 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 24, WHS vs. PHI
Apr 29, WHS @ NYG
Apr 30, WHS @ NYG

May 1, WHS @ NYG
May 2, WHS @ NYG
May 3, WHS vs. BSN
May 4, WHS vs. BSN
May 6, WHS vs. BSN
May 8, WHS @ PHI
May 9, WHS @ PHI
May 10, WHS @ PHI
May 11, WHS @ PHI
May 13, WHS vs. IND
May 15, WHS vs. IND
May 16, WHS vs. IND
May 17, WHS vs. CHC
May 18, WHS vs. CHC
May 21, WHS vs. CHC
May 23, WHS vs. PIT
May 24, WHS vs. PIT
May 25, WHS vs. PIT
May 28, WHS vs. CLV
May 29, WHS vs. CLV
May 30, WHS vs. CLV

Jun 1, WHS vs. NYG
Jun 4, WHS vs. NYG
Jun 5, WHS vs. NYG
Jun 6, WHS @ PHI
Jun 7, WHS @ PHI
Jun 8, WHS @ PHI
Jun 10, WHS vs. PHI
Jun 11, WHS vs. PHI
Jun 11, WHS vs. PHI
Jun 13, WHS @ BSN
Jun 14, WHS @ BSN
Jun 15, WHS @ BSN
Jun 17, WHS @ BSN
Jun 17, WHS @ BSN
Jun 19, WHS @ IND
Jun 20, WHS @ IND
Jun 21, WHS @ IND
Jun 22, WHS @ IND
Jun 24, WHS @ PIT
Jun 25, WHS @ PIT
Jun 26, WHS @ PIT
Jun 28, WHS @ CLV
Jun 29, WHS @ CLV

Jul 1, WHS @ CLV
Jul 2, WHS @ CLV
Jul 4, WHS @ CHC
Jul 4, WHS @ CHC
Jul 5, WHS @ CHC
Jul 6, WHS @ CHC
Jul 8, WHS vs. CHC
Jul 9, WHS vs. CHC
Jul 10, WHS vs. CHC
Jul 11, WHS vs. IND
Jul 12, WHS vs. IND
Jul 13, WHS vs. IND
Jul 15, WHS vs. PIT
Jul 16, WHS vs. PIT
Jul 17, WHS vs. PIT
Jul 18, WHS vs. CLV
Jul 20, WHS vs. CLV
Jul 22, WHS @ BSN
Jul 23, WHS @ BSN
Jul 24, WHS @ BSN
Jul 25, WHS @ NYG
Jul 26, WHS @ NYG
Jul 29, WHS vs. NYG
Jul 30, WHS vs. NYG

Aug 1, WHS vs. BSN
Aug 2, WHS vs. BSN
Aug 3, WHS vs. BSN
Aug 5, WHS @ CLV
Aug 6, WHS @ CLV
Aug 7, WHS @ CLV
Aug 8, WHS @ PIT
Aug 9, WHS @ PIT
Aug 10, WHS @ PIT
Aug 10, WHS @ PIT
Aug 12, WHS @ IND
Aug 13, WHS @ IND
Aug 14, WHS @ IND
Aug 15, WHS @ CHC
Aug 16, WHS @ CHC
Aug 17, WHS @ CHC
Aug 19, WHS @ PHI
Aug 20, WHS @ PHI
Aug 21, WHS @ PHI
Aug 22, WHS @ BSN
Aug 23, WHS @ BSN
Aug 24, WHS @ BSN
Aug 26, WHS @ NYG
Aug 27, WHS @ NYG
Aug 28, WHS @ NYG
Aug 28, WHS @ NYG
Aug 29, WHS vs. PHI
Aug 30, WHS vs. PHI
Aug 31, WHS vs. PHI

Sep 2, WHS vs. CLV
Sep 3, WHS vs. CLV
Sep 4, WHS vs. CLV
Sep 5, WHS vs. CHC
Sep 7, WHS vs. CHC
Sep 7, WHS vs. CHC
Sep 9, WHS vs. IND
Sep 10, WHS vs. IND
Sep 14, WHS vs. PIT
Sep 16, WHS vs. NYG
Sep 18, WHS vs. NYG
Sep 18, WHS vs. NYG
Sep 19, WHS vs. BSN
Sep 20, WHS vs. BSN
Sep 21, WHS vs. BSN
Sep 23, WHS @ PIT
Sep 24, WHS @ PIT
Sep 25, WHS @ PIT
Sep 27, WHS @ CLV
Sep 28, WHS @ CLV
Sep 28, WHS @ CLV
Sep 30, WHS @ CHC

Oct 1, WHS @ CHC
Oct 2, WHS @ CHC
Oct 3, WHS @ IND
Oct 4, WHS @ IND
Oct 5, WHS @ IND

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	Tom Daly#	23	71	289	250	39	75	13	5	1	40	18		38	28	.300	.394	.404	.798	130	101		1
2	1B	Jack Carney	22	69	288	273	25	63	7	0	1	29	12		14	14	.231	.271	.267	.538	55	73		1
3	2B	Sam Wise*	31	121	537	472	79	118	15	8	4	62	24		61	62	.250	.341	.341	.682	96	161		4
4	SS	Arthur Irwin*	31	85	356	313	49	73	10	5	0	32	9		42	37	.233	.326	.297	.623	80	93		1
5	3B	John Irwin*	27	58	257	228	42	66	11	4	0	25	10		25	14	.289	.370	.373	.742	114	85		4
6	OF	Walt Wilmot#	25	108	485	432	88	125	19	19	9	57	40		51	32	.289	.367	.484	.851	144	209		2
7	OF	Billy Hoy*	27	127	588	507	98	139	11	6	0	39	35		75	30	.274	.374	.320	.694	100	162		6
8	OF	Ed Beecher*	29	42	185	179	20	53	9	0	0	30	3		5	4	.296	.319	.346	.665	91	62		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
9	UT	Connie Mack	26	98	409	386	51	113	16	1	0	42	26		15	12	.293	.333	.339	.672	94	131		8
10	3B	Pete Sweeney	25	49	208	193	13	44	7	3	1	23	8		11	26	.228	.284	.311	.595	71	60		4
11	2B	Al Myers	25	46	199	176	24	46	3	0	0	20	10		22	7	.261	.347	.278	.625	81	49		1
12	1B	John Morrill	34	44	177	146	20	27	5	0	2	16	12		30	23	.185	.328	.260	.588	70	38		1
13	UT	Spider Clark	21	38	151	145	19	37	7	2	3	22	8		6	18	.255	.285	.393	.678	94	57		0
14	OF	George Shoch	30	30	135	109	12	26	2	0	0	11	9		20	5	.239	.385	.257	.642	86	28		6
15	UT	Hi Ebright	30	16	63	59	7	15	2	2	1	6	1		3	8	.254	.302	.407	.708	103	24		1
16	UT	John Riddle	25	11	39	37	3	8	3	0	0	3	0		2	8	.216	.256	.297	.554	59	11		0
17	3B	Jim Donnelly	23	4	15	13	3	2	0	0	0	0	1		2	0	.154	.267	.154	.421	22	2		0
18	1B	Billy O'Brien	29	2	9	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	1	.000	.111	.000	.111	-67	0		0
19	2B	Art McCoy?	24	2	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	-25	0		0
20	OF	Harry Clarke?	28	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0
21	C	Jim Banning*	24	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	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
22	P	George Haddock	22	34	131	112	13	25	3	0	2	14	3		19	27	.223	.336	.304	.639	85	34		0
23	P	Alex Ferson	22	36	124	114	6	13	3	1	0	3	1		10	47	.114	.185	.158	.343	-1	18		0
24	P	George Keefe*	22	30	106	98	7	16	2	1	0	1	2		8	29	.163	.226	.204	.430	24	20		0
25	P	Hank O'Day	29	13	47	44	1	8	1	0	0	4	0		3	7	.182	.234	.205	.439	27	9		0
26	P	Egyptian Healy	22	13	46	45	7	10	2	0	1	4	0		0	10	.222	.239	.333	.572	64	15		1
27	P	Gus Krock	23	6	23	23	3	2	0	0	0	2	0		0	2	.087	.087	.087	.174	-50	2		0
28	P	Mike Sullivan*	18	9	21	19	2	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	2	.053	.143	.053	.195	-43	1		1
29	P	John Thornton*	20	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0
		Team Totals	26.6	127	4904	4395	632	1105	151	57	25	486	232		466	456	.251	.329	.329	.658	90	1445		43
		Rank in 8 NL teams				8	8	8	7	5	7		7		4	6	7	5	7	7		8		3
		Non-Pitcher Totals	27.1	127	4402	3936	593	1030	140	55	22	457	226		425	331	.262	.340	.342	.682	96	1346		41
		Pitcher Totals	22.6	127	502	459	39	75	11	2	3	29	6		41	125	.163	.235	.216	.451	30	99		2
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	Alex Ferson	22	17	17	.500	3.90	36	34	2	28	1	0	288.1	319	199	125	9	105		85	12	0	9	1288	99	4.04	1.471	10.0	0.3	3.3	2.7	0.81
2	SP	George Haddock	22	11	19	.367	4.20	33	31	2	30	0	0	276.1	299	203	129	10	123		106	9	0	16	1247	92	4.14	1.527	9.7	0.3	4.0	3.5	0.86
3	SP	George Keefe*	22	8	18	.308	5.13	30	27	3	24	0	0	230.0	266	182	131	6	143		90	4	0	8	1093	75	4.48	1.778	10.4	0.2	5.6	3.5	0.63
4	SP	Hank O'Day	29	2	10	.167	4.33	13	13	0	11	0	0	108.0	117	88	52	7	57		23	6	0	4	499	89	5.17	1.611	9.8	0.6	4.8	1.9	0.40
5	SP	Egyptian Healy	22	1	11	.083	6.24	13	12	1	10	0	0	101.0	139	111	70	2	38		49	5	0	10	480	62	3.57	1.752	12.4	0.2	3.4	4.4	1.29
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	RP	Mike Sullivan	18	0	3	.000	7.24	9	3	6	3	0	0	41.0	47	47	33	2	32		15	3	0	7	203	54	5.47	1.927	10.3	0.4	7.0	3.3	0.47
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
7		Gus Krock	23	2	4	.333	5.25	6	6	0	6	0	0	48.0	65	50	28	1	22		17	1	0	1	230	74	4.01	1.813	12.2	0.2	4.1	3.2	0.77
8		John Thornton	20	0	1	.000	5.00	1	1	0	1	0	0	9.0	8	11	5	0	7		3	0	1	0	42	81	4.67	1.667	8.0	0.0	7.0	3.0	0.43
9		Arthur Irwin	31	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	4		3.01	1.000	9.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
10		John Morrill	34	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	1		3.01	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	22.6	41	83	.331	4.68	127	127	14	113	1	0	1103.0	1261	892	573	37	527		388	40	1	55	5087	83	4.28	1.621	10.3	0.3	4.3	3.2	0.74
		Rank in 8 NL teams		8	1		7				6	8	8	8	4	7	7	3	8		7
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