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Season Record: 89-73
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1979 NL Final Standings

1979 Team Batting Statistics
PlayerGABRH2B3BHRRBISBCSBBSOAvgOBPSLGOPS
Cabell, Enos 155 603 60 164 30 5 6 67 37 18 21 68 .272 .299 .368 .668
Puhl, Terry 157 600 87 172 22 4 8 49 30 22 58 46 .287 .352 .377 .729
Cruz, Jose 157 558 73 161 33 7 9 72 36 14 72 66 .289 .367 .421 .788
Reynolds, Craig 146 555 63 147 20 9 0 39 12 6 21 49 .265 .292 .333 .625
Cedeno, Cesar 132 470 57 123 27 4 6 54 30 13 64 52 .262 .348 .374 .722
Leonard, Jeffrey 134 411 47 119 15 5 0 47 23 10 46 68 .290 .360 .350 .710
Howe, Art 118 355 32 88 15 2 6 33 3 1 36 37 .248 .316 .352 .668
Ashby, Alan 108 336 25 68 15 2 2 35 0 0 26 70 .202 .262 .277 .538
Landestoy, Rafael 129 282 33 76 9 6 0 30 13 4 29 24 .270 .338 .344 .682
Gonzalez, Julio 68 181 16 45 5 2 0 10 2 1 5 14 .249 .280 .298 .579
Watson, Bob 49 163 15 39 4 0 3 18 0 0 16 23 .239 .304 .319 .623
Walling, Denny 82 147 21 48 8 4 3 31 3 2 17 21 .327 .394 .497 .891
Bochy, Bruce 56 129 11 28 4 0 1 6 0 0 13 25 .217 .294 .271 .565
Richard, J. R. 38 95 6 12 1 1 2 6 0 1 1 24 .126 .134 .221 .355
Niekro, Joe 38 83 1 10 2 0 0 4 0 0 2 21 .120 .140 .145 .284
Pujols, Luis 26 75 7 17 2 1 0 8 0 0 2 14 .227 .247 .280 .527
Forsch, Ken 26 58 4 8 1 0 0 3 0 0 4 22 .138 .194 .155 .349
Andujar, Joaquin 46 57 3 5 1 0 2 7 0 0 2 32 .088 .117 .211 .327
Alou, Jesus 42 43 3 11 4 0 0 10 0 0 6 7 .256 .347 .349 .696
Sexton, Jimmy 52 43 8 9 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 7 .209 .320 .209 .529
Williams, Rick 31 31 2 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 18 .258 .324 .290 .614
Baldwin, Reggie 14 20 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .200 .200 .250 .450
Ruhle, Vern 13 19 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 .053 .100 .105 .205
Bergman, Dave 13 15 4 6 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 .400 .400 .600 1.000
Niemann, Randy 26 15 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 .133 .188 .133 .321
Heep, Danny 14 14 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 4 .143 .176 .143 .319
Sambito, Joe 63 7 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 .286 .583 .429 1.012
Knicely, Alan 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 .000 .250 .000 .250
Wiedenbauer, Tom 4 6 0 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 .667 .667 .833 1.500
Riccelli, Frank 11 6 1 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .500 .833
LaCorte, Frank 12 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000
Throop, George 14 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000
Roberge, Bert 26 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000
Dixon, Tom 19 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000
McLaughlin, Bo 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000
Ladd, Pete 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000

1979 Team Pitching Statistics
PlayerWLGGSCGSHOSVIPHRERERAWHIPHRBBSO
Richard, J. R. 18 13 38 38 19 4 0 292.1 220 98 88 2.71 1.09 13 98 313
Niekro, Joe 21 11 38 38 11 5 0 263.2 221 102 88 3.00 1.24 17 107 119
Andujar, Joaquin 12 12 46 23 8 0 4 194.0 168 86 74 3.43 1.32 7 88 77
Forsch, Ken 11 6 26 24 10 2 0 177.2 155 67 60 3.04 1.07 14 35 58
Williams, Rick 4 7 31 16 2 2 0 121.1 122 45 44 3.26 1.25 6 30 37
Sambito, Joe 8 7 63 0 0 0 22 91.1 80 20 18 1.77 1.13 8 23 83
Niemann, Randy 3 2 26 7 3 2 1 67.0 68 32 28 3.76 1.34 1 22 24
Ruhle, Vern 2 6 13 10 2 2 0 66.1 64 33 30 4.07 1.09 9 8 33
Roberge, Bert 3 0 26 0 0 0 4 32.0 20 6 6 1.69 1.16 0 17 13
LaCorte, Frank 1 2 12 3 0 0 0 27.0 21 16 15 5.00 1.15 3 10 24
Dixon, Tom 1 2 19 1 0 0 0 25.2 39 23 19 6.66 2.10 2 15 9
Throop, George 1 0 14 0 0 0 0 22.1 23 10 8 3.22 1.52 4 11 15
Riccelli, Frank 2 2 11 2 0 0 0 22.0 22 11 10 4.09 1.82 0 18 20
McLaughlin, Bo 1 2 12 0 0 0 0 16.1 22 15 10 5.51 1.59 2 4 12
Ladd, Pete 1 1 10 0 0 0 0 12.1 8 5 4 2.92 1.30 1 8 6
Wilson, Gary 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 7.1 15 11 10 12.27 2.86 2 6 6
Sprowl, Bobby 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 4.0 1 0 0 0.00 0.75 0 2 3
Pladson, Gordie 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 4.0 9 2 2 4.50 2.75 1 2 2
Mendoza, Mike 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0