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Season Record: 78-76
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1959 NL Final Standings

1959 Team Batting Statistics
PlayerGABRH2B3BHRRBISBCSBBSOAvgOBPSLGOPS
Groat, Dick 147 593 74 163 22 7 5 51 0 2 32 35 .275 .312 .361 .673
Hoak, Don 155 564 60 166 29 3 8 65 9 2 71 75 .294 .374 .399 .773
Skinner, Bob 143 547 78 153 18 4 13 61 10 7 67 65 .280 .357 .399 .756
Virdon, Bill 144 519 67 132 24 2 8 41 7 4 55 65 .254 .327 .355 .682
Mazeroski, Bill 135 493 50 119 15 6 7 59 1 3 29 54 .241 .283 .339 .621
Clemente, Roberto 105 432 60 128 17 7 4 50 2 3 15 51 .296 .322 .396 .718
Stuart, Dick 118 397 64 118 15 2 27 78 1 1 42 86 .297 .362 .549 .911
Burgess, Smoky 114 377 41 112 28 5 11 59 0 0 31 16 .297 .349 .485 .834
Mejias, Roman 96 276 28 65 6 1 7 28 1 2 21 48 .236 .298 .341 .639
Nelson, Rocky 98 175 31 51 11 0 6 32 0 0 23 19 .291 .379 .457 .836
Kravitz, Danny 52 162 18 41 9 1 3 21 0 1 5 14 .253 .274 .377 .650
Schofield, Dick 81 145 21 34 10 1 1 9 1 1 16 22 .234 .311 .338 .648
Kluszewski, Ted 60 122 11 32 10 1 2 17 0 0 5 14 .262 .291 .410 .701
Law, Vern 38 96 6 16 2 0 1 8 0 0 3 20 .167 .192 .219 .411
Haddix, Harvey 31 83 3 12 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 17 .145 .174 .193 .367
Foiles, Hank 53 80 10 18 3 0 3 4 0 0 7 16 .225 .287 .375 .662
Friend, Bob 35 73 4 12 2 0 0 7 0 0 2 25 .164 .187 .192 .378
Kline, Ron 38 59 4 8 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 23 .136 .150 .136 .286
Bright, Harry 40 48 4 12 1 0 3 8 0 0 5 10 .250 .321 .458 .779
Daniels, Bennie 36 29 4 9 2 1 1 3 0 0 5 10 .310 .412 .552 .963
Simpson, Harry 9 15 3 4 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 .267 .267 .400 .667
Face, Roy 58 13 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .231 .231 .231 .462
Witt, Red 15 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 .000 .077 .000 .077
Christopher, Joe 15 12 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 .000 .077 .000 .077
Hamlin, Ken 3 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .125 .300 .125 .425
Stevens, R C 3 7 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .286 .286 .714 1.000
Green, Fred 17 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 .000 .000 .000 .000
Blackburn, Ron 26 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .800 1.000
Jackson, Al 8 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .200 .400
Williams, Don 6 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 1.000 1.333
Umbricht, Jim 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Porterfield, Bob 30 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000
Smith, Bob 20 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000
Gross, Don 21 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000
Hall, Dick 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Peterson, Hardy 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000

1959 Team Pitching Statistics
PlayerWLGGSCGSHOSVIPHRERERAWHIPHRBBSO
Law, Vern 18 9 34 33 20 2 1 266.0 245 91 88 2.98 1.12 25 53 110
Friend, Bob 8 19 35 35 7 2 0 234.2 267 129 105 4.03 1.36 19 52 104
Haddix, Harvey 12 12 31 29 14 2 0 224.1 189 88 78 3.13 1.06 26 49 149
Kline, Ron 11 13 33 29 7 0 0 186.0 186 95 88 4.26 1.38 23 70 91
Daniels, Bennie 7 9 34 12 0 0 1 100.2 115 69 61 5.45 1.53 9 39 67
Face, Roy 18 1 57 0 0 0 10 93.1 91 29 28 2.70 1.24 5 25 69
Witt, Red 0 7 15 11 0 0 0 50.2 58 43 39 6.93 1.78 7 32 30
Blackburn, Ron 1 1 26 0 0 0 1 44.1 50 21 18 3.65 1.47 5 15 19
Green, Fred 1 2 17 1 0 0 1 37.1 37 16 13 3.13 1.39 2 15 20
Porterfield, Bob 1 2 30 0 0 0 1 36.0 45 20 19 4.75 1.72 2 17 18
Gross, Don 1 1 21 0 0 0 2 33.0 28 16 13 3.55 1.15 3 10 15
Smith, Bob 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 28.1 32 16 11 3.49 1.73 1 17 12
Jackson, Al 0 0 8 3 0 0 0 18.0 30 14 13 6.50 2.11 1 8 13
Williams, Don 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 12.0 17 9 9 6.75 1.67 1 3 3
Hall, Dick 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 8.2 12 5 3 3.12 1.50 1 1 3
Giel, Paul 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 7.2 17 12 12 14.09 3.00 0 6 3
Umbricht, Jim 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 7.0 7 5 5 6.43 1.57 3 4 3
Porterfield, Bob 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 5.1 6 2 1 1.69 1.50 1 2 1