1959 Boston Red Sox

75-79 • 0.487 Win% • 5th in AL

📊 Season Record

75 Wins
79 Losses
0.487 Win %
5th Rank
726 R 696 RA
Diff +30

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726 Runs Scored
696 Runs Allowed
+30 Run Diff
990K Attendance

📈 vs. 1959 AL Average

Batting Avg .255 1% above the 1959 league average (.253)
OBP .335 4% above the 1959 league average (.321)
SLG .327 1% below the 1959 league average (.331)
Team ERA 4.17 8% worse than the 1959 league average (3.86)
Runs Scored 726 8% above the 1959 league average (674 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumFenway Park II
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Home Games 77
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Total Attendance 990,103
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Avg per Game 12,858

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Pete Runnels 0.314 2 Sammy White 0.284 3 Frank Malzone 0.280 4 Gene Stephens 0.278 5 Jackie Jensen 0.277

Home Runs

1 Jackie Jensen 28 2 Frank Malzone 19 3 Gary Geiger 11 4 Dick Gernert 11 5 Don Buddin 10

RBI

1 Jackie Jensen 112 2 Frank Malzone 92 3 Pete Runnels 57 4 Don Buddin 53 5 Vic Wertz 49
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Frank Malzone 154 604 90 169 0 0 19 92 42 58 6 0.280
Pete Runnels 147 560 95 176 0 0 6 57 95 48 6 0.314
Jackie Jensen 148 535 101 148 0 0 28 112 88 67 20 0.277
Don Buddin 151 485 75 117 0 0 10 53 92 99 6 0.241
Sammy White 119 377 34 107 0 0 1 42 23 39 4 0.284
Gary Geiger 120 335 45 82 0 0 11 48 21 55 9 0.245
Dick Gernert 117 298 41 78 0 0 11 42 52 49 1 0.262
Ted Williams 103 272 32 69 0 0 10 43 52 27 0 0.254
Gene Stephens 92 270 34 75 0 0 3 39 29 33 5 0.278
Marty Keough 96 251 40 61 0 0 7 27 26 40 3 0.243
Vic Wertz 94 247 38 68 0 0 7 49 22 32 0 0.275
Pumpsie Green 50 172 30 40 0 0 1 10 29 22 4 0.233
Pete Daley 65 169 9 38 0 0 1 11 13 31 1 0.225
Jim Busby 61 102 16 23 0 0 1 5 5 18 0 0.225
Tom Brewer 47 72 7 8 0 0 1 5 1 16 2 0.111
Frank Sullivan 30 60 2 12 0 0 0 4 1 15 0 0.200
Jerry Casale 31 59 7 10 0 0 3 9 5 21 0 0.169
Ike Delock 28 47 1 3 0 0 1 2 3 24 0 0.064
Bill Monbouquette 35 46 1 3 0 0 0 1 2 28 0 0.065
Bobby Avila 22 45 7 11 0 0 3 6 6 11 0 0.244
Frank Baumann 26 29 0 6 0 0 0 3 2 13 0 0.207
Jim Mahoney 31 23 10 3 0 0 1 4 3 7 0 0.130
Bill Renna 14 22 2 2 0 0 0 2 5 9 0 0.091
Mike Fornieles 46 19 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 0.158
Ted Wills 9 16 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0.250
Jerry Mallett 4 15 1 4 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0.267
Billy Consolo 10 14 3 3 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0.214
Herb Plews 13 12 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.083
Don Gile 3 10 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0.200
Al Schroll 14 9 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 0.111
Leo Kiely 41 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Earl Wilson 9 8 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0.500
Jack Harshman 9 7 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0.143
Murray Wall 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Nelson Chittum 21 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0.200
Billy Hoeft 7 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Ted Lepcio 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0.333
Dave Sisler 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.500
Haywood Sullivan 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.000
Ted Bowsfield 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Herb Moford 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Nelson Chittum 1.19 2 Ike Delock 2.95 3 Mike Fornieles 3.07 4 Tom Brewer 3.76 5 Frank Sullivan 3.95

Wins

1 Jerry Casale 13 2 Ike Delock 11 3 Tom Brewer 10 4 Frank Sullivan 9 5 Bill Monbouquette 7

Strikeouts

1 Tom Brewer 121 2 Frank Sullivan 107 3 Jerry Casale 93 4 Bill Monbouquette 87 5 Ike Delock 55
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Tom Brewer 10 12 3.76 36 32 2 215.1 88 121
Jerry Casale 13 8 4.31 31 26 0 179.2 89 93
Frank Sullivan 9 11 3.95 30 26 1 177.2 67 107
Bill Monbouquette 7 7 4.15 34 17 0 151.2 33 87
Ike Delock 11 6 2.95 28 17 0 134.1 62 55
Frank Baumann 6 4 4.05 26 10 1 95.2 55 48
Mike Fornieles 5 3 3.07 46 0 11 82.0 29 54
Ted Wills 2 6 5.27 9 8 0 56.1 24 24
Leo Kiely 3 3 4.20 41 0 7 55.2 18 30
Al Schroll 1 4 4.70 14 5 0 46.0 22 26
Murray Wall 1 4 5.40 15 0 3 31.2 15 8
Nelson Chittum 3 0 1.19 21 0 0 30.1 11 12
Jack Harshman 2 3 6.57 8 2 0 24.2 10 14
Earl Wilson 1 1 6.08 9 4 0 23.2 31 17
Billy Hoeft 0 3 5.60 5 3 0 17.2 8 8
Ted Bowsfield 0 1 15.00 5 2 0 9.0 9 4
Herb Moford 0 2 11.42 4 2 0 8.2 6 7
Dave Sisler 0 0 6.75 3 0 0 6.2 1 3

👥 Roster (41)

Bobby Avila Frank Baumann Ted Bowsfield Tom Brewer Don Buddin Jim Busby Jerry Casale Nelson Chittum Billy Consolo Pete Daley Ike Delock Mike Fornieles +29 more

41 players

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