🏆 World Series Champions

1945 Detroit Tigers

88-65 • 0.575 Win% • 1st in AL

📊 Season Record

88 Wins
65 Losses
0.575 Win %
1st Rank
633 R 565 RA
Diff +68

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⚡ Quick Stats

633 Runs Scored
565 Runs Allowed
+68 Run Diff
1,294K Attendance

📈 vs. 1945 AL Average

Batting Avg .255 equal to the 1945 league average (.255)
OBP .322 equal to the 1945 league average (.322)
SLG .299 5% above the 1945 league average (.286)
Team ERA 2.99 11% better than the 1945 league average (3.36)
Runs Scored 633 6% above the 1945 league average (597 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumTiger Stadium
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Home Games 76
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Total Attendance 1,294,291
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Avg per Game 17,030

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Hank Greenberg 0.311 2 Eddie Mayo 0.285 3 Roy Cullenbine 0.277 4 Doc Cramer 0.275 5 Jimmy Outlaw 0.271

Home Runs

1 Roy Cullenbine 18 2 Rudy York 18 3 Hank Greenberg 13 4 Eddie Mayo 10 5 Doc Cramer 6

RBI

1 Roy Cullenbine 93 2 Rudy York 87 3 Hank Greenberg 60 4 Doc Cramer 58 5 Eddie Mayo 54
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Rudy York 155 595 71 157 0 0 18 87 60 85 6 0.264
Doc Cramer 141 541 62 149 0 0 6 58 36 21 2 0.275
Roy Cullenbine 146 523 80 145 0 0 18 93 102 36 2 0.277
Eddie Mayo 134 501 71 143 0 0 10 54 47 29 7 0.285
Bob Maier 132 486 58 128 0 0 1 34 38 32 7 0.263
Jimmy Outlaw 132 446 56 121 0 0 0 34 45 33 6 0.271
Skeeter Webb 118 407 43 81 0 0 0 21 30 35 8 0.199
Bob Swift 95 279 19 65 0 0 0 24 26 22 1 0.233
Hank Greenberg 78 270 47 84 0 0 13 60 42 40 3 0.311
Paul Richards 83 234 26 60 0 0 3 32 19 31 4 0.256
Joe Hoover 74 222 33 57 0 0 1 17 21 35 6 0.257
Red Borom 55 130 19 35 0 0 0 9 7 8 4 0.269
Hal Newhouser 40 109 9 28 0 0 0 17 7 10 0 0.257
Dizzy Trout 42 102 11 25 0 0 2 11 2 23 1 0.245
Al Benton 31 63 2 4 0 0 0 3 2 21 0 0.063
Stubby Overmire 31 53 5 10 0 0 0 3 4 6 0 0.189
Chuck Hostetler 42 44 3 7 0 0 0 2 7 8 0 0.159
Les Mueller 26 44 5 8 0 0 1 4 2 10 0 0.182
Zeb Eaton 26 32 2 8 0 0 2 10 0 7 0 0.250
Don Ross 8 29 3 11 0 0 0 4 5 1 2 0.379
Jim Tobin 17 25 2 3 0 0 2 5 1 5 0 0.120
Hub Walker 28 23 4 3 0 0 0 1 9 4 1 0.130
Walter Wilson 25 19 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0.053
Ed Mierkowicz 10 15 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 0.133
Joe Orrell 12 15 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0.133
John McHale 19 14 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 0.143
George Caster 22 11 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0.182
Art Houtteman 13 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Prince Oana 4 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.200
Hack Miller 2 4 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.750
Tommy Bridges 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Billy Pierce 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Virgil Trucks 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.000
Milt Welch 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Russ Kerns 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Carl McNabb 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Pat McLaughlin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Hal Newhouser 1.81 2 Al Benton 2.02 3 Joe Orrell 3.00 4 Dizzy Trout 3.14 5 Jim Tobin 3.55

Wins

1 Hal Newhouser 25 2 Dizzy Trout 18 3 Al Benton 13 4 Stubby Overmire 9 5 Les Mueller 6

Strikeouts

1 Hal Newhouser 212 2 Dizzy Trout 97 3 Al Benton 76 4 Les Mueller 42 5 Stubby Overmire 36
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Hal Newhouser 25 9 1.81 40 36 2 313.1 110 212
Dizzy Trout 18 15 3.14 41 31 2 246.1 79 97
Al Benton 13 8 2.02 31 27 3 191.2 63 76
Stubby Overmire 9 9 3.88 31 22 4 162.1 42 36
Les Mueller 6 8 3.68 26 18 1 134.2 58 42
Walter Wilson 1 3 4.61 25 4 0 70.1 35 28
Jim Tobin 4 5 3.55 14 6 1 58.1 28 14
Zeb Eaton 4 2 4.05 17 3 0 53.1 40 15
George Caster 5 1 3.86 22 0 2 51.1 27 23
Joe Orrell 2 3 3.00 12 5 0 48.0 24 14
Art Houtteman 0 2 5.33 13 0 0 25.1 11 9
Prince Oana 0 0 1.59 3 1 1 11.1 7 3
Tommy Bridges 1 0 3.27 4 1 0 11.0 2 6
Billy Pierce 0 0 1.80 5 0 0 10.0 10 10
Virgil Trucks 0 0 1.69 1 1 0 5.1 2 3
Pat McLaughlin 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 1.0 0 0

🏆 Postseason Results

World Series
DET def. CHN 4-3

👥 Roster (37)

Al Benton Red Borom Tommy Bridges George Caster Doc Cramer Roy Cullenbine Zeb Eaton Hank Greenberg Joe Hoover Chuck Hostetler Art Houtteman Russ Kerns +25 more

37 players

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