🏆 World Series Champions

1968 Detroit Tigers

103-59 • 0.636 Win% • 1st in AL

📊 Season Record

103 Wins
59 Losses
0.636 Win %
1st Rank
671 R 492 RA
Diff +179

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⚡ Quick Stats

671 Runs Scored
492 Runs Allowed
+179 Run Diff
2,032K Attendance

📈 vs. 1968 AL Average

Batting Avg .235 2% above the 1968 league average (.230)
OBP .301 3% above the 1968 league average (.294)
SLG .336 15% above the 1968 league average (.291)
Team ERA 2.71 9% better than the 1968 league average (2.98)
Runs Scored 671 21% above the 1968 league average (553 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumTiger Stadium
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 2,032,257
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Avg per Game 25,089

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Gates Brown 0.370 2 Al Kaline 0.287 3 Willie Horton 0.285 4 Jim Northrup 0.264 5 Bill Freehan 0.263

Home Runs

1 Willie Horton 36 2 Norm Cash 25 3 Bill Freehan 25 4 Jim Northrup 21 5 Dick McAuliffe 16

RBI

1 Jim Northrup 90 2 Willie Horton 85 3 Bill Freehan 84 4 Norm Cash 63 5 Mickey Stanley 60
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Mickey Stanley 153 583 88 151 0 0 11 60 42 57 4 0.259
Jim Northrup 154 580 76 153 0 0 21 90 50 87 4 0.264
Dick McAuliffe 151 570 95 142 0 0 16 56 82 99 8 0.249
Bill Freehan 155 540 73 142 0 0 25 84 65 64 0 0.263
Don Wert 150 536 44 107 0 0 12 37 37 79 0 0.200
Willie Horton 143 512 68 146 0 0 36 85 49 110 0 0.285
Norm Cash 127 411 50 108 0 0 25 63 39 70 1 0.263
Al Kaline 102 327 49 94 0 0 10 53 55 39 6 0.287
Tommy Matchick 80 227 18 46 0 0 3 14 10 46 0 0.203
Ray Oyler 111 215 13 29 0 0 1 12 20 59 0 0.135
Dick Tracewski 90 212 30 33 0 0 4 15 24 51 3 0.156
Jim Price 64 132 12 23 0 0 3 13 13 14 0 0.174
Denny McLain 44 111 7 18 0 0 0 4 1 37 0 0.162
Gates Brown 67 92 15 34 0 0 6 15 12 4 0 0.370
Earl Wilson 40 88 9 20 0 0 7 17 2 35 0 0.227
Mickey Lolich 41 70 5 8 0 0 0 3 6 25 0 0.114
Joe Sparma 34 60 2 8 0 0 0 2 1 24 0 0.133
Eddie Mathews 31 52 4 11 0 0 3 8 5 12 0 0.212
Wayne Comer 48 48 8 6 0 0 1 3 2 7 0 0.125
John Hiller 39 37 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 14 0 0.081
Pat Dobson 47 28 2 4 0 0 0 1 2 7 0 0.143
Daryl Patterson 38 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 0 0.000
Fred Lasher 34 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.111
Dave Campbell 9 8 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 3 0 0.125
Les Cain 8 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.143
Dennis Ribant 16 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.200
Lenny Green 6 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.250
Don McMahon 20 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Bob Christian 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.333
Jim Rooker 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Jon Warden 28 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
John Wyatt 22 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Roy Face 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Denny McLain 1.96 2 Don McMahon 2.02 3 Daryl Patterson 2.12 4 John Wyatt 2.37 5 John Hiller 2.39

Wins

1 Denny McLain 31 2 Mickey Lolich 17 3 Earl Wilson 13 4 Joe Sparma 10 5 John Hiller 9

Strikeouts

1 Denny McLain 280 2 Mickey Lolich 197 3 Earl Wilson 168 4 Joe Sparma 110 5 Pat Dobson 93
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Denny McLain 31 6 1.96 41 41 0 336.0 63 280
Earl Wilson 13 12 2.85 34 33 0 224.1 65 168
Mickey Lolich 17 9 3.19 39 32 1 220.0 65 197
Joe Sparma 10 10 3.70 34 31 0 182.1 77 110
John Hiller 9 6 2.39 39 12 2 128.0 51 78
Pat Dobson 5 8 2.66 47 10 7 125.0 48 93
Daryl Patterson 2 3 2.12 38 1 7 68.0 27 49
Fred Lasher 5 1 3.33 34 0 5 48.2 22 32
Jon Warden 4 1 3.62 28 0 3 37.1 15 25
Don McMahon 3 1 2.02 20 0 1 35.2 10 33
John Wyatt 1 0 2.37 22 0 2 30.1 11 25
Dennis Ribant 2 2 2.22 14 0 1 24.1 10 7
Les Cain 1 0 3.00 8 4 0 24.0 20 13
Jim Rooker 0 0 3.86 2 0 0 4.2 1 4
Roy Face 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 1.0 1 1

🏆 Postseason Results

World Series
DET def. SLN 4-3

👥 Roster (33)

Gates Brown Les Cain Dave Campbell Norm Cash Bob Christian Wayne Comer Pat Dobson Roy Face Bill Freehan Lenny Green John Hiller Willie Horton +21 more

33 players

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