1976 Houston Astros

80-82 • 0.494 Win% • 3rd in NL W

📊 Season Record

80 Wins
82 Losses
0.494 Win %
3rd Rank
625 R 657 RA
Diff -32

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⚡ Quick Stats

625 Runs Scored
657 Runs Allowed
-32 Run Diff
886K Attendance

📈 vs. 1976 NL Average

Batting Avg .256 1% above the 1976 league average (.254)
OBP .322 1% above the 1976 league average (.319)
SLG .292 4% below the 1976 league average (.305)
Team ERA 3.56 2% worse than the 1976 league average (3.50)
Runs Scored 625 3% below the 1976 league average (645 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumAstrodome
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Home Games 82
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Total Attendance 886,622
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Avg per Game 10,812

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Bob Watson 0.313 2 Jose Cruz 0.303 3 Cesar Cedeno 0.297 4 Jerry DaVanon 0.290 5 Leon Roberts 0.289

Home Runs

1 Cesar Cedeno 18 2 Bob Watson 16 3 Cliff Johnson 10 4 Leon Roberts 7 5 Jose Cruz 4

RBI

1 Bob Watson 102 2 Cesar Cedeno 83 3 Jose Cruz 61 4 Cliff Johnson 49 5 Enos Cabell 43
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Enos Cabell 144 586 85 160 0 0 2 43 29 79 35 0.273
Bob Watson 157 585 76 183 0 0 16 102 62 64 3 0.313
Cesar Cedeno 150 575 89 171 0 0 18 83 55 51 58 0.297
Roger Metzger 152 481 37 101 0 0 0 29 52 63 1 0.210
Jose Cruz 133 439 49 133 0 0 4 61 53 46 28 0.303
Greg Gross 128 426 52 122 0 0 0 27 64 39 2 0.286
Rob Andrews 109 410 42 105 0 0 0 23 33 27 7 0.256
Cliff Johnson 108 318 36 72 0 0 10 49 62 59 0 0.226
Ed Herrmann 79 265 14 54 0 0 3 25 22 40 0 0.204
Leon Roberts 87 235 31 68 0 0 7 33 19 43 1 0.289
Wilbur Howard 94 191 26 42 0 0 1 18 7 28 7 0.220
Larry Milbourne 59 145 22 36 0 0 0 7 14 10 6 0.248
Ken Boswell 91 126 12 33 0 0 0 18 8 8 1 0.262
Jerry DaVanon 61 107 19 31 0 0 1 20 21 12 0 0.290
J. R. Richard 39 100 6 14 0 0 2 9 0 33 0 0.140
Skip Jutze 42 92 7 14 0 0 0 6 4 16 0 0.152
Larry Dierker 28 64 3 9 0 0 1 4 0 20 0 0.141
Joaquin Andujar 28 57 4 8 0 0 0 1 2 29 0 0.140
Alex Taveras 14 46 3 10 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 0.217
Dan Larson 14 31 5 9 0 0 0 6 1 3 0 0.290
Art Howe 21 29 0 4 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 0.138
Joe Niekro 36 27 1 5 0 0 1 1 1 8 0 0.185
Al Javier 8 24 1 5 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0.208
Mike Cosgrove 22 23 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 6 0 0.087
Bo McLaughlin 17 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 0 0.000
Gil Rondon 19 14 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0.286
Ken Forsch 52 11 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0.091
Joe Sambito 20 9 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 0.222
Mark Lemongello 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0.000
Tom Griffin 20 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.000
Gene Pentz 40 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.200
Rich Chiles 5 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.500
Mike Barlow 16 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Larry Hardy 15 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Paul Siebert 19 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jose Sosa 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Ken Forsch 2.15 2 J. R. Richard 2.75 3 Bo McLaughlin 2.85 4 Gene Pentz 2.97 5 Dan Larson 3.02

Wins

1 J. R. Richard 20 2 Larry Dierker 13 3 Joaquin Andujar 9 4 Tom Griffin 5 5 Dan Larson 5

Strikeouts

1 J. R. Richard 214 2 Larry Dierker 112 3 Joe Niekro 77 4 Joaquin Andujar 59 5 Ken Forsch 49
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
J. R. Richard 20 15 2.75 39 39 0 291.0 151 214
Larry Dierker 13 14 3.69 28 28 0 187.2 72 112
Joaquin Andujar 9 10 3.60 28 25 0 172.1 75 59
Joe Niekro 4 8 3.36 36 13 0 118.0 56 77
Dan Larson 5 8 3.02 13 13 0 92.1 28 42
Ken Forsch 4 3 2.15 52 0 19 92.0 26 49
Mike Cosgrove 3 4 5.52 22 16 0 89.2 58 34
Bo McLaughlin 4 5 2.85 17 11 1 79.0 17 32
Gene Pentz 3 3 2.97 40 0 5 63.2 31 36
Gil Rondon 2 2 5.70 19 7 0 53.2 39 21
Joe Sambito 3 2 3.54 20 4 1 53.1 14 26
Tom Griffin 5 3 6.05 20 2 0 41.2 37 33
Mark Lemongello 3 1 2.79 4 4 0 29.0 7 9
Paul Siebert 0 2 3.16 19 0 0 25.2 18 10
Mike Barlow 2 2 4.50 16 0 0 22.0 17 11
Larry Hardy 0 0 7.06 15 0 3 21.2 10 10
Jose Sosa 0 0 6.94 9 0 0 11.2 6 5

👥 Roster (36)

Rob Andrews Joaquin Andujar Mike Barlow Ken Boswell Enos Cabell Cesar Cedeno Rich Chiles Mike Cosgrove Jose Cruz Jerry DaVanon Larry Dierker Ken Forsch +24 more

36 players

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