1979 Houston Astros

89-73 • 0.549 Win% • 2nd in NL W

📊 Season Record

89 Wins
73 Losses
0.549 Win %
2nd Rank
583 R 582 RA
Diff +1

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583 Runs Scored
582 Runs Allowed
+1 Run Diff
1,915K Attendance

📈 vs. 1979 NL Average

Batting Avg .256 2% below the 1979 league average (.260)
OBP .314 3% below the 1979 league average (.323)
SLG .283 13% below the 1979 league average (.325)
Team ERA 3.20 14% better than the 1979 league average (3.73)
Runs Scored 583 15% below the 1979 league average (682 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumAstrodome
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 1,915,449
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Avg per Game 23,647

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Denny Walling 0.327 2 Jeffrey Leonard 0.290 3 Jose Cruz 0.289 4 Terry Puhl 0.287 5 Enos Cabell 0.272

Home Runs

1 Jose Cruz 9 2 Terry Puhl 8 3 Enos Cabell 6 4 Cesar Cedeno 6 5 Art Howe 6

RBI

1 Jose Cruz 72 2 Enos Cabell 67 3 Cesar Cedeno 54 4 Terry Puhl 49 5 Jeffrey Leonard 47
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Enos Cabell 155 603 60 164 0 0 6 67 21 68 37 0.272
Terry Puhl 157 600 87 172 0 0 8 49 58 46 30 0.287
Jose Cruz 157 558 73 161 0 0 9 72 72 66 36 0.289
Craig Reynolds 146 555 63 147 0 0 0 39 21 49 12 0.265
Cesar Cedeno 132 470 57 123 0 0 6 54 64 52 30 0.262
Jeffrey Leonard 134 411 47 119 0 0 0 47 46 68 23 0.290
Art Howe 118 355 32 88 0 0 6 33 36 37 3 0.248
Alan Ashby 108 336 25 68 0 0 2 35 26 70 0 0.202
Rafael Landestoy 129 282 33 76 0 0 0 30 29 24 13 0.270
Julio Gonzalez 68 181 16 45 0 0 0 10 5 14 2 0.249
Bob Watson 49 163 15 39 0 0 3 18 16 23 0 0.239
Denny Walling 82 147 21 48 0 0 3 31 17 21 3 0.327
Bruce Bochy 56 129 11 28 0 0 1 6 13 25 0 0.217
J. R. Richard 38 95 6 12 0 0 2 6 1 24 0 0.126
Joe Niekro 38 83 1 10 0 0 0 4 2 21 0 0.120
Luis Pujols 26 75 7 17 0 0 0 8 2 14 0 0.227
Ken Forsch 26 58 4 8 0 0 0 3 4 22 0 0.138
Joaquin Andujar 46 57 3 5 0 0 2 7 2 32 0 0.088
Jesus Alou 42 43 3 11 0 0 0 10 6 7 0 0.256
Jimmy Sexton 52 43 8 9 0 0 0 1 7 7 1 0.209
Rick Williams 31 31 2 8 0 0 0 0 3 18 0 0.258
Reggie Baldwin 14 20 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0.200
Vern Ruhle 13 19 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 0 0.053
Dave Bergman 13 15 4 6 0 0 1 2 0 3 0 0.400
Randy Niemann 26 15 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0.133
Danny Heep 14 14 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 0.143
Joe Sambito 63 7 1 2 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 0.286
Alan Knicely 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0.000
Frank Riccelli 11 6 1 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0.333
Tom Wiedenbauer 4 6 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0.667
Frank LaCorte 12 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
George Throop 14 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Bert Roberge 26 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Tom Dixon 19 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
Pete Ladd 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bo McLaughlin 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Mike Mendoza 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Gordie Pladson 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bobby Sprowl 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Gary Wilson 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Bert Roberge 1.69 2 Joe Sambito 1.77 3 J. R. Richard 2.71 4 Joe Niekro 3.00 5 Ken Forsch 3.04

Wins

1 Joe Niekro 21 2 J. R. Richard 18 3 Joaquin Andujar 12 4 Ken Forsch 11 5 Joe Sambito 8

Strikeouts

1 J. R. Richard 313 2 Joe Niekro 119 3 Joe Sambito 83 4 Joaquin Andujar 77 5 Ken Forsch 58
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
J. R. Richard 18 13 2.71 38 38 0 292.1 98 313
Joe Niekro 21 11 3.00 38 38 0 263.2 107 119
Joaquin Andujar 12 12 3.43 46 23 4 194.0 88 77
Ken Forsch 11 6 3.04 26 24 0 177.2 35 58
Rick Williams 4 7 3.26 31 16 0 121.1 30 37
Joe Sambito 8 7 1.77 63 0 22 91.1 23 83
Randy Niemann 3 2 3.76 26 7 1 67.0 22 24
Vern Ruhle 2 6 4.07 13 10 0 66.1 8 33
Bert Roberge 3 0 1.69 26 0 4 32.0 17 13
Frank LaCorte 1 2 5.00 12 3 0 27.0 10 24
Tom Dixon 1 2 6.66 19 1 0 25.2 15 9
George Throop 1 0 3.22 14 0 0 22.1 11 15
Frank Riccelli 2 2 4.09 11 2 0 22.0 18 20
Bo McLaughlin 1 2 5.51 12 0 0 16.1 4 12
Pete Ladd 1 1 2.92 10 0 0 12.1 8 6
Gary Wilson 0 0 12.27 6 0 0 7.1 6 6
Gordie Pladson 0 0 4.50 4 0 0 4.0 2 2
Bobby Sprowl 0 0 0.00 3 0 0 4.0 2 3
Mike Mendoza 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1.0 0 0

👥 Roster (40)

Jesus Alou Joaquin Andujar Alan Ashby Reggie Baldwin Dave Bergman Bruce Bochy Enos Cabell Cesar Cedeno Jose Cruz Tom Dixon Ken Forsch Julio Gonzalez +28 more

40 players

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