1939 Philadelphia Phillies

45-106 • 0.298 Win% • 8th in NL

📊 Season Record

45 Wins
106 Losses
0.298 Win %
8th Rank
553 R 856 RA
Diff -303

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553 Runs Scored
856 Runs Allowed
-303 Run Diff
372K Attendance

📈 vs. 1939 NL Average

Batting Avg .261 4% below the 1939 league average (.272)
OBP .317 5% below the 1939 league average (.332)
SLG .289 9% below the 1939 league average (.318)
Team ERA 5.17 32% worse than the 1939 league average (3.92)
Runs Scored 553 19% below the 1939 league average (684 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumShibe Park
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Home Games 74
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Total Attendance 372,686
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Avg per Game 5,036

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Les Powers 0.346 2 Morrie Arnovich 0.324 3 Gus Suhr 0.318 4 Virgil Davis 0.307 5 Jack Bolling 0.289

Home Runs

1 Joe Marty 9 2 Emmett Mueller 9 3 Gibby Brack 6 4 Morrie Arnovich 5 5 Jack Bolling 3

RBI

1 Morrie Arnovich 67 2 Merrill May 62 3 Joe Marty 44 4 Emmett Mueller 43 5 Gibby Brack 41
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Morrie Arnovich 134 491 68 159 0 0 5 67 58 28 7 0.324
Merrill May 135 464 49 133 0 0 2 62 41 20 4 0.287
George Scharein 118 399 35 95 0 0 1 33 13 40 4 0.238
Hersh Martin 111 393 59 111 0 0 1 22 42 27 4 0.282
Emmett Mueller 115 341 46 95 0 0 9 43 33 34 4 0.279
Joe Marty 91 299 32 76 0 0 9 44 24 27 1 0.254
Gibby Brack 91 270 40 78 0 0 6 41 26 49 1 0.289
Roy Hughes 65 237 22 54 0 0 1 16 21 18 4 0.228
LeGrant Scott 76 232 31 65 0 0 1 26 22 14 5 0.280
Del Young 77 217 22 57 0 0 3 20 8 24 1 0.263
Jack Bolling 69 211 27 61 0 0 3 13 11 10 6 0.289
Wally Millies 84 205 12 48 0 0 0 12 9 5 0 0.234
Virgil Davis 87 202 10 62 0 0 0 23 24 20 0 0.307
Gus Suhr 60 198 21 63 0 0 3 24 34 14 1 0.318
Hugh Mulcahy 38 76 3 12 0 0 0 5 2 12 0 0.158
Pinky Whitney 34 75 9 14 0 0 1 6 7 4 0 0.187
Boom-Boom Beck 34 68 3 9 0 0 0 3 1 6 0 0.132
Kirby Higbe 34 66 5 11 0 0 0 5 0 15 0 0.167
Hubert Bates 15 58 8 15 0 0 1 2 2 8 1 0.259
Bennie Warren 18 56 4 13 0 0 1 7 7 7 0 0.232
Les Powers 19 52 7 18 0 0 0 2 4 6 0 0.346
Bud Hafey 18 51 3 9 0 0 0 3 3 12 1 0.176
Stan Benjamin 12 50 4 7 0 0 0 2 1 6 1 0.140
Chuck Klein 25 47 8 9 0 0 1 9 10 4 1 0.191
Charlie Letchas 12 44 2 10 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0.227
Max Butcher 19 38 1 7 0 0 0 3 0 6 0 0.184
Ike Pearson 27 37 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 12 0 0.054
Syl Johnson 22 33 0 5 0 0 0 2 2 11 0 0.152
Jim Shilling 11 33 3 10 0 0 0 4 1 4 0 0.303
Ray Harrell 22 26 1 3 0 0 0 1 2 10 0 0.115
Dave Coble 15 25 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.280
Al Hollingsworth 15 20 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.100
Claude Passeau 8 20 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 0.200
Eddie Feinberg 6 18 2 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0.222
Len Gabrielson 5 18 3 4 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0.222
Bill Kirksieck 25 12 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0.083
Jennings Poindexter 11 10 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0.200
Roy Bruner 4 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.111
Bill Atwood 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 0.000
Gene Schott 8 6 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.333
Johnny Watwood 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.167
Jim Henry 9 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Joe Kracher 5 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0.200
Al Smith 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Elmer Burkart 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.000
Bill Hoffman 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Syl Johnson 3.81 2 Jennings Poindexter 4.15 3 Claude Passeau 4.22 4 Boom-Boom Beck 4.73 5 Kirby Higbe 4.85

Wins

1 Kirby Higbe 10 2 Hugh Mulcahy 9 3 Syl Johnson 8 4 Boom-Boom Beck 7 5 Ray Harrell 3

Strikeouts

1 Kirby Higbe 79 2 Boom-Boom Beck 77 3 Hugh Mulcahy 59 4 Syl Johnson 37 5 Ray Harrell 35
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Hugh Mulcahy 9 16 4.99 38 31 4 225.2 93 59
Kirby Higbe 10 14 4.85 34 26 2 187.1 101 79
Boom-Boom Beck 7 14 4.73 34 16 3 182.2 64 77
Ike Pearson 2 13 5.76 26 13 0 125.0 56 29
Syl Johnson 8 8 3.81 22 14 2 111.0 15 37
Max Butcher 2 13 5.61 19 16 0 104.1 51 27
Ray Harrell 3 7 5.42 22 10 0 94.2 56 35
Bill Kirksieck 0 2 7.18 23 2 0 62.2 32 13
Al Hollingsworth 1 9 5.85 15 10 0 60.0 27 24
Claude Passeau 2 4 4.22 8 8 0 53.1 25 29
Jennings Poindexter 0 0 4.15 11 1 0 30.1 15 12
Roy Bruner 0 4 6.67 4 4 0 27.0 13 11
Jim Henry 0 1 5.09 9 1 1 23.0 8 7
Gene Schott 0 1 4.91 4 0 0 11.0 5 1
Al Smith 0 0 4.00 5 0 0 9.0 5 2
Elmer Burkart 1 0 4.32 5 0 0 8.1 2 2
Bill Hoffman 0 0 13.50 3 0 0 6.0 7 1
Joe Marty 0 0 4.50 1 0 0 4.0 3 1
Bud Hafey 0 0 33.75 2 0 0 1.1 1 1

👥 Roster (46)

Morrie Arnovich Bill Atwood Hubert Bates Boom-Boom Beck Stan Benjamin Jack Bolling Gibby Brack Roy Bruner Elmer Burkart Max Butcher Dave Coble Virgil Davis +34 more

46 players

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