1997 Pittsburgh Pirates

79-83 • 0.488 Win% • 2nd in NL C

📊 Season Record

79 Wins
83 Losses
0.488 Win %
2nd Rank
725 R 760 RA
Diff -35

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⚡ Quick Stats

725 Runs Scored
760 Runs Allowed
-35 Run Diff
1,694K Attendance

📈 vs. 1997 NL Average

Batting Avg .261 equal to the 1997 league average (.262)
OBP .321 3% below the 1997 league average (.329)
SLG .332 4% below the 1997 league average (.346)
Team ERA 4.28 2% worse than the 1997 league average (4.20)
Runs Scored 725 3% below the 1997 league average (746 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumThree Rivers Stadium
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 1,694,633
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Avg per Game 20,921

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Shawon Dunston 0.394 2 Turner Ward 0.353 3 Joe Randa 0.302 4 Kevin Young 0.300 5 Jason Kendall 0.294

Home Runs

1 Kevin Young 18 2 Jose Guillen 14 3 Al Martin 13 4 Dale Sveum 12 5 Mark Smith 9

RBI

1 Kevin Young 74 2 Jose Guillen 70 3 Joe Randa 60 4 Al Martin 59 5 Tony Womack 50
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Tony Womack 155 641 85 178 0 0 6 50 43 109 60 0.278
Jose Guillen 143 498 58 133 0 0 14 70 17 88 1 0.267
Jason Kendall 144 486 71 143 0 0 8 49 49 53 18 0.294
Joe Randa 126 443 58 134 0 0 7 60 41 64 4 0.302
Al Martin 113 423 64 123 0 0 13 59 45 83 23 0.291
Jermaine Allensworth 108 369 55 94 0 0 3 43 44 79 14 0.255
Kevin Young 97 333 59 100 0 0 18 74 16 89 11 0.300
Dale Sveum 126 306 30 80 0 0 12 47 27 81 0 0.261
Kevin Polcovich 84 245 37 67 0 0 4 21 21 45 2 0.273
Mark Johnson 78 219 30 47 0 0 4 29 43 78 1 0.215
Mark Smith 71 193 29 55 0 0 9 35 28 36 3 0.285
Turner Ward 71 167 33 59 0 0 7 33 18 17 4 0.353
Adrian Brown 48 147 17 28 0 0 1 10 13 18 8 0.190
Kevin Elster 39 138 14 31 0 0 7 25 21 39 0 0.225
Midre Cummings 52 106 11 20 0 0 3 8 8 26 0 0.189
Keith Osik 49 105 10 27 0 0 0 7 9 21 0 0.257
Emil Brown 66 95 16 17 0 0 2 6 10 32 5 0.179
Eddie Williams 30 89 12 22 0 0 3 11 10 24 1 0.247
Shawon Dunston 18 71 14 28 0 0 5 16 0 11 3 0.394
Esteban Loaiza 33 60 4 10 0 0 0 5 1 17 0 0.167
Jon Lieber 33 58 1 7 0 0 0 8 4 23 0 0.121
Francisco Cordova 29 56 2 5 0 0 0 0 4 26 0 0.089
Jason Schmidt 32 56 2 6 0 0 0 2 2 26 0 0.107
Steve Cooke 32 52 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 18 0 0.058
Freddy Garcia 20 40 4 6 0 0 3 5 2 17 0 0.150
Abraham Nunez 19 40 3 9 0 0 0 6 3 10 1 0.225
Lou Collier 18 37 3 5 0 0 0 3 1 11 1 0.135
Matt Ruebel 44 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0.000
Jose Silva 11 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.143
Chris Peters 31 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0.250
Marc Wilkins 70 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0.000
Clint Sodowsky 45 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.500
Dave Wainhouse 25 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jason Johnson 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Rich Loiselle 72 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Ricardo Rincon 62 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Paul Wagner 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Jason Christiansen 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Elmer Dessens 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
John Ericks 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jeff Granger 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ramon Morel 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jeff Wallace 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Jason Christiansen 2.94 2 Rich Loiselle 3.10 3 Ricardo Rincon 3.45 4 Francisco Cordova 3.63 5 Clint Sodowsky 3.63

Wins

1 Francisco Cordova 11 2 Jon Lieber 11 3 Esteban Loaiza 11 4 Jason Schmidt 10 5 Steve Cooke 9

Strikeouts

1 Jon Lieber 160 2 Jason Schmidt 136 3 Esteban Loaiza 122 4 Francisco Cordova 121 5 Steve Cooke 109
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Esteban Loaiza 11 11 4.13 33 32 0 196.1 56 122
Jon Lieber 11 14 4.49 33 32 0 188.1 51 160
Jason Schmidt 10 9 4.60 32 32 0 187.2 76 136
Francisco Cordova 11 8 3.63 29 29 0 178.2 49 121
Steve Cooke 9 15 4.30 32 32 0 167.1 77 109
Marc Wilkins 9 5 3.69 70 0 2 75.2 33 47
Rich Loiselle 1 5 3.10 72 0 29 72.2 24 66
Matt Ruebel 3 2 6.32 44 0 0 62.2 27 50
Ricardo Rincon 4 8 3.45 62 0 4 60.0 24 71
Clint Sodowsky 2 2 3.63 45 0 0 52.0 34 51
Chris Peters 2 2 4.58 31 1 0 37.1 21 17
Jose Silva 2 1 5.94 11 4 0 36.1 16 30
Jason Christiansen 3 0 2.94 39 0 0 33.2 17 37
Dave Wainhouse 0 1 8.04 25 0 0 28.0 17 21
Paul Wagner 0 0 3.94 14 0 0 16.0 13 9
Jeff Wallace 0 0 0.75 11 0 0 12.0 8 14
John Ericks 1 0 1.93 10 0 6 9.1 4 6
Ramon Morel 0 0 4.70 5 0 0 7.2 4 4
Jason Johnson 0 0 6.00 3 0 0 6.0 1 3
Jeff Granger 0 0 18.00 9 0 0 5.0 8 4
Elmer Dessens 0 0 0.00 3 0 0 3.1 0 2

👥 Roster (43)

Jermaine Allensworth Adrian Brown Emil Brown Jason Christiansen Lou Collier Steve Cooke Francisco Cordova Midre Cummings Elmer Dessens Shawon Dunston Kevin Elster John Ericks +31 more

43 players

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