1978 Baltimore Orioles Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 90-71
Finished 4th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,051,724, Avg. 14,407
Ballpark: Memorial Stadium
Manager: Earl Weaver (90-71)
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

1978 Baltimore Orioles Roster
1978 Baltimore Orioles Results

The Baltimore Orioles of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 90 wins and 71 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's East Division.

The Orioles tallied 659 runs and surrendered 633 runs. Doug DeCinces paced Baltimore with 28 home runs, while Lee May, Eddie Murray and Ken Singleton each walloped 20 or more as well. Eddie Murray drove in 95 runs. Ken Singleton led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .293. Jim Palmer topped the squad with 21 wins, and Mike Flanagan, Dennis Martinez and Scott McGregor each added 15 or more victories as well Jim Palmer recorded a 2.46 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Earl Weaver coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Jim Palmer	21	12	.636	2.46	38	38	0	19	6	0	296.0	246	94	81	19	97	1	138	1	1	5	1197
Mike Flanagan	19	15	.559	4.03	40	40	0	17	2	0	281.3	271	128	126	22	87	2	167	3	1	8	1160
Dennis Martinez	16	11	.593	3.52	40	38	0	15	2	0	276.3	257	121	108	20	93	4	142	3	0	8	1140
Scott McGregor	15	13	.536	3.32	35	32	2	13	4	1	233.0	217	98	86	19	47	3	94	1	3	3	936
Don Stanhouse	6	9	.400	2.89	56	0	47	0	0	24	74.7	60	28	24	0	52	6	42	0	0	3	326
Nelson Briles	4	4	.500	4.64	16	8	4	1	0	0	54.3	58	31	28	6	21	2	30	2	0	2	236
Joe Kerrigan	3	1	.750	4.77	26	2	16	0	0	3	71.7	75	44	38	10	36	5	41	2	0	4	319
Tippy Martinez	3	3	.500	4.83	42	0	16	0	0	5	69.0	77	41	37	4	40	2	57	1	1	6	318
Dave Ford	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	1	1	0	0	0	15.0	10	0	0	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	53
Sammy Stewart	1	1	.500	3.18	2	2	0	0	0	0	11.3	10	5	4	0	3	0	11	0	0	1	46
John Flinn	1	1	.500	8.04	13	0	5	0	0	0	15.7	24	18	14	3	13	3	8	0	0	0	84
Elrod Hendricks	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9
Earl Stephenson	0	0		2.79	2	0	2	0	0	0	9.7	10	3	3	0	5	0	4	0	0	1	40
Larry Harlow	0	0		67.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	5	5	1	4	0	1	0	0	1	8
Tim Stoddard	0	1	.000	6.00	8	0	3	0	0	0	18.0	22	17	12	3	8	1	14	2	0	2	84
Totals	90	71	.559	3.56	322	161	96	65	14	33	1429.0	1340	633	566	107	509	29	754	15	6	44	5956

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Eddie Murray	161	690	610	85	174	32	3	27	95	6	5	70	97	.285	.356	.480	.836	293	15	1	1	8	7
Ken Singleton	149	608	502	67	147	21	2	20	81	0	0	98	94	.293	.409	.462	.871	232	14	2	4	2	5
Doug DeCinces	142	561	511	72	146	37	1	28	80	7	7	46	81	.286	.346	.526	.872	269	12	2	0	2	2
Lee May	148	590	556	56	137	16	1	25	80	5	2	31	110	.246	.286	.414	.700	230	18	1	0	2	5
Rich Dauer	133	491	459	57	121	23	0	6	46	0	4	26	22	.264	.301	.353	.654	162	16	0	3	3	0
Rick Dempsey	136	498	441	41	114	25	0	6	32	7	3	48	54	.259	.327	.356	.683	157	11	0	3	6	2
Larry Harlow	147	521	460	67	112	25	1	8	26	14	11	55	72	.243	.324	.354	.679	163	9	1	3	2	3
Pat Kelly	100	315	274	38	75	12	1	11	40	10	8	34	58	.274	.357	.445	.802	122	9	2	4	1	1
Mark Belanger	135	408	348	39	74	13	0	0	16	6	6	40	55	.213	.299	.250	.549	87	4	6	7	7	1
Billy Smith	85	283	250	29	65	12	2	5	30	3	0	27	40	.260	.333	.384	.717	96	2	1	4	1	3
Kiko Garcia	79	199	186	17	49	6	4	0	13	7	1	7	43	.263	.287	.339	.626	63	5	0	4	2	0
Andres Mora	76	246	229	21	49	8	0	8	14	0	1	13	47	.214	.258	.354	.612	81	5	1	2	1	1
Carlos Lopez	129	205	193	21	46	6	0	4	20	5	7	9	34	.238	.273	.332	.605	64	4	1	0	2	1
Al Bumbry	33	134	114	21	27	5	2	2	6	5	3	17	15	.237	.346	.368	.714	42	4	2	1	0	0
Terry Crowley	62	105	95	9	24	2	0	0	12	0	0	8	12	.253	.314	.274	.588	26	4	1	0	1	0
Gary Roenicke	27	70	58	5	15	3	0	3	15	0	1	8	3	.259	.348	.466	.813	27	3	1	1	2	0
Dave Skaggs	36	98	86	6	13	1	1	0	2	0	1	9	14	.151	.232	.186	.418	16	1	0	3	0	1
Elrod Hendricks	13	21	18	4	6	1	0	1	1	0	0	3	3	.333	.429	.556	.984	10	0	0	0	0	2
Mike Anderson	53	36	32	2	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	10	.094	.171	.156	.328	5	0	0	1	0	0
Don Stanhouse	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Palmer	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Earl Stephenson	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Sammy Stewart	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott McGregor	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Nelson Briles	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Dimmel	8	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Flanagan	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Flinn	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Ford	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Kerrigan	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Martinez	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tippy Martinez	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Stoddard	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2173	6079	5422	659	1397	248	19	154	612	75	61	552	864	.258	.326	.396	.722	2145	136	22	41	42	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Eddie Murray	1B	157	157	1396.0	1504	106	5	143	.997	1.380	1.255	0	0	0
Lee May	1B	4	4	32.0	34	2	1	3	.973	1.125	9.000	0	0	0
Terry Crowley	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rich Dauer	2B	87	85	732.0	193	239	1	60	.998	5.311	4.966	0	0	0
Billy Smith	2B	83	64	610.0	146	208	5	43	.986	5.223	4.265	0	0	0
Doug DeCinces	2B	12	12	82.0	27	28	4	11	.932	6.037	4.583	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	2B	3	0	5.0	1	2	1	0	.750	5.400	1.000	0	0	0
Doug DeCinces	3B	130	128	1102.7	111	280	10	27	.975	3.191	3.008	0	0	0
Rich Dauer	3B	52	30	302.3	29	82	6	9	.949	3.304	2.135	0	0	0
Eddie Murray	3B	3	3	24.0	3	6	1	1	.900	3.375	3.000	0	0	0
Rick Dempsey	C	135	130	1145.7	636	79	11	14	.985	5.617	5.296	7	62	55	47.0
Dave Skaggs	C	35	28	255.3	149	17	2	2	.988	5.851	4.743	0	17	12	41.4
Elrod Hendricks	C	6	3	28.0	19	2	1	0	.955	6.750	3.500	0	2	1	33.3
Ken Singleton	OF	140	139	1088.0	244	1	6	0	.976	2.027	1.750	0	0	0
Larry Harlow	OF	138	115	1037.3	313	7	7	2	.979	2.776	2.319	0	0	0
Pat Kelly	OF	80	74	613.7	123	3	4	1	.969	1.848	1.575	0	0	0
Carlos Lopez	OF	114	47	529.7	151	7	2	2	.988	2.685	1.386	0	0	0
Andres Mora	OF	69	62	527.7	129	4	3	0	.978	2.268	1.928	0	0	0
Al Bumbry	OF	28	28	242.0	62	2	1	0	.985	2.380	2.286	0	0	0
Gary Roenicke	OF	20	14	127.0	22	1	0	0	1.000	1.630	1.150	0	0	0
Mike Anderson	OF	47	4	109.7	25	0	1	0	.962	2.052	.532	0	0	0
Mike Dimmel	OF	7	0	9.0	2	0	1	0	.667	2.000	.286	0	0	0
Terry Crowley	OF	2	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0
Jim Palmer	P	38	38	296.0	27	43	2	5	.972	2.128	1.842	0	0	0
Mike Flanagan	P	40	40	281.3	6	38	2	1	.957	1.408	1.100	0	0	0
Dennis Martinez	P	40	38	276.3	27	51	1	6	.987	2.540	1.950	0	0	0
Scott McGregor	P	35	32	233.0	11	38	2	5	.961	1.893	1.400	0	0	0
Don Stanhouse	P	56	0	74.7	6	11	2	2	.895	2.049	.304	0	0	0
Joe Kerrigan	P	26	2	71.7	1	19	1	3	.952	2.512	.769	0	0	0
Tippy Martinez	P	42	0	69.0	8	13	0	1	1.000	2.739	.500	0	0	0
Nelson Briles	P	16	8	54.3	2	4	1	0	.857	.994	.375	0	0	0
Tim Stoddard	P	8	0	18.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.500	.375	0	0	0
John Flinn	P	13	0	15.7	1	3	1	0	.800	2.298	.308	0	0	0
Dave Ford	P	2	1	15.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.500	0	0	0
Sammy Stewart	P	2	2	11.3	1	2	1	0	.750	2.382	1.500	0	0	0
Earl Stephenson	P	2	0	9.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Elrod Hendricks	P	1	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Larry Harlow	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mark Belanger	SS	134	109	985.3	184	409	9	76	.985	5.416	4.425	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	SS	74	52	441.7	86	173	15	35	.945	5.278	3.500	0	0	0
Billy Smith	SS	2	0	2.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.500	0	0	0
Totals		1885	1449	12861.0	4287	1887	110	452	.982	4.321	3.275	7	81	68	45.6

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