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1961 Boston Red Sox Statistics
Team Record: 76-86
Finished 6th in the AL
Attendance: 850,589, Avg. 11,984
Ballpark: Fenway Park II
Manager: Pinky Higgins (76-86)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
1961 Boston Red Sox Results
The Boston Red Sox of the American League ended the 1961 season with a record of 76 wins and 86 losses, finishing sixth in the AL.
The Red Sox tallied 729 runs and allowed 792 runs. Gary Geiger paced Boston with 18 home runs, and Jim Pagliaroni walloped 20 or more also. Frank Malzone drove in 87 runs. Frank Malzone and Carl Yastrzemski topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .266. Don Schwall led the team with 15 wins and a team-best 3.22 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.
Pinky Higgins 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 |
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Don Schwall | 15 | 7 | .682 | 3.22 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 178.7 | 167 | 76 | 64 | 8 | 110 | 1 | 91 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 786 |
Bill Monbouquette | 14 | 14 | .500 | 3.39 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 236.3 | 233 | 106 | 89 | 24 | 100 | 1 | 161 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1030 |
Gene Conley | 11 | 14 | .440 | 4.91 | 33 | 30 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 199.7 | 229 | 116 | 109 | 33 | 65 | 2 | 113 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 877 |
Mike Fornieles | 9 | 8 | .529 | 4.68 | 57 | 2 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 119.3 | 121 | 65 | 62 | 18 | 54 | 7 | 70 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 526 |
Ike Delock | 6 | 9 | .400 | 4.90 | 28 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 156.0 | 185 | 110 | 85 | 24 | 52 | 2 | 80 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 698 |
Chet Nichols | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2.09 | 26 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 51.7 | 40 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 215 |
Dave Hillman | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2.77 | 28 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78.0 | 70 | 26 | 24 | 8 | 23 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 321 |
Tom Brewer | 3 | 2 | .600 | 3.43 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42.0 | 37 | 21 | 16 | 4 | 29 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 189 |
Ted Wills | 3 | 2 | .600 | 5.95 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.7 | 24 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 101 |
Billy Muffett | 3 | 11 | .214 | 5.67 | 38 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 112.7 | 130 | 87 | 71 | 18 | 36 | 2 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 502 |
Arnold Earley | 2 | 4 | .333 | 3.99 | 33 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 49.7 | 42 | 31 | 22 | 3 | 34 | 3 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 223 |
Galen Cisco | 2 | 4 | .333 | 6.71 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52.3 | 67 | 40 | 39 | 5 | 28 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 242 |
Tracy Stallard | 2 | 7 | .222 | 4.88 | 43 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 132.7 | 110 | 75 | 72 | 15 | 96 | 2 | 109 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 587 |
Wilbur Wood | 0 | 0 | 5.54 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 61 | |
Tom Borland | 0 | 0 | 18.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
Totals | 76 | 86 | .469 | 4.29 | 394 | 163 | 128 | 35 | 6 | 30 | 1442.7 | 1472 | 792 | 688 | 167 | 679 | 21 | 831 | 16 | 3 | 36 | 6364 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chuck Schilling | 158 | 738 | 646 | 87 | 167 | 25 | 2 | 5 | 62 | 7 | 6 | 78 | 77 | .259 | .340 | .327 | .666 | 211 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
Frank Malzone | 151 | 644 | 590 | 74 | 157 | 21 | 4 | 14 | 87 | 1 | 3 | 44 | 49 | .266 | .314 | .386 | .700 | 228 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
Carl Yastrzemski | 148 | 643 | 583 | 71 | 155 | 31 | 6 | 11 | 80 | 6 | 5 | 50 | 96 | .266 | .324 | .396 | .721 | 231 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
Jackie Jensen | 137 | 573 | 498 | 64 | 131 | 21 | 2 | 13 | 66 | 9 | 8 | 66 | 69 | .263 | .350 | .392 | .742 | 195 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Gary Geiger | 140 | 599 | 499 | 82 | 116 | 21 | 6 | 18 | 64 | 16 | 4 | 87 | 91 | .232 | .349 | .407 | .756 | 203 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
Pete Runnels | 143 | 414 | 360 | 49 | 114 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 38 | 5 | 1 | 46 | 32 | .317 | .396 | .414 | .810 | 149 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Jim Pagliaroni | 120 | 440 | 376 | 50 | 91 | 17 | 0 | 16 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 55 | 74 | .242 | .342 | .415 | .757 | 156 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Don Buddin | 115 | 420 | 339 | 58 | 89 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 72 | 45 | .263 | .394 | .398 | .792 | 135 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
Vic Wertz | 99 | 363 | 317 | 33 | 83 | 16 | 2 | 11 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 43 | .262 | .339 | .429 | .768 | 136 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Carroll Hardy | 85 | 312 | 281 | 46 | 74 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 53 | .263 | .330 | .381 | .711 | 107 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Russ Nixon | 87 | 262 | 242 | 24 | 70 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 19 | .289 | .327 | .368 | .695 | 89 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Pumpsie Green | 88 | 264 | 219 | 33 | 57 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 42 | 32 | .260 | .376 | .425 | .801 | 93 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Gene Conley | 33 | 79 | 73 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | .219 | .247 | .342 | .589 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Lou Clinton | 17 | 54 | 51 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | .255 | .283 | .333 | .616 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Don Schwall | 27 | 73 | 61 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .180 | .194 | .213 | .407 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Bill Monbouquette | 33 | 93 | 69 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 29 | .130 | .241 | .130 | .371 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
Rip Repulski | 15 | 26 | 25 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | .280 | .308 | .320 | .628 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Joe Ginsberg | 19 | 24 | 24 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Billy Harrell | 37 | 38 | 37 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .162 | .184 | .216 | .400 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Don Gile | 8 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .278 | .316 | .444 | .760 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Billy Muffett | 38 | 27 | 23 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | .217 | .308 | .348 | .656 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mike Fornieles | 57 | 33 | 32 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | .156 | .156 | .281 | .438 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Ike Delock | 28 | 57 | 48 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24 | .104 | .173 | .104 | .277 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Tom Brewer | 18 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .286 | .267 | .500 | .767 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Tracy Stallard | 43 | 40 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | .083 | .083 | .111 | .194 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Chet Nichols | 26 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .111 | .200 | .111 | .311 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Galen Cisco | 18 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .100 | .250 | .100 | .350 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Arnold Earley | 33 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dave Hillman | 28 | 21 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | .000 | .105 | .000 | .105 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Ted Wills | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wilbur Wood | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tom Borland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Totals | 1973 | 6307 | 5508 | 729 | 1401 | 251 | 37 | 112 | 682 | 56 | 36 | 647 | 846 | .254 | .334 | .374 | .708 | 2062 | 129 | 29 | 81 | 42 | 28 |
Fielding:
Player | Pos | GP | GS | Inn. | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/9 | RF/G | PB | WP | SB | CS | CS% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pete Runnels | 1B | 113 | 75 | 735.0 | 701 | 50 | 4 | 92 | .995 | 9.196 | 6.646 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Vic Wertz | 1B | 86 | 82 | 656.3 | 664 | 67 | 7 | 65 | .991 | 1.024 | 8.500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Don Gile | 1B | 6 | 5 | 42.0 | 44 | 2 | 2 | 3 | .958 | 9.857 | 7.667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Billy Harrell | 1B | 3 | 1 | 9.3 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 13.500 | 4.667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Chuck Schilling | 2B | 158 | 157 | 1381.7 | 397 | 449 | 8 | 121 | .991 | 5.511 | 5.354 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pumpsie Green | 2B | 7 | 4 | 38.0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 3.079 | 1.857 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pete Runnels | 2B | 7 | 2 | 23.0 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 1.000 | 6.652 | 2.429 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Frank Malzone | 3B | 149 | 148 | 1312.7 | 136 | 304 | 23 | 45 | .950 | 3.017 | 2.953 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pete Runnels | 3B | 11 | 11 | 82.0 | 8 | 29 | 2 | 0 | .949 | 4.061 | 3.364 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Billy Harrell | 3B | 10 | 4 | 48.0 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1.000 | 3.562 | 1.900 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jim Pagliaroni | C | 108 | 102 | 901.7 | 586 | 39 | 10 | 5 | .984 | 6.238 | 5.787 | 7 | 24 | 37 | 16 | 30.2 |
Russ Nixon | C | 66 | 59 | 513.7 | 330 | 24 | 9 | 2 | .975 | 6.202 | 5.364 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 7 | 20.0 |
Joe Ginsberg | C | 6 | 2 | 26.3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 4.101 | 2.000 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 25.0 |
Don Gile | C | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 9.000 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Carl Yastrzemski | OF | 147 | 146 | 1269.0 | 248 | 12 | 10 | 1 | .963 | 1.844 | 1.769 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jackie Jensen | OF | 131 | 131 | 1164.3 | 274 | 14 | 4 | 2 | .986 | 2.226 | 2.198 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Gary Geiger | OF | 137 | 130 | 1152.7 | 324 | 12 | 4 | 1 | .988 | 2.623 | 2.453 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Carroll Hardy | OF | 76 | 65 | 602.0 | 142 | 7 | 6 | 3 | .961 | 2.228 | 1.961 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Lou Clinton | OF | 13 | 13 | 111.0 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.676 | 2.538 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Rip Repulski | OF | 4 | 4 | 29.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.241 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bill Monbouquette | P | 32 | 32 | 236.3 | 16 | 28 | 1 | 2 | .978 | 1.676 | 1.375 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Gene Conley | P | 33 | 30 | 200.0 | 12 | 28 | 2 | 2 | .952 | 1.800 | 1.212 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Don Schwall | P | 25 | 25 | 178.7 | 8 | 33 | 3 | 4 | .932 | 2.065 | 1.640 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ike Delock | P | 28 | 28 | 156.0 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 1 | .882 | 1.731 | 1.071 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tracy Stallard | P | 43 | 14 | 132.7 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.153 | .395 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Mike Fornieles | P | 57 | 2 | 119.0 | 12 | 25 | 1 | 2 | .974 | 2.798 | .649 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Billy Muffett | P | 38 | 11 | 112.7 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.917 | .632 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Dave Hillman | P | 28 | 1 | 78.0 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.846 | .571 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Galen Cisco | P | 17 | 8 | 52.3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.720 | .588 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Chet Nichols | P | 26 | 2 | 51.7 | 3 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 4.529 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Arnold Earley | P | 33 | 0 | 49.7 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .833 | 1.812 | .303 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tom Brewer | P | 10 | 9 | 42.0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 3.214 | 1.500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ted Wills | P | 17 | 0 | 19.7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .833 | 2.288 | .294 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Wilbur Wood | P | 6 | 1 | 13.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.385 | .333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tom Borland | P | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Don Buddin | SS | 109 | 108 | 937.0 | 204 | 294 | 23 | 70 | .956 | 4.783 | 4.569 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pumpsie Green | SS | 57 | 53 | 476.7 | 84 | 166 | 16 | 35 | .940 | 4.720 | 4.386 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Billy Harrell | SS | 7 | 2 | 27.0 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | .889 | 5.333 | 2.286 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pete Runnels | SS | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Totals | 1807 | 1467 | 12984.0 | 4310 | 1747 | 144 | 473 | .977 | 4.198 | 3.352 | 19 | 36 | 68 | 24 | 26.1 |
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