1968 Boston Red Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 86-76
Finished 4th in the AL
Attendance: 1,940,788, Avg. 24,772
Ballpark: Fenway Park II
Manager: Dick Williams (86-76)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

1968 Boston Red Sox Roster
1968 Boston Red Sox Results

The Boston Red Sox of the American League ended the 1968 season with a record of 86 wins and 76 losses, finishing fourth in the AL.

The Red Sox scored 614 runs and allowed 611 runs. Ken Harrelson walloped 35 home runs for Boston, while Carl Yastrzemski and Reggie Smith added 20 or more, too. Ken Harrelson drove in 109 runs. Carl Yastrzemski paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .301. Ray Culp and Dick Ellsworth topped the team with 16 wins each, and Ray Culp earned a 2.91 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Dick Williams 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
Ray Culp	16	6	.727	2.91	35	30	2	11	6	0	216.3	166	79	70	18	82	8	190	9	0	9	888
Dick Ellsworth	16	7	.696	3.03	31	28	1	10	1	0	196.0	196	74	66	16	37	3	106	7	1	5	808
Gary Bell	11	11	.500	3.12	35	27	4	9	3	1	199.3	177	82	69	7	68	6	103	5	0	9	827
Jose Santiago	9	4	.692	2.25	18	18	0	7	2	0	124.0	96	34	31	9	42	0	86	3	1	6	497
Sparky Lyle	6	1	.857	2.74	49	0	29	0	0	11	65.7	67	25	20	6	14	2	52	0	1	5	274
Juan Pizarro	6	8	.429	3.59	19	12	5	6	0	2	107.7	97	46	43	15	44	4	84	0	0	4	454
Jim Lonborg	6	10	.375	4.29	23	17	0	4	1	0	113.3	89	57	54	11	59	3	73	11	0	7	490
Lee Stange	5	5	.500	3.93	50	2	30	1	0	12	103.0	89	54	45	10	25	5	53	1	0	3	418
Gary Waslewski	4	7	.364	3.67	34	11	5	2	0	2	105.3	108	50	43	9	40	9	59	6	0	9	456
Bill Landis	3	3	.500	3.15	38	1	11	0	0	3	60.0	48	22	21	4	30	2	59	2	0	6	253
Jerry Stephenson	2	8	.200	5.64	23	7	8	2	0	0	68.7	81	51	43	4	42	3	51	2	1	7	328
John Wyatt	1	2	.333	4.22	8	0	4	0	0	0	10.7	9	7	5	2	6	0	11	1	0	2	47
Dave Morehead	1	4	.200	2.45	11	9	0	3	1	0	55.0	52	17	15	3	20	0	28	2	0	1	233
Fred Wenz	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	5
Garry Roggenburk	0	0		2.16	4	0	1	0	0	0	8.3	9	2	2	0	3	0	4	0	0	0	38
Darrell Brandon	0	0		6.39	8	0	6	0	0	0	12.7	19	11	9	1	9	0	10	1	0	0	67
Totals	86	76	.531	3.33	387	162	107	55	14	31	1447.0	1303	611	536	115	523	45	972	50	4	73	6083

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
Carl Yastrzemski	157	664	539	90	162	32	2	23	74	13	6	119	90	.301	.426	.495	.922	267	12	2	0	4	13
Reggie Smith	155	632	558	78	148	37	5	15	69	22	18	64	77	.265	.342	.430	.772	240	10	4	1	5	13
Ken Harrelson	150	612	535	79	147	17	4	35	109	2	6	69	90	.275	.356	.518	.874	277	18	2	0	6	9
Mike Andrews	147	634	536	77	145	22	1	7	45	3	8	81	57	.271	.368	.354	.723	190	6	3	12	2	1
Joe Foy	150	614	515	65	116	18	2	10	60	26	8	84	91	.225	.336	.326	.662	168	9	4	7	4	5
Rico Petrocelli	123	451	406	41	95	17	2	12	46	0	1	31	73	.234	.292	.374	.667	152	7	4	6	4	2
Dalton Jones	111	375	354	38	83	13	0	5	29	1	1	17	53	.234	.271	.314	.584	111	11	1	2	1	0
George Scott	124	387	350	23	60	14	0	3	25	3	5	26	88	.171	.236	.237	.473	83	13	5	1	5	3
Russ Gibson	76	246	231	15	52	11	1	3	20	1	2	8	38	.225	.247	.320	.567	74	5	0	3	4	1
Elston Howard	71	229	203	22	49	4	0	5	18	1	1	22	45	.241	.317	.335	.652	68	5	1	2	1	7
Jerry Adair	74	224	208	18	45	1	0	2	12	0	0	9	28	.216	.252	.250	.502	52	10	1	6	0	2
Jose Tartabull	72	148	139	24	39	6	0	0	6	2	3	6	5	.281	.306	.324	.630	45	0	0	1	2	0
Joe Lahoud	29	94	78	5	15	1	0	1	6	0	2	16	16	.192	.330	.244	.573	19	1	0	0	0	0
Gary Bell	35	66	59	5	13	3	0	0	6	0	0	0	16	.220	.213	.271	.484	16	3	0	5	2	0
Russ Nixon	29	92	85	1	13	2	0	0	6	0	0	7	13	.153	.217	.176	.394	15	2	0	0	0	1
Jim Lonborg	23	44	39	4	11	2	0	1	2	0	0	0	14	.282	.282	.410	.692	16	0	0	5	0	0
Ray Culp	35	81	70	4	8	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	38	.114	.162	.129	.291	9	0	1	7	0	0
Jose Santiago	23	48	43	4	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	12	.163	.200	.209	.409	9	1	0	3	0	0
Jerry Stephenson	23	18	17	0	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.353	.389	.353	.742	6	1	0	0	0	0
Jerry Moses	6	19	18	2	6	0	0	2	4	0	1	1	4	.333	.368	.667	1.035	12	1	0	0	0	0
Luis Alvarado	11	49	46	3	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	11	.130	.167	.174	.341	8	1	1	1	0	0
Juan Pizarro	20	39	31	5	5	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	8	.161	.229	.226	.454	7	1	0	4	1	0
Gene Oliver	16	40	35	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	12	.143	.250	.143	.393	5	0	1	0	0	1
Dick Ellsworth	31	79	72	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	45	.056	.081	.056	.137	4	2	1	5	0	0
Floyd Robinson	23	28	24	1	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	4	.125	.250	.125	.375	3	1	1	0	0	0
George Thomas	12	11	10	3	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	3	.200	.273	.500	.773	5	0	0	0	0	0
Lee Stange	50	19	15	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	.133	.235	.133	.369	2	0	0	2	0	0
Dave Morehead	11	18	16	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.125	.176	.125	.301	2	0	1	1	0	0
Norm Siebern	27	30	30	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.067	.067	.067	.133	2	1	0	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	49	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	1	0	0
Gary Waslewski	39	29	26	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.038	.074	.038	.113	1	0	0	2	0	0
Bill Landis	38	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Darrell Brandon	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Wenz	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Wyatt	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Garry Roggenburk	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1961	6036	5303	614	1253	207	17	125	558	76	62	582	974	.236	.313	.352	.666	1869	121	33	77	41	58

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
George Scott	1B	112	85	820.0	807	55	11	68	.987	9.461	7.696	0	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	1B	56	54	446.0	449	27	2	47	.996	9.605	8.500	0	0	0	0
Ken Harrelson	1B	19	17	137.0	135	9	3	9	.980	9.460	7.579	0	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	1B	3	3	20.0	14	1	0	1	1.000	6.750	5.000	0	0	0	0
Norm Siebern	1B	2	1	10.0	8	1	0	1	1.000	8.100	4.500	0	0	0	0
Rico Petrocelli	1B	1	1	8.0	9	1	0	2	1.000	11.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jerry Adair	1B	1	1	4.0	5	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	6.000	0	0	0	0
Russ Gibson	1B	1	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	13.500	3.000	0	0	0	0
Mike Andrews	2B	139	138	1204.3	330	375	17	93	.976	5.268	5.072	0	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	2B	26	16	167.7	32	38	1	8	.986	3.757	2.692	0	0	0	0
Jerry Adair	2B	12	8	75.0	19	25	1	6	.978	5.280	3.667	0	0	0	0
Joe Foy	3B	147	144	1286.3	116	313	30	36	.935	3.002	2.918	0	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	3B	8	8	70.0	10	15	4	0	.862	3.214	3.125	0	0	0	0
Jerry Adair	3B	7	5	50.7	4	9	3	1	.813	2.309	1.857	0	0	0	0
George Scott	3B	6	5	40.0	3	10	0	1	1.000	2.925	2.167	0	0	0	0
Mike Andrews	3B	1	0	0.0	0	3	0	0	1.000		3.000	0	0	0	0
Russ Gibson	C	74	65	586.0	428	36	8	7	.983	7.126	6.270	13	28	40	19	32.2
Elston Howard	C	68	62	536.0	377	30	2	3	.995	6.834	5.985	3	30	41	14	25.5
Russ Nixon	C	27	23	208.0	147	6	1	1	.994	6.620	5.667	2	6	14	7	33.3
Gene Oliver	C	10	7	72.7	58	3	1	0	.984	7.555	6.100	0	8	8	2	20.0
Jerry Moses	C	6	5	44.3	26	0	1	0	.963	5.278	4.333	1	1	1	0	0.0
Reggie Smith	OF	155	155	1350.3	390	8	6	1	.985	2.653	2.568	0	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	OF	155	153	1329.0	301	12	3	3	.991	2.120	2.019	0	0	0	0
Ken Harrelson	OF	132	127	1138.0	241	8	0	1	1.000	1.969	1.886	0	0	0	0
Jose Tartabull	OF	43	22	245.7	59	1	1	0	.984	2.198	1.395	0	0	0	0
Joe Lahoud	OF	25	22	190.0	23	2	2	0	.926	1.184	1.000	0	0	0	0
Floyd Robinson	OF	10	3	35.0	5	0	1	0	.833	1.286	.500	0	0	0	0
George Thomas	OF	9	2	29.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.793	1.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Foy	OF	3	2	18.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	.667	0	0	0	0
Norm Siebern	OF	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Gene Oliver	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ray Culp	P	35	30	216.3	15	23	0	1	1.000	1.581	1.086	0	0	0	0
Gary Bell	P	35	27	199.3	16	29	2	4	.957	2.032	1.286	0	0	0	0
Dick Ellsworth	P	31	28	196.0	10	30	1	2	.976	1.837	1.290	0	0	0	0
Jose Santiago	P	18	18	124.0	7	16	1	2	.958	1.669	1.278	0	0	0	0
Jim Lonborg	P	23	17	113.3	8	6	0	0	1.000	1.112	.609	0	0	0	0
Juan Pizarro	P	19	12	107.7	6	23	0	3	1.000	2.424	1.526	0	0	0	0
Gary Waslewski	P	34	11	105.3	9	23	0	2	1.000	2.734	.941	0	0	0	0
Lee Stange	P	50	2	103.0	3	12	2	0	.882	1.311	.300	0	0	0	0
Jerry Stephenson	P	23	7	68.7	2	15	1	0	.944	2.228	.739	0	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	P	49	0	65.7	5	6	3	0	.786	1.508	.224	0	0	0	0
Bill Landis	P	38	1	60.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	.750	.132	0	0	0	0
Dave Morehead	P	11	9	55.0	2	3	1	1	.833	.818	.455	0	0	0	0
Darrell Brandon	P	8	0	12.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.421	.250	0	0	0	0
John Wyatt	P	8	0	10.7	1	3	1	1	.800	3.375	.500	0	0	0	0
Garry Roggenburk	P	4	0	8.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.080	.250	0	0	0	0
Fred Wenz	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Rico Petrocelli	SS	117	115	974.7	169	360	12	66	.978	4.885	4.521	0	0	0	0
Jerry Adair	SS	46	33	332.3	62	104	4	15	.976	4.495	3.609	0	0	0	0
Luis Alvarado	SS	11	11	102.3	14	26	1	6	.976	3.518	3.636	0	0	0	0
Mike Andrews	SS	4	3	37.7	9	5	1	1	.933	3.345	3.500	0	0	0	0
Totals		1826	1458	13023.0	4351	1678	128	393	.979	4.167	3.302	19	73	104	42	28.8

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