1979 Boston Red Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 91-69
Finished 3rd in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 2,353,114, Avg. 29,786
Ballpark: Fenway Park II
Manager: Don Zimmer (91-69)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

1979 Boston Red Sox Roster
1979 Boston Red Sox Results

The Boston Red Sox of the American League ended the 1979 season with a record of 91 wins and 69 losses, finishing third in the AL's East Division.

The Red Sox scored 841 runs and allowed 711 runs. Fred Lynn and Jim Rice each. walloped 39 home runs for Boston, while Dwight Evans, Butch Hobson and Carl Yastrzemski each added 20 or more also. Jim Rice recorded 130 runs batted in. Fred Lynn topped all regular batters by hitting .333. Dennis Eckersley led the team with 17 wins, and Mike Torrez and Bob Stanley also contributed 15 or more victories also Dennis Eckersley registered a 2.99 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Don Zimmer 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
Dennis Eckersley	17	10	.630	2.99	33	33	0	17	2	0	246.7	234	89	82	29	59	4	150	6	1	1	1018
Bob Stanley	16	12	.571	3.99	40	30	7	9	4	1	216.7	250	110	96	14	44	4	56	4	0	0	914
Mike Torrez	16	13	.552	4.49	36	36	0	12	1	0	252.3	254	144	126	20	121	8	125	5	2	6	1109
Steve Renko	11	9	.550	4.11	27	27	0	4	1	0	171.0	174	86	78	22	53	1	99	2	0	3	730
Dick Drago	10	6	.625	3.03	53	1	37	0	0	13	89.0	85	33	30	6	21	6	67	3	0	4	367
Chuck Rainey	8	5	.615	3.82	20	16	2	4	1	1	103.7	97	47	44	7	41	1	41	3	0	3	437
Allen Ripley	3	1	.750	5.15	16	3	4	0	0	1	64.7	77	42	37	9	25	5	34	3	0	3	292
Tom Burgmeier	3	2	.600	2.74	44	0	24	0	0	4	88.7	89	32	27	8	16	4	60	4	0	1	368
Bill Campbell	3	4	.429	4.28	41	0	23	0	0	9	54.7	55	28	26	5	23	6	25	1	0	7	239
Jim Wright	1	0	1.000	5.09	11	1	3	0	0	0	23.0	19	13	13	5	7	1	15	3	0	0	96
Win Remmerswaal	1	0	1.000	7.08	8	0	4	0	0	0	20.3	26	16	16	1	12	1	16	1	0	0	97
John Tudor	1	2	.333	6.43	6	6	0	1	0	0	28.0	39	23	20	2	9	1	11	0	0	0	128
Andy Hassler	1	2	.333	8.80	8	0	4	0	0	0	15.3	23	17	15	0	7	0	7	1	0	1	72
Joel Finch	0	3	.000	4.87	15	7	5	0	0	0	57.3	65	31	31	5	25	3	25	1	0	2	253
Totals	91	69	.569	4.03	358	160	113	47	9	29	1431.3	1487	711	641	133	463	45	731	37	3	31	6120

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
Jim Rice	158	688	619	117	201	39	6	39	130	9	4	57	97	.325	.381	.596	.977	369	16	4	0	8	4
Fred Lynn	147	622	531	116	177	42	1	39	122	2	2	82	79	.333	.423	.637	1.059	338	9	4	0	5	4
Rick Burleson	153	682	627	93	174	32	5	5	60	9	5	35	54	.278	.315	.368	.683	231	13	3	9	8	0
Carl Yastrzemski	147	590	518	69	140	28	1	21	87	3	3	62	46	.270	.346	.450	.796	233	12	2	0	8	8
Butch Hobson	146	570	528	74	138	26	7	28	93	3	2	30	78	.261	.298	.496	.794	262	23	0	6	6	2
Dwight Evans	152	563	489	69	134	24	1	21	58	6	9	69	76	.274	.364	.456	.820	223	14	1	3	1	7
Bob Watson	84	347	312	48	105	19	4	13	53	3	2	29	33	.337	.401	.548	.949	171	10	5	0	1	7
Jerry Remy	80	340	306	49	91	11	2	0	29	14	9	26	25	.297	.350	.346	.697	106	2	0	6	2	1
Carlton Fisk	91	340	320	49	87	23	2	10	42	3	0	10	38	.272	.304	.450	.754	144	9	6	1	3	0
Tom Poquette	63	170	154	14	51	9	0	2	23	2	2	8	7	.331	.365	.429	.793	66	2	3	0	5	1
Jack Brohamer	64	210	192	25	51	7	1	1	11	0	3	15	15	.266	.316	.328	.644	63	8	0	1	2	1
Gary Allenson	108	271	241	27	49	10	2	3	22	1	1	20	42	.203	.264	.299	.563	72	8	1	6	3	0
George Scott	45	175	156	18	35	9	1	4	23	0	0	17	22	.224	.299	.372	.671	58	12	0	1	1	1
Bob Montgomery	32	92	86	13	30	4	1	0	7	1	0	4	24	.349	.374	.419	.792	36	3	0	1	1	1
Jim Dwyer	76	133	113	19	30	7	0	2	14	3	1	17	9	.265	.361	.381	.741	43	7	1	0	2	1
Ted Sizemore	26	93	88	12	23	7	0	1	6	1	0	4	5	.261	.301	.375	.676	33	6	1	0	0	0
Stan Papi	50	126	117	9	22	8	0	1	6	0	0	5	20	.188	.221	.282	.503	33	0	0	4	0	0
Larry Wolfe	47	100	78	12	19	4	0	3	15	0	0	17	21	.244	.378	.410	.788	32	1	1	2	2	0
Mike O'Berry	43	68	59	8	10	1	0	1	4	0	0	5	16	.169	.242	.237	.480	14	3	1	2	1	0
Frank Duffy	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joel Finch	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Wright	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Burgmeier	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Tudor	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Torrez	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Stanley	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Allen Ripley	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Campbell	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Renko	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Drago	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Win Remmerswaal	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Rainey	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Eckersley	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Andy Hassler	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2076	6184	5538	841	1567	310	34	194	805	60	43	512	708	.283	.344	.456	.800	2527	158	33	42	59	38

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Watson	1B	58	57	479.3	525	47	7	58	.988	1.740	9.862	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	1B	51	51	440.3	466	55	2	42	.996	1.649	1.216	0	0	0
George Scott	1B	41	41	370.0	400	25	6	40	.986	1.338	1.366	0	0	0
Jim Dwyer	1B	25	10	132.7	141	15	3	15	.981	1.583	6.240	0	0	0
Larry Wolfe	1B	1	1	8.0	6	1	0	0	1.000	7.875	7.000	0	0	0
Frank Duffy	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jerry Remy	2B	76	76	641.3	147	205	11	43	.970	4.940	4.632	0	0	0
Jack Brohamer	2B	36	34	283.3	65	98	3	21	.982	5.178	4.528	0	0	0
Ted Sizemore	2B	26	23	198.0	53	85	1	24	.993	6.273	5.308	0	0	0
Stan Papi	2B	26	17	167.0	37	72	2	16	.982	5.874	4.192	0	0	0
Larry Wolfe	2B	27	10	130.7	28	50	3	11	.963	5.372	2.889	0	0	0
Frank Duffy	2B	3	0	10.0	3	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.667	0	0	0
Butch Hobson	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Butch Hobson	3B	142	141	1218.0	110	251	25	17	.935	2.667	2.542	0	0	0
Jack Brohamer	3B	22	12	149.3	9	42	2	6	.962	3.074	2.318	0	0	0
Larry Wolfe	3B	9	6	53.0	10	18	2	3	.933	4.755	3.111	0	0	0
Gary Allenson	3B	3	1	11.0	3	2	0	1	1.000	4.091	1.667	0	0	0
Gary Allenson	C	104	82	712.0	407	40	9	3	.980	5.650	4.298	13	55	28	33.7
Carlton Fisk	C	39	35	293.3	155	8	3	1	.982	5.001	4.179	3	24	5	17.2
Bob Montgomery	C	31	24	221.3	121	5	2	0	.984	5.123	4.065	2	24	3	11.1
Mike O'Berry	C	43	19	201.7	103	7	5	1	.957	4.909	2.558	2	13	5	27.8
Ted Sizemore	C	2	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Larry Wolfe	C	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Dwight Evans	OF	149	141	1262.3	307	15	4	5	.988	2.296	2.161	0	0	0
Fred Lynn	OF	143	142	1218.3	381	10	5	4	.987	2.888	2.734	0	0	0
Jim Rice	OF	125	125	1105.0	241	8	4	1	.984	2.028	1.992	0	0	0
Tom Poquette	OF	43	27	307.0	73	2	4	1	.949	2.199	1.744	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	OF	36	36	301.7	63	1	2	0	.970	1.909	1.778	0	0	0
Jim Dwyer	OF	19	9	99.0	26	1	1	0	.964	2.455	1.421	0	0	0
Carlton Fisk	OF	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Torrez	P	36	36	252.3	19	35	4	3	.931	1.926	1.500	0	0	0
Dennis Eckersley	P	33	33	246.7	12	42	6	3	.900	1.970	1.636	0	0	0
Bob Stanley	P	40	30	216.7	19	43	3	2	.954	2.575	1.550	0	0	0
Steve Renko	P	27	27	171.0	14	20	2	0	.944	1.789	1.259	0	0	0
Chuck Rainey	P	20	16	103.7	10	18	1	2	.966	2.431	1.400	0	0	0
Dick Drago	P	53	1	89.0	5	11	1	2	.941	1.618	.302	0	0	0
Tom Burgmeier	P	44	0	88.7	5	14	0	3	1.000	1.929	.432	0	0	0
Allen Ripley	P	16	3	64.7	2	5	1	0	.875	.974	.438	0	0	0
Joel Finch	P	15	7	57.3	10	10	1	1	.952	3.140	1.333	0	0	0
Bill Campbell	P	41	0	54.7	10	11	0	1	1.000	3.457	.512	0	0	0
John Tudor	P	6	6	28.0	1	7	0	1	1.000	2.571	1.333	0	0	0
Jim Wright	P	11	1	23.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.174	.273	0	0	0
Win Remmerswaal	P	8	0	20.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	.885	.250	0	0	0
Andy Hassler	P	8	0	15.3	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.174	.250	0	0	0
Rick Burleson	SS	153	151	1313.0	272	523	16	109	.980	5.449	5.196	0	0	0
Stan Papi	SS	21	9	111.3	24	46	1	8	.986	5.659	3.333	0	0	0
Larry Wolfe	SS	2	0	7.0	2	1	0	1	1.000	3.857	1.500	0	0	0
Totals		1818	1440	12882.0	4294	1853	142	449	.977	4.295	3.381	20	116	41	26.1

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