1970 Cleveland Indians Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 76-86
Finished 5th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 729,752, Avg. 10,114
Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium
Manager: Al Dark (76-86)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

1970 Cleveland Indians Roster
1970 Cleveland Indians Results

The Cleveland Indians of the American League ended the 1970 season with a record of 76 wins and 86 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's East Division.

The Indians tallied 649 runs and yielded 675 runs. Graig Nettles paced Cleveland with 26 home runs, while Vada Pinson, Ray Fosse, Duke Sims, Roy Foster and Tony Horton each walloped 20 or more, too. Vada Pinson drove in 82 runs. Ray Fosse topped all regular hitters by hitting .307. Sam McDowell led the squad with 20 wins, and Steve Hargan recorded a 2.90 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Al Dark 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
Sam McDowell	20	12	.625	2.92	39	39	2	19	1	0	305.0	236	108	99	25	131	10	304	7	0	17	1257
Steve Hargan	11	3	.786	2.90	23	19	1	8	1	0	142.7	101	47	46	14	53	0	72	3	0	4	567
Dean Chance	9	8	.529	4.24	45	19	14	1	1	4	155.0	172	80	73	18	59	11	109	6	1	7	678
Phil Hennigan	6	3	.667	4.02	42	1	17	0	0	3	71.7	69	34	32	7	44	6	43	4	0	1	316
Rich Hand	6	13	.316	3.83	35	25	5	3	1	3	159.7	132	71	68	27	69	3	110	4	2	1	664
Dennis Higgins	4	6	.400	3.99	58	0	29	0	0	11	90.3	82	43	40	8	54	8	82	2	0	6	395
Steve Dunning	4	9	.308	4.96	19	17	1	0	0	0	94.3	93	55	52	16	54	3	77	4	0	3	421
Dick Ellsworth	3	3	.500	4.53	29	1	11	0	0	2	43.7	49	23	22	4	14	2	13	1	0	1	185
Barry Moore	3	5	.375	4.22	13	12	1	0	0	0	70.3	70	34	33	8	46	3	35	1	0	2	318
Bob Miller	2	2	.500	4.18	15	2	6	0	0	1	28.0	35	14	13	1	15	2	15	0	0	0	133
Rick Austin	2	5	.286	4.79	31	8	7	1	1	3	67.7	74	36	36	10	26	6	53	3	0	1	298
Mike Paul	2	8	.200	4.81	30	15	3	1	0	0	88.0	91	51	47	13	45	0	70	0	0	2	390
Steve Mingori	1	0	1.000	2.66	21	0	8	0	0	1	20.3	17	8	6	2	12	5	16	1	0	1	90
Jim Rittwage	1	1	.500	4.15	8	3	0	1	0	0	26.0	18	12	12	0	21	0	16	0	0	2	116
Vince Colbert	1	1	.500	7.26	23	0	10	0	0	2	31.0	37	25	25	4	16	2	17	1	1	4	142
Fred Lasher	1	7	.125	4.06	43	1	13	0	0	5	57.7	57	34	26	6	30	1	44	3	0	1	258
Totals	76	86	.469	3.91	474	162	128	34	5	35	1451.3	1333	675	630	163	689	62	1076	40	4	53	6228

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
Vada Pinson	148	611	574	74	164	28	6	24	82	7	6	28	69	.286	.319	.481	.800	276	12	3	0	6	7
Ray Fosse	120	497	450	62	138	17	1	18	61	1	5	39	55	.307	.361	.469	.830	211	9	1	4	3	5
Eddie Leon	152	624	549	58	136	20	4	10	56	1	2	47	89	.248	.308	.353	.661	194	11	2	23	3	2
Graig Nettles	157	633	549	81	129	13	1	26	62	3	1	81	77	.235	.336	.404	.741	222	12	3	0	0	3
Roy Foster	139	545	477	66	128	26	0	23	60	3	3	54	75	.268	.357	.468	.824	223	15	12	1	1	4
Ted Uhlaender	141	524	473	56	127	21	2	11	46	3	6	39	44	.268	.321	.391	.712	185	6	1	3	8	3
Tony Horton	115	452	413	48	111	19	3	17	59	3	2	30	54	.269	.321	.453	.774	187	18	4	0	5	5
Jack Heidemann	133	495	445	44	94	14	2	6	37	2	4	34	88	.211	.265	.292	.557	130	7	2	4	10	8
Duke Sims	110	398	345	46	91	12	0	23	56	0	4	46	59	.264	.360	.499	.859	172	5	6	1	0	1
Chuck Hinton	107	224	195	24	62	4	0	9	29	0	2	25	34	.318	.392	.477	.869	93	3	0	2	2	1
Larry Brown	72	180	155	17	40	5	2	0	15	1	0	20	14	.258	.339	.316	.655	49	6	0	3	2	1
Buddy Bradford	75	186	163	25	32	6	1	7	23	0	1	21	43	.196	.290	.374	.665	61	8	1	0	1	1
Sam McDowell	40	115	105	5	13	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	42	.124	.140	.152	.293	16	0	0	8	0	0
Ken Harrelson	17	45	39	3	11	1	0	1	1	0	0	6	4	.282	.378	.385	.762	15	1	0	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	17	44	43	5	11	3	1	1	6	1	0	1	9	.256	.273	.442	.715	19	1	0	0	0	0
Rich Rollins	42	46	43	6	10	0	0	2	4	0	0	3	5	.233	.283	.372	.655	16	0	0	0	0	0
Lou Klimchock	41	61	56	5	9	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	9	.161	.213	.214	.427	12	1	1	0	1	1
Ted Ford	26	50	46	5	8	1	0	1	1	0	0	3	13	.174	.224	.261	.485	12	0	0	1	0	0
Vern Fuller	29	36	33	3	6	2	0	1	2	0	0	3	9	.182	.250	.333	.583	11	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Hand	35	49	41	2	6	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	11	.146	.159	.146	.305	6	0	0	5	2	0
Steve Dunning	19	35	31	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	14	.161	.188	.161	.349	5	0	0	3	0	0
Steve Hargan	28	54	45	4	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	15	.111	.130	.133	.264	6	0	0	8	0	0
Mike Paul	30	27	26	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.154	.154	.154	.308	4	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Rittwage	8	8	8	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.375	.375	.500	.875	4	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Higgins	58	15	12	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.250	.357	.250	.607	3	1	0	1	0	0
Russ Nagelson	17	27	24	3	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	3	9	.125	.222	.292	.514	7	0	0	0	0	0
Dean Chance	45	49	42	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	32	.071	.111	.071	.183	3	0	0	4	1	0
Rick Austin	31	21	18	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	10	.111	.238	.167	.405	3	0	0	0	0	0
Barry Moore	13	22	21	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.095	.095	.095	.190	2	1	0	1	0	0
Bob Miller	15	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	1	0	0	0	0
Phil Hennigan	42	12	7	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.143	.400	.286	.686	2	0	1	2	0	0
Steve Mingori	21	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lou Camilli	16	17	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.118	.000	.118	0	1	0	0	0	0
Dick Ellsworth	29	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Lasher	43	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Vince Colbert	23	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2154	6124	5463	649	1358	197	23	183	617	25	36	503	909	.249	.314	.394	.707	2150	119	37	76	45	42

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Tony Horton	1B	112	105	935.0	898	73	6	106	.994	9.347	8.670	0	0	0
Duke Sims	1B	29	25	197.0	180	18	3	15	.985	9.046	6.828	0	0	0
Chuck Hinton	1B	40	15	177.0	164	8	1	14	.994	8.746	4.300	0	0	0
Ken Harrelson	1B	13	13	86.0	80	7	0	15	1.000	9.105	6.692	0	0	0
Lou Klimchock	1B	5	4	33.0	35	1	0	4	1.000	9.818	7.200	0	0	0
Vada Pinson	1B	7	0	21.0	19	1	0	2	1.000	8.571	2.857	0	0	0
Sam McDowell	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Vern Fuller	1B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Eddie Leon	2B	141	139	1191.0	342	378	13	102	.982	5.441	5.106	0	0	0
Larry Brown	2B	16	7	82.0	28	25	1	6	.981	5.817	3.313	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	2B	10	7	67.0	12	31	0	5	1.000	5.776	4.300	0	0	0
Vern Fuller	2B	16	5	65.0	18	16	3	4	.919	4.708	2.125	0	0	0
Lou Klimchock	2B	5	4	31.0	4	8	0	2	1.000	3.484	2.400	0	0	0
Chuck Hinton	2B	3	0	11.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.818	.333	0	0	0
Lou Camilli	2B	2	0	4.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	11.250	2.500	0	0	0
Sam McDowell	2B	1	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.000	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	3B	154	146	1313.0	134	358	17	40	.967	3.372	3.195	0	0	0
Larry Brown	3B	17	9	75.0	10	18	2	2	.933	3.360	1.647	0	0	0
Rich Rollins	3B	5	3	20.0	1	2	2	1	.600	1.350	.600	0	0	0
Vern Fuller	3B	4	2	20.0	0	6	0	0	1.000	2.700	1.500	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	3B	2	2	17.0	1	6	2	1	.778	3.706	3.500	0	0	0
Chuck Hinton	3B	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Eddie Leon	3B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Lou Camilli	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Buddy Bradford	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jim Rittwage	3B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Ray Fosse	C	120	120	1065.0	854	70	10	7	.989	7.808	7.700	17	40	48	54.5
Duke Sims	C	39	38	345.0	277	13	2	2	.993	7.565	7.436	4	15	7	31.8
Chuck Hinton	C	4	4	42.0	28	2	0	0	1.000	6.429	7.500	2	2	3	60.0
Vada Pinson	OF	141	132	1188.0	265	8	5	3	.982	2.068	1.936	0	0	0
Roy Foster	OF	131	129	1102.0	188	6	7	0	.965	1.584	1.481	0	0	0
Ted Uhlaender	OF	134	115	1064.0	225	5	2	1	.991	1.945	1.716	0	0	0
Buddy Bradford	OF	64	40	396.0	119	1	2	0	.984	2.727	1.875	0	0	0
Duke Sims	OF	36	34	269.0	48	3	3	1	.944	1.706	1.417	0	0	0
Chuck Hinton	OF	35	24	216.0	36	4	1	0	.976	1.667	1.143	0	0	0
Ted Ford	OF	12	9	81.0	24	1	0	0	1.000	2.778	2.083	0	0	0
Russ Nagelson	OF	4	3	30.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.250	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	OF	3	0	4.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.333	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	OF	2	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Sam McDowell	P	39	39	305.0	3	35	4	1	.905	1.121	.974	0	0	0
Rich Hand	P	35	25	160.0	11	22	2	2	.943	1.856	.943	0	0	0
Dean Chance	P	45	19	155.0	3	20	2	2	.920	1.335	.511	0	0	0
Steve Hargan	P	23	19	143.0	13	24	0	3	1.000	2.329	1.609	0	0	0
Steve Dunning	P	19	17	94.0	7	17	2	2	.923	2.298	1.263	0	0	0
Dennis Higgins	P	58	0	90.0	7	14	1	0	.955	2.100	.362	0	0	0
Mike Paul	P	30	15	88.0	2	6	1	1	.889	.818	.267	0	0	0
Phil Hennigan	P	42	1	72.0	12	11	0	1	1.000	2.875	.548	0	0	0
Barry Moore	P	13	12	70.0	4	14	0	1	1.000	2.314	1.385	0	0	0
Rick Austin	P	31	8	68.0	4	13	0	1	1.000	2.250	.548	0	0	0
Fred Lasher	P	43	1	58.0	1	6	4	0	.636	1.086	.163	0	0	0
Dick Ellsworth	P	29	1	44.0	3	12	0	1	1.000	3.068	.517	0	0	0
Vince Colbert	P	23	0	31.0	2	6	1	0	.889	2.323	.348	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	15	2	28.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.321	.067	0	0	0
Jim Rittwage	P	8	3	26.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	2.077	.750	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	P	21	0	20.0	3	3	1	0	.857	2.700	.286	0	0	0
Jack Heidemann	SS	132	131	1125.0	216	354	23	79	.961	4.560	4.318	0	0	0
Larry Brown	SS	27	19	195.0	34	62	5	15	.950	4.431	3.556	0	0	0
Eddie Leon	SS	23	12	123.0	26	40	5	10	.930	4.829	2.870	0	0	0
Lou Camilli	SS	3	0	6.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1975	1458	13062.0	4357	1740	133	453	.979	4.201	3.087	23	57	58	50.4

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