1968 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 103-59
Finished 1st in the AL
Attendance: 2,031,847, Avg. 27,839
Ballpark: Tiger Stadium
Won World Series
World Series - Defeated St. Louis Cardinals 4-3
Manager: Mayo Smith (103-59)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1968 Detroit Tigers Roster
1968 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1968 season with a record of 103 wins and 59 losses, finishing first in the AL.

The Tigers led the league with 671 runs, ignited by 185 home runs. Detroit allowed 492 runs, least in the league. Willie Horton walloped 36 home runs for the team, while Dick McAuliffe, Jim Northrup, Norm Cash and Bill Freehan each added 20 or more also. Jim Northrup drove in 90 runs. Willie Horton paced all regular batters by hitting .285. Denny McLain earned 31 wins on the mound for the squad, and Mickey Lolich contributed 15 or more wins, too Denny McLain recorded a 1.96 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Mayo Smith coached the team. The 1968 Detroit Tigers won the World Series.

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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
Denny McLain	31	6	.838	1.96	41	41	0	28	6	0	336.0	241	86	73	31	63	2	280	6	0	3	1288
Mickey Lolich	17	9	.654	3.19	39	32	4	8	4	1	220.0	178	84	78	23	65	4	197	11	0	3	905
Earl Wilson	13	12	.520	2.85	34	33	0	10	3	0	224.3	192	77	71	20	65	4	168	0	2	7	909
Joe Sparma	10	10	.500	3.70	34	31	1	7	1	0	182.3	169	81	75	14	77	3	110	7	0	5	781
John Hiller	9	6	.600	2.39	39	12	13	4	1	2	128.0	92	37	34	9	51	4	78	0	0	2	518
Fred Lasher	5	1	.833	3.33	34	0	14	0	0	5	48.7	37	19	18	5	22	7	32	0	0	2	200
Pat Dobson	5	8	.385	2.66	47	10	16	2	1	7	125.0	89	39	37	13	48	6	93	2	1	4	502
Jon Warden	4	1	.800	3.62	28	0	11	0	0	3	37.3	30	15	15	5	15	2	25	0	0	0	155
Don McMahon	3	1	.750	2.02	20	0	9	0	0	1	35.7	22	8	8	2	10	1	33	0	0	3	135
Dennis Ribant	2	2	.500	2.22	14	0	4	0	0	1	24.3	20	7	6	1	10	2	7	1	0	0	105
Daryl Patterson	2	3	.400	2.12	38	1	22	0	0	7	68.0	53	19	16	3	27	1	49	4	1	3	283
John Wyatt	1	0	1.000	2.37	22	0	10	0	0	2	30.3	26	9	8	2	11	2	25	1	0	4	125
Les Cain	1	0	1.000	3.00	8	4	1	0	0	0	24.0	25	9	8	1	20	1	13	0	0	2	114
Roy Face	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	5
Jim Rooker	0	0		3.86	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.7	4	2	2	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	18
Totals	103	59	.636	2.71	402	164	105	59	16	29	1489.7	1180	492	449	129	486	40	1115	32	4	38	6043

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 Northrup	154	643	580	76	153	29	7	21	90	4	5	50	87	.264	.324	.447	.770	259	14	4	4	5	4
Mickey Stanley	153	641	583	88	151	16	6	11	60	4	3	42	57	.259	.311	.364	.675	212	22	4	8	4	1
Willie Horton	143	578	512	68	146	20	2	36	85	0	3	49	110	.285	.352	.543	.895	278	14	8	2	7	8
Bill Freehan	155	635	540	73	142	24	2	25	84	0	1	65	64	.263	.366	.454	.819	245	9	24	3	3	4
Dick McAuliffe	151	658	570	95	142	24	10	16	56	8	7	82	99	.249	.344	.411	.755	234	0	2	1	3	8
Norm Cash	127	458	411	50	108	15	1	25	63	1	1	39	70	.263	.329	.487	.816	200	12	3	2	3	7
Don Wert	150	589	536	44	107	15	1	12	37	0	3	37	79	.200	.258	.299	.556	160	12	5	11	0	7
Al Kaline	102	389	327	49	94	14	1	10	53	6	4	55	39	.287	.392	.428	.820	140	4	3	1	3	7
Tommy Matchick	80	244	227	18	46	6	2	3	14	0	2	10	46	.203	.248	.286	.534	65	3	4	2	1	3
Gates Brown	67	104	92	15	34	7	2	6	15	0	0	12	4	.370	.442	.685	1.127	63	2	0	0	0	1
Dick Tracewski	90	240	212	30	33	3	1	4	15	3	0	24	51	.156	.239	.236	.475	50	5	0	2	2	0
Ray Oyler	111	247	215	13	29	6	1	1	12	0	2	20	59	.135	.213	.186	.399	40	8	2	7	3	0
Jim Price	64	146	132	12	23	4	0	3	13	0	0	13	14	.174	.253	.273	.526	36	6	1	0	0	1
Earl Wilson	40	92	88	9	20	0	1	7	17	0	0	2	35	.227	.253	.489	.741	43	1	1	1	0	0
Denny McLain	44	128	111	7	18	1	1	0	4	0	0	1	37	.162	.170	.189	.359	21	1	0	16	0	0
Eddie Mathews	31	57	52	4	11	0	0	3	8	0	0	5	12	.212	.281	.385	.665	20	0	0	0	0	1
Joe Sparma	34	67	60	2	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	24	.133	.148	.150	.298	9	0	0	6	0	0
Mickey Lolich	41	80	70	5	8	3	0	0	3	0	1	6	25	.114	.184	.157	.341	11	3	0	4	0	0
Wayne Comer	48	51	48	8	6	0	1	1	3	0	0	2	7	.125	.160	.229	.389	11	4	0	1	0	0
Pat Dobson	47	32	28	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	7	.143	.200	.143	.343	4	0	0	2	0	0
John Hiller	39	37	37	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	14	.081	.081	.081	.162	3	1	0	0	0	0
Bob Christian	3	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Lenny Green	6	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	1	0	0	0	1
Dennis Ribant	16	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Les Cain	8	7	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.286	.429	2	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	9	9	8	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	3	.125	.222	.500	.722	4	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Lasher	34	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	1	0	0	0	0
Daryl Patterson	38	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.000	.071	.000	.071	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Rooker	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don McMahon	20	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Jon Warden	28	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Wyatt	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Roy Face	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2059	6179	5490	671	1292	190	39	185	640	26	32	521	964	.235	.307	.385	.692	2115	124	61	73	34	53

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Norm Cash	1B	117	105	965.7	924	88	8	66	.992	9.432	8.650	0	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	1B	21	21	172.0	162	10	1	11	.994	9.000	8.190	0	0	0	0
Al Kaline	1B	22	18	165.0	152	13	4	15	.976	9.000	7.500	0	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	1B	15	14	115.0	99	8	2	9	.982	8.374	7.133	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mathews	1B	6	6	44.0	34	3	1	5	.974	7.568	6.167	0	0	0	0
Tommy Matchick	1B	6	0	24.0	28	2	0	4	1.000	11.250	5.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Christian	1B	1	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	13.500	3.000	0	0	0	0
Gates Brown	1B	1	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	13.500	3.000	0	0	0	0
Dick McAuliffe	2B	148	144	1277.7	288	348	9	79	.986	4.480	4.297	0	0	0	0
Dick Tracewski	2B	14	9	102.3	15	30	0	5	1.000	3.958	3.214	0	0	0	0
Tommy Matchick	2B	13	10	93.7	25	34	1	7	.983	5.669	4.538	0	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	2B	5	1	15.0	4	3	0	1	1.000	4.200	1.400	0	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Don Wert	3B	150	147	1340.7	142	284	15	22	.966	2.860	2.840	0	0	0	0
Dick Tracewski	3B	16	12	116.0	7	19	2	3	.929	2.017	1.625	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mathews	3B	6	5	33.0	3	10	0	0	1.000	3.545	2.167	0	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	C	138	129	1180.3	971	73	6	15	.994	7.960	7.565	7	27	66	38	36.5
Jim Price	C	42	35	307.3	223	14	1	1	.996	6.940	5.643	3	9	14	2	12.5
Wayne Comer	C	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	2	0	0
Jim Northrup	OF	151	148	1342.3	321	7	7	1	.979	2.199	2.172	0	0	0	0
Willie Horton	OF	139	137	1200.3	212	6	6	2	.973	1.635	1.568	0	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	OF	130	119	1109.7	297	7	0	2	1.000	2.466	2.338	0	0	0	0
Al Kaline	OF	74	68	602.0	131	1	3	0	.978	1.973	1.784	0	0	0	0
Gates Brown	OF	17	16	116.3	18	1	0	0	1.000	1.470	1.118	0	0	0	0
Wayne Comer	OF	27	4	89.0	20	0	0	0	1.000	2.022	.741	0	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	OF	1	0	4.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Lenny Green	OF	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Christian	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Denny McLain	P	41	41	336.0	36	40	1	3	.987	2.036	1.854	0	0	0	0
Earl Wilson	P	34	33	224.3	26	30	4	3	.933	2.247	1.647	0	0	0	0
Mickey Lolich	P	39	32	220.0	5	26	3	0	.912	1.268	.795	0	0	0	0
Joe Sparma	P	34	31	182.3	9	19	2	0	.933	1.382	.824	0	0	0	0
John Hiller	P	39	12	128.0	12	15	0	1	1.000	1.898	.692	0	0	0	0
Pat Dobson	P	47	10	125.0	12	22	1	0	.971	2.448	.723	0	0	0	0
Daryl Patterson	P	38	1	68.0	4	9	1	0	.929	1.721	.342	0	0	0	0
Fred Lasher	P	34	0	48.7	3	10	1	1	.929	2.404	.382	0	0	0	0
Jon Warden	P	28	0	37.3	0	2	1	0	.667	.482	.071	0	0	0	0
Don McMahon	P	20	0	35.7	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.262	.250	0	0	0	0
John Wyatt	P	22	0	30.3	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.780	.273	0	0	0	0
Dennis Ribant	P	14	0	24.3	2	3	3	0	.625	1.849	.357	0	0	0	0
Les Cain	P	8	4	24.0	0	6	0	0	1.000	2.250	.750	0	0	0	0
Jim Rooker	P	2	0	4.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.857	1.000	0	0	0	0
Roy Face	P	2	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ray Oyler	SS	111	70	687.3	139	207	8	31	.977	4.531	3.117	0	0	0	0
Tommy Matchick	SS	59	48	369.0	53	118	9	20	.950	4.171	2.898	0	0	0	0
Dick Tracewski	SS	51	36	339.3	60	108	3	19	.982	4.456	3.294	0	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	SS	9	8	68.0	9	25	2	2	.944	4.500	3.778	0	0	0	0
Dick McAuliffe	SS	5	2	22.0	4	4	0	1	1.000	3.273	1.600	0	0	0	0
Don Wert	SS	2	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1904	1476	13407.0	4463	1615	105	329	.983	4.080	3.192	10	38	80	40	33.3

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BF
Mickey Lolich	WS	3	0	1.000	1.67	3	3	0	3	27.0	20	5	5	2	6	21	1	104
Denny McLain	WS	1	2	.333	3.24	3	3	0	1	16.7	18	8	6	1	4	13	0	73
Fred Lasher	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	7
Daryl Patterson	WS	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	9
Pat Dobson	WS	0	0		3.86	3	0	1	0	4.7	5	2	2	2	1	0	0	19
John Hiller	WS	0	0		13.50	2	0	1	0	2.0	6	4	3	0	3	1	0	16
Don McMahon	WS	0	0		13.50	2	0	1	0	2.0	4	3	3	1	0	1	0	10
Joe Sparma	WS	0	0		54.00	1	0	0	0	0.3	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	3
Earl Wilson	WS	0	1	.000	6.23	1	1	0	0	4.3	4	3	3	0	6	3	0	21
Totals		4	3	.571	3.48	18	7	3	4	62.0	61	27	24	7	21	40	1	262

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Al Kaline	WS	7	30	29	6	11	2	0	2	8	0	0	7	.379	.400	.655	1.055	19	0	1	0	0	0
Norm Cash	WS	7	30	26	5	10	0	0	1	5	0	3	5	.385	.433	.500	.933	13	0	0	0	1	0
Willie Horton	WS	7	29	23	6	7	1	1	1	3	0	5	6	.304	.448	.565	1.013	13	1	1	0	0	0
Jim Northrup	WS	7	29	28	4	7	0	1	2	8	0	1	5	.250	.276	.536	.812	15	3	0	0	0	1
Dick McAuliffe	WS	7	31	27	5	6	0	0	1	3	0	4	6	.222	.323	.333	.656	9	0	0	0	0	1
Mickey Stanley	WS	7	30	28	4	6	0	1	0	0	1	2	4	.214	.267	.286	.552	8	2	0	0	0	0
Mickey Lolich	WS	3	13	12	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	1	5	.250	.308	.500	.808	6	0	0	0	0	0
Don Wert	WS	6	24	17	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	6	5	.118	.375	.118	.493	2	0	1	0	0	1
Bill Freehan	WS	7	28	24	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	4	8	.083	.214	.125	.339	3	0	0	0	0	1
Wayne Comer	WS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mathews	WS	2	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	0	0	0
Gates Brown	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tommy Matchick	WS	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denny McLain	WS	3	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Jim Price	WS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Earl Wilson	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Dobson	WS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Hiller	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Lasher	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don McMahon	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Oyler	WS	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Daryl Patterson	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Sparma	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Tracewski	WS	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		88	264	231	34	56	4	3	8	33	1	27	59	.242	.328	.390	.718	90	7	3	2	1	4

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Norm Cash	WS	1B	7	7	62.0	58	7	2	3	.970	9.435	9.286
Dick McAuliffe	WS	2B	7	7	62.0	12	16	0	2	1.000	4.065	4.000
Don Wert	WS	3B	6	6	52.0	5	14	0	2	1.000	3.288	3.167
Eddie Mathews	WS	3B	1	1	9.0	0	1	1	0	.500	1.000	1.000
Dick Tracewski	WS	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bill Freehan	WS	C	7	7	62.0	45	6	2	2	.962	7.403	7.286
Jim Northrup	WS	CF	7	7	54.0	19	0	2	0	.905	3.167	2.714
Mickey Stanley	WS	CF	4	0	8.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500
Willie Horton	WS	LF	7	7	54.0	5	1	1	0	.857	1.000	.857
Jim Northrup	WS	LF	4	0	8.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.125	.250
Mickey Lolich	WS	P	3	3	27.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.667	1.667
Denny McLain	WS	P	3	3	16.7	0	3	1	0	.750	1.620	1.000
Pat Dobson	WS	P	3	0	4.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.929	.333
Earl Wilson	WS	P	1	1	4.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.154	2.000
Daryl Patterson	WS	P	2	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500
Don McMahon	WS	P	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500
Fred Lasher	WS	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
John Hiller	WS	P	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500
Joe Sparma	WS	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Al Kaline	WS	RF	7	7	62.0	19	0	0	0	1.000	2.758	2.714
Mickey Stanley	WS	SS	7	7	54.0	14	16	2	3	.938	5.000	4.286
Ray Oyler	WS	SS	4	0	8.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500
Totals			87	63	558.0	186	72	11	12	.959	4.161	2.966

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