1987 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 98-64
Finished 1st in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 2,061,830, Avg. 25,773
Ballpark: Tiger Stadium
Won Division
American League Championship Series - Lost to Minnesota Twins 4-1
Manager: Sparky Anderson (98-64)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1987 Detroit Tigers Roster
1987 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1987 season with a record of 98 wins and 64 losses, finishing first in the AL's East Division.

The Tigers topped the league with 896 runs, ignited by 225 home runs. Detroit yielded 735 runs. Darrell Evans walloped 34 home runs for the team, while Chet Lemon, Matt Nokes, Alan Trammell, Kirk Gibson and Lou Whitaker each swatted 20 or more also. Alan Trammell drove in 105 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .343. Jack Morris led the team with 18 wins, and Frank Tanana and Walt Terrell added 15 or more victories as well Jack Morris recorded a 3.38 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Sparky Anderson coached the team. The 1987 Detroit Tigers qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Jack Morris	18	11	.621	3.38	34	34	0	13	0	0	266.0	227	111	100	39	93	7	208	1	1	24	1101
Walt Terrell	17	10	.630	4.05	35	35	0	10	1	0	244.7	254	123	110	30	94	7	143	3	0	8	1057
Frank Tanana	15	10	.600	3.91	34	34	0	5	3	0	218.7	216	106	95	27	56	5	146	5	0	6	924
Mike Henneman	11	3	.786	2.98	55	0	28	0	0	7	96.7	86	36	32	8	30	5	75	3	0	7	399
Doyle Alexander	9	0	1.000	1.53	11	11	0	3	3	0	88.3	63	16	15	3	26	0	44	0	0	1	340
Jeff Robinson	9	6	.600	5.37	29	21	2	2	1	0	127.3	132	86	76	16	54	3	98	7	3	4	569
Dan Petry	9	7	.563	5.61	30	21	3	0	0	0	134.7	148	101	84	22	76	5	93	10	1	8	628
Eric King	6	9	.400	4.89	55	4	26	0	0	9	116.0	111	67	63	15	60	10	89	4	1	5	513
Willie Hernandez	3	4	.429	3.67	45	0	31	0	0	8	49.0	53	27	20	8	20	7	30	0	0	1	217
Nate Snell	1	2	.333	3.96	22	2	12	0	0	0	38.7	39	20	17	5	19	3	19	0	0	4	168
Dickie Noles	0	0		4.50	4	0	3	0	0	2	2.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9
Morris Madden	0	0		16.20	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	4	3	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	12
Mark Thurmond	0	1	.000	4.23	48	0	23	0	0	5	61.7	83	32	29	5	24	4	21	0	0	4	280
Bryan Kelly	0	1	.000	5.06	5	0	1	0	0	0	10.7	12	6	6	2	7	4	10	0	0	0	50
Totals	98	64	.605	4.02	409	162	129	33	8	31	1456.0	1430	735	651	180	563	61	976	33	6	72	6267

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
Alan Trammell	151	668	597	109	205	34	3	28	105	21	2	60	47	.343	.402	.551	.953	329	11	3	2	6	8
Lou Whitaker	149	684	604	110	160	38	6	16	59	13	5	71	108	.265	.341	.427	.768	258	5	1	4	4	2
Kirk Gibson	128	568	487	95	135	25	3	24	79	26	7	71	117	.277	.372	.489	.861	238	5	5	1	4	8
Matt Nokes	135	508	461	69	133	14	2	32	87	2	1	35	70	.289	.345	.536	.880	247	13	6	3	3	2
Chet Lemon	146	553	470	75	130	30	3	20	75	0	0	70	82	.277	.376	.481	.857	226	17	8	0	5	1
Darrell Evans	150	609	499	90	128	20	0	34	99	6	5	100	84	.257	.379	.501	.880	250	2	2	2	6	8
Pat Sheridan	141	473	421	57	109	19	3	6	49	18	13	44	90	.259	.327	.361	.688	152	7	1	2	5	4
Tom Brookens	143	490	444	59	107	15	3	13	59	7	4	33	63	.241	.295	.376	.671	167	8	2	9	2	3
Bill Madlock	87	376	326	56	91	17	0	14	50	4	3	28	45	.279	.351	.460	.811	150	10	10	8	4	1
Mike Heath	93	296	270	34	76	16	0	8	33	1	5	21	42	.281	.339	.430	.769	116	5	3	1	1	0
Larry Herndon	89	254	225	32	73	13	2	9	47	1	0	23	35	.324	.378	.520	.898	117	12	0	0	6	0
Dave Bergman	91	207	172	25	47	7	3	6	22	0	1	30	23	.273	.379	.453	.832	78	1	1	1	3	4
Darnell Coles	53	169	149	14	27	5	1	4	15	0	1	15	23	.181	.263	.309	.572	46	1	2	2	1	1
Jim Morrison	34	122	117	15	24	1	1	4	19	2	1	2	26	.205	.221	.333	.555	39	1	1	0	2	0
Johnny Grubb	59	131	114	9	23	6	0	2	13	0	0	15	16	.202	.290	.307	.597	35	4	0	0	2	0
Bill Bean	26	71	66	6	17	2	0	0	4	1	1	5	11	.258	.310	.288	.598	19	1	0	0	0	0
Scott Lusader	23	54	47	8	15	3	1	1	8	1	0	5	7	.319	.377	.489	.867	23	0	0	1	1	1
Jim Walewander	53	63	54	24	13	3	1	1	4	2	1	7	6	.241	.328	.389	.717	21	2	0	2	0	0
Terry Harper	31	74	64	4	13	3	0	3	10	1	0	9	8	.203	.301	.391	.692	25	2	0	1	0	0
Dwight Lowry	13	25	25	0	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.200	.200	.280	.480	7	0	0	0	0	0
Orlando Mercado	10	24	22	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	.136	.208	.136	.345	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Tolman	9	21	12	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	7	2	.083	.429	.167	.595	2	1	1	0	1	1
Jack Morris	36	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Baker	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Henneman	55	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Walt Terrell	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Nate Snell	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Thurmond	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Robinson	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Petry	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dickie Noles	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Willie Hernandez	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bryan Kelly	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Morris Madden	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Eric King	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2233	6443	5649	896	1535	274	32	225	840	106	50	653	913	.272	.349	.451	.800	2548	108	46	39	56	44

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Darrell Evans	1B	105	98	855.3	810	100	3	86	.997	9.575	8.667	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	1B	65	38	368.7	353	29	3	33	.992	9.325	5.877	0	0	0
Bill Madlock	1B	22	20	164.0	167	11	2	14	.989	9.768	8.091	0	0	0
Darnell Coles	1B	9	5	48.0	50	3	0	1	1.000	9.937	5.889	0	0	0
Mike Heath	1B	4	1	16.0	20	1	0	3	1.000	11.813	5.250	0	0	0
Jim Morrison	1B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Dwight Lowry	1B	1	0	2.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	3.000	0	0	0
Lou Whitaker	2B	148	146	1266.7	275	416	17	99	.976	4.910	4.669	0	0	0
Jim Walewander	2B	24	9	100.0	16	38	0	10	1.000	4.860	2.250	0	0	0
Tom Brookens	2B	11	5	62.0	20	20	3	10	.930	5.806	3.636	0	0	0
Jim Morrison	2B	3	2	24.3	9	5	0	2	1.000	5.178	4.667	0	0	0
Doug Baker	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Heath	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Tom Brookens	3B	122	110	965.7	85	208	14	15	.954	2.731	2.402	0	0	0
Darnell Coles	3B	36	31	270.0	31	63	17	5	.847	3.133	2.611	0	0	0
Jim Morrison	3B	16	16	126.0	10	41	2	1	.962	3.643	3.188	0	0	0
Jim Walewander	3B	17	4	56.0	7	11	1	0	.947	2.893	1.059	0	0	0
Darrell Evans	3B	7	0	20.3	5	8	1	0	.929	5.754	1.857	0	0	0
Bill Madlock	3B	1	1	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0
Mike Heath	3B	4	0	5.0	1	2	1	0	.750	5.400	.750	0	0	0
Matt Nokes	3B	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Johnny Grubb	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Doug Baker	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Matt Nokes	C	109	94	845.3	595	32	5	2	.992	6.675	5.752	7	71	18	20.2
Mike Heath	C	67	54	486.7	337	38	4	5	.989	6.935	5.597	5	34	22	39.3
Orlando Mercado	C	10	8	66.0	40	8	1	1	.980	6.545	4.800	1	5	2	28.6
Dwight Lowry	C	12	6	58.0	38	1	0	0	1.000	6.052	3.250	0	8	1	11.1
Chet Lemon	OF	145	130	1171.3	350	4	3	1	.992	2.720	2.441	0	0	0
Kirk Gibson	OF	121	119	1044.3	253	6	7	0	.974	2.232	2.140	0	0	0
Pat Sheridan	OF	137	101	983.7	236	6	6	1	.976	2.214	1.766	0	0	0
Larry Herndon	OF	57	39	352.3	82	4	1	1	.989	2.197	1.509	0	0	0
Johnny Grubb	OF	31	23	169.0	42	1	0	0	1.000	2.290	1.387	0	0	0
Bill Bean	OF	24	20	151.3	54	1	0	0	1.000	3.271	2.292	0	0	0
Scott Lusader	OF	22	11	127.3	29	0	1	0	.967	2.050	1.318	0	0	0
Mike Heath	OF	24	12	121.3	26	1	0	0	1.000	2.003	1.125	0	0	0
Terry Harper	OF	14	12	85.0	20	0	1	0	.952	2.118	1.429	0	0	0
Tim Tolman	OF	7	4	44.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.636	1.143	0	0	0
Darnell Coles	OF	8	6	39.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	.692	.375	0	0	0
Matt Nokes	OF	3	3	32.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.392	1.667	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	OF	7	3	29.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.241	.571	0	0	0
Jim Morrison	OF	3	3	18.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.500	1.667	0	0	0
Jack Morris	P	34	34	266.0	31	18	0	1	1.000	1.658	1.441	0	0	0
Walt Terrell	P	35	35	244.7	24	25	2	3	.961	1.802	1.400	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	P	34	34	218.7	14	35	0	2	1.000	2.017	1.441	0	0	0
Dan Petry	P	30	21	134.7	16	21	2	0	.949	2.473	1.233	0	0	0
Jeff Robinson	P	29	21	127.3	14	9	2	2	.920	1.626	.793	0	0	0
Eric King	P	55	4	116.0	15	22	1	3	.974	2.871	.673	0	0	0
Mike Henneman	P	55	0	96.7	8	11	0	2	1.000	1.769	.345	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	P	11	11	88.3	4	14	0	1	1.000	1.834	1.636	0	0	0
Mark Thurmond	P	48	0	61.7	2	9	0	0	1.000	1.605	.229	0	0	0
Willie Hernandez	P	45	0	49.0	2	4	1	1	.857	1.102	.133	0	0	0
Nate Snell	P	22	2	38.7	6	1	0	0	1.000	1.629	.318	0	0	0
Bryan Kelly	P	5	0	10.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dickie Noles	P	4	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.250	0	0	0
Morris Madden	P	2	0	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Alan Trammell	SS	149	147	1304.0	222	421	19	94	.971	4.438	4.315	0	0	0
Tom Brookens	SS	16	11	106.0	14	28	2	8	.955	3.566	2.625	0	0	0
Jim Walewander	SS	3	2	19.0	3	9	0	2	1.000	5.684	4.000	0	0	0
Jim Morrison	SS	3	2	15.0	1	5	0	1	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0
Doug Baker	SS	6	0	9.0	2	8	0	1	1.000	1.000	1.667	0	0	0
Mike Heath	SS	2	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Darnell Coles	SS	1	0	0.0	0	1	0	0	1.000		1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1992	1458	13104.0	4368	1703	122	412	.980	4.170	3.048	13	118	43	26.7

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Mike Henneman	ALCS	1	0	1.000	10.80	3	0	1	0	5.0	6	6	6	1	6	3	3	0	0	27
Willie Hernandez	ALCS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0.3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Jeff Robinson	ALCS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Dan Petry	ALCS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	3.3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	13
Mark Thurmond	ALCS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Eric King	ALCS	0	0		1.69	2	0	1	0	5.3	3	1	1	0	2	0	4	1	2	23
Walt Terrell	ALCS	0	0		9.00	1	1	0	0	6.0	7	6	6	2	4	0	4	0	0	28
Frank Tanana	ALCS	0	1	.000	5.06	1	1	0	0	5.3	6	4	3	2	4	0	1	3	1	29
Jack Morris	ALCS	0	1	.000	6.75	1	1	0	1	8.0	6	6	6	1	3	0	7	0	0	33
Doyle Alexander	ALCS	0	2	.000	10.00	2	2	0	0	9.0	14	10	10	2	1	0	5	1	0	42
Totals		1	4	.200	6.70	14	5	4	1	43.0	46	34	32	8	20	3	25	5	4	200

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF
Kirk Gibson	ALCS	5	24	21	4	6	1	1	4	3	3	8	.286	.375	.476	.851	10	0	0	0	0
Darrell Evans	ALCS	5	22	17	0	5	0	0	0	0	4	2	.294	.455	.294	.749	5	1	1	0	0
Chet Lemon	ALCS	5	20	18	4	5	0	2	4	0	1	4	.278	.300	.611	.911	11	0	0	0	1
Johnny Grubb	ALCS	4	7	7	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.571	.571	.571	1.143	4	0	0	0	0
Alan Trammell	ALCS	5	21	20	3	4	1	0	2	0	1	2	.200	.238	.250	.488	5	2	0	0	0
Larry Herndon	ALCS	3	10	9	1	3	1	0	2	0	1	1	.333	.400	.444	.844	4	0	0	0	0
Pat Sheridan	ALCS	5	12	10	2	3	1	1	2	1	0	2	.300	.417	.700	1.117	7	0	2	0	0
Lou Whitaker	ALCS	5	24	17	4	3	0	1	1	1	7	3	.176	.417	.353	.770	6	0	0	0	0
Jim Morrison	ALCS	2	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0
Mike Heath	ALCS	3	8	7	1	2	0	1	2	0	0	0	.286	.286	.714	1.000	5	0	0	1	0
Matt Nokes	ALCS	5	15	14	2	2	0	1	2	0	1	4	.143	.200	.357	.557	5	0	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	ALCS	4	5	4	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	.250	.200	.250	.450	1	0	0	0	1
Tom Brookens	ALCS	5	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0
Bill Madlock	ALCS	1	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Mike Henneman	ALCS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Willie Hernandez	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Eric King	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Jack Morris	ALCS	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Dan Petry	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Robinson	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Walt Terrell	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Mark Thurmond	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals		72	192	167	23	40	4	7	21	5	18	35	.240	.321	.389	.710	65	3	3	2	2

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Darrell Evans	ALCS	1B	5	5	40.0	43	2	1	1	.978	1.125	9.000
Dave Bergman	ALCS	1B	1	0	3.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	6.000
Lou Whitaker	ALCS	2B	5	5	43.0	11	14	0	1	1.000	5.233	5.000
Tom Brookens	ALCS	3B	5	5	37.0	3	15	0	0	1.000	4.378	3.600
Jim Morrison	ALCS	3B	1	0	3.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000
Darrell Evans	ALCS	3B	1	0	3.0	0	1	2	0	.333	3.000	1.000
Mike Heath	ALCS	C	3	3	24.0	14	0	0	0	1.000	5.250	4.667
Matt Nokes	ALCS	C	3	2	19.0	11	2	0	0	1.000	6.158	4.333
Chet Lemon	ALCS	CF	5	5	43.0	13	1	0	0	1.000	2.930	2.800
Kirk Gibson	ALCS	LF	5	5	43.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	2.093	2.000
Doyle Alexander	ALCS	P	2	2	9.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000	1.000
Jack Morris	ALCS	P	1	1	8.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Walt Terrell	ALCS	P	1	1	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000
Frank Tanana	ALCS	P	1	1	5.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	1.000
Eric King	ALCS	P	2	0	5.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.000
Mike Henneman	ALCS	P	3	0	5.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.600	.667
Dan Petry	ALCS	P	1	0	3.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.700	1.000
Mark Thurmond	ALCS	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Jeff Robinson	ALCS	P	1	0	0.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	27.000	1.000
Willie Hernandez	ALCS	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Pat Sheridan	ALCS	RF	4	3	27.0	7	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.250
Larry Herndon	ALCS	RF	2	2	16.0	2	0	1	0	.667	1.125	1.000
Alan Trammell	ALCS	SS	5	5	43.0	6	9	1	1	.938	3.140	3.000
Totals			59	45	387.0	129	56	5	3	.974	4.302	3.136

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