1978 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 74-88
Finished 5th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,126,145, Avg. 14,465
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Bill Virdon (74-88)
Location: Houston, Texas

1978 Houston Astros Roster
1978 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1978 season with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses, finishing fifth in the NL's West Division.

The Astros scored 605 runs and surrendered 634 runs. Bob Watson paced Houston with 14 home runs Jose Cruz recorded 83 runs batted in and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .315. J. R. Richard led the team with 18 wins, while Ken Forsch recorded a 2.70 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon 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
J. R. Richard	18	11	.621	3.11	36	36	0	16	3	0	275.3	192	104	95	12	141	4	303	2	3	16	1139
Joe Niekro	14	14	.500	3.86	35	29	2	10	1	0	202.7	190	97	87	13	73	1	97	9	0	9	861
Ken Forsch	10	6	.625	2.70	52	6	28	4	2	7	133.3	136	44	40	2	37	13	71	1	0	2	563
Mark Lemongello	9	14	.391	3.94	33	30	2	9	1	1	210.3	204	100	92	20	66	5	77	9	3	4	893
Tom Dixon	7	11	.389	3.99	30	19	4	3	2	1	140.0	140	70	62	8	40	3	66	1	2	0	592
Joaquin Andujar	5	7	.417	3.42	35	13	11	2	0	1	110.7	88	45	42	3	58	6	55	4	5	3	470
Joe Sambito	4	9	.308	3.07	62	0	45	0	0	11	88.0	85	32	30	5	32	7	96	0	0	1	371
Vern Ruhle	3	3	.500	2.12	13	10	1	2	2	0	68.0	57	17	16	0	20	1	27	1	1	1	279
Floyd Bannister	3	9	.250	4.81	28	16	3	2	2	0	110.3	120	59	59	13	63	4	94	1	2	7	502
Rick Williams	1	2	.333	4.67	17	1	5	0	0	0	34.7	43	19	18	2	10	2	17	0	1	0	159
Frank Riccelli	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10
Gene Pentz	0	0		6.00	10	0	2	0	0	0	15.0	12	13	10	1	13	3	8	1	0	1	73
Oscar Zamora	0	0		7.20	10	0	1	0	0	0	15.0	20	12	12	2	7	3	6	0	1	0	69
Dan Warthen	0	1	.000	4.22	5	1	3	0	0	0	10.7	10	5	5	3	2	0	2	0	2	0	43
Bo McLaughlin	0	1	.000	5.01	12	1	5	0	0	2	23.3	30	17	13	2	16	2	10	2	1	3	116
Totals	74	88	.457	3.63	380	162	114	48	13	23	1440.3	1328	634	581	86	578	54	930	31	21	47	6140

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
Enos Cabell	162	694	660	92	195	31	8	7	71	33	15	22	80	.295	.321	.398	.720	263	14	5	3	4	1
Jose Cruz	153	627	565	79	178	34	9	10	83	37	9	57	57	.315	.376	.460	.836	260	9	0	2	3	9
Terry Puhl	149	647	585	87	169	25	6	3	35	32	14	48	46	.289	.343	.368	.711	215	11	4	3	7	5
Bob Watson	139	527	461	51	133	25	4	14	79	3	1	51	57	.289	.357	.451	.808	208	18	4	0	11	16
Art Howe	119	461	420	46	123	33	3	7	55	2	3	34	41	.293	.343	.436	.779	183	13	1	1	5	3
Denny Walling	120	280	247	30	62	11	3	3	36	9	2	30	24	.251	.332	.356	.688	88	2	1	0	2	3
Rafael Landestoy	59	230	218	18	58	5	1	0	9	7	4	8	23	.266	.292	.298	.590	65	2	0	4	0	0
Cesar Cedeno	50	209	192	31	54	8	2	7	23	23	2	15	24	.281	.333	.453	.786	87	4	0	2	0	1
Julio Gonzalez	78	239	223	24	52	3	1	1	16	6	1	8	31	.233	.263	.269	.532	60	7	1	7	0	1
Jesus Alou	77	152	139	7	45	5	1	2	19	0	0	6	5	.324	.345	.417	.762	58	4	0	4	3	1
Dave Bergman	104	228	186	15	43	5	1	0	12	2	0	39	32	.231	.361	.269	.630	50	5	0	1	2	9
Bruce Bochy	54	167	154	8	41	8	0	3	15	0	0	11	35	.266	.311	.377	.688	58	8	0	0	2	4
Wilbur Howard	84	158	148	17	34	4	1	1	13	6	2	5	22	.230	.268	.291	.558	43	3	3	1	1	0
Joe Ferguson	51	191	150	20	31	5	0	7	22	0	0	37	30	.207	.363	.380	.743	57	6	1	1	2	6
Jimmy Sexton	88	155	141	17	29	3	2	2	6	16	2	13	28	.206	.273	.298	.571	42	0	0	1	0	1
Roger Metzger	45	138	123	11	27	4	1	0	6	0	0	12	9	.220	.287	.268	.555	33	8	0	2	1	3
Luis Pujols	56	169	153	11	20	8	1	1	11	0	0	12	45	.131	.198	.216	.413	33	6	1	2	1	1
J. R. Richard	37	107	101	8	18	0	0	1	10	1	1	1	27	.178	.186	.208	.394	21	2	0	5	0	0
Reggie Baldwin	38	70	67	5	17	5	0	1	11	0	0	3	3	.254	.286	.373	.659	25	3	0	0	0	0
Mark Lemongello	33	74	64	3	11	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	22	.172	.221	.188	.408	12	1	0	6	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	8	27	26	2	10	2	0	0	4	0	1	1	2	.385	.407	.462	.869	12	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Fischlin	44	95	86	3	10	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	9	.116	.165	.128	.293	11	1	1	4	0	1
Keith Drumright	17	59	55	5	9	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	4	.164	.207	.164	.371	9	2	0	1	0	0
Joe Niekro	36	74	65	6	9	2	0	0	5	0	0	0	18	.138	.138	.169	.308	11	2	0	9	0	0
Ken Forsch	52	29	27	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	9	.185	.185	.185	.370	5	0	0	2	0	0
Floyd Bannister	28	37	31	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.161	.188	.194	.381	6	0	0	5	0	0
Joe Cannon	8	18	18	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	.222	.222	.222	.444	4	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Herrmann	16	40	36	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.111	.179	.139	.318	5	1	0	1	0	1
Tom Dixon	30	44	40	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.100	.122	.100	.222	4	1	0	3	0	0
Jim Obradovich	10	18	17	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	3	.176	.222	.294	.516	5	0	0	0	0	1
Joaquin Andujar	36	28	23	0	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	11	.130	.167	.174	.341	4	0	0	4	0	0
Joe Sambito	62	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	0	0	1	0	0
Vern Ruhle	13	21	18	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	14	.056	.150	.056	.206	1	1	0	1	0	0
Rick Williams	17	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Warthen	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bo McLaughlin	12	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Pentz	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oscar Zamora	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Riccelli	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2112	6034	5458	605	1408	231	45	70	557	178	59	434	743	.258	.313	.355	.668	1939	134	22	76	44	67

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Watson	1B	128	127	1045.7	974	95	9	63	.992	9.201	8.352	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	1B	66	21	269.3	280	16	2	26	.993	9.891	4.485	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	1B	14	8	75.3	75	3	0	4	1.000	9.319	5.571	0	0	0
Jim Obradovich	1B	3	3	25.7	28	1	0	1	1.000	1.169	9.667	0	0	0
Jose Cruz	1B	2	2	13.3	17	1	0	1	1.000	12.150	9.000	0	0	0
Art Howe	1B	1	1	9.0	6	0	1	0	.857	6.000	6.000	0	0	0
Luis Pujols	1B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Art Howe	2B	107	107	922.3	224	289	12	51	.977	5.006	4.794	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	2B	54	38	368.0	62	112	3	21	.983	4.255	3.222	0	0	0
Keith Drumright	2B	17	15	128.0	27	41	4	9	.944	4.781	4.000	0	0	0
Jimmy Sexton	2B	3	2	16.0	3	6	1	1	.900	5.063	3.000	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	2B	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	1	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Roger Metzger	2B	1	0	2.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Wilbur Howard	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	3B	153	153	1330.0	136	274	18	15	.958	2.774	2.680	0	0	0
Art Howe	3B	11	8	73.0	10	13	0	0	1.000	2.836	2.091	0	0	0
Jimmy Sexton	3B	8	0	23.3	0	3	1	0	.750	1.157	.375	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	3B	4	1	14.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	2.571	1.000	0	0	0
Joe Ferguson	C	51	46	414.0	288	29	2	0	.994	6.891	6.216	5	36	18	33.3
Luis Pujols	C	55	47	410.7	271	33	6	2	.981	6.662	5.527	12	52	13	20.0
Bruce Bochy	C	53	45	393.3	268	35	8	5	.974	6.933	5.717	3	47	21	30.9
Reggie Baldwin	C	17	13	114.7	76	8	4	1	.955	6.593	4.941	0	19	4	17.4
Ed Herrmann	C	14	11	98.0	65	3	0	0	1.000	6.245	4.857	1	11	3	21.4
Wilbur Howard	C	3	0	9.7	4	1	0	0	1.000	4.655	1.667	1	2	0	0.0
Jose Cruz	OF	152	149	1323.7	311	4	8	0	.975	2.142	2.072	0	0	0
Terry Puhl	OF	148	145	1276.0	386	6	3	2	.992	2.765	2.649	0	0	0
Denny Walling	OF	78	55	540.3	140	4	3	2	.980	2.399	1.846	0	0	0
Cesar Cedeno	OF	50	50	433.7	149	2	2	1	.987	3.134	3.020	0	0	0
Wilbur Howard	OF	38	21	219.3	39	2	0	0	1.000	1.682	1.079	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	OF	29	28	218.7	48	0	2	0	.960	1.976	1.655	0	0	0
Jesus Alou	OF	28	27	205.7	40	1	1	0	.976	1.794	1.464	0	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	OF	8	7	60.0	16	1	0	1	1.000	2.550	2.125	0	0	0
Joe Cannon	OF	5	4	31.7	7	0	2	0	.778	1.989	1.400	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	OF	3	0	12.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.333	0	0	0
J. R. Richard	P	36	36	275.3	29	38	3	0	.957	2.190	1.861	0	0	0
Mark Lemongello	P	33	30	210.3	15	34	2	1	.961	2.097	1.485	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	35	29	202.7	18	21	0	3	1.000	1.732	1.114	0	0	0
Tom Dixon	P	30	19	140.0	12	16	1	1	.966	1.800	.933	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	P	52	6	133.3	9	24	2	0	.943	2.228	.635	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	P	35	13	110.7	11	27	4	1	.905	3.090	1.086	0	0	0
Floyd Bannister	P	28	16	110.3	1	6	0	2	1.000	.571	.250	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	P	62	0	88.0	6	16	2	3	.917	2.250	.355	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	P	13	10	68.0	4	7	0	0	1.000	1.456	.846	0	0	0
Rick Williams	P	17	1	34.7	1	7	1	0	.889	2.077	.471	0	0	0
Bo McLaughlin	P	12	1	23.3	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.543	.333	0	0	0
Oscar Zamora	P	10	0	15.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	1.800	.300	0	0	0
Gene Pentz	P	10	0	15.0	3	6	0	0	1.000	5.400	.900	0	0	0
Dan Warthen	P	5	1	10.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.400	0	0	0
Frank Riccelli	P	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	SS	50	48	410.0	65	132	4	18	.980	4.324	3.940	0	0	0
Jimmy Sexton	SS	58	37	339.3	59	95	3	18	.981	4.084	2.655	0	0	0
Roger Metzger	SS	42	38	333.7	59	103	6	21	.964	4.370	3.857	0	0	0
Mike Fischlin	SS	41	29	257.0	49	67	9	11	.928	4.062	2.829	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	SS	17	10	99.3	19	25	4	7	.917	3.987	2.588	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1897	1458	12963.0	4321	1617	133	294	.978	4.123	3.130	22	167	59	26.1

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