
1961 Los Angeles Dodgers Statistics
Team Record: 89-65
Finished 2nd in the NL
Attendance: 1,804,250, Avg. 24,065
Ballpark: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Manager: Walter Alston (89-65)
Location: Los Angeles, California
1961 Los Angeles Dodgers Results
The Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League ended the 1961 season with a record of 89 wins and 65 losses, finishing second in the NL.
The Dodgers scored 735 runs and conceded 697 runs. John Roseboro paced Los Angeles with 18 home runs, while Tommy Davis, Frank Howard, Wally Moon and Duke Snider each walloped 20 or more, too. Wally Moon drove in 88 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .328 clip. Johnny Podres and Sandy Koufax led the team with 18 wins each, and Stan Williams, too added 15 or more wins, too Sandy Koufax recorded a 3.52 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.
Walter Alston 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Johnny Podres | 18 | 5 | .783 | 3.74 | 32 | 29 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 182.7 | 192 | 81 | 76 | 27 | 51 | 2 | 124 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 772 |
Sandy Koufax | 18 | 13 | .581 | 3.52 | 42 | 35 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 255.7 | 212 | 117 | 100 | 27 | 96 | 6 | 269 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 1068 |
Stan Williams | 15 | 12 | .556 | 3.90 | 41 | 35 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 235.3 | 213 | 114 | 102 | 21 | 108 | 9 | 205 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 1008 |
Don Drysdale | 13 | 10 | .565 | 3.69 | 40 | 37 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 244.0 | 236 | 111 | 100 | 29 | 83 | 15 | 182 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 1047 |
Ron Perranoski | 7 | 5 | .583 | 2.65 | 53 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 91.7 | 82 | 31 | 27 | 5 | 41 | 7 | 56 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 393 |
Turk Farrell | 6 | 6 | .500 | 5.06 | 50 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 89.0 | 107 | 56 | 50 | 12 | 43 | 14 | 80 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 414 |
Roger Craig | 5 | 6 | .455 | 6.15 | 40 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 112.7 | 130 | 87 | 77 | 22 | 52 | 7 | 63 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 513 |
Larry Sherry | 4 | 4 | .500 | 3.90 | 53 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 94.7 | 90 | 48 | 41 | 10 | 39 | 9 | 79 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 404 |
Ed Roebuck | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 5.00 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
Jim Golden | 1 | 1 | .500 | 5.79 | 28 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42.0 | 52 | 30 | 27 | 7 | 20 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 199 |
Ed Palmquist | 0 | 1 | .000 | 6.23 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8.7 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 43 |
Phil Ortega | 0 | 2 | .000 | 5.54 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
Totals | 89 | 65 | .578 | 4.04 | 393 | 154 | 114 | 40 | 8 | 35 | 1378.3 | 1346 | 697 | 619 | 167 | 544 | 71 | 1105 | 48 | 7 | 66 | 5950 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maury Wills | 148 | 687 | 613 | 105 | 173 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 31 | 35 | 15 | 59 | 50 | .282 | .346 | .339 | .685 | 208 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 2 |
Wally Moon | 134 | 561 | 463 | 79 | 152 | 25 | 3 | 17 | 88 | 7 | 5 | 89 | 79 | .328 | .434 | .505 | .940 | 234 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
Tommy Davis | 132 | 508 | 460 | 60 | 128 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 58 | 10 | 4 | 32 | 53 | .278 | .325 | .413 | .738 | 190 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 |
Jim Gilliam | 144 | 531 | 439 | 74 | 107 | 26 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 8 | 4 | 79 | 34 | .244 | .358 | .344 | .702 | 151 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 |
John Roseboro | 128 | 462 | 394 | 59 | 99 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 59 | 6 | 4 | 56 | 62 | .251 | .346 | .459 | .805 | 181 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
Willie Davis | 128 | 380 | 339 | 56 | 86 | 19 | 6 | 12 | 45 | 12 | 5 | 27 | 46 | .254 | .316 | .451 | .767 | 153 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
Charlie Neal | 108 | 377 | 341 | 40 | 80 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 48 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 49 | .235 | .297 | .346 | .643 | 118 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Ron Fairly | 111 | 301 | 245 | 42 | 79 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 22 | .322 | .434 | .522 | .956 | 128 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
Frank Howard | 92 | 292 | 267 | 36 | 79 | 10 | 2 | 15 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 50 | .296 | .347 | .517 | .864 | 138 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Norm Larker | 97 | 312 | 282 | 29 | 76 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 22 | .270 | .326 | .387 | .712 | 109 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
Duke Snider | 85 | 266 | 233 | 35 | 69 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 43 | .296 | .375 | .562 | .937 | 131 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Gil Hodges | 109 | 245 | 215 | 25 | 52 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 43 | .242 | .313 | .372 | .685 | 80 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
Daryl Spencer | 60 | 217 | 189 | 27 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 35 | .243 | .327 | .407 | .735 | 77 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Norm Sherry | 47 | 130 | 121 | 10 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 30 | .256 | .308 | .397 | .704 | 48 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Johnny Podres | 32 | 76 | 69 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .232 | .250 | .261 | .511 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Don Drysdale | 40 | 95 | 83 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 24 | .193 | .244 | .386 | .630 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
Bob Aspromonte | 47 | 62 | 58 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | .241 | .290 | .293 | .583 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stan Williams | 41 | 91 | 78 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 39 | .167 | .235 | .192 | .428 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Gordie Windhorn | 34 | 37 | 33 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | .242 | .324 | .545 | .870 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Charley Smith | 9 | 25 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .250 | .280 | .542 | .822 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Don Demeter | 15 | 33 | 29 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | .172 | .250 | .276 | .526 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Sandy Koufax | 42 | 94 | 77 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 35 | .065 | .163 | .065 | .228 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Tim Harkness | 5 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .500 | .636 | .750 | 1.386 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Roger Craig | 40 | 33 | 27 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | .148 | .233 | .185 | .419 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Doug Camilli | 13 | 31 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | .133 | .161 | .433 | .595 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Larry Sherry | 53 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .154 | .267 | .154 | .421 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Phil Ortega | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bob Lillis | 19 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .111 | .200 | .111 | .311 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Carl Warwick | 19 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .091 | .231 | .091 | .322 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ron Perranoski | 53 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .083 | .214 | .083 | .298 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Turk Farrell | 50 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Jim Golden | 28 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ed Roebuck | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ed Palmquist | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Totals | 2077 | 5940 | 5189 | 735 | 1358 | 193 | 40 | 157 | 673 | 86 | 45 | 596 | 796 | .262 | .338 | .405 | .743 | 2102 | 117 | 23 | 96 | 36 | 53 |
Fielding:
Player | Pos | GP | GS | Inn. | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/9 | RF/G | PB | WP | SB | CS | CS% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Norm Larker | 1B | 86 | 79 | 633.0 | 589 | 52 | 3 | 68 | .995 | 9.114 | 7.453 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Gil Hodges | 1B | 100 | 48 | 527.0 | 454 | 37 | 1 | 44 | .998 | 8.385 | 4.910 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ron Fairly | 1B | 23 | 21 | 163.3 | 157 | 11 | 2 | 16 | .988 | 9.257 | 7.304 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Frank Howard | 1B | 7 | 5 | 41.0 | 43 | 4 | 2 | 2 | .959 | 1.317 | 6.714 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tim Harkness | 1B | 2 | 1 | 14.0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 7.714 | 6.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Charlie Neal | 2B | 104 | 88 | 820.3 | 211 | 246 | 11 | 63 | .976 | 5.014 | 4.394 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jim Gilliam | 2B | 71 | 66 | 550.0 | 133 | 179 | 6 | 45 | .981 | 5.105 | 4.394 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bob Lillis | 2B | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 13.500 | 9.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bob Aspromonte | 2B | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Daryl Spencer | 3B | 57 | 55 | 451.0 | 42 | 92 | 5 | 14 | .964 | 2.674 | 2.351 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tommy Davis | 3B | 59 | 57 | 432.0 | 30 | 88 | 13 | 6 | .901 | 2.458 | 2.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jim Gilliam | 3B | 74 | 35 | 406.3 | 48 | 104 | 7 | 9 | .956 | 3.367 | 2.054 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Charley Smith | 3B | 4 | 4 | 33.0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.909 | 1.750 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bob Aspromonte | 3B | 9 | 2 | 33.0 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .917 | 3.000 | 1.222 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bob Lillis | 3B | 12 | 1 | 23.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.174 | .250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
John Roseboro | C | 125 | 117 | 1013.3 | 877 | 56 | 13 | 16 | .986 | 8.287 | 7.464 | 10 | 48 | 31 | 27 | 46.6 |
Norm Sherry | C | 45 | 31 | 295.7 | 253 | 16 | 2 | 3 | .993 | 8.188 | 5.978 | 3 | 14 | 19 | 5 | 20.8 |
Doug Camilli | C | 12 | 6 | 69.3 | 64 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .986 | 8.957 | 5.750 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 25.0 |
Wally Moon | OF | 133 | 131 | 1105.0 | 186 | 5 | 6 | 1 | .970 | 1.556 | 1.436 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Willie Davis | OF | 114 | 84 | 787.3 | 224 | 4 | 4 | 1 | .983 | 2.606 | 2.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tommy Davis | OF | 86 | 60 | 596.3 | 143 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .973 | 2.203 | 1.698 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Duke Snider | OF | 66 | 57 | 496.0 | 113 | 6 | 3 | 3 | .975 | 2.159 | 1.803 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Frank Howard | OF | 65 | 61 | 487.0 | 79 | 6 | 6 | 0 | .934 | 1.571 | 1.308 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ron Fairly | OF | 71 | 45 | 430.7 | 85 | 7 | 1 | 1 | .989 | 1.923 | 1.296 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Don Demeter | OF | 14 | 6 | 70.3 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .950 | 2.431 | 1.357 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Gordie Windhorn | OF | 17 | 8 | 70.0 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .944 | 2.186 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jim Gilliam | OF | 11 | 9 | 63.0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.273 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Carl Warwick | OF | 12 | 1 | 24.3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .740 | .167 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Norm Larker | OF | 1 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Sandy Koufax | P | 42 | 35 | 255.7 | 7 | 26 | 2 | 2 | .943 | 1.162 | .786 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Don Drysdale | P | 40 | 37 | 244.0 | 13 | 36 | 3 | 3 | .942 | 1.807 | 1.225 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Stan Williams | P | 41 | 35 | 235.3 | 12 | 37 | 7 | 3 | .875 | 1.874 | 1.195 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Johnny Podres | P | 32 | 29 | 182.7 | 6 | 26 | 1 | 2 | .970 | 1.577 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Roger Craig | P | 40 | 14 | 112.7 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 1 | .952 | 1.598 | .500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Larry Sherry | P | 53 | 1 | 94.7 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .813 | 1.236 | .245 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ron Perranoski | P | 53 | 1 | 91.7 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 1 | .957 | 2.160 | .415 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Turk Farrell | P | 50 | 0 | 89.0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .910 | .180 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jim Golden | P | 28 | 0 | 42.0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.929 | .321 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Phil Ortega | P | 4 | 2 | 13.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .692 | .250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ed Roebuck | P | 5 | 0 | 9.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .750 | 3.000 | .600 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ed Palmquist | P | 5 | 0 | 8.7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .667 | 2.077 | .400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Maury Wills | SS | 148 | 146 | 1305.3 | 253 | 428 | 29 | 104 | .959 | 4.695 | 4.601 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Daryl Spencer | SS | 3 | 2 | 24.0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 4.875 | 4.333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bob Aspromonte | SS | 4 | 3 | 24.0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 5.625 | 3.750 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Charley Smith | SS | 3 | 3 | 22.0 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | .917 | 4.500 | 3.667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bob Lillis | SS | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 1935 | 1386 | 12405.0 | 4135 | 1573 | 144 | 419 | .975 | 4.141 | 2.950 | 14 | 66 | 53 | 33 | 38.4 |
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