1961 New York Yankees Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 109-53
Finished 1st in the AL
Attendance: 1,747,725, Avg. 26,481
Ballpark: Yankee Stadium I
Won World Series
World Series - Defeated Cincinnati Reds 4-1
Manager: Ralph Houk (109-53)
Location: New York, New York

1961 New York Yankees Roster
1961 New York Yankees Results

The New York Yankees of the American League ended the 1961 season with a record of 109 wins and 53 losses, finishing first in the AL.

The Yankees plated 827 runs and allowed 612 runs. Roger Maris crushed 61 homers for New York, while Yogi Berra, Bill Skowron, Johnny Blanchard, Elston Howard and Mickey Mantle each walloped 20 or more also. Roger Maris drove in 142 runs. Elston Howard led all regular hitters by hitting .348. Whitey Ford earned 25 wins on the mound for the team, and Luis Arroyo and Ralph Terry added 15 or more victories also Bill Stafford recorded a 2.68 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Ralph Houk coached the team. The 1961 New York Yankees 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
Whitey Ford	25	4	.862	3.21	39	39	0	11	3	0	283.0	242	108	101	23	92	3	209	1	0	8	1159
Ralph Terry	16	3	.842	3.15	31	27	2	9	2	0	188.3	162	74	66	19	42	0	86	1	0	0	751
Luis Arroyo	15	5	.750	2.19	65	0	54	0	0	29	119.0	83	34	29	5	49	8	87	3	0	4	484
Bill Stafford	14	9	.609	2.68	36	25	6	8	3	2	195.0	168	65	58	13	59	4	101	5	0	1	796
Jim Coates	11	5	.688	3.44	43	11	15	4	1	5	141.3	128	60	54	15	53	0	80	7	0	2	595
Rollie Sheldon	11	5	.688	3.60	35	21	5	6	2	0	162.7	149	70	65	17	55	2	84	2	0	6	670
Bud Daley	8	9	.471	3.96	23	17	0	7	0	0	129.7	127	63	57	17	51	6	83	4	1	1	558
Bob Turley	3	5	.375	5.75	15	12	1	1	0	0	72.0	74	47	46	11	51	0	48	4	0	2	334
Hal Reniff	2	0	1.000	2.58	25	0	16	0	0	2	45.3	31	14	13	1	31	3	21	0	0	4	190
Art Ditmar	2	3	.400	4.64	12	8	1	1	0	0	54.3	59	33	28	9	14	0	24	2	0	1	231
Tex Clevenger	1	1	.500	4.83	21	0	9	0	0	0	31.7	35	20	17	3	21	1	14	1	0	2	146
Danny McDevitt	1	2	.333	7.62	8	2	2	0	0	1	13.0	18	11	11	2	8	0	8	1	1	1	61
Johnny James	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4
Duke Maas	0	0		54.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Ryne Duren	0	1	.000	5.40	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	2	3	3	2	4	0	7	0	0	0	21
Al Downing	0	1	.000	8.00	5	1	3	0	0	0	9.0	7	8	8	0	12	0	12	1	1	1	47
Totals	109	53	.673	3.46	364	163	116	47	11	39	1451.0	1288	612	558	137	542	27	866	32	3	33	6050

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
Bobby Richardson	162	706	662	80	173	17	5	3	49	9	7	30	23	.261	.295	.316	.610	209	15	2	10	2	1
Tony Kubek	153	658	617	84	170	38	6	8	46	1	3	27	60	.276	.306	.395	.701	244	7	1	10	3	1
Mickey Mantle	153	646	514	132	163	16	6	54	128	12	1	126	112	.317	.448	.687	1.135	353	2	0	1	5	9
Roger Maris	161	698	590	132	159	16	4	61	142	0	0	94	67	.269	.372	.620	.993	366	16	7	0	7	0
Elston Howard	129	482	446	64	155	17	5	21	77	0	3	28	65	.348	.387	.549	.936	245	5	3	1	4	6
Bill Skowron	150	607	561	76	150	23	4	28	89	0	0	35	108	.267	.318	.472	.790	265	21	8	0	3	9
Clete Boyer	148	578	504	61	113	19	5	11	55	1	3	63	83	.224	.308	.347	.656	175	13	2	1	8	4
Yogi Berra	119	437	395	62	107	11	0	22	61	2	0	35	28	.271	.330	.466	.795	184	7	2	0	5	4
Johnny Blanchard	93	275	243	38	74	10	1	21	54	1	0	27	28	.305	.382	.613	.995	149	6	4	0	1	9
Hector Lopez	93	273	243	27	54	7	2	3	22	1	0	24	38	.222	.292	.305	.596	74	8	1	2	3	1
Bob Cerv	57	131	118	17	32	5	1	6	20	1	0	12	17	.271	.344	.483	.827	57	6	1	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	41	109	99	11	21	5	0	1	2	0	0	6	18	.212	.278	.293	.571	29	4	3	1	0	0
Whitey Ford	39	114	96	11	17	1	0	0	10	0	0	12	17	.177	.266	.188	.454	18	1	0	5	1	0
Ralph Terry	31	73	66	3	15	2	0	0	5	0	0	1	16	.227	.235	.258	.493	17	1	0	5	1	0
Bill Stafford	36	74	67	5	12	2	1	0	3	0	0	4	11	.179	.225	.239	.464	16	0	0	3	0	0
Luis Arroyo	65	28	25	2	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.280	.280	.360	.640	9	0	0	3	0	0
Rollie Sheldon	36	60	56	1	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	24	.125	.155	.125	.280	7	0	0	2	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	30	41	41	1	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	13	.146	.146	.146	.293	6	1	0	0	0	0
Bud Daley	23	48	45	3	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.133	.152	.156	.308	7	0	0	2	0	0
Jesse Gonder	15	15	12	2	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	1	.333	.467	.417	.883	5	1	0	0	0	1
Tom Tresh	9	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	1	0	0	0	0
Bob Hale	11	13	13	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.385	.538	5	1	0	0	0	0
Jack Reed	28	14	13	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.154	.214	.154	.368	2	0	0	0	0	0
Earl Torgeson	22	26	18	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	3	.111	.385	.111	.496	2	1	0	0	0	0
Deron Johnson	13	22	19	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	5	.105	.182	.105	.287	2	2	0	0	1	0
Bob Turley	15	25	21	1	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	11	.095	.091	.095	.186	2	1	0	3	1	0
Lee Thomas	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tex Clevenger	21	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750	2	0	0	0	0	0
Art Ditmar	12	19	19	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.053	.053	.053	.105	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Coates	43	45	35	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	21	.029	.081	.029	.110	1	0	1	8	0	0
Al Downing	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Reniff	25	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny McDevitt	8	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryne Duren	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny James	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Duke Maas	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1954	6239	5559	827	1461	194	40	240	782	28	18	543	785	.263	.330	.442	.771	2455	120	35	57	45	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Bill Skowron	1B	149	147	1291.0	1228	102	10	146	.993	9.272	8.926	0	0	0	0
Elston Howard	1B	9	9	86.0	90	4	1	12	.989	9.837	1.444	0	0	0	0
Earl Torgeson	1B	8	3	36.0	29	2	1	7	.969	7.750	3.875	0	0	0	0
Bob Cerv	1B	3	3	23.0	24	3	0	2	1.000	1.565	9.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Hale	1B	5	1	15.0	15	1	0	1	1.000	9.600	3.200	0	0	0	0
Bobby Richardson	2B	161	160	1405.3	413	376	18	136	.978	5.053	4.901	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	2B	6	3	32.7	9	7	0	2	1.000	4.408	2.667	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	2B	5	0	13.0	9	6	0	2	1.000	1.385	3.000	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	3B	141	138	1200.0	151	353	17	36	.967	3.780	3.574	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	3B	33	22	206.3	26	54	4	6	.952	3.489	2.424	0	0	0	0
Deron Johnson	3B	8	3	37.7	2	15	0	0	1.000	4.062	2.125	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	3B	4	0	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Elston Howard	C	111	106	923.3	635	43	5	4	.993	6.609	6.108	8	22	20	20	50.0
Johnny Blanchard	C	48	42	406.7	268	18	3	2	.990	6.330	5.958	2	11	18	5	21.7
Yogi Berra	C	15	15	121.0	76	8	0	0	1.000	6.248	5.600	3	0	6	6	50.0
Roger Maris	OF	160	160	1402.0	266	9	9	1	.968	1.765	1.719	0	0	0	0
Mickey Mantle	OF	150	149	1294.0	351	6	6	0	.983	2.483	2.380	0	0	0	0
Yogi Berra	OF	87	83	717.7	161	7	2	2	.988	2.107	1.931	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	OF	72	58	552.0	123	7	3	0	.977	2.120	1.806	0	0	0	0
Bob Cerv	OF	30	24	213.0	55	2	1	0	.983	2.408	1.900	0	0	0	0
Johnny Blanchard	OF	15	12	113.0	24	0	0	0	1.000	1.912	1.600	0	0	0	0
Jack Reed	OF	27	3	61.3	14	0	1	0	.933	2.054	.519	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	OF	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0	0
Whitey Ford	P	39	39	283.0	12	45	5	5	.919	1.813	1.462	0	0	0	0
Bill Stafford	P	36	25	195.0	7	29	1	5	.973	1.662	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ralph Terry	P	31	27	188.3	20	30	0	1	1.000	2.389	1.613	0	0	0	0
Rollie Sheldon	P	35	21	162.7	11	30	0	3	1.000	2.268	1.171	0	0	0	0
Jim Coates	P	43	11	141.3	12	19	2	2	.939	1.974	.721	0	0	0	0
Bud Daley	P	23	17	129.7	10	16	2	2	.929	1.805	1.130	0	0	0	0
Luis Arroyo	P	65	0	119.0	2	15	1	0	.944	1.286	.262	0	0	0	0
Bob Turley	P	15	12	72.0	4	8	0	0	1.000	1.500	.800	0	0	0	0
Art Ditmar	P	12	8	54.3	4	12	0	0	1.000	2.650	1.333	0	0	0	0
Hal Reniff	P	25	0	45.3	3	5	1	0	.889	1.588	.320	0	0	0	0
Tex Clevenger	P	21	0	31.7	5	6	0	1	1.000	3.126	.524	0	0	0	0
Danny McDevitt	P	8	2	13.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.077	.375	0	0	0	0
Al Downing	P	5	1	9.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000	.400	0	0	0	0
Ryne Duren	P	4	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny James	P	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Duke Maas	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Tony Kubek	SS	145	145	1259.7	261	449	30	107	.959	5.073	4.897	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	SS	18	9	103.3	15	38	1	9	.981	4.616	2.944	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	SS	12	8	75.3	19	20	0	5	1.000	4.659	3.250	0	0	0	0
Tom Tresh	SS	3	1	12.7	3	7	0	1	1.000	7.105	3.333	0	0	0	0
Totals		1790	1467	13059.0	4358	1756	124	500	.980	4.214	3.416	13	33	44	31	41.3

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BF
Whitey Ford	WS	2	0	1.000	0.00	2	2	0	1	1	0	14.0	6	0	0	0	1	0	7	1	49
Bud Daley	WS	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	7.0	5	2	0	1	0	0	3	1	27
Luis Arroyo	WS	1	0	1.000	2.25	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	4	2	1	0	2	1	3	0	18
Jim Coates	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	1	4.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	15
Bill Stafford	WS	0	0		2.70	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.7	7	2	2	0	2	1	5	0	29
Ralph Terry	WS	0	1	.000	4.82	2	2	0	0	0	0	9.3	12	7	5	2	2	1	7	0	43
Totals		4	1	.800	1.60	10	5	4	1	1	1	45.0	35	13	8	3	8	3	27	3	181

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	SF	IBB
Bobby Richardson	WS	5	23	23	2	9	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.391	.391	.435	.826	10	0	0	0	0
Bill Skowron	WS	5	20	17	3	6	0	0	1	5	0	0	3	4	.353	.450	.529	.979	9	1	0	0	0
Elston Howard	WS	5	22	20	5	5	3	0	1	1	0	0	2	3	.250	.318	.550	.868	11	2	0	0	1
Tony Kubek	WS	5	23	22	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.227	.261	.227	.488	5	0	0	0	0
Johnny Blanchard	WS	4	12	10	4	4	1	0	2	3	0	0	2	0	.400	.500	1.100	1.600	11	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	WS	5	19	15	0	4	2	0	0	3	0	0	4	0	.267	.421	.400	.821	6	1	0	0	1
Hector Lopez	WS	4	12	9	3	3	0	1	1	7	0	0	2	3	.333	.455	.889	1.343	8	0	1	0	0
Yogi Berra	WS	4	16	11	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	5	1	.273	.500	.545	1.045	6	0	0	0	2
Roger Maris	WS	5	23	19	4	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	4	6	.105	.261	.316	.577	6	0	0	0	1
Mickey Mantle	WS	2	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0
Jim Coates	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Bud Daley	WS	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	1	0
Whitey Ford	WS	2	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Stafford	WS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Ralph Terry	WS	2	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0	0
Luis Arroyo	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Jack Reed	WS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals		58	193	165	27	42	8	1	7	26	1	1	24	25	.255	.347	.442	.790	73	4	3	1	5

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB
Bill Skowron	WS	1B	5	5	45.0	46	5	0	1	1.000	1.200	1.200	0
Bobby Richardson	WS	2B	5	5	45.0	10	16	0	1	1.000	5.200	5.200	0
Clete Boyer	WS	3B	5	5	45.0	6	12	1	0	.947	3.600	3.600	0
Elston Howard	WS	C	5	5	45.0	31	0	0	0	1.000	6.200	6.200	1
Roger Maris	WS	CF	4	3	31.0	6	1	0	0	1.000	2.032	1.750	0
Mickey Mantle	WS	CF	2	2	11.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.636	1.000	0
Jack Reed	WS	CF	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Yogi Berra	WS	LF	4	4	36.0	11	0	1	0	.917	2.750	2.750	0
Hector Lopez	WS	LF	1	1	9.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.000	5.000	0
Whitey Ford	WS	P	2	2	14.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.643	.500	0
Ralph Terry	WS	P	2	2	9.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.893	1.500	0
Bud Daley	WS	P	2	0	7.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0
Bill Stafford	WS	P	1	1	6.7	1	0	1	0	.500	1.350	1.000	0
Jim Coates	WS	P	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Luis Arroyo	WS	P	2	0	4.0	1	1	1	0	.667	4.500	1.000	0
Johnny Blanchard	WS	RF	2	2	17.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.588	1.500	0
Roger Maris	WS	RF	4	2	14.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	3.214	1.250	0
Hector Lopez	WS	RF	2	1	14.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.500	0
Tony Kubek	WS	SS	5	5	45.0	5	11	0	1	1.000	3.200	3.200	0
Totals			57	45	405.0	135	50	5	3	.974	4.111	3.246	1

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