1956 Philadelphia Phillies Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 71-83
Finished 5th in the NL
Attendance: 934,798, Avg. 15,325
Ballpark: Connie Mack Stadium
Manager: Mayo Smith (71-83)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1956 Philadelphia Phillies Roster
1956 Philadelphia Phillies Results

The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League ended the 1956 season with a record of 71 wins and 83 losses, finishing fifth in the NL.

The Phillies plated 668 runs and conceded 738 runs, most in the league. Stan Lopata walloped 32 home runs for Philadelphia, while Willie Jones and Del Ennis swatted 20 or more also. Del Ennis and Stan Lopata each accounted for 95 RBI. Richie Ashburn paced all regular hitters with a .303 average. Robin Roberts topped the team with 19 wins, plus Curt Simmons added 15 or more wins, too Curt Simmons recorded a 3.36 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Mayo Smith 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
Robin Roberts	19	18	.514	4.45	43	37	6	22	1	3	297.3	328	155	147	46	40	3	157	2	0	2	1228
Curt Simmons	15	10	.600	3.36	33	27	3	14	0	0	198.0	186	95	74	17	65	7	88	3	0	1	834
Harvey Haddix	12	8	.600	3.48	31	26	4	11	2	2	206.7	196	98	80	23	55	9	154	6	0	3	870
Saul Rogovin	7	6	.538	4.98	22	18	1	3	0	0	106.7	122	65	59	22	27	3	48	0	0	2	464
Jack Meyer	7	11	.389	4.41	41	7	19	2	0	2	96.0	86	49	47	8	51	11	66	4	0	2	418
Stu Miller	5	8	.385	4.47	24	15	4	2	0	0	106.7	109	65	53	16	51	12	55	4	0	3	478
Bob Miller	3	6	.333	3.24	49	6	14	3	1	5	122.3	115	55	44	14	34	11	53	3	1	3	514
Ron Negray	2	3	.400	4.19	39	4	15	0	0	3	66.7	72	36	31	6	24	9	44	1	1	1	290
Jack Sanford	1	0	1.000	1.38	3	1	1	0	0	0	13.0	7	2	2	0	13	0	6	1	0	0	54
Angelo LiPetri	0	0		3.27	6	0	3	0	0	0	11.0	7	5	4	2	3	0	8	1	0	0	45
Duane Pillette	0	0		6.56	20	0	6	0	0	0	23.3	32	21	17	2	12	4	10	0	0	0	114
Bob Ross	0	0		8.10	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	4	3	3	1	2	0	4	0	0	1	16
Granny Hamner	0	1	.000	4.32	3	1	2	0	0	0	8.3	10	4	4	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	36
Turk Farrell	0	1	.000	12.46	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.3	6	6	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	21
Herm Wehmeier	0	2	.000	4.05	3	3	0	0	0	0	20.0	18	9	9	2	11	0	8	0	0	0	88
Ben Flowers	0	2	.000	5.71	32	0	17	0	0	0	41.0	54	29	26	9	10	1	22	1	0	2	182
Murry Dickson	0	3	.000	5.09	3	3	0	0	0	0	23.0	20	15	13	1	12	1	1	0	0	0	97
Jim Owens	0	4	.000	7.28	10	5	1	0	0	0	29.7	35	26	24	3	22	1	22	2	0	0	141
Totals	71	83	.461	4.20	366	154	97	57	4	15	1377.3	1407	738	643	172	437	72	750	29	2	20	5890

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
Richie Ashburn	154	719	628	94	190	26	8	3	50	10	1	79	45	.303	.384	.384	.768	241	4	5	6	1	3
Del Ennis	153	672	630	80	164	23	3	26	95	7	3	33	62	.260	.299	.430	.729	271	15	3	3	3	8
Willie Jones	149	621	520	88	144	20	4	17	78	5	4	92	49	.277	.383	.429	.812	223	15	1	3	5	6
Stan Lopata	146	624	535	96	143	33	7	32	95	5	2	75	93	.267	.353	.535	.888	286	17	1	4	9	10
Marv Blaylock	136	522	460	61	117	14	8	10	50	5	1	50	86	.254	.327	.385	.712	177	10	2	5	5	2
Granny Hamner	122	438	401	42	90	24	3	4	42	2	0	30	42	.224	.276	.329	.605	132	13	0	3	4	5
Elmer Valo	98	345	291	40	84	13	3	5	37	7	6	48	21	.289	.392	.405	.798	118	7	3	1	2	6
Ted Kazanski	117	406	379	35	80	11	1	4	34	0	2	20	41	.211	.251	.277	.528	105	8	1	3	3	6
Solly Hemus	78	225	187	24	54	10	4	5	24	1	1	28	21	.289	.397	.465	.863	87	6	7	1	2	2
Jim Greengrass	86	246	215	24	44	9	2	5	25	0	0	28	43	.205	.294	.335	.629	72	11	0	1	2	3
Roy Smalley	65	194	168	14	38	9	3	0	16	0	0	23	29	.226	.323	.315	.638	53	4	1	2	0	4
Andy Seminick	60	195	161	16	32	3	1	7	23	3	0	31	38	.199	.332	.360	.692	58	8	1	2	0	7
Frank Baumholtz	76	112	100	13	27	0	0	0	9	0	2	6	6	.270	.309	.270	.579	27	3	1	2	3	0
Harvey Haddix	46	98	93	6	22	4	0	0	10	0	0	5	10	.237	.276	.280	.555	26	2	0	0	0	0
Robin Roberts	43	112	100	8	20	2	1	1	8	0	0	6	13	.200	.248	.270	.518	27	3	1	3	2	0
Curt Simmons	39	79	72	6	17	3	0	0	9	0	0	4	9	.236	.273	.278	.551	20	0	0	2	1	0
Ed Bouchee	9	27	22	0	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	5	6	.273	.407	.364	.771	8	0	0	0	0	0
Glen Gorbous	15	33	33	1	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.182	.182	.182	.364	6	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Morgan	8	31	25	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	4	.200	.355	.200	.555	5	1	0	0	0	0
Jack Meyer	41	23	20	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	7	.200	.238	.350	.588	7	2	0	2	0	0
Joe Lonnett	16	24	22	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	.182	.250	.182	.432	4	1	0	0	0	0
Stu Miller	29	34	25	7	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	8	2	.160	.364	.200	.564	5	0	0	1	0	0
Saul Rogovin	22	39	36	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	8	.111	.111	.111	.222	4	0	0	3	0	0
Ron Negray	39	9	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.429	.500	.429	.929	3	0	0	1	0	0
Murry Dickson	3	9	9	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	3	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Bowman	6	16	16	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	6	.188	.188	.500	.688	8	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	49	25	22	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.091	.130	.091	.221	2	1	0	2	0	0
Mack Burk	15	1	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Sanford	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Owens	10	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	3	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	0	0	1	0	0
Herm Wehmeier	3	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turk Farrell	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Angelo LiPetri	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ben Flowers	32	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Duane Pillette	20	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Wally Westlake	5	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Ross	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1903	5910	5204	668	1313	207	49	121	616	45	23	585	673	.252	.329	.381	.709	1981	132	27	52	42	62

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Marv Blaylock	1B	124	110	1000.3	949	72	8	86	.992	9.186	8.234	0	0	0	0
Stan Lopata	1B	39	38	325.0	300	16	5	31	.984	8.751	8.103	0	0	0	0
Ed Bouchee	1B	6	6	52.0	54	3	0	6	1.000	9.865	9.500	0	0	0	0
Ted Kazanski	2B	116	107	944.7	246	261	11	68	.979	4.830	4.371	0	0	0	0
Solly Hemus	2B	49	43	382.0	94	93	5	18	.974	4.406	3.816	0	0	0	0
Granny Hamner	2B	11	2	33.7	6	4	0	1	1.000	2.673	.909	0	0	0	0
Bobby Morgan	2B	3	2	17.0	7	7	0	1	1.000	7.412	4.667	0	0	0	0
Willie Jones	3B	149	149	1321.7	202	264	13	23	.973	3.173	3.128	0	0	0	0
Bobby Morgan	3B	5	4	46.7	7	11	3	1	.857	3.471	3.600	0	0	0	0
Solly Hemus	3B	1	1	9.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Stan Lopata	C	102	102	910.0	573	24	11	10	.982	5.904	5.853	1	9	39	10	20.4
Andy Seminick	C	54	49	427.7	266	23	7	2	.976	6.082	5.352	1	9	22	10	31.3
Joe Lonnett	C	7	3	38.7	24	2	0	1	1.000	6.052	3.714	1	0	1	1	50.0
Mack Burk	C	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Richie Ashburn	OF	154	154	1368.3	503	11	9	3	.983	3.381	3.338	0	0	0	0
Del Ennis	OF	153	153	1361.3	269	8	11	0	.962	1.831	1.810	0	0	0	0
Elmer Valo	OF	87	84	722.3	167	4	6	0	.966	2.131	1.966	0	0	0	0
Jim Greengrass	OF	62	48	473.3	104	3	1	1	.991	2.035	1.726	0	0	0	0
Frank Baumholtz	OF	15	12	106.0	23	2	1	0	.962	2.123	1.667	0	0	0	0
Glen Gorbous	OF	8	6	51.7	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.394	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Bowman	OF	5	3	33.0	5	0	1	0	.833	1.364	1.000	0	0	0	0
Marv Blaylock	OF	1	2	16.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.563	1.000	0	0	0	0
Robin Roberts	P	43	37	297.3	12	50	2	4	.969	1.877	1.442	0	0	0	0
Harvey Haddix	P	31	27	206.7	7	30	1	1	.974	1.611	1.194	0	0	0	0
Curt Simmons	P	33	27	198.0	4	35	1	3	.975	1.773	1.182	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	49	6	122.3	9	19	0	1	1.000	2.060	.571	0	0	0	0
Saul Rogovin	P	22	18	106.7	10	12	1	1	.957	1.856	1.000	0	0	0	0
Stu Miller	P	24	15	106.7	9	18	0	0	1.000	2.278	1.125	0	0	0	0
Jack Meyer	P	41	7	96.0	4	17	1	2	.955	1.969	.512	0	0	0	0
Ron Negray	P	39	4	66.7	4	11	1	1	.938	2.025	.385	0	0	0	0
Ben Flowers	P	32	0	41.0	0	11	1	1	.917	2.415	.344	0	0	0	0
Jim Owens	P	10	5	29.7	2	5	0	2	1.000	2.124	.700	0	0	0	0
Duane Pillette	P	20	0	23.3	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.543	.200	0	0	0	0
Murry Dickson	P	3	3	23.0	0	6	0	1	1.000	2.348	2.000	0	0	0	0
Herm Wehmeier	P	3	3	20.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.450	.333	0	0	0	0
Jack Sanford	P	3	1	13.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	1.385	.667	0	0	0	0
Angelo LiPetri	P	6	0	11.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.455	.500	0	0	0	0
Granny Hamner	P	3	0	8.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.080	.333	0	0	0	0
Turk Farrell	P	1	1	4.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	6.231	3.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Ross	P	3	0	3.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	.667	0	0	0	0
Granny Hamner	SS	110	101	904.3	177	302	32	69	.937	4.767	4.355	0	0	0	0
Roy Smalley	SS	60	53	472.0	81	142	12	32	.949	4.252	3.717	0	0	0	0
Ted Kazanski	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1689	1386	12396.0	4132	1481	144	371	.975	4.075	3.323	3	18	62	21	25.3

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