1903 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 91-49
Finished 1st in the NL
Attendance: 326,855, Avg. 4,586
Ballpark: Exposition Park
Won League Championship Series
World Series - Lost to Boston Americans 5-3
Manager: Fred Clarke (91-49)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1903 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1903 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1903 season with a record of 91 wins and 49 losses, finishing first in the NL.

The Pirates topped the league with 793 runs, ignited by 34 home runs. Pittsburgh surrendered 613 runs. Honus Wagner drove in 101 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .355 clip. Sam Leever and Deacon Phillippe apiece recorded 25 wins on the mound for the team, while Ed Doheny as well added 15 or more victories as well Sam Leever recorded a 2.06 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Fred Clarke coached the team. The 1903 Pittsburgh Pirates won the League Championship Series.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Sam Leever	25	7	.781	2.06	36	34	2	30	7	1	284.3	255	98	65	2	60	90	5	0	6	1135
Deacon Phillippe	25	9	.735	2.43	36	33	3	31	4	2	289.3	269	116	78	4	29	123	4	1	5	1150
Ed Doheny	16	8	.667	3.19	27	25	2	22	2	2	222.7	209	122	79	1	89	75	19	0	8	939
Brickyard Kennedy	9	6	.600	3.45	18	15	3	10	1	0	125.3	130	62	48	0	57	39	2	0	3	529
Kaiser Wilhelm	5	3	.625	3.24	12	9	3	7	1	0	86.0	88	51	31	0	25	20	3	0	0	361
Bucky Veil	5	3	.625	3.82	12	6	6	4	0	0	70.7	70	35	30	1	36	20	2	0	2	298
Lave Winham	3	1	.750	2.25	5	4	1	3	1	0	36.0	33	20	9	0	21	22	0	0	3	164
Gus Thompson	2	2	.500	3.56	5	4	1	3	0	0	43.0	52	30	17	1	16	22	1	0	0	193
Cy Falkenberg	1	5	.167	3.86	10	6	4	3	0	0	56.0	65	43	24	0	32	24	2	0	1	254
George Merritt	0	0		2.25	1	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	4	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	16
Doc Scanlan	0	1	.000	4.00	1	1	0	1	0	0	9.0	5	7	4	0	6	0	0	0	0	36
Lew Moren	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	1	0	0	6.0	9	7	6	0	2	2	1	0	1	29
Jack Pfiester	0	3	.000	6.16	3	3	0	2	0	0	19.0	26	21	13	0	10	15	2	0	0	93
Totals	91	49	.650	2.91	167	141	26	117	16	5	1251.3	1215	615	405	9	384	454	41	1	29	5197

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Ginger Beaumont	141	674	613	137	209	30	6	7	68	23	44	18	.341	.390	.444	.833	272	5	12
Honus Wagner	129	571	512	97	182	30	19	5	101	46	44	17	.355	.414	.518	.931	265	7	8
Tommy Leach	127	561	507	97	151	16	17	7	87	22	40	32	.298	.352	.438	.789	222	2	12
Fred Clarke	104	486	427	88	150	32	15	5	70	21	41	27	.351	.414	.532	.946	227	5	13
Claude Ritchey	138	576	506	66	145	28	10	0	59	15	55	29	.287	.360	.381	.741	193	3	12
Jimmy Sebring	124	546	506	71	140	16	13	4	64	20	32	45	.277	.325	.383	.708	194	4	4
Kitty Bransfield	127	553	505	69	134	23	7	2	57	13	33	42	.265	.314	.350	.665	177	3	12
Ed Phelps	81	304	273	32	77	7	3	2	31	2	17	35	.282	.338	.352	.689	96	6	8
Otto Krueger	80	293	256	42	63	6	8	1	28	5	21	18	.246	.323	.344	.667	88	8	8
Harry Smith	61	234	212	15	37	3	2	0	19	2	12	26	.175	.222	.208	.430	44	1	9
Deacon Phillippe	37	130	124	20	26	4	2	0	16	0	5	20	.210	.246	.274	.520	34	1	0
Brickyard Kennedy	23	62	58	7	21	4	3	0	10	0	2	6	.362	.383	.534	.918	31	0	2
Ed Doheny	27	96	91	11	19	1	0	0	6	1	3	20	.209	.242	.220	.462	20	1	1
Sam Leever	36	123	115	11	19	0	1	0	12	0	4	18	.165	.193	.183	.376	21	0	4
Art Weaver	16	50	48	8	11	0	1	0	3	0	2	7	.229	.260	.271	.531	13	0	0
Gene Curtis	5	20	19	2	8	1	0	0	3	0	1	2	.421	.450	.474	.924	9	0	0
Fred Carisch	5	18	18	4	6	4	0	1	5	0	0	1	.333	.333	.722	1.056	13	0	0
Joe Marshall	10	23	23	2	6	1	2	0	2	0	0	5	.261	.261	.478	.739	11	0	0
Bucky Veil	12	29	29	2	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	.207	.207	.241	.448	7	0	0
Gus Thompson	5	17	16	0	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	.250	.294	.250	.544	4	1	0
Cy Falkenberg	10	24	21	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.190	.261	.190	.451	4	1	1
George Merritt	9	31	27	4	4	0	1	0	3	1	2	4	.148	.233	.222	.456	6	1	1
Kaiser Wilhelm	13	37	34	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.088	.162	.088	.250	3	1	0
Ernie Diehl	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0
Reddy Grey	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0
Hans Lobert	5	15	13	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	.077	.143	.154	.297	2	0	1
Lave Winham	5	14	14	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	.071	.071	.071	.143	1	0	0
Lou Gertenrich	1	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1
Doc Scanlan	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0
Solly Hofman	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Jack Pfiester	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Lew Moren	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals	1341	5511	4988	793	1429	208	110	34	650	172	364	400	.286	.341	.393	.734	1959	50	109

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Kitty Bransfield	1B	127	1129.0	1347	88	28	82	.981	11.439	11.299	0	0	0
Honus Wagner	1B	6	54.0	63	3	1	2	.985	11.000	11.000	0	0	0
Art Weaver	1B	5	44.0	51	3	2	2	.964	11.045	1.800	0	0	0
Ed Phelps	1B	3	25.0	30	2	0	0	1.000	11.520	1.667	0	0	0
Claude Ritchey	2B	137	1210.0	281	460	30	45	.961	5.512	5.409	0	0	0
Otto Krueger	2B	3	23.0	8	5	1	2	.929	5.087	4.333	0	0	0
Hans Lobert	2B	1	11.0	3	3	1	1	.857	4.909	6.000	0	0	0
Joe Marshall	2B	1	9.0	1	2	1	0	.750	3.000	3.000	0	0	0
Tommy Leach	3B	127	1136.0	178	292	65	16	.879	3.724	3.701	0	0	0
Otto Krueger	3B	13	96.0	11	29	1	2	.976	3.750	3.077	0	0	0
Hans Lobert	3B	3	20.0	3	4	2	0	.778	3.150	2.333	0	0	0
Ed Phelps	C	76	622.0	315	81	8	7	.980	5.730	5.211	13	76	67	46.9
Harry Smith	C	60	518.0	259	75	9	2	.974	5.803	5.567	8	62	62	50.0
Art Weaver	C	11	70.0	35	10	1	1	.978	5.786	4.091	2	8	8	50.0
Fred Carisch	C	4	44.0	24	7	1	0	.969	6.341	7.750	2	5	6	54.5
Ginger Beaumont	OF	141	1250.0	258	15	15	2	.948	1.966	1.936	0	0	0
Jimmy Sebring	OF	124	1110.0	208	20	18	11	.927	1.849	1.839	0	0	0
Fred Clarke	OF	101	886.0	168	10	7	3	.962	1.808	1.762	0	0	0
Otto Krueger	OF	28	269.0	48	7	3	0	.948	1.840	1.964	0	0	0
Honus Wagner	OF	12	98.0	20	1	1	0	.955	1.929	1.750	0	0	0
Gene Curtis	OF	5	49.0	9	1	2	0	.833	1.837	2.000	0	0	0
George Merritt	OF	7	48.0	8	0	1	0	.889	1.500	1.143	0	0	0
Deacon Phillippe	OF	1	14.0	3	0	1	0	.750	1.929	3.000	0	0	0
Kaiser Wilhelm	OF	1	12.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	3.000	0	0	0
Lou Gertenrich	OF	1	9.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0	0	0
Reddy Grey	OF	1	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000	0	0	0
Joe Marshall	OF	3	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Harry Smith	OF	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Solly Hofman	OF	2	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ernie Diehl	OF	1	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Deacon Phillippe	P	36	289.0	11	65	3	1	.962	2.367	2.111	0	0	0
Sam Leever	P	36	284.0	12	76	4	1	.957	2.789	2.444	0	0	0
Ed Doheny	P	27	223.0	17	86	10	0	.912	4.157	3.815	0	0	0
Brickyard Kennedy	P	18	125.0	2	29	1	0	.969	2.232	1.722	0	0	0
Kaiser Wilhelm	P	12	86.0	1	33	2	2	.944	3.558	2.833	0	0	0
Bucky Veil	P	12	71.0	4	17	0	0	1.000	2.662	1.750	0	0	0
Cy Falkenberg	P	10	56.0	7	21	3	0	.903	4.500	2.800	0	0	0
Gus Thompson	P	5	43.0	2	8	3	0	.769	2.093	2.000	0	0	0
Lave Winham	P	5	36.0	3	5	4	0	.667	2.000	1.600	0	0	0
Jack Pfiester	P	3	19.0	2	3	1	0	.833	2.368	1.667	0	0	0
Doc Scanlan	P	1	9.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Lew Moren	P	1	6.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.000	0	0	0
George Merritt	P	1	4.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Honus Wagner	SS	111	1020.0	303	397	50	51	.933	6.176	6.306	0	0	0
Otto Krueger	SS	29	201.0	42	72	15	13	.884	5.104	3.931	0	0	0
Joe Marshall	SS	3	23.0	7	6	0	1	1.000	5.087	4.333	0	0	0
Fred Clarke	SS	2	7.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	5.143	2.000	0	0	0
Hans Lobert	SS	1	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1319	11274.0	3753	1942	295	247	.951	4.546	4.318	25	151	143	48.6

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Deacon Phillippe	WS	3	2	.600	3.07	5	5	0	5	44.0	38	19	15	0	3	22	1	1	178
Bucky Veil	WS	0	0		1.29	1	0	1	0	7.0	5	1	1	1	5	1	1	0	31
Gus Thompson	WS	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	2.0	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	9
Brickyard Kennedy	WS	0	1	.000	5.14	1	1	0	0	7.0	10	10	4	0	3	3	0	0	38
Sam Leever	WS	0	2	.000	5.40	2	2	0	1	10.0	13	8	6	1	3	2	1	0	48
Totals		3	5	.375	3.47	10	8	2	6	70.0	69	39	27	2	14	29	3	1	304

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH
Jimmy Sebring	WS	8	31	30	3	10	0	1	1	4	0	1	1	4	.333	.355	.500	.855	15	0	0	0
Tommy Leach	WS	8	34	33	3	9	0	4	0	7	1	1	1	4	.273	.294	.515	.809	17	1	0	0
Ginger Beaumont	WS	8	36	34	6	9	0	1	0	1	2	0	2	4	.265	.306	.324	.629	11	0	0	0
Fred Clarke	WS	8	35	34	3	9	2	1	0	2	1	0	1	5	.265	.286	.382	.668	13	0	0	0
Ed Phelps	WS	8	28	26	1	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.231	.259	.308	.567	8	0	0	1
Honus Wagner	WS	8	32	27	2	6	1	0	0	3	3	1	3	4	.222	.323	.259	.582	7	0	1	1
Kitty Bransfield	WS	8	31	29	3	6	0	2	0	1	1	0	1	6	.207	.233	.345	.578	10	0	0	1
Deacon Phillippe	WS	5	18	18	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.222	.222	.222	.444	4	0	0	0
Claude Ritchey	WS	8	31	27	2	4	1	0	0	2	1	0	4	7	.148	.258	.185	.443	5	0	0	0
Brickyard Kennedy	WS	1	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0
Sam Leever	WS	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Harry Smith	WS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Gus Thompson	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bucky Veil	WS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		75	288	270	24	64	7	9	1	22	9	3	14	45	.237	.277	.341	.618	92	1	1	3

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Kitty Bransfield	WS	1B	8	8	70.0	81	6	3	5	.967	11.186	1.875
Claude Ritchey	WS	2B	8	8	70.0	20	29	0	5	1.000	6.300	6.125
Tommy Leach	WS	3B	8	8	70.0	5	16	4	0	.840	2.700	2.625
Ed Phelps	WS	C	7	7	62.0	36	5	2	0	.953	5.952	5.857
Harry Smith	WS	C	1	1	8.0	2	1	1	0	.750	3.375	3.000
Ginger Beaumont	WS	CF	8	8	70.0	21	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	2.625
Fred Clarke	WS	LF	8	8	70.0	18	0	1	0	.947	2.314	2.250
Deacon Phillippe	WS	P	5	5	44.0	2	9	1	0	.917	2.250	2.200
Sam Leever	WS	P	2	2	10.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000
Bucky Veil	WS	P	1	0	7.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000
Brickyard Kennedy	WS	P	1	1	7.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000
Gus Thompson	WS	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
Jimmy Sebring	WS	RF	8	8	70.0	13	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.750
Honus Wagner	WS	SS	8	8	70.0	12	30	6	4	.875	5.400	5.250
Totals			74	72	630.0	210	101	19	14	.942	4.443	4.203

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