1955 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 60-94
Finished 8th in the NL
Attendance: 469,397, Avg. 7,538
Ballpark: Forbes Field
Manager: Fred Haney (60-94)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1955 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1955 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1955 season with a record of 60 wins and 94 losses, finishing eighth in the NL.

The Pirates scored 560 runs, worst in the league, and conceded 767 runs, most in the circuit. Frank Thomas led Pittsburgh with 25 home runs, and Dale Long walloped 20 or more as well. Dale Long recorded 79 runs batted in and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .291 clip. Bob Friend paced the team with 14 wins and a team-best 2.83 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Fred Haney 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
Bob Friend	14	9	.609	2.83	44	20	11	9	2	2	200.3	178	80	63	18	52	4	98	2	0	0	813
Vern Law	10	10	.500	3.81	43	24	13	8	1	1	200.7	221	98	85	19	61	7	82	1	0	5	865
Max Surkont	7	14	.333	5.57	35	22	7	5	0	2	166.3	194	109	103	23	78	4	84	3	0	6	745
Dick Hall	6	6	.500	3.91	15	13	2	4	0	1	94.3	92	43	41	8	28	4	46	2	0	0	401
Ron Kline	6	13	.316	4.15	36	19	12	2	1	2	136.7	161	78	63	13	53	5	48	5	2	2	611
Roy Face	5	7	.417	3.58	42	10	21	4	0	5	125.7	128	58	50	10	40	4	84	0	0	3	524
Dick Littlefield	5	12	.294	5.12	35	17	5	4	1	0	130.0	148	91	74	15	68	8	70	2	1	5	598
Lino Donoso	4	6	.400	5.31	25	9	10	3	0	1	95.0	106	58	56	16	35	3	38	1	0	1	418
Bob Purkey	2	7	.222	5.32	14	10	3	2	0	1	67.7	77	47	40	5	25	1	24	2	0	1	298
Nelson King	1	3	.250	2.98	17	4	7	0	0	0	54.3	60	24	18	2	14	3	21	2	0	0	232
Bill Bell	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Fred Waters	0	0		3.60	2	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	7	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	24
Al Grunwald	0	0		4.70	3	0	1	0	0	0	7.7	7	4	4	1	7	0	2	0	0	0	36
Red Swanson	0	0		18.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	4	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	10
Ben Wade	0	1	.000	3.21	11	1	7	0	0	1	28.0	26	12	10	3	14	4	7	1	0	0	123
Jake Thies	0	1	.000	4.91	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.7	5	5	2	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	20
Laurin Pepper	0	1	.000	10.35	14	1	6	0	0	0	20.0	30	24	23	5	25	0	7	2	0	2	111
Paul Martin	0	1	.000	14.14	7	1	3	0	0	0	7.0	13	12	11	0	17	0	3	1	1	1	49
Roger Bowman	0	3	.000	8.64	7	2	1	0	0	0	16.7	25	18	16	2	10	2	8	1	0	4	85
Totals	60	94	.390	4.39	353	154	113	41	5	16	1362.0	1480	767	665	142	536	50	622	26	4	30	5967

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
Dick Groat	151	572	521	45	139	28	2	4	51	0	2	38	26	.267	.317	.351	.669	183	20	1	11	1	11
Frank Thomas	142	581	510	72	125	16	2	25	72	2	0	60	76	.245	.324	.431	.755	220	13	2	3	6	10
Dale Long	131	478	419	59	122	19	13	16	79	0	1	48	72	.291	.362	.513	.875	215	14	1	6	4	6
Roberto Clemente	124	501	474	48	121	23	11	5	47	2	5	18	60	.255	.284	.382	.666	181	14	2	4	3	3
Gene Freese	134	510	455	69	115	21	8	14	44	5	1	34	57	.253	.310	.426	.736	194	10	4	16	1	4
Johnny O'Brien	84	304	278	22	83	15	2	1	25	1	1	20	19	.299	.346	.378	.723	105	7	1	3	2	1
Jerry Lynch	88	308	282	43	80	18	6	5	28	2	2	22	33	.284	.331	.443	.774	125	7	0	0	4	4
Jack Shepard	94	301	264	24	63	10	2	2	23	1	0	33	25	.239	.321	.314	.635	83	8	0	2	2	3
Eddie O'Brien	75	261	236	26	55	3	1	0	8	4	5	18	13	.233	.290	.254	.544	60	2	1	6	0	0
Dick Cole	77	260	239	16	54	8	3	0	21	0	0	18	22	.226	.285	.285	.569	68	5	2	0	1	1
George Freese	51	202	179	17	46	8	2	3	22	1	1	17	18	.257	.327	.374	.701	67	7	2	3	1	2
Toby Atwell	71	253	207	21	44	8	0	1	18	0	1	40	16	.213	.337	.266	.603	55	4	1	1	4	9
Preston Ward	84	208	179	16	38	7	4	5	25	0	0	22	28	.212	.296	.380	.675	68	3	0	5	2	4
Roman Mejias	71	176	167	14	36	8	1	3	21	1	3	9	13	.216	.256	.329	.585	55	3	0	0	0	0
Hardy Peterson	32	92	81	7	20	6	0	1	10	0	0	7	7	.247	.311	.358	.669	29	3	1	2	1	1
Felipe Montemayor	36	114	95	10	20	1	3	2	8	1	0	18	24	.211	.342	.347	.689	33	2	1	0	0	2
Tom Saffell	73	132	113	21	19	1	0	1	3	1	0	15	22	.168	.266	.204	.469	23	1	0	4	0	3
Vern Law	44	69	63	8	16	3	0	1	8	1	0	4	16	.254	.299	.349	.648	22	0	0	2	0	0
Bob Friend	44	70	61	3	10	1	0	0	4	0	0	3	15	.164	.203	.180	.383	11	0	0	6	0	0
Sid Gordon	16	49	47	2	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.170	.204	.191	.396	9	3	0	0	0	0
Dick Hall	21	47	40	3	7	1	0	1	3	0	0	6	5	.175	.283	.275	.558	11	3	0	1	0	0
Max Surkont	35	59	50	5	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	13	.140	.218	.160	.378	8	0	1	4	0	0
Bob Purkey	14	22	19	1	6	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	4	.316	.316	.474	.789	9	0	0	3	0	0
Dick Littlefield	35	39	34	1	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	15	.176	.263	.206	.469	7	0	0	1	0	0
Lino Donoso	25	30	27	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.185	.185	.185	.370	5	2	0	3	0	0
Ron Kline	37	40	38	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	21	.132	.154	.132	.285	5	0	0	1	0	0
Roy Face	43	30	26	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.115	.148	.154	.302	4	0	0	3	0	0
Al Grunwald	3	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Nick Koback	5	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Curt Roberts	6	19	17	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.118	.211	.176	.387	3	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Bowman	7	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	1	0	0
John Powers	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Earl Smith	5	21	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	.063	.286	.063	.348	1	0	1	0	0	0
Ben Wade	11	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Waters	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Laurin Pepper	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nelson King	17	14	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	2	0	0
Dick Smith	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Martin	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jake Thies	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Bell	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Red Swanson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1918	5790	5173	560	1262	210	60	91	532	22	22	471	652	.244	.308	.361	.668	1865	132	21	93	32	64

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Dale Long	1B	119	116	995.7	968	97	13	114	.988	9.627	8.950	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	1B	48	38	366.3	384	35	1	41	.998	1.294	8.729	0	0	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	2B	78	75	672.7	185	220	13	53	.969	5.419	5.192	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	2B	57	52	456.0	128	173	11	41	.965	5.941	5.281	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	2B	24	22	189.3	60	67	4	13	.969	6.037	5.292	0	0	0	0
Curt Roberts	2B	6	5	44.0	7	14	2	4	.913	4.295	3.500	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	3B	65	64	563.7	55	127	11	16	.943	2.906	2.800	0	0	0	0
George Freese	3B	50	49	431.0	50	82	9	3	.936	2.756	2.640	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	3B	33	29	262.0	25	61	6	7	.935	2.954	2.606	0	0	0	0
Sid Gordon	3B	8	8	65.3	5	21	0	4	1.000	3.582	3.250	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	3B	7	4	40.0	8	7	2	0	.882	3.375	2.143	0	0	0	0
Ron Kline	3B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0	0
Jack Shepard	C	77	71	594.0	288	34	6	6	.982	4.879	4.182	13	6	12	12	50.0
Toby Atwell	C	67	58	524.7	334	24	3	3	.992	6.141	5.343	5	8	19	7	26.9
Hardy Peterson	C	31	22	214.3	117	21	5	4	.965	5.795	4.452	1	0	8	9	52.9
Jerry Lynch	C	2	2	18.0	8	2	0	0	1.000	5.000	5.000	0	0	0	1	100.0
Nick Koback	C	2	1	11.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	4.091	2.500	0	2	0	0
Frank Thomas	OF	139	136	1205.0	307	8	5	3	.984	2.353	2.266	0	0	0	0
Roberto Clemente	OF	118	107	964.0	253	18	6	5	.978	2.530	2.297	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lynch	OF	71	64	560.0	104	11	6	3	.950	1.848	1.620	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	OF	56	56	462.7	132	8	1	1	.993	2.723	2.500	0	0	0	0
Roman Mejias	OF	44	39	327.0	67	8	6	2	.926	2.064	1.705	0	0	0	0
Tom Saffell	OF	47	22	248.7	78	2	3	0	.964	2.895	1.702	0	0	0	0
Felipe Montemayor	OF	28	24	208.3	44	0	2	0	.957	1.901	1.571	0	0	0	0
Earl Smith	OF	5	5	43.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	2.302	2.200	0	0	0	0
Sid Gordon	OF	4	4	30.0	7	0	1	0	.875	2.100	1.750	0	0	0	0
Dick Hall	OF	3	2	17.3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.558	1.000	0	0	0	0
John Powers	OF	2	2	13.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.769	2.000	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	OF	1	1	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Vern Law	P	43	24	200.7	14	35	4	3	.925	2.198	1.140	0	0	0	0
Bob Friend	P	44	20	200.0	7	50	2	6	.966	2.565	1.295	0	0	0	0
Max Surkont	P	35	22	166.3	8	21	2	0	.935	1.569	.829	0	0	0	0
Ron Kline	P	36	19	136.7	20	30	2	2	.962	3.293	1.389	0	0	0	0
Dick Littlefield	P	35	17	130.0	7	12	3	1	.864	1.315	.543	0	0	0	0
Roy Face	P	42	10	125.7	14	13	1	1	.964	1.934	.643	0	0	0	0
Lino Donoso	P	25	9	95.0	6	18	2	1	.923	2.274	.960	0	0	0	0
Dick Hall	P	15	13	94.3	6	6	0	0	1.000	1.145	.800	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	P	14	10	67.7	2	16	1	0	.947	2.394	1.286	0	0	0	0
Nelson King	P	17	4	54.3	7	6	0	1	1.000	2.153	.765	0	0	0	0
Ben Wade	P	11	1	28.0	4	3	0	0	1.000	2.250	.636	0	0	0	0
Laurin Pepper	P	14	1	20.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	1.350	.214	0	0	0	0
Roger Bowman	P	7	2	16.7	1	5	0	0	1.000	3.240	.857	0	0	0	0
Al Grunwald	P	3	0	7.7	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.348	.667	0	0	0	0
Paul Martin	P	7	1	7.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.227	.143	0	0	0	0
Fred Waters	P	2	0	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500	0	0	0	0
Jake Thies	P	1	1	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Red Swanson	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Bell	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Groat	SS	149	148	1287.7	330	450	32	107	.961	5.452	5.235	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	SS	12	4	58.3	18	30	0	5	1.000	7.406	4.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	SS	4	2	15.0	4	4	1	0	.889	4.800	2.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Smith	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1712	1386	12258.0	4087	1744	166	451	.972	4.281	3.406	19	16	39	29	42.6

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