1972 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 96-59
Finished 1st in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,427,460, Avg. 20,392
Ballpark: Three Rivers Stadium
Won Division
National League Championship Series - Lost to Cincinnati Reds 3-2
Manager: Bill Virdon (96-59)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1972 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1972 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1972 season with a record of 96 wins and 59 losses, finishing first in the NL's East Division.

The Pirates paced the league with just 512 runs allowed. Pittsburgh scored 691 runs. Willie Stargell walloped 33 home runs for the squad, while Richie Hebner swatted 20 or more, too. Willie Stargell accounted for 112 RBI. Al Oliver topped all regular batters by connecting at a .312 clip. Steve Blass paced the team with 19 wins, plus Dock Ellis added 15 or more wins, too Steve Blass recorded a 2.49 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon coached the team. The 1972 Pittsburgh Pirates qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Steve Blass	19	8	.704	2.49	33	32	0	11	2	0	249.7	227	80	69	18	84	8	117	4	1	6	1024
Dock Ellis	15	7	.682	2.70	25	25	0	4	1	0	163.3	156	60	49	6	33	4	96	3	0	2	663
Nelson Briles	14	11	.560	3.08	28	27	1	9	2	0	195.7	185	83	67	14	43	8	120	1	0	2	802
Bob Moose	13	10	.565	2.91	31	30	1	6	3	1	226.0	213	84	73	11	47	9	144	4	1	6	927
Bruce Kison	9	7	.563	3.26	32	18	5	6	1	3	152.0	123	61	55	11	69	2	102	9	1	8	641
Dave Giusti	7	4	.636	1.93	54	0	44	0	0	22	74.7	59	18	16	3	20	6	54	0	0	3	295
Ramon Hernandez	5	0	1.000	1.67	53	0	31	0	0	14	70.0	50	14	13	3	22	2	47	3	0	1	285
Bob Miller	5	2	.714	2.65	36	0	18	0	0	3	54.3	54	19	16	3	24	7	18	1	0	0	237
Bob Johnson	4	4	.500	2.96	31	11	6	1	0	3	115.7	98	40	38	14	46	8	79	4	0	3	483
Luke Walker	4	6	.400	3.40	26	12	5	2	0	2	92.7	98	41	35	4	34	4	48	0	0	2	399
Jim McKee	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	18
Bob Veale	0	0		6.00	5	0	3	0	0	0	9.0	10	7	6	0	7	2	6	0	0	1	42
Gene Garber	0	0		7.11	4	0	1	0	0	0	6.3	7	5	5	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	29
Totals	96	59	.619	2.81	360	155	116	39	9	48	1414.3	1282	512	442	90	433	60	838	29	3	34	5845

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
Al Oliver	140	612	565	88	176	27	4	12	89	2	4	34	44	.312	.352	.437	.789	247	13	5	1	7	4
Manny Sanguillen	136	547	520	55	155	18	8	7	71	1	2	21	38	.298	.322	.404	.726	210	10	0	0	6	11
Willie Stargell	138	569	495	74	145	28	2	33	112	1	1	65	129	.293	.373	.558	.930	276	7	2	0	7	15
Richie Hebner	124	492	427	63	128	24	4	19	72	0	0	52	54	.300	.378	.508	.886	217	8	6	0	7	7
Dave Cash	99	452	425	58	120	22	4	3	30	9	9	22	31	.282	.316	.374	.690	159	7	0	3	2	1
Roberto Clemente	102	413	378	68	118	19	7	10	60	0	0	29	49	.312	.356	.479	.835	181	15	0	0	6	7
Vic Davalillo	117	403	368	60	117	19	2	4	28	14	1	26	44	.318	.367	.413	.780	152	3	3	5	1	6
Rennie Stennett	109	381	370	43	106	14	5	3	30	4	3	9	43	.286	.307	.376	.683	139	16	2	0	0	1
Gene Clines	107	334	311	52	104	15	6	0	17	12	6	16	47	.334	.369	.421	.790	131	7	2	3	2	1
Gene Alley	119	389	347	30	86	12	2	3	36	4	3	38	52	.248	.321	.320	.641	111	6	0	3	1	10
Bob Robertson	115	354	306	25	59	11	0	12	41	1	1	41	84	.193	.291	.346	.637	106	4	3	0	4	2
Milt May	57	151	139	12	39	10	0	0	14	0	0	10	13	.281	.325	.353	.677	49	3	0	0	2	2
Jackie Hernandez	72	186	176	12	33	7	1	1	14	0	0	9	43	.188	.227	.256	.483	45	4	0	1	0	1
Jose Pagan	53	137	127	11	32	9	0	3	8	0	0	5	17	.252	.284	.394	.677	50	1	1	3	1	0
Steve Blass	35	96	82	8	15	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	22	.183	.202	.207	.410	17	1	0	12	0	0
Bill Mazeroski	34	72	64	3	12	4	0	0	3	0	0	3	5	.188	.217	.250	.467	16	2	0	3	2	1
Bob Moose	32	86	71	7	12	0	1	0	6	1	0	7	25	.169	.250	.197	.447	14	0	1	6	1	0
Nelson Briles	28	78	70	6	11	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	32	.157	.178	.171	.350	12	0	0	5	1	0
Bruce Kison	32	56	53	3	10	4	1	0	9	0	0	1	27	.189	.204	.302	.506	16	0	0	2	0	0
Dock Ellis	36	61	59	6	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	22	.153	.167	.153	.319	9	0	0	1	0	0
Richie Zisk	17	44	37	4	7	3	0	0	4	0	0	7	10	.189	.318	.270	.588	10	1	0	0	0	0
Bob Johnson	31	37	35	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	16	.143	.167	.171	.338	6	1	0	1	0	0
Chuck Goggin	5	8	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.286	.375	.286	.661	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ramon Hernandez	53	12	12	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.250	.417	3	0	0	0	0	0
Luke Walker	26	26	24	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.083	.120	.083	.203	2	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Veale	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Taveras	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	1	0	0	0	0
Gene Garber	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	54	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Miller	36	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Sands	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim McKee	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1926	6021	5490	691	1505	251	47	110	654	49	30	404	871	.274	.324	.397	.721	2180	110	25	52	50	69

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Stargell	1B	101	99	832.0	881	40	15	96	.984	9.963	9.119	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	1B	89	51	531.0	502	60	4	57	.993	9.525	6.315	0	0	0
Vic Davalillo	1B	8	3	29.0	19	2	0	2	1.000	6.517	2.625	0	0	0
Al Oliver	1B	3	2	22.0	21	0	0	3	1.000	8.591	7.000	0	0	0
Dave Cash	2B	97	95	873.0	260	342	5	81	.992	6.206	6.206	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	2B	49	47	425.0	129	162	7	42	.977	6.162	5.939	0	0	0
Bill Mazeroski	2B	15	12	107.0	29	39	1	7	.986	5.720	4.533	0	0	0
Chuck Goggin	2B	1	1	9.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000	0	0	0
Richie Hebner	3B	121	117	1041.0	76	210	9	17	.969	2.473	2.364	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	3B	32	27	251.0	25	37	7	3	.899	2.223	1.938	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	3B	11	10	95.0	6	20	2	2	.929	2.463	2.364	0	0	0
Bill Mazeroski	3B	3	1	13.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.769	1.333	0	0	0
Gene Alley	3B	4	0	9.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	.250	0	0	0
Jackie Hernandez	3B	4	0	5.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.600	.500	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	3B	1	0	1.0	0	1	1	0	.500	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Manny Sanguillen	C	127	122	1129.0	721	50	9	4	.988	6.146	6.071	5	42	29	40.8
Milt May	C	33	33	285.0	179	21	3	2	.985	6.316	6.061	1	12	12	50.0
Al Oliver	OF	138	136	1223.0	332	4	5	1	.985	2.473	2.435	0	0	0
Roberto Clemente	OF	94	88	812.0	199	5	0	2	1.000	2.261	2.170	0	0	0
Vic Davalillo	OF	97	81	761.0	181	4	4	0	.979	2.188	1.907	0	0	0
Gene Clines	OF	83	66	626.0	131	7	6	0	.958	1.984	1.663	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	OF	41	30	280.0	63	2	2	1	.970	2.089	1.585	0	0	0
Willie Stargell	OF	32	32	267.0	50	1	2	0	.962	1.719	1.594	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	OF	23	22	168.0	35	2	1	0	.974	1.982	1.609	0	0	0
Richie Zisk	OF	12	8	84.0	14	1	1	0	.938	1.607	1.250	0	0	0
Manny Sanguillen	OF	2	2	14.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.500	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	OF	2	0	6.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Steve Blass	P	33	32	250.0	15	46	2	6	.968	2.196	1.848	0	0	0
Bob Moose	P	31	30	226.0	20	33	2	1	.964	2.111	1.710	0	0	0
Nelson Briles	P	28	27	196.0	11	26	1	1	.974	1.699	1.321	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	P	25	25	163.0	16	15	0	2	1.000	1.712	1.240	0	0	0
Bruce Kison	P	32	18	152.0	9	15	1	2	.960	1.421	.750	0	0	0
Bob Johnson	P	31	11	116.0	6	7	1	1	.929	1.009	.419	0	0	0
Luke Walker	P	26	12	93.0	3	13	3	3	.842	1.548	.615	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	P	54	0	75.0	1	15	1	0	.941	1.920	.296	0	0	0
Ramon Hernandez	P	53	0	70.0	3	11	0	0	1.000	1.800	.264	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	36	0	54.0	2	8	1	1	.909	1.667	.278	0	0	0
Bob Veale	P	5	0	9.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Gene Garber	P	4	0	6.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Jim McKee	P	2	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gene Alley	SS	114	98	888.0	181	339	16	88	.970	5.270	4.561	0	0	0
Jackie Hernandez	SS	68	57	496.0	110	180	22	34	.929	5.262	4.265	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	SS	6	0	20.0	5	9	1	2	.933	6.300	2.333	0	0	0
Frank Taveras	SS	4	0	10.0	2	2	0	1	1.000	3.600	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1775	1395	12727.0	4243	1741	136	462	.978	4.232	3.371	6	54	41	43.2

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Bruce Kison	NLCS	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	0	0	0	2.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	8
Steve Blass	NLCS	1	0	1.000	1.72	2	2	0	0	15.7	12	3	3	2	6	0	5	0	65
Bob Miller	NLCS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
Ramon Hernandez	NLCS	0	0		2.70	3	0	1	1	3.3	1	1	1	1	0	0	3	0	11
Nelson Briles	NLCS	0	0		3.00	1	1	0	0	6.0	6	2	2	0	1	0	3	0	23
Bob Johnson	NLCS	0	0		3.00	2	0	0	0	6.0	4	2	2	0	2	1	7	1	22
Luke Walker	NLCS	0	0		18.00	1	0	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	6
Dock Ellis	NLCS	0	1	.000	0.00	1	1	0	0	5.0	5	3	0	0	1	0	3	0	22
Dave Giusti	NLCS	0	1	.000	6.75	3	0	2	1	2.7	5	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	13
Bob Moose	NLCS	0	1	.000	54.00	2	1	1	0	0.7	5	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	7
Totals		2	3	.400	3.30	18	5	5	2	43.7	42	19	16	4	10	1	28	2	180

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	IBB
Rennie Stennett	NLCS	5	22	21	2	6	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	.286	.318	.286	.604	6	0	0	0	0
Manny Sanguillen	NLCS	5	16	16	4	5	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	.313	.313	.563	.875	9	0	0	0	0
Al Oliver	NLCS	5	21	20	3	5	2	1	1	3	0	0	4	.250	.250	.600	.850	12	0	0	1	0
Roberto Clemente	NLCS	5	20	17	1	4	1	0	1	2	0	3	5	.235	.350	.471	.821	8	0	0	0	1
Dave Cash	NLCS	5	19	19	0	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	.211	.211	.211	.421	4	0	0	0	0
Richie Hebner	NLCS	5	18	16	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	3	.188	.278	.250	.528	4	0	1	0	1
Milt May	NLCS	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0
Bill Mazeroski	NLCS	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0
Willie Stargell	NLCS	5	18	16	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	5	.063	.167	.125	.292	2	1	0	0	0
Gene Alley	NLCS	5	18	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.059	.000	.059	0	0	1	1	0
Steve Blass	NLCS	2	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0
Nelson Briles	NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Clines	NLCS	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	NLCS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	NLCS	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Johnson	NLCS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Vic Davalillo	NLCS	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	1
Ramon Hernandez	NLCS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Bruce Kison	NLCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	NLCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Bob Moose	NLCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	NLCS	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0
Luke Walker	NLCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals		70	171	158	15	30	6	1	3	14	1	9	27	.190	.243	.297	.540	47	2	2	2	3

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Willie Stargell	NLCS	1B	5	5	38.0	31	3	0	1	1.000	8.053	6.800
Bob Robertson	NLCS	1B	4	0	5.7	3	1	0	0	1.000	6.353	1.000
Dave Cash	NLCS	2B	5	5	42.7	5	10	1	0	.938	3.164	3.000
Rennie Stennett	NLCS	2B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000
Richie Hebner	NLCS	3B	5	5	43.7	6	10	0	1	1.000	3.298	3.200
Manny Sanguillen	NLCS	C	5	4	37.7	22	0	1	1	.957	5.257	4.400
Milt May	NLCS	C	1	1	6.0	8	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	9.000
Al Oliver	NLCS	CF	5	5	43.7	17	1	0	0	1.000	3.710	3.600
Rennie Stennett	NLCS	LF	5	5	42.7	16	1	0	1	1.000	3.586	3.400
Willie Stargell	NLCS	LF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Steve Blass	NLCS	P	2	2	15.7	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.298	2.000
Bob Johnson	NLCS	P	2	0	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Nelson Briles	NLCS	P	1	1	6.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.000
Dock Ellis	NLCS	P	1	1	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Ramon Hernandez	NLCS	P	3	0	3.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	.667
Dave Giusti	NLCS	P	3	0	2.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.375	.333
Bruce Kison	NLCS	P	2	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Luke Walker	NLCS	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bob Miller	NLCS	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bob Moose	NLCS	P	2	1	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Roberto Clemente	NLCS	RF	5	5	43.7	10	0	0	0	1.000	2.061	2.000
Gene Alley	NLCS	SS	5	5	43.7	9	4	2	0	.867	2.679	2.600
Totals			65	45	393.0	131	37	4	4	.977	3.847	2.585

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