1959 San Francisco Giants Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 83-71
Finished 3rd in the NL
Attendance: 1,422,130, Avg. 18,463
Ballpark: Seals Stadium
Manager: Bill Rigney (83-71)
Location: San Francisco, California

1959 San Francisco Giants Roster
1959 San Francisco Giants Results

The San Francisco Giants of the National League ended the 1959 season with a record of 83 wins and 71 losses, finishing third in the NL.

The Giants topped the league with just 613 runs allowed. San Francisco scored 705 runs. Willie Mays walloped 34 home runs for the team, while Orlando Cepeda and Willie Kirkland swatted 20 or more also. Orlando Cepeda accounted for 105 RBI and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .317 average. Sam Jones led the squad with 21 wins, and Johnny Antonelli and Jack Sanford, too added 15 or more wins, too Sam Jones earned a 2.83 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Rigney 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
Sam Jones	21	15	.583	2.83	50	35	12	16	4	4	270.7	232	99	85	18	109	6	209	8	0	5	1148
Johnny Antonelli	19	10	.655	3.10	40	38	1	17	4	1	282.0	247	107	97	29	76	6	165	3	0	1	1150
Jack Sanford	15	12	.556	3.16	36	31	2	10	0	1	222.3	198	90	78	22	70	4	132	7	2	7	933
Mike McCormick	12	16	.429	3.99	47	31	9	7	3	4	225.7	213	117	100	24	86	13	151	1	0	9	972
Stu Miller	8	7	.533	2.84	59	9	29	2	0	8	167.7	164	66	53	15	57	13	95	5	0	1	716
Gordon Jones	3	2	.600	4.33	31	0	10	0	0	2	43.7	45	23	21	6	19	5	29	1	0	0	192
Al Worthington	2	3	.400	3.68	42	3	15	0	0	2	73.3	68	34	30	8	37	4	45	5	0	4	323
Eddie Fisher	2	6	.250	7.88	17	5	6	0	0	1	40.0	57	37	35	8	8	0	15	1	0	0	181
Bud Byerly	1	0	1.000	1.38	11	0	6	0	0	0	13.0	11	2	2	2	5	1	4	0	0	0	52
Joe Shipley	0	0		4.50	10	1	7	0	0	0	18.0	16	11	9	2	17	0	11	1	0	1	87
Billy Muffett	0	0		5.40	5	0	2	0	0	0	6.7	11	6	4	2	3	1	3	0	0	0	31
Dom Zanni	0	0		6.55	9	0	3	0	0	0	11.0	12	10	8	2	8	0	11	1	0	1	54
Marshall Renfroe	0	0		27.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	6	6	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	12
Curt Barclay	0	0		54.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	2	5	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	6
Totals	83	71	.539	3.47	359	154	102	52	11	23	1376.3	1279	613	530	139	500	53	873	33	2	29	5857

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
Orlando Cepeda	151	647	605	92	192	35	4	27	105	23	9	33	100	.317	.355	.522	.878	316	10	5	0	4	10
Willie Mays	151	648	575	125	180	43	5	34	104	27	4	65	58	.313	.381	.583	.964	335	11	2	0	6	9
Daryl Spencer	152	621	555	59	147	20	1	12	62	5	0	58	67	.265	.332	.369	.701	205	14	0	3	5	4
Willie Kirkland	126	511	463	64	126	22	3	22	68	5	3	42	84	.272	.335	.475	.810	220	6	3	0	3	3
Jim Davenport	123	510	469	65	121	16	3	6	38	0	1	28	65	.258	.301	.343	.645	161	4	2	9	2	0
Jackie Brandt	137	471	429	63	116	16	5	12	57	11	4	35	69	.270	.324	.415	.739	178	8	0	5	2	2
Eddie Bressoud	104	350	315	36	79	17	2	9	26	0	0	28	55	.251	.311	.403	.714	127	4	0	6	1	6
Hobie Landrith	109	335	283	30	71	14	0	3	29	0	4	43	23	.251	.345	.332	.678	94	6	0	5	4	7
Willie McCovey	52	219	192	32	68	9	5	13	38	2	0	22	35	.354	.429	.656	1.085	126	7	4	0	1	1
Felipe Alou	95	268	247	38	68	13	2	10	33	5	3	17	38	.275	.318	.466	.784	115	5	0	1	3	1
Andre Rodgers	71	266	228	32	57	12	1	6	24	2	1	32	50	.250	.342	.390	.733	89	5	1	3	2	1
Bob Schmidt	71	196	181	17	44	7	1	5	20	0	2	13	24	.243	.296	.376	.672	68	4	1	0	1	4
Leon Wagner	87	158	129	20	29	4	3	5	22	0	0	25	24	.225	.361	.419	.779	54	4	3	0	1	6
Johnny Antonelli	43	108	101	4	16	2	0	2	10	0	0	1	26	.158	.175	.238	.412	24	2	1	5	0	0
Danny O'Connell	34	66	58	6	11	3	0	0	0	0	1	5	15	.190	.254	.241	.495	14	0	0	3	0	0
Sam Jones	50	100	85	3	11	1	0	0	8	0	0	3	30	.129	.157	.141	.298	12	1	0	11	1	0
Dusty Rhodes	54	54	48	1	9	2	0	0	7	0	0	5	9	.188	.259	.229	.488	11	1	0	0	1	3
Jose Pagan	31	48	46	7	8	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	8	.174	.208	.196	.404	9	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Sanford	36	85	72	6	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	6	31	.111	.200	.111	.311	8	1	2	5	0	0
Mike McCormick	47	82	66	3	7	1	0	0	3	0	1	4	22	.106	.155	.121	.276	8	0	0	11	1	0
Jim Hegan	21	31	30	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	10	.133	.161	.167	.328	5	1	0	0	0	0
Stu Miller	59	52	45	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.044	.104	.044	.149	2	1	1	4	0	0
Bob Speake	15	13	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	1	0	1	0	0
Al Worthington	42	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hank Sauer	13	15	15	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	7	.067	.067	.267	.333	4	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Shipley	10	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gordon Jones	31	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Marshall Renfroe	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger McCardell	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Fisher	17	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Muffett	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Curt Barclay	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bud Byerly	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dom Zanni	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1963	5890	5281	705	1377	239	35	167	660	81	34	473	875	.261	.322	.414	.736	2187	96	25	73	38	57

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Orlando Cepeda	1B	122	102	943.7	929	70	16	74	.984	9.528	8.189	0	0	0	0
Willie McCovey	1B	51	49	408.7	424	29	5	29	.989	9.976	8.882	0	0	0	0
Jackie Brandt	1B	3	3	23.0	17	1	1	1	.947	7.043	6.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Bressoud	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Daryl Spencer	2B	151	150	1311.0	350	413	24	82	.970	5.238	5.053	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	2B	8	4	49.3	16	9	0	1	1.000	4.561	3.125	0	0	0	0
Jackie Brandt	2B	1	0	8.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.375	3.000	0	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	2B	3	0	7.0	4	2	0	1	1.000	7.714	2.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Bressoud	2B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Davenport	3B	121	112	1003.0	91	221	7	15	.978	2.800	2.579	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	3B	26	14	120.0	15	36	4	3	.927	3.825	1.962	0	0	0	0
Jackie Brandt	3B	18	15	118.0	9	27	8	1	.818	2.746	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	3B	18	8	93.3	13	23	4	2	.900	3.471	2.000	0	0	0	0
Orlando Cepeda	3B	4	4	33.0	2	3	3	0	.625	1.364	1.250	0	0	0	0
Eddie Bressoud	3B	1	1	9.0	0	2	2	0	.500	2.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Hobie Landrith	C	109	88	782.0	576	45	5	5	.992	7.147	5.697	4	16	23	24	51.1
Bob Schmidt	C	70	56	486.0	307	30	0	1	1.000	6.241	4.814	2	14	22	8	26.7
Jim Hegan	C	21	9	98.7	72	6	2	1	.975	7.115	3.714	1	0	4	2	33.3
Roger McCardell	C	3	1	9.7	5	1	0	0	1.000	5.586	2.000	0	0	1	1	50.0
Willie Mays	OF	147	143	1281.3	353	6	6	2	.984	2.522	2.442	0	0	0	0
Willie Kirkland	OF	117	114	1001.0	212	8	7	0	.969	1.978	1.880	0	0	0	0
Jackie Brandt	OF	116	82	786.7	176	10	3	2	.984	2.128	1.603	0	0	0	0
Felipe Alou	OF	69	55	518.3	111	2	3	0	.974	1.962	1.638	0	0	0	0
Orlando Cepeda	OF	44	43	346.7	64	1	3	0	.956	1.688	1.477	0	0	0	0
Leon Wagner	OF	28	24	190.0	48	0	3	0	.941	2.274	1.714	0	0	0	0
Hank Sauer	OF	1	1	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny Antonelli	P	40	38	282.0	8	44	2	3	.963	1.660	1.300	0	0	0	0
Sam Jones	P	50	35	270.7	10	34	3	2	.936	1.463	.880	0	0	0	0
Mike McCormick	P	47	31	225.7	12	42	3	1	.947	2.154	1.149	0	0	0	0
Jack Sanford	P	36	31	222.3	10	31	1	1	.976	1.660	1.139	0	0	0	0
Stu Miller	P	59	9	167.7	15	40	2	1	.965	2.952	.932	0	0	0	0
Al Worthington	P	42	3	73.3	5	15	0	0	1.000	2.455	.476	0	0	0	0
Gordon Jones	P	31	0	43.7	1	6	0	1	1.000	1.443	.226	0	0	0	0
Eddie Fisher	P	17	5	40.0	5	3	0	0	1.000	1.800	.471	0	0	0	0
Joe Shipley	P	10	1	18.0	0	2	1	0	.667	1.000	.200	0	0	0	0
Bud Byerly	P	11	0	13.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	4.154	.545	0	0	0	0
Dom Zanni	P	9	0	11.0	3	5	0	1	1.000	6.545	.889	0	0	0	0
Billy Muffett	P	5	0	6.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.350	.200	0	0	0	0
Marshall Renfroe	P	1	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Curt Barclay	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Bressoud	SS	92	90	781.7	151	267	11	37	.974	4.813	4.543	0	0	0	0
Andre Rodgers	SS	66	64	578.3	110	197	22	35	.933	4.778	4.652	0	0	0	0
Daryl Spencer	SS	4	0	8.0	0	4	0	2	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	SS	5	0	7.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.286	.200	0	0	0	0
Jim Davenport	SS	1	0	1.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1781	1386	12387.0	4129	1645	152	305	.974	4.195	3.242	7	30	50	35	41.2

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