1897 Washington Senators Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 61-71
Finished 6th in the NL
Attendance: 151,028, Avg. 2,565
Ballpark: Boundary Field
Manager: Gus Schmelz (9-25)
Manager: Tom Brown (52-46)
Location: Washington, District of Columbia

1897 Washington Senators Roster
1897 Washington Senators Results

The Washington Senators of the National League ended the 1897 season with a record of 61 wins and 71 losses, finishing sixth in the NL.

The Senators scored 781 runs and surrendered 793 runs. Gene DeMontreville recorded 93 runs batted in and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .341 clip. Win Mercer led the squad with 21 wins, while James McJames, too added 15 or more wins, too Win Mercer recorded a 3.18 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Gus Schmelz and Tom Brown 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	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Win Mercer	21	20	.512	3.18	47	43	4	35	3	3	342.0	403	219	121	5	104	91	28	10	1517
James McJames	15	23	.395	3.61	44	39	5	33	3	2	323.7	361	212	130	7	137	156	21	21	1448
Cy Swaim	9	11	.450	4.60	26	19	6	14	0	0	184.0	219	129	94	5	59	52	10	7	816
Silver King	6	9	.400	4.79	23	19	4	12	0	1	154.0	196	118	82	7	45	32	11	3	694
Roger Bresnahan	4	0	1.000	3.95	6	5	1	3	1	0	41.0	52	21	18	1	10	12	3	0	183
Les German	3	5	.375	5.59	15	5	9	4	0	0	83.7	117	74	52	2	33	2	7	1	397
Effie Norton	2	1	.667	6.88	4	2	1	1	0	0	17.0	31	18	13	0	11	3	0	1	91
Joe Stanley	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Al Maul	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	11
Totals	60	70	.462	4.01	167	133	31	102	7	6	1148.0	1383	793	512	27	400	348	80	44	5159

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Gene DeMontreville	133	602	566	92	193	27	8	3	93	30	21	35	.341	.366	.433	.799	245	1	14
Kip Selbach	124	576	486	113	152	25	16	5	59	46	80	32	.313	.414	.461	.875	224	4	6
Tom Brown	116	530	469	91	137	17	2	5	45	25	52	63	.292	.364	.369	.733	173	1	8
Tommy Tucker	93	393	352	52	119	18	5	5	61	18	27	27	.338	.403	.460	.863	162	11	3
Deacon McGuire	93	351	327	51	112	17	7	4	53	9	21	12	.343	.386	.474	.860	155	2	1
Zeke Wrigley	104	422	388	65	110	14	8	3	64	5	21	24	.284	.320	.384	.704	149	0	13
Charlie Reilly	101	405	351	64	97	18	3	2	60	18	34	26	.276	.359	.362	.720	127	11	9
Duke Farrell	78	284	261	41	84	9	6	0	53	8	17	4	.322	.366	.402	.768	105	1	5
Charlie Abbey	80	334	300	52	78	14	8	3	34	9	27	15	.260	.329	.390	.719	117	4	3
John O'Brien	86	353	320	37	78	12	2	3	45	6	19	10	.244	.309	.322	.630	103	11	3
Jake Gettman	36	154	143	28	45	7	3	3	29	8	7	19	.315	.359	.469	.828	67	3	1
Win Mercer	50	151	139	23	44	2	5	0	19	7	6	13	.317	.354	.403	.757	56	2	4
Ed Cartwright	33	133	124	19	29	4	0	0	15	9	8	8	.234	.286	.266	.552	33	1	0
James McJames	44	129	124	12	21	1	2	0	13	1	5	19	.169	.202	.210	.411	26	0	0
Tom Leahy	19	68	52	12	20	2	1	0	7	6	9	7	.385	.529	.462	.991	24	7	0
Cy Swaim	26	73	71	7	16	1	0	0	9	3	1	10	.225	.236	.239	.476	17	0	1
Les German	19	48	44	8	15	2	0	0	3	0	3	2	.341	.383	.386	.769	17	0	1
Silver King	24	69	57	8	11	2	0	0	7	0	12	11	.193	.333	.228	.561	13	0	0
Roger Bresnahan	6	17	16	1	6	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	.375	.412	.375	.787	6	0	0
Effie Norton	7	18	18	0	5	2	1	0	2	0	0	1	.278	.278	.500	.778	9	0	0
Bill Fox	4	15	14	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.286	.333	.286	.619	4	0	0
Joe Stanley	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Billy Lush	3	14	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0
Al Maul	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals	1281	5141	4636	781	1376	194	77	36	674	208	374	345	.297	.357	.395	.752	1832	59	72

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Tommy Tucker	1B	93	802.0	856	42	15	58	.984	1.077	9.656	0	0	0
Ed Cartwright	1B	33	281.0	285	26	12	17	.963	9.961	9.424	0	0	0
Deacon McGuire	1B	6	55.0	65	0	1	2	.985	1.636	1.833	0	0	0
Duke Farrell	1B	1	8.0	6	1	1	1	.875	7.875	7.000	0	0	0
John O'Brien	2B	86	737.0	223	260	30	43	.942	5.898	5.616	0	0	0
Gene DeMontreville	2B	33	288.0	86	103	13	6	.936	5.906	5.727	0	0	0
Zeke Wrigley	2B	9	65.0	22	20	2	2	.955	5.815	4.667	0	0	0
Tom Leahy	2B	3	26.0	3	14	2	0	.895	5.885	5.667	0	0	0
Bill Fox	2B	2	24.0	11	5	2	3	.889	6.000	8.000	0	0	0
Les German	2B	2	6.0	2	1	1	0	.750	4.500	1.500	0	0	0
Charlie Reilly	3B	101	860.0	149	224	39	17	.905	3.903	3.693	0	0	0
Zeke Wrigley	3B	30	252.0	34	64	17	4	.852	3.500	3.267	0	0	0
Tom Leahy	3B	5	34.0	6	6	1	0	.923	3.176	2.400	0	0	0
Les German	3B	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Deacon McGuire	C	73	619.0	290	88	21	6	.947	5.496	5.178	15	150	86	36.4
Duke Farrell	C	63	522.0	220	91	18	10	.945	5.362	4.937	8	127	88	40.9
Tom Leahy	C	1	6.0	1	1	1	1	.667	3.000	2.000	1	1	1	50.0
Kip Selbach	OF	124	1075.0	305	14	15	2	.955	2.671	2.573	0	0	0
Tom Brown	OF	115	1002.0	252	17	21	5	.928	2.416	2.339	0	0	0
Charlie Abbey	OF	80	703.0	126	14	8	1	.946	1.792	1.750	0	0	0
Jake Gettman	OF	36	288.0	49	3	1	0	.981	1.625	1.444	0	0	0
Zeke Wrigley	OF	36	262.0	44	10	7	4	.885	1.855	1.500	0	0	0
Tom Leahy	OF	10	51.0	6	2	3	0	.727	1.412	.800	0	0	0
Billy Lush	OF	3	29.0	5	1	0	0	1.000	1.862	2.000	0	0	0
Effie Norton	OF	3	27.0	6	1	1	1	.875	2.333	2.333	0	0	0
Roger Bresnahan	OF	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Win Mercer	P	47	333.0	24	67	15	4	.858	2.459	1.936	0	0	0
James McJames	P	44	324.0	7	72	7	1	.919	2.194	1.795	0	0	0
Cy Swaim	P	26	193.0	12	24	5	1	.878	1.679	1.385	0	0	0
Silver King	P	23	154.0	2	40	2	1	.955	2.455	1.826	0	0	0
Les German	P	15	84.0	6	16	1	0	.957	2.357	1.467	0	0	0
Roger Bresnahan	P	6	41.0	2	7	0	0	1.000	1.976	1.500	0	0	0
Effie Norton	P	4	17.0	2	2	2	0	.667	2.118	1.000	0	0	0
Al Maul	P	1	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Joe Stanley	P	1	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gene DeMontreville	SS	99	858.0	254	352	78	47	.886	6.357	6.121	0	0	0
Zeke Wrigley	SS	33	277.0	75	115	24	8	.888	6.173	5.758	0	0	0
Bill Fox	SS	2	12.0	1	6	3	0	.700	5.250	3.500	0	0	0
Totals		1251	10322.0	3437	1710	369	245	.933	4.488	4.114	24	278	175	38.6

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