1959 Washington Senators Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 63-91
Finished 8th in the AL
Attendance: 615,372, Avg. 9,057
Ballpark: Griffith Stadium II
Manager: Cookie Lavagetto (63-91)
Location: Washington, District of Columbia

1959 Washington Senators Roster
1959 Washington Senators Results

The Washington Senators of the American League ended the 1959 season with a record of 63 wins and 91 losses, finishing eighth in the AL.

The Senators tallied 619 runs and allowed 701 runs. Harmon Killebrew walloped 42 home runs for Washington, while Jim Lemon, Roy Sievers and Bob Allison each swatted 20 or more as well. Harmon Killebrew accounted for 105 RBI. Jim Lemon topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .279 clip. Camilo Pascual led the team with 17 wins and a team-best 2.64 earned run average, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Cookie Lavagetto 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
Camilo Pascual	17	10	.630	2.64	32	30	1	17	6	0	238.7	202	80	70	10	69	7	185	3	3	5	984
Pedro Ramos	13	19	.406	4.16	37	35	2	11	0	0	233.7	233	127	108	29	52	4	95	9	1	5	978
Bill Fischer	9	11	.450	4.28	34	29	5	6	1	0	187.3	211	98	89	16	43	2	62	4	1	2	814
Tex Clevenger	8	5	.615	3.91	50	7	21	2	2	8	117.3	114	56	51	9	51	3	71	2	0	3	509
Russ Kemmerer	8	17	.320	4.50	37	28	5	8	0	0	206.0	221	116	103	20	71	3	89	4	2	10	894
Hal Woodeshick	2	4	.333	3.69	31	3	9	0	0	0	61.0	58	39	25	2	36	8	30	1	0	4	277
Dick Hyde	2	5	.286	4.97	37	0	20	0	0	4	54.3	56	34	30	5	27	3	29	2	1	1	247
Hal Griggs	2	8	.200	5.25	37	10	13	2	1	2	97.7	103	63	57	8	52	4	43	1	0	4	443
John Romonosky	1	0	1.000	3.29	12	2	6	0	0	0	38.3	36	15	14	4	19	0	22	3	1	1	166
Chuck Stobbs	1	8	.111	2.98	41	7	19	0	0	7	90.7	82	42	30	13	24	1	50	2	0	1	383
Tom McAvoy	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	10
Ralph Lumenti	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	11
Jack Kralick	0	0		6.57	6	0	2	0	0	0	12.3	13	9	9	5	6	0	7	0	0	0	53
Murray Wall	0	0		6.75	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Vito Valentinetti	0	2	.000	10.13	7	1	3	0	0	0	10.7	16	12	12	0	10	0	7	1	0	1	58
Jim Kaat	0	2	.000	12.60	3	2	0	0	0	0	5.0	7	9	7	1	4	0	2	2	0	0	29
Totals	63	91	.409	4.01	368	154	108	46	10	21	1360.0	1358	701	606	123	467	35	694	34	9	37	5861

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
Bob Allison	150	639	570	83	149	18	9	30	85	13	8	60	92	.261	.333	.482	.815	275	22	2	5	2	1
Jim Lemon	147	584	531	73	148	18	3	33	100	5	2	46	99	.279	.334	.510	.844	271	9	1	0	6	0
Harmon Killebrew	153	647	546	98	132	20	2	42	105	3	2	90	116	.242	.354	.516	.870	282	12	7	0	4	1
Roy Sievers	115	444	385	55	93	19	0	21	49	1	1	53	62	.242	.333	.455	.788	175	10	2	0	4	6
Faye Throneberry	117	367	327	36	82	11	2	10	42	6	4	33	61	.251	.322	.388	.710	127	4	3	0	4	3
Reno Bertoia	90	341	308	33	73	10	0	8	29	2	5	29	48	.237	.302	.347	.649	107	10	1	0	3	3
Julio Becquer	108	230	220	20	59	12	5	1	26	3	2	8	17	.268	.296	.382	.677	84	9	1	0	1	2
Ken Aspromonte	70	255	225	31	55	12	0	2	14	2	1	26	39	.244	.321	.324	.646	73	9	0	3	1	0
Ron Samford	91	255	237	23	53	13	0	5	22	1	0	11	29	.224	.262	.342	.604	81	10	2	3	2	0
Hal Naragon	71	207	195	12	47	3	2	0	11	0	1	8	9	.241	.272	.277	.549	54	4	1	1	2	0
Lenny Green	88	215	190	29	46	6	1	2	15	9	5	20	15	.242	.314	.316	.630	60	1	0	5	0	0
Clint Courtney	72	213	189	19	44	4	1	2	18	0	1	20	19	.233	.308	.296	.604	56	3	1	2	1	1
Billy Consolo	79	244	202	25	43	5	3	0	10	1	0	36	54	.213	.332	.267	.599	54	3	0	6	0	0
Camilo Pascual	32	96	86	10	26	2	0	0	3	0	0	5	11	.302	.341	.326	.666	28	5	0	5	0	0
Jay Porter	37	121	106	8	24	4	0	1	10	0	0	11	16	.226	.300	.292	.592	31	3	1	1	2	1
Dan Dobbek	16	67	60	8	15	1	2	1	5	0	0	5	13	.250	.308	.383	.691	23	0	0	2	0	1
Norm Zauchin	19	79	71	11	15	4	0	3	4	2	0	7	14	.211	.291	.394	.686	28	6	1	0	0	0
Albie Pearson	25	97	80	9	15	1	0	0	2	1	1	14	3	.188	.309	.200	.509	16	0	0	3	0	0
Ed FitzGerald	19	68	62	5	12	3	0	0	5	0	0	4	8	.194	.242	.242	.484	15	1	0	2	0	0
Pedro Ramos	45	85	75	7	11	1	1	1	2	1	0	4	38	.147	.190	.227	.417	17	1	0	6	0	0
Herb Plews	27	43	40	4	9	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	5	.225	.279	.225	.504	9	2	0	0	0	0
Johnny Schaive	16	61	59	3	9	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	7	.153	.167	.186	.353	11	0	1	1	0	0
Zoilo Versalles	29	64	59	4	9	0	0	1	1	1	0	4	15	.153	.219	.203	.422	12	0	1	0	0	0
Steve Korcheck	22	58	51	3	8	2	0	0	4	0	0	5	13	.157	.228	.196	.424	10	0	0	1	1	0
Russ Kemmerer	37	71	60	1	8	1	0	0	5	0	0	6	25	.133	.212	.150	.362	9	2	0	5	0	0
Bill Fischer	34	65	54	2	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	13	.130	.172	.130	.302	7	0	1	7	1	0
Jose Valdivielso	24	15	14	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.286	.333	.286	.619	4	0	0	0	0	1
Tex Clevenger	50	33	23	2	4	1	0	0	4	0	0	5	9	.174	.310	.217	.528	5	0	0	4	1	0
John Romonosky	20	11	11	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.182	.182	.364	.545	4	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Stobbs	41	20	19	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.105	.105	.105	.211	2	0	0	1	0	0
Hal Griggs	37	18	18	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.056	.056	.056	.111	1	1	0	0	0	0
Murray Wall	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Woodeshick	32	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Kralick	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Hyde	37	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Kaat	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom McAvoy	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vito Valentinetti	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Ralph Lumenti	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Malkmus	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1976	5734	5092	619	1205	173	32	163	580	51	34	517	881	.237	.308	.379	.688	1931	127	26	64	35	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Roy Sievers	1B	93	92	784.3	846	72	10	72	.989	1.534	9.871	0	0	0	0
Julio Becquer	1B	53	41	382.7	454	32	5	38	.990	11.430	9.170	0	0	0	0
Norm Zauchin	1B	19	19	168.0	203	6	1	17	.995	11.196	11.000	0	0	0	0
Jay Porter	1B	2	1	16.0	16	3	0	1	1.000	1.688	9.500	0	0	0	0
Ken Aspromonte	1B	1	1	9.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	2B	71	69	611.7	139	198	10	40	.971	4.959	4.746	0	0	0	0
Ken Aspromonte	2B	52	49	410.0	101	137	10	25	.960	5.224	4.577	0	0	0	0
Johnny Schaive	2B	16	16	137.7	32	52	2	10	.977	5.492	5.250	0	0	0	0
Ron Samford	2B	23	11	127.7	38	37	3	6	.962	5.287	3.261	0	0	0	0
Herb Plews	2B	6	5	46.0	18	16	1	2	.971	6.652	5.667	0	0	0	0
Billy Consolo	2B	4	4	27.0	9	10	0	3	1.000	6.333	4.750	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	3B	150	149	1319.3	129	325	30	18	.938	3.097	3.027	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	3B	5	5	40.7	6	8	0	1	1.000	3.098	2.800	0	0	0	0
Hal Naragon	C	54	46	421.3	262	13	2	0	.993	5.874	5.093	6	11	26	7	21.2
Clint Courtney	C	53	48	410.7	213	11	3	2	.987	4.909	4.226	5	10	28	2	6.7
Jay Porter	C	34	29	249.7	129	18	1	2	.993	5.299	4.324	7	7	18	10	35.7
Steve Korcheck	C	22	16	144.3	103	8	3	3	.974	6.921	5.045	1	3	8	2	20.0
Ed FitzGerald	C	16	15	134.0	68	13	0	2	1.000	5.440	5.063	0	6	5	6	54.5
Bob Allison	OF	149	147	1285.3	333	8	9	1	.974	2.388	2.289	0	0	0	0
Jim Lemon	OF	142	140	1212.0	281	4	9	0	.969	2.116	2.007	0	0	0	0
Faye Throneberry	OF	86	83	726.3	136	7	7	2	.953	1.772	1.663	0	0	0	0
Lenny Green	OF	58	38	377.7	89	4	2	0	.979	2.216	1.603	0	0	0	0
Albie Pearson	OF	21	21	187.3	37	0	1	0	.974	1.778	1.762	0	0	0	0
Dan Dobbek	OF	16	16	143.7	29	1	0	0	1.000	1.879	1.875	0	0	0	0
Roy Sievers	OF	13	13	113.0	24	0	1	0	.960	1.912	1.846	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	OF	4	4	30.7	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.761	1.500	0	0	0	0
Ken Aspromonte	OF	1	0	4.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Camilo Pascual	P	32	30	238.7	18	55	0	4	1.000	2.753	2.281	0	0	0	0
Pedro Ramos	P	37	35	233.7	20	32	0	8	1.000	2.003	1.405	0	0	0	0
Russ Kemmerer	P	37	28	206.0	18	36	3	1	.947	2.359	1.459	0	0	0	0
Bill Fischer	P	34	29	187.3	21	48	1	2	.986	3.315	2.029	0	0	0	0
Tex Clevenger	P	50	7	117.3	10	35	1	3	.978	3.452	.900	0	0	0	0
Hal Griggs	P	37	10	97.7	1	18	1	1	.950	1.751	.514	0	0	0	0
Chuck Stobbs	P	41	7	90.7	6	14	0	1	1.000	1.985	.488	0	0	0	0
Hal Woodeshick	P	31	3	61.0	1	16	2	0	.895	2.508	.548	0	0	0	0
Dick Hyde	P	37	0	54.3	3	20	3	0	.885	3.810	.622	0	0	0	0
John Romonosky	P	12	2	38.3	1	6	0	1	1.000	1.643	.583	0	0	0	0
Jack Kralick	P	6	0	12.3	2	6	0	2	1.000	5.838	1.333	0	0	0	0
Vito Valentinetti	P	7	1	10.7	2	3	0	0	1.000	4.219	.714	0	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	P	3	2	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	.333	0	0	0	0
Ralph Lumenti	P	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Tom McAvoy	P	1	0	2.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.000	0	0	0	0
Murray Wall	P	1	0	1.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	13.500	2.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Consolo	SS	75	66	561.3	111	229	17	44	.952	5.451	4.533	0	0	0	0
Ron Samford	SS	64	56	488.3	92	177	15	33	.947	4.958	4.203	0	0	0	0
Zoilo Versalles	SS	29	19	161.3	41	59	6	13	.943	5.579	3.448	0	0	0	0
Ken Aspromonte	SS	12	9	89.0	15	27	3	5	.933	4.247	3.500	0	0	0	0
Jose Valdivielso	SS	21	4	59.0	13	18	0	6	1.000	4.729	1.476	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	SS	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1734	1386	12240.0	4087	1787	162	369	.973	4.319	3.388	19	37	85	27	24.1

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