1989 Peninsula Pilots Statistics

Carolina League (CL) - Class: A
Team Record: 44-89
Finished 4th in the CL's South Division
Manager: Jim Thrift (44-89)
Location: Newport News, Virginia
Ballpark: War Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 20,059, Avg. 302

1989 Peninsula Pilots Roster

The Peninsula Pilots of the Carolina League ended the 1989 season with a record of 44 wins and 89 losses, finishing fourth in the league's South Division.

The Pilots scored 484 runs and allowed 761 runs, most in the circuit. Lem Pilkinton led Peninsula with 12 home runs and drove in 57 runs, while leading hitters with significant playing time by hitting .270. Tad Powers and Wataru Adachi topped the team with 7 wins each, and Wataru Adachi recorded a 3.85 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1989 Peninsula Pilots who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Terry Bell, Chris Bushing, Julio Machado and Reggie Ritter.

Jim Thrift served as manager.

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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
Tad Powers	7	2	.778	3.18	66	0	45	0	0	5	99.0	93	45	35	8	36	6	70	4	3	1
Wataru Adachi	7	8	.467	3.85	20	20	0	3	1	0	138.0	129	70	59	12	57	0	119	5	5	7
Todd Stephan	6	8	.429	4.72	35	16	6	1	1	1	145.0	150	87	76	10	63	1	103	3	8	5
Tim Kirk	3	2	.600	0.00	12	3	5	1	1	0	33.3	14	6	0	0	8	0	33	0	0	0
Matt Michael	3	5	.375	8.20	29	3	6	0	0	0	45.0	50	43	41	2	50	0	35	0	1	8
Red Morrison	3	7	.300	6.50	21	8	8	1	0	1	62.3	68	53	45	5	57	0	59	3	1	1
Reggie Ritter	2	2	.500	3.55	15	2	11	0	0	3	25.3	26	15	10	1	17	2	20	0	0	1
Jay Makemson	2	3	.400	6.44	10	8	1	0	0	0	43.3	47	33	31	2	30	0	30	5	3	2
Rick Siebert	2	5	.286	9.26	20	5	5	0	0	0	45.7	63	51	47	9	28	0	15	4	3	7
Chris Bushing	2	7	.222	4.33	35	14	13	1	1	3	99.7	96	64	48	4	79	0	99	6	5	10
Joe Gast	2	9	.182	4.83	36	16	13	2	0	3	130.3	148	74	70	9	47	0	97	5	7	16
Julio Machado	1	0	1.000	0.00	4	0	3	0	0	2	3.7	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	0
Dan McMurtrie	1	1	.500	12.21	6	3	1	0	0	0	14.0	16	19	19	1	21	0	5	1	1	11
David Bauer	1	4	.200	3.08	7	3	1	0	0	0	26.3	33	21	9	2	11	0	10	1	1	3
Chris Ritter	1	6	.143	4.98	10	10	0	2	0	0	65.0	69	43	36	1	21	0	48	5	7	1
Brian Cummings	1	7	.125	6.52	11	9	0	0	0	0	58.0	65	49	42	6	30	0	48	5	1	5
Brian Murphy	0	0		6.00	5	0	1	0	0	0	9.0	9	9	6	0	6	0	3	0	1	3
Dennis Brow	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Dodd Johnson	0	0		18.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	4	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Lem Pilkinton	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	0
Clyde Reichard	0	0		27.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	3	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Mark Rose	0	1	.000	7.71	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.7	6	5	4	3	7	0	2	0	0	0
Al Lombardi	0	1	.000	8.22	4	0	1	0	0	0	7.7	15	7	7	0	6	0	6	0	2	1
Tom Fine	0	11	.000	6.34	13	13	0	0	0	0	66.7	69	56	47	2	57	0	26	6	6	6
Totals	44	89	.331	5.12	364	134	123	11	4	18	1126.0	1179	761	641	78	637	9	833	54	55	89	0

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
Dodd Johnson	123	497	434	47	116	15	2	6	48	6	5	52	81	.267	.350	.353	.703	153	14	6	0	5	4
Lem Pilkinton	109	414	374	43	101	15	2	12	57	3	1	30	94	.270	.326	.417	.743	156	8	4	0	6	1
Hernan Cortes	105	343	308	42	80	14	5	9	46	17	7	34	69	.260	.335	.425	.761	131	10	1	0	0	3
Koichi Ogata	98	413	335	51	80	9	5	7	28	41	11	66	95	.239	.366	.358	.724	120	5	3	6	3	0
Hector Vargas	84	328	288	44	75	8	3	3	27	35	13	35	41	.260	.341	.340	.682	98	11	2	0	3	2
Mickey Tresh	65	275	253	36	68	17	1	0	20	12	5	21	33	.269	.325	.344	.669	87	1	0	1	0	2
Scott Jaster	74	299	274	37	67	11	2	11	48	9	6	21	58	.245	.301	.420	.721	115	5	2	0	2	0
Len Thigpen	110	381	337	26	59	3	0	4	24	15	11	34	103	.175	.257	.220	.477	74	5	4	4	2	1
Tetsuya Katahira	70	249	236	24	51	3	0	3	23	3	1	8	47	.216	.250	.267	.517	63	2	3	1	1	1
Jay Knoblauh	60	226	211	20	45	8	2	3	19	9	1	11	47	.213	.257	.313	.569	66	7	2	0	2	0
Robert Hunter	47	204	180	27	43	6	1	1	11	30	5	16	53	.239	.310	.300	.610	54	4	3	4	1	0
Darrell Tingle	67	257	233	13	40	5	1	1	17	10	6	16	62	.172	.233	.215	.448	50	5	3	4	1	1
Pat Hewes	60	198	168	8	35	5	0	0	11	2	1	20	25	.208	.305	.238	.543	40	10	5	1	4	2
Terry Bell	34	122	102	13	29	4	0	2	9	0	1	14	19	.284	.388	.382	.771	39	1	4	1	1	0
Rodney Murrell	25	94	83	13	21	7	0	1	7	4	0	10	18	.253	.333	.373	.707	31	1	0	1	0	0
Dennis Brow	35	118	109	9	19	1	0	1	4	2	2	8	29	.174	.237	.211	.448	23	0	1	0	0	0
Jeff Champ	35	102	94	6	15	1	0	0	5	4	0	5	35	.160	.198	.170	.368	16	2	0	1	2	0
Dennis Crowley	26	85	72	11	11	1	0	0	3	2	2	12	18	.153	.282	.167	.449	12	0	1	0	0	0
Hector Perez	13	52	48	1	10	1	0	0	9	0	1	3	14	.208	.250	.229	.479	11	3	0	0	1	0
Gregory Papageorge	13	38	34	5	9	2	0	1	3	0	0	3	12	.265	.324	.412	.736	14	0	0	1	0	0
Don Erickson	10	36	31	4	7	1	0	0	0	2	2	3	11	.226	.294	.258	.552	8	0	0	2	0	0
Ray Shepherd	7	23	23	1	4	1	0	0	4	0	1	0	2	.174	.174	.217	.391	5	0	0	0	0	0
Tim McGee	7	20	19	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.158	.200	.158	.358	3	0	0	0	0	0
Wataru Adachi	21	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167	1	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Keshock	8	17	15	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.067	.176	.067	.243	1	1	0	0	0	0
Jay Makemson	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tad Powers	66	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	0	0	0
Joe Gast	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Todd Stephan	36	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1456	4798	4266	482	990	138	24	65	425	206	82	427	974	.232	.306	.321	.628	1371	95	44	27	34	17

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Hernan Cortes	1B	73	496	53	16	35	.972	7.521
Dodd Johnson	1B	31	218	20	8	20	.967	7.677
Lem Pilkinton	1B	24	183	15	2	22	.990	8.250
Dennis Brow	1B	16	84	9	0	9	1.000	5.812
Koichi Ogata	2B	78	140	183	6	29	.982	4.141
Dennis Crowley	2B	26	43	62	4	10	.963	4.038
Rodney Murrell	2B	24	44	56	2	16	.980	4.167
Don Erickson	2B	10	18	19	4	4	.902	3.700
Mickey Tresh	2B	3	7	8	0	3	1.000	5.000
Hector Vargas	2B	1	2	2	0	2	1.000	4.000
Hector Vargas	3B	80						.000
Dodd Johnson	3B	43	25	58	9	3	.902	1.930
Koichi Ogata	3B	14	9	7	4	0	.800	1.143
Darrell Tingle	3B	5	6	4	2	0	.833	2.000
Len Thigpen	3B	3	1	1	2	0	.500	.667
Rodney Murrell	3B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Pat Hewes	C	47						.000
Jeff Champ	C	30	139	21	3	0	.982	5.333	7
Lem Pilkinton	C	29	189	17	3	1	.986	7.103	9
Terry Bell	C	29	161	15	4	0	.978	6.069	2
Gregory Papageorge	C	10	61	8	1	0	.986	6.900	2
Tim McGee	C	5	31	8	0	1	1.000	7.800	0
Len Thigpen	OF	106	239	14	9	4	.966	2.387
Scott Jaster	OF	69	139	7	7	1	.954	2.116
Tetsuya Katahira	OF	68	116	8	8	0	.939	1.824
Jay Knoblauh	OF	60	133	5	8	1	.945	2.300
Robert Hunter	OF	47						.000
Dodd Johnson	OF	27	51	3	5	1	.915	2.000
Hernan Cortes	OF	14	21	1	6	0	.786	1.571
Hector Perez	OF	13	23	0	1	0	.958	1.769
Ray Shepherd	OF	6	15	0	1	0	.938	2.500
Chris Keshock	OF	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Dennis Brow	OF	2						.000
Tad Powers	P	66	8	21	3	4	.906	.439
Joe Gast	P	36	7	16	1	0	.958	.639
Todd Stephan	P	35	4	7	1	0	.917	.314
Chris Bushing	P	35	7	9	2	2	.889	.457
Matt Michael	P	29	2	10	0	0	1.000	.414
Red Morrison	P	21	4	11	3	0	.833	.714
Rick Siebert	P	20	3	9	0	1	1.000	.600
Wataru Adachi	P	20	11	10	2	1	.913	1.050
Reggie Ritter	P	15						.000
Tom Fine	P	13	6	8	2	4	.875	1.077
Tim Kirk	P	12						.000
Brian Cummings	P	11	6	6	1	0	.923	1.091
Chris Ritter	P	10	6	14	3	0	.870	2.000
Jay Makemson	P	10	6	5	4	0	.733	1.100
David Bauer	P	7	3	10	0	3	1.000	1.857
Dan McMurtrie	P	6	1	2	0	0	1.000	.500
Brian Murphy	P	5	0	0	0	0		.000
Julio Machado	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Al Lombardi	P	4	2	1	0	0	1.000	.750
Mark Rose	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Clyde Reichard	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Lem Pilkinton	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Dodd Johnson	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Dennis Brow	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Mickey Tresh	SS	62	120	162	19	39	.937	4.548
Darrell Tingle	SS	62	91	156	19	23	.929	3.984
Koichi Ogata	SS	8	13	24	1	5	.974	4.625
Hector Vargas	SS	6	7	18	6	5	.806	4.167
Totals		1500	2905	1105	182	249	.957	2.673	20	0	0

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

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