Al Benton

1934–1952 · bats R / throws R · ALS, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Guardians, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics

455G

.098AVG

.112OBP

.111SLG

More career statistics

50H

0HR

14RBI

0SB

98–88W–L

1,688.1IP

697K

3.66ERA

167GS

66SV

3Rare feats

Career summary: MLB’s official regular-season totals. Season lines, splits and historical game logs below are reconstructed from the covered Retrosheet records and can differ in coverage or scorer revisions. Compare sources and coverage.

Why official totals and the game-record sums differ

The sources can disagree on historical scorer decisions, appearances, and which games belong to a major-league record. The career summary uses the official total; the source game rows retain their recorded values.

Statistic	MLB official	Recorded game sum
Batting · At bats	512	511
Batting · Strikeouts	200	198
Batting · Plate appearances	579	578
Pitching · Batters faced	7,342	7,329
Pitching · p er	686	687
Pitching · p h	1,672	1,673
Pitching · p hr	106	103
Pitching · p k	697	696
Pitching · p r	831	830
Pitching · p w	733	731

Career batting

G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	HBP	SF	TB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
455	579	512	22	50	7	0	0	14	7	200	0	0	1	0	57	.098	.112	.111	.223

Career pitching

IP	G	GS	CG	W	L	SV	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HBP	WP	ERA	WHIP
1,688.3	455	167	58	98	88	66	1,672	831	686	106	733	697	0	0	3.66	1.424

Streaks

3longest hitting streak · 1934-08-11 to 1934-08-21

3longest on-base streak

The three rarest things in this career

Rarity	What	Date	Rate	Game
62	Ten Walks	1942-08-28	1 in 747 games	box score ↗
62	Three Sacrifice Bunts	1939-06-23	1 in 730 games	box score ↗
41	12 innings pitched	1939-04-27	1 in 613 pitcher-games	box score ↗

Splits

Regular season only.

Home and away

	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG
Home	219	296	31	0	9	3	98	.119	.115	.123
Away	236	282	19	0	5	4	100	.076	.082	.100

By month

	G	PA	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG
April	26	42	4	0	1	9	.105	.119	.132
May	76	86	10	3	1	28	.125	.128	.163
June	72	80	7	2	2	29	.103	.113	.103
July	107	118	6	0	1	46	.056	.059	.065
August	106	144	13	2	2	49	.103	.104	.103
September	68	108	10	7	0	37	.109	.093	.130

Most-faced opponents

	G	PA	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG
boston-red-sox	79	71	8	1	1	31	.121	.127	.136
new-york-yankees	72	91	7	1	2	31	.083	.099	.095
chicago-white-sox	65	98	8	6	1	26	.092	.092	.103
philadelphia-athletics	63	67	7	2	0	24	.113	.104	.113
st-louis-browns	58	89	6	0	2	25	.081	.090	.095
washington-senators-1901-60	49	79	6	2	1	31	.090	.089	.119
cleveland-guardians	48	70	7	2	0	25	.119	.100	.136
detroit-tigers	21	13	1	0	0	5	.083	.077	.083

Season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	H	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	IP	K
1934	Philadelphia Athletics	32	55	6	–	2	–	.109	155	58
1935	Philadelphia Athletics	27	25	1	–	–	–	.040	78	42
1938	Detroit Tigers	19	33	4	–	1	–	.121	95	33
1939	Detroit Tigers	37	44	4	–	1	–	.091	150	67
1940	Detroit Tigers	42	17	–	–	–	–	.000	79	50
1941	Detroit Tigers	38	50	3	–	–	–	.060	157	63
1942	Detroit Tigers	35	67	5	–	–	–	.075	226	107
1945	Detroit Tigers	31	63	4	–	3	–	.063	191	77
1946	Detroit Tigers	28	49	9	–	3	–	.184	140	60
1947	Detroit Tigers	36	39	6	–	2	–	.154	133	33
1948	Detroit Tigers	30	10	2	–	1	–	.200	44	19
1949	Cleveland Guardians	40	38	5	–	1	–	.132	135	41
1950	Cleveland Guardians	36	12	1	–	–	–	.083	63	26
1952	Boston Red Sox	24	9	–	–	–	–	.000	37	20