Bill Wight
1946–1958 · bats L / throws L · Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Guardians, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals
347G
.115AVG
.160OBP
.127SLG
More career statistics
55H
0HR
24RBI
0SB
77–99W–L
1,563.0IP
574K
3.95ERA
198GS
8SV
4Rare 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 | 480 | 479 |
| Batting · Caught stealing | 1 | 2 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 169 | 167 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 546 | 545 |
| Pitching · Batters faced | 6,851 | 6,845 |
| Pitching · p er | 686 | 682 |
| Pitching · p h | 1,656 | 1,655 |
| Pitching · p hr | 74 | 75 |
| Pitching · p ipouts | 4,689 | 4,690 |
| Pitching · p r | 791 | 790 |
| Pitching · p w | 714 | 715 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 347 | 546 | 480 | 19 | 55 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 24 | 169 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 61 | .115 | .160 | .127 | .287 |
Career pitching
| IP | G | GS | CG | W | L | SV | H | R | ER | HR | BB | K | HBP | WP | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,563.0 | 347 | 198 | 66 | 77 | 99 | 8 | 1,656 | 791 | 686 | 74 | 714 | 574 | 0 | 0 | 3.95 | 1.516 |
Streaks
6longest hitting streak · 1952-06-17 to 1952-07-20
6longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | Ten Walks | 1948-09-03 | 1 in 747 games | box score ↗ |
| 42 | Four Runs, No Outs | 1955-08-31 | 1 in 121 games | box score ↗ |
| 41 | 12 innings pitched | 1949-06-09 | 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 | 177 | 272 | 23 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 86 | .096 | .132 | .113 |
| Away | 170 | 273 | 32 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 81 | .134 | .158 | .142 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 31 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .053 | .095 | .105 |
| May | 62 | 92 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 34 | .146 | .196 | .159 |
| June | 57 | 105 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 34 | .117 | .152 | .117 |
| July | 66 | 104 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 24 | .125 | .135 | .148 |
| August | 71 | 113 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 40 | .087 | .115 | .096 |
| September | 57 | 98 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 27 | .110 | .143 | .122 |
| October | 3 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .167 | .200 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 52 | 84 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 21 | .114 | .155 | .129 |
| new-york-yankees | 48 | 93 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 36 | .136 | .161 | .148 |
| cleveland-guardians | 42 | 68 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 21 | .117 | .132 | .117 |
| detroit-tigers | 38 | 71 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25 | .062 | .070 | .062 |
| boston-red-sox | 35 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 15 | .109 | .140 | .130 |
| st-louis-browns | 32 | 70 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 15 | .161 | .200 | .194 |
| chicago-white-sox | 32 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | .049 | .048 | .049 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 23 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | .139 | .217 | .139 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 |  New York Yankees | 14 | 9 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 40 | 11 |
| 1947 | New York Yankees | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 9 | 3 |
| 1948 |  Chicago White Sox | 34 | 72 | 6 | – | 3 | – | .083 | 223 | 68 |
| 1949 | Chicago White Sox | 35 | 85 | 14 | – | 6 | – | .165 | 245 | 78 |
| 1950 | Chicago White Sox | 30 | 61 | – | – | 2 | – | .000 | 206 | 62 |
| 1951 |  Boston Red Sox | 34 | 41 | 3 | – | 1 | – | .073 | 118 | 38 |
| 1952 | Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers | 33 | 57 | 12 | – | 5 | – | .211 | 168 | 70 |
| 1953 | Cleveland Guardians, Detroit Tigers | 33 | 12 | 3 | – | 1 | – | .250 | 52 | 23 |
| 1955 | Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Guardians | 36 | 36 | 3 | – | 2 | – | .083 | 141 | 63 |
| 1956 |  Baltimore Orioles | 35 | 60 | 12 | – | 4 | – | .200 | 174 | 85 |
| 1957 | Baltimore Orioles | 27 | 34 | 1 | – | – | – | .029 | 121 | 50 |
| 1958 | Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals | 35 | 10 | 1 | – | – | – | .100 | 64 | 23 |