Lefty Gomez

1930–1943 · bats L / throws L · ALS, New York Yankees, Washington Senators (1901-60)

368G

.147AVG

.194OBP

.159SLG

More career statistics

133H

0HR

58RBI

1SB

189–102W–L

2,503.0IP

1,468K

3.34ERA

320GS

9SV

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	904	903
Batting · Caught stealing	1	2
Batting · Strikeouts	252	253
Batting · Plate appearances	1,024	1,023
Batting · RBI	58	59
Pitching · Batters faced	10,729	10,711
Pitching · p er	930	931
Pitching · p h	2,290	2,289
Pitching · p hr	138	139
Pitching · p ipouts	7,509	7,506
Pitching · p k	1,468	1,472
Pitching · p r	1,091	1,093
Pitching · p w	1,095	1,093

Career batting

G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	HBP	SF	TB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
368	1,024	904	59	133	11	0	0	58	50	252	1	1	2	0	144	.147	.194	.159	.353

Career pitching

IP	G	GS	CG	W	L	SV	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HBP	WP	ERA	WHIP
2,503.0	368	320	173	189	102	9	2,290	1,091	930	138	1,095	1,468	0	0	3.34	1.352

Streaks

5longest hitting streak · 1937-05-17 to 1937-06-03

10longest on-base streak

The three rarest things in this career

Rarity	What	Date	Rate	Game
62	Ten Walks	1932-09-10	1 in 747 games	box score ↗
51	Three Wild Pitches	1933-07-04	1 in 273 games	box score ↗
50	9 walks allowed	1932-06-08	1 in 1,333 pitcher-games	box score ↗

Splits

Regular season only.

Home and away

	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG
Home	180	534	76	0	33	32	130	.162	.202	.177
Away	188	489	57	0	26	18	123	.131	.153	.141

By month

	G	PA	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG
April	35	97	9	7	6	28	.107	.155	.131
May	67	183	24	12	7	36	.146	.169	.165
June	73	199	27	14	3	47	.152	.151	.157
July	73	187	26	13	15	52	.160	.219	.160
August	68	209	32	9	15	54	.179	.225	.201
September	50	144	14	4	4	36	.106	.125	.106
October	2	4	1	0	0	0	.250	.250	.500

Most-faced opponents

	G	PA	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG
cleveland-guardians	65	188	24	15	5	50	.144	.154	.162
washington-senators-1901-60	61	172	24	13	10	46	.156	.198	.162
detroit-tigers	56	144	15	4	3	39	.117	.125	.125
philadelphia-athletics	53	153	16	11	11	39	.119	.176	.127
st-louis-browns	51	146	22	9	11	31	.171	.226	.194
boston-red-sox	44	128	21	5	5	28	.186	.203	.204
chicago-white-sox	38	92	11	2	5	20	.141	.174	.141

Season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	H	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	IP	K
1930	New York Yankees	15	20	3	–	1	–	.150	59	22
1931	New York Yankees	40	83	11	–	3	–	.133	242	152
1932	New York Yankees	37	104	18	–	15	–	.173	265	175
1933	New York Yankees	35	80	9	–	4	–	.113	234	164
1934	New York Yankees	38	99	13	–	4	–	.131	281	158
1935	New York Yankees	34	83	10	–	4	–	.120	246	138
1936	New York Yankees	31	69	10	–	5	–	.145	188	105
1937	New York Yankees	34	105	21	–	4	1	.200	278	194
1938	New York Yankees	32	85	13	–	7	–	.153	239	129
1939	New York Yankees	26	73	11	–	4	–	.151	198	104
1940	New York Yankees	9	9	–	–	–	–	.000	27	14
1941	New York Yankees	23	59	9	–	4	–	.153	156	76
1942	New York Yankees	13	33	5	–	4	–	.152	80	41
1943	Washington Senators (1901-60)	1	1	–	–	–	–	.000	4	–