Sam Jones
1946–1964 · bats R / throws R · Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Guardians, Cleveland Buckeyes, Detroit Tigers, LCB, NLS, San Francisco Giants
327G
.152AVG
.178OBP
.171SLG
More career statistics
81H
1HR
30RBI
0SB
103–104W–L
1,669.1IP
1,393K
3.63ERA
225GS
9SV
10Rare 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 · Games | 327 | 364 |
| Batting · At bats | 533 | 540 |
| Batting · Hits | 81 | 82 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 167 | 169 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 599 | 606 |
| Batting · Runs | 19 | 18 |
| Pitching · Games | 327 | 364 |
| Pitching · Batters faced | 7,204 | 7,300 |
| Pitching · p cg | 77 | 88 |
| Pitching · p er | 674 | 682 |
| Pitching · p gs | 225 | 252 |
| Pitching · p h | 1,437 | 1,533 |
| Pitching · p hr | 152 | 160 |
| Pitching · p ipouts | 5,008 | 5,462 |
| Pitching · p k | 1,393 | 1,414 |
| Pitching · p r | 778 | 871 |
| Pitching · p w | 840 | 854 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 327 | 599 | 533 | 19 | 81 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 17 | 167 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 91 | .152 | .178 | .171 | .349 |
Career pitching
| IP | G | GS | CG | W | L | SV | H | R | ER | HR | BB | K | HBP | WP | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,669.3 | 327 | 225 | 77 | 103 | 104 | 9 | 1,437 | 778 | 674 | 152 | 840 | 1,393 | 0 | 0 | 3.63 | 1.364 |
Streaks
4longest hitting streak · 1960-08-25 to 1960-09-09
6longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | No-Hitter With Five Walks | 1955-05-12 | 1 in 5,452 games | box score ↗ |
| 64 | No-Hitter | 1955-05-12 | 1 in 881 games | box score ↗ |
| 60 | 11 scoreless innings | 1957-06-29 | 1 in 3,313 pitcher-games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 180 | 282 | 47 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 61 | .193 | .199 | .225 |
| Away | 184 | 324 | 35 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 108 | .118 | .133 | .125 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 29 | 62 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 19 | .176 | .177 | .275 |
| May | 69 | 107 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 31 | .155 | .159 | .165 |
| June | 71 | 122 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 32 | .118 | .139 | .136 |
| July | 66 | 114 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 36 | .151 | .149 | .151 |
| August | 71 | 109 | 16 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 30 | .167 | .193 | .177 |
| September | 57 | 92 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 21 | .163 | .174 | .175 |
| October | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| milwaukee-braves | 48 | 82 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 28 | .093 | .110 | .107 |
| philadelphia-phillies | 39 | 107 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 29 | .163 | .187 | .184 |
| cincinnati-reds | 36 | 68 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 14 | .267 | .250 | .267 |
| pittsburgh-pirates | 34 | 69 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 15 | .138 | .145 | .155 |
| chicago-cubs | 29 | 62 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 20 | .098 | .145 | .118 |
| st-louis-cardinals | 27 | 51 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | .186 | .157 | .209 |
| los-angeles-dodgers | 22 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | .053 | .070 | .053 |
| birmingham-black-barons | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | CBCleveland Buckeyes | 6 | 6 | 1 | – | – | – | .167 | 23 | 8 |
| 1947 | CBCleveland Buckeyes | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18 | – |
| 1948 | CBCleveland Buckeyes | 21 | 8 | 3 | – | 3 | – | .375 | 99 | 25 |
| 1949 | LCB | 9 | 4 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 37 | 3 |
| 1951 |  Cleveland Guardians | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 8 | 4 |
| 1952 | Cleveland Guardians | 14 | 10 | 1 | – | – | – | .100 | 36 | 29 |
| 1955 |  Chicago Cubs | 36 | 77 | 14 | – | 5 | – | .182 | 241 | 198 |
| 1956 | Chicago Cubs | 33 | 57 | 10 | – | 1 | – | .175 | 188 | 176 |
| 1957 |  St. Louis Cardinals | 28 | 63 | 10 | – | 3 | – | .159 | 182 | 154 |
| 1958 | St. Louis Cardinals | 35 | 90 | 9 | – | 4 | – | .100 | 250 | 225 |
| 1959 |  San Francisco Giants | 50 | 85 | 11 | – | 8 | – | .129 | 270 | 209 |
| 1960 | San Francisco Giants | 39 | 80 | 16 | – | 5 | – | .200 | 234 | 190 |
| 1961 | San Francisco Giants | 37 | 36 | 5 | – | – | – | .139 | 128 | 106 |
| 1962 |  Detroit Tigers | 30 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | .095 | 81 | 73 |
| 1963 | St. Louis Cardinals | 11 | 1 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 11 | 8 |
| 1964 |  Baltimore Orioles | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 6 |