Smoky Joe Wood
1908–1922 · bats R / throws R · Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Guardians
702G
.283AVG
.357OBP
.411SLG
More career statistics
553H
23HR
325RBI
23SB
117–57W–L
1,434.1IP
989K
2.03ERA
158GS
10SV
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 | 702 | 704 |
| Batting · At bats | 1,952 | 1,949 |
| Batting · Caught stealing | 3 | 20 |
| Batting · Hit by pitch | 16 | 18 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 189 | 264 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 2,272 | 2,274 |
| Batting · Runs | 266 | 269 |
| Batting · RBI | 325 | 323 |
| Batting · Triples | 31 | 32 |
| Pitching · Batters faced | 5,647 | 5,809 |
| Pitching · p er | 324 | 349 |
| Pitching · p h | 1,138 | 1,133 |
| Pitching · p ipouts | 4,303 | 4,309 |
| Pitching · p k | 989 | 1,008 |
| Pitching · p r | 497 | 499 |
| Pitching · p w | 421 | 423 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 702 | 2,272 | 1,952 | 266 | 553 | 118 | 31 | 23 | 325 | 208 | 189 | 23 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 802 | .283 | .357 | .411 | .768 |
Career pitching
| IP | G | GS | CG | W | L | SV | H | R | ER | HR | BB | K | HBP | WP | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,434.3 | 225 | 158 | 121 | 117 | 57 | 10 | 1,138 | 497 | 324 | 10 | 421 | 989 | 0 | 0 | 2.03 | 1.087 |
Streaks
17longest hitting streak · 1922-07-09 to 1922-07-26
20longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Ten Strikeouts in Relief | 1909-07-17 | 1 in 3,062 games | box score ↗ |
| 66 | Complete Game, Fifteen K | 1911-07-07 | 1 in 1,054 games | box score ↗ |
| 64 | No-Hitter | 1911-07-29 | 1 in 881 games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 331 | 1020 | 246 | 6 | 158 | 96 | 107 | .283 | .335 | .403 |
| Away | 373 | 1254 | 307 | 17 | 165 | 112 | 157 | .285 | .334 | .420 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 54 | 173 | 46 | 0 | 29 | 18 | 28 | .319 | .370 | .451 |
| May | 129 | 423 | 93 | 3 | 41 | 36 | 49 | .252 | .305 | .350 |
| June | 137 | 441 | 103 | 6 | 53 | 43 | 50 | .277 | .331 | .403 |
| July | 152 | 527 | 139 | 6 | 91 | 43 | 42 | .303 | .345 | .439 |
| August | 120 | 400 | 103 | 6 | 63 | 41 | 51 | .304 | .360 | .445 |
| September | 100 | 281 | 61 | 2 | 43 | 23 | 41 | .249 | .299 | .384 |
| October | 12 | 29 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | .364 | .414 | .636 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chicago-white-sox | 117 | 363 | 80 | 1 | 45 | 26 | 36 | .254 | .292 | .340 |
| st-louis-browns | 102 | 321 | 85 | 4 | 49 | 19 | 44 | .292 | .324 | .423 |
| new-york-yankees | 97 | 322 | 74 | 7 | 38 | 33 | 40 | .271 | .332 | .436 |
| detroit-tigers | 97 | 300 | 81 | 2 | 46 | 29 | 27 | .327 | .367 | .452 |
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 96 | 335 | 74 | 1 | 41 | 25 | 42 | .251 | .296 | .359 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 94 | 306 | 80 | 6 | 60 | 40 | 35 | .315 | .392 | .500 |
| boston-red-sox | 68 | 243 | 64 | 2 | 39 | 29 | 24 | .320 | .383 | .445 |
| cleveland-guardians | 33 | 84 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 16 | .205 | .262 | .288 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 |  Boston Red Sox | 6 | 7 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 22 | 17 |
| 1909 | Boston Red Sox | 24 | 54 | 9 | – | 4 | – | .167 | 161 | 90 |
| 1910 | Boston Red Sox | 35 | 66 | 17 | 1 | 6 | – | .258 | 198 | 145 |
| 1911 | Boston Red Sox | 44 | 88 | 23 | 2 | 12 | 1 | .261 | 275 | 235 |
| 1912 | Boston Red Sox | 43 | 124 | 36 | 1 | 13 | – | .290 | 344 | 259 |
| 1913 | Boston Red Sox | 26 | 56 | 15 | – | 9 | 1 | .268 | 145 | 123 |
| 1914 | Boston Red Sox | 23 | 42 | 6 | – | 1 | 1 | .143 | 113 | 69 |
| 1915 | Boston Red Sox | 31 | 55 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 1 | .255 | 157 | 63 |
| 1917 |  Cleveland Guardians | 10 | 6 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 15 | 6 |
| 1918 | Cleveland Guardians | 119 | 422 | 126 | 5 | 66 | 8 | .299 | – | – |
| 1919 | Cleveland Guardians | 73 | 191 | 49 | – | 26 | 3 | .257 | 0 | – |
| 1920 | Cleveland Guardians | 61 | 135 | 37 | 1 | 29 | 1 | .274 | 2 | 1 |
| 1921 | Cleveland Guardians | 67 | 198 | 71 | 4 | 60 | 2 | .359 | – | – |
| 1922 | Cleveland Guardians | 142 | 505 | 150 | 8 | 89 | 5 | .297 | – | – |