Virgil Trucks
1941–1958 · bats R / throws R · ALS, CDA, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns
517G
.180AVG
.189OBP
.213SLG
More career statistics
171H
2HR
70RBI
1SB
177–135W–L
2,682.1IP
1,534K
3.39ERA
328GS
30SV
11Rare 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 | 949 | 950 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 153 | 155 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 1,009 | 1,012 |
| Batting · RBI | 70 | 69 |
| Batting · Walks | 9 | 11 |
| Pitching · Batters faced | 11,378 | 11,383 |
| Pitching · p er | 1,009 | 1,010 |
| Pitching · p hr | 188 | 189 |
| Pitching · p k | 1,534 | 1,536 |
| Pitching · p w | 1,088 | 1,089 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 517 | 1,009 | 949 | 63 | 171 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 70 | 9 | 153 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 202 | .180 | .189 | .213 | .402 |
Career pitching
| IP | G | GS | CG | W | L | SV | H | R | ER | HR | BB | K | HBP | WP | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,682.3 | 517 | 328 | 124 | 177 | 135 | 30 | 2,416 | 1,124 | 1,009 | 188 | 1,088 | 1,534 | 0 | 0 | 3.39 | 1.306 |
Streaks
7longest hitting streak · 1947-06-23 to 1947-07-17
7longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | No-Hitter | 1952-05-15 | 1 in 881 games | box score ↗ |
| 62 | Ten Walks | 1949-05-22 | 1 in 747 games | box score ↗ |
| 60 | 11 scoreless innings | 1950-05-13 | 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 | 256 | 478 | 94 | 1 | 31 | 5 | 67 | .207 | .207 | .240 |
| Away | 261 | 534 | 77 | 1 | 38 | 6 | 88 | .156 | .155 | .188 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 45 | 93 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 17 | .080 | .086 | .092 |
| May | 96 | 171 | 32 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 16 | .203 | .205 | .215 |
| June | 97 | 192 | 34 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 35 | .185 | .182 | .228 |
| July | 93 | 206 | 32 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 34 | .166 | .160 | .202 |
| August | 97 | 191 | 35 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 27 | .196 | .199 | .229 |
| September | 86 | 148 | 29 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 24 | .210 | .209 | .261 |
| October | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .182 | .182 | .182 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| boston-red-sox | 80 | 158 | 23 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 23 | .150 | .146 | .170 |
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 70 | 136 | 25 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 25 | .195 | .191 | .219 |
| cleveland-guardians | 67 | 109 | 24 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 19 | .233 | .239 | .252 |
| chicago-white-sox | 66 | 133 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 17 | .147 | .150 | .178 |
| new-york-yankees | 66 | 112 | 17 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 25 | .160 | .170 | .189 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 55 | 137 | 22 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 20 | .171 | .161 | .248 |
| st-louis-browns | 41 | 111 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | .180 | .198 | .200 |
| detroit-tigers | 35 | 53 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | .209 | .170 | .233 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 |  Detroit Tigers | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 |
| 1942 | Detroit Tigers | 28 | 65 | 8 | – | 3 | – | .123 | 167 | 94 |
| 1943 | Detroit Tigers | 33 | 72 | 13 | – | 7 | – | .181 | 202 | 117 |
| 1945 | Detroit Tigers | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 5 | 3 |
| 1946 | Detroit Tigers | 32 | 95 | 17 | – | 5 | – | .179 | 236 | 162 |
| 1947 | Detroit Tigers | 36 | 70 | 19 | – | 5 | – | .271 | 180 | 107 |
| 1948 | Detroit Tigers | 43 | 79 | 13 | – | 2 | – | .165 | 211 | 122 |
| 1949 | Detroit Tigers | 41 | 101 | 12 | – | 3 | – | .119 | 275 | 154 |
| 1950 | Detroit Tigers | 7 | 20 | 3 | – | – | – | .150 | 48 | 25 |
| 1951 | Detroit Tigers | 37 | 55 | 13 | – | 13 | – | .236 | 153 | 89 |
| 1952 | Detroit Tigers | 35 | 64 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .188 | 197 | 129 |
| 1953 | Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns | 40 | 88 | 19 | 1 | 7 | – | .216 | 264 | 149 |
| 1954 |  Chicago White Sox | 40 | 93 | 17 | – | 8 | – | .183 | 264 | 152 |
| 1955 | Chicago White Sox | 32 | 64 | 8 | – | 6 | – | .125 | 175 | 91 |
| 1956 | Detroit Tigers | 22 | 45 | 11 | – | 2 | – | .244 | 120 | 43 |
| 1957 |  Kansas City Athletics | 48 | 28 | 4 | – | 2 | – | .143 | 116 | 55 |
| 1958 | Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees | 41 | 9 | 2 | – | 3 | – | .222 | 61 | 41 |