Kansas City Royals 1978

The three rarest things in 1978

Rarity	What	Who	Date	Rate	Game
51	Three Wild Pitches	DBDoug Bird	1978-05-22	1 in 275 games	box score ↗
47	One-Hit Shutout	RGRich Gale	1978-06-13	1 in 193 games	box score ↗
43	Five for Five	Darrell Porter	1978-06-04	1 in 135 games	box score ↗

Batting (38)

Player	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Hal McRae	156	692	623	90	170	39	5	16	72	51	62	17	8	.273	.329	.429	.757
Darrell Porter	150	602	520	77	138	27	6	18	78	75	75	0	5	.265	.358	.444	.802
Amos Otis	141	567	486	74	145	30	7	22	96	66	54	32	8	.298	.380	.525	.905
George Brett	128	558	510	79	150	45	8	9	62	39	35	23	7	.294	.342	.467	.809
ACAl Cowens	132	534	485	63	133	24	8	5	63	31	54	14	6	.274	.319	.388	.707
Frank White	143	501	461	66	127	24	6	7	50	26	59	13	10	.275	.317	.399	.716
Freddie Patek	138	496	440	54	109	23	1	2	46	42	56	38	11	.248	.312	.318	.630
CHClint Hurdle	133	481	417	48	110	25	5	7	56	56	84	1	3	.264	.348	.398	.746
PLPete LaCock	118	347	322	44	95	21	2	5	48	21	27	1	0	.295	.335	.419	.755
TPTom Poquette	80	226	204	16	44	9	2	4	30	14	9	2	0	.216	.259	.338	.597
Willie Wilson	127	223	198	43	43	8	2	0	16	16	33	46	12	.217	.280	.278	.558
JWJohn Wathan	67	203	190	19	57	10	1	2	28	3	12	2	1	.300	.320	.395	.715
SBSteve Braun	64	167	137	16	36	10	1	0	14	28	16	3	2	.263	.386	.350	.736
JTJerry Terrell	73	147	133	14	27	1	0	0	8	4	13	8	4	.203	.225	.211	.435
UWU L Washington	69	142	129	10	34	2	1	0	9	10	20	12	6	.264	.314	.295	.609
JZJoe Zdeb	60	141	127	18	32	2	3	0	11	7	18	3	0	.252	.287	.315	.602
JQJamie Quirk	17	34	29	3	6	2	0	0	2	5	4	0	0	.207	.324	.276	.599
JLJoe Lahoud	13	16	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250
AKArt Kusnyer	9	15	13	1	3	1	0	1	2	2	4	0	0	.231	.333	.538	.872
LSLuis Silverio	8	14	11	7	6	2	1	0	3	2	3	1	1	.545	.615	.909	1.524
DCDave Cripe	7	13	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308
JGJim Gaudet	3	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
RBRandy Bass	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
DBDoug Bird	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
SBSteve Busby	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
JCJim Colborn	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
SFSteve Foucault	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
RGRich Gale	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
Larry Gura	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
AHAndy Hassler	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
AHAl Hrabosky	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
DLDennis Leonard	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
RMRandy McGilberry	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
SMSteve Mingori	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
BPBill Paschall	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
MPMarty Pattin	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
PSPaul Splittorff	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
GTGeorge Throop	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–

Pitching (15)

Player	G	W–L	GS	CG	SV	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP
DLDennis Leonard	40	21–17	40	20	0	283	125	109	78	183	27	294.2	3.33	1.23
PSPaul Splittorff	39	19–13	38	13	0	244	113	99	60	76	22	262.0	3.40	1.16
Larry Gura	35	16–4	26	8	0	183	73	67	60	81	13	221.2	2.72	1.10
RGRich Gale	31	14–8	30	9	0	171	78	66	100	88	10	192.1	3.09	1.41
DBDoug Bird	40	6–6	6	0	1	110	63	58	31	48	8	98.2	5.29	1.43
MPMarty Pattin	32	3–3	5	2	4	72	41	30	25	30	8	78.2	3.43	1.23
AHAl Hrabosky	58	8–7	0	0	20	52	24	24	35	60	6	75.0	2.88	1.16
SMSteve Mingori	45	1–4	0	0	7	64	25	21	16	28	5	69.0	2.74	1.16
AHAndy Hassler	11	1–4	9	1	0	76	36	28	24	26	1	58.1	4.32	1.71
JCJim Colborn	8	1–2	3	0	0	31	18	15	12	8	4	28.1	4.76	1.52
RMRandy McGilberry	18	0–1	0	0	0	27	16	12	18	12	2	25.2	4.21	1.75
SBSteve Busby	7	1–0	5	0	0	24	18	18	15	10	2	21.1	7.59	1.83
BPBill Paschall	2	0–1	0	0	1	6	3	3	0	5	0	8.0	3.38	0.75
GTGeorge Throop	1	1–0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	2	0	3.0	0.00	1.67
SFSteve Foucault	3	0–0	0	0	0	5	1	0	1	0	0	2.1	0.00	2.57