Detroit Tigers 1940

93–68record

.578win pct

916runs

739allowed

+177run diff

138home runs

35players

The three rarest things in 1940

Rarity	What	Who	Date	Rate	Game
53	Three-Homer Game	Pinky Higgins	1940-05-20	1 in 321 games	box score ↗
48	Six Times On Base	Barney McCosky	1940-04-22	1 in 214 games	box score ↗
43	Five for Five	Bruce Campbell	1940-05-25	1 in 135 games	box score ↗

Batting (35)

Player	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Rudy York	155	686	588	105	186	46	6	33	135	90	89	3	3	.316	.411	.583	.994
Hank Greenberg	148	671	573	129	195	50	8	41	150	94	75	6	3	.340	.434	.670	1.104
Barney McCosky	143	660	589	123	200	39	19	4	56	67	41	13	9	.340	.408	.491	.899
Charlie Gehringer	139	629	515	108	161	33	3	10	81	101	17	11	0	.313	.428	.447	.875
Dick Bartell	139	619	528	76	123	24	3	7	53	75	53	12	4	.233	.334	.330	.663
Pinky Higgins	131	552	481	70	130	24	3	13	77	61	31	4	3	.270	.356	.414	.770
Birdie Tebbetts	111	416	379	46	112	24	4	4	46	34	13	4	5	.296	.355	.412	.767
Pete Fox	93	374	350	49	101	17	4	5	48	21	31	7	7	.289	.329	.403	.732
Bruce Campbell	103	347	296	56	83	15	5	8	42	45	28	2	7	.280	.379	.446	.825
Billy Sullivan	78	256	220	35	68	14	4	3	41	31	11	2	0	.309	.399	.450	.849
Earl Averill	64	124	118	10	33	4	1	2	20	5	15	0	0	.280	.309	.381	.690
Bobo Newsom	36	112	107	10	23	5	0	0	16	1	17	0	0	.215	.222	.262	.484
Red Kress	34	111	100	13	23	3	1	1	11	10	12	0	0	.230	.300	.310	.610
Tommy Bridges	29	75	68	5	12	2	0	0	4	3	23	0	0	.176	.211	.206	.417
Schoolboy Rowe	27	73	67	7	18	6	1	1	18	5	14	1	0	.269	.319	.433	.752
Johnny Gorsica	29	65	61	6	12	0	2	1	7	3	15	0	0	.197	.234	.311	.546
Dutch Meyer	23	65	58	12	15	3	0	0	6	4	10	2	0	.259	.317	.310	.628
Frank Croucher	37	60	57	3	6	0	0	0	2	3	5	0	0	.105	.150	.105	.255
Hal Newhouser	28	47	40	3	8	0	0	0	2	3	4	0	0	.200	.256	.200	.456
Tuck Stainback	15	44	40	4	9	2	0	0	1	1	9	0	0	.225	.262	.275	.537
Scat Metha	26	40	37	6	9	0	1	0	3	2	8	0	1	.243	.282	.297	.579
Dizzy Trout	33	33	31	4	4	0	0	0	4	2	8	0	0	.129	.182	.129	.311
Fred Hutchinson	17	30	30	1	8	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.267	.267	.333	.600
Lynn Nelson	19	23	23	4	8	0	0	1	3	0	6	0	0	.348	.348	.478	.826
Al Benton	42	21	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Tom Seats	26	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.077	.077	.077	.154
Archie McKain	27	11	7	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	.143	.400	.143	.543
Cotton Pippen	4	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Floyd Giebell	2	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Clay Smith	14	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Pat Mullin	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Frank Secory	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Dick Conger	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
Bud Thomas	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
Bob Uhl	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–

Pitching (17)

Player	G	W–L	GS	CG	SV	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP
Bobo Newsom	36	21–5	34	20	0	235	110	84	99	164	19	264.0	2.86	1.27
Tommy Bridges	29	12–9	28	12	0	171	90	75	88	133	10	197.2	3.41	1.31
Schoolboy Rowe	27	16–3	23	11	0	169	68	65	43	62	15	169.0	3.46	1.25
Johnny Gorsica	29	7–7	20	5	0	170	85	78	57	68	10	160.0	4.39	1.42
Hal Newhouser	28	9–9	20	7	0	149	81	69	76	89	13	133.1	4.66	1.69
Dizzy Trout	33	3–7	10	1	2	126	63	55	54	64	5	100.2	4.92	1.79
Al Benton	42	6–10	0	0	17	93	41	34	36	50	4	79.1	3.86	1.63
Fred Hutchinson	17	3–7	10	1	0	85	53	49	26	32	6	76.0	5.80	1.46
Tom Seats	26	2–2	2	0	1	67	43	31	21	25	4	55.2	5.01	1.58
Archie McKain	27	5–0	0	0	3	48	17	15	25	23	2	51.0	2.65	1.43
Clay Smith	14	1–1	1	0	0	32	18	16	13	14	3	28.1	5.08	1.59
Cotton Pippen	4	1–2	3	0	0	29	16	16	10	9	3	21.1	6.75	1.83
Floyd Giebell	2	2–0	2	2	0	14	2	2	4	11	2	18.0	1.00	1.00
Lynn Nelson	6	1–1	2	0	0	23	19	18	9	7	5	14.0	11.57	2.29
Bud Thomas	3	0–1	0	0	0	8	5	4	3	0	1	4.0	9.00	2.75
Dick Conger	2	1–0	0	0	0	2	1	1	3	1	0	3.0	3.00	1.67
Bob Uhl	1	0–0	0	0	0	4	5	4	2	0	0	0.0	–	–