Pittsburgh Pirates 1956

66–88record

.429win pct

588runs

653allowed

-65run diff

110home runs

42players

The three rarest things in 1956

Rarity	What	Who	Date	Rate	Game
64	Four Ejections	Pittsburgh Pirates	1956-08-29	1 in 888 games	box score ↗
48	Six Times On Base	Lee Walls	1956-05-02	1 in 214 games	box score ↗
47	First-Inning Ejection	Toby Atwell	1956-04-22	1 in 187 games	box score ↗

Batting (42)

Player	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Frank Thomas	157	637	588	69	166	24	3	25	80	36	62	0	5	.282	.326	.461	.787
Dale Long	148	582	517	64	136	20	7	27	91	54	85	1	0	.263	.326	.485	.812
Dick Groat	142	575	520	40	142	19	3	0	37	35	26	0	3	.273	.317	.321	.638
Roberto Clemente	147	572	543	66	169	30	7	7	60	13	59	6	6	.311	.330	.431	.761
Bill Virdon	133	547	509	67	170	21	10	8	37	33	63	6	6	.334	.374	.462	.836
Lee Walls	143	537	474	72	130	20	11	11	54	50	84	3	5	.274	.345	.432	.777
Jack Shepard	100	290	256	24	62	11	2	7	30	25	36	1	1	.242	.309	.383	.691
Bill Mazeroski	81	276	255	30	62	8	1	3	14	17	24	0	0	.243	.290	.318	.608
Bob Skinner	113	263	233	29	47	8	3	5	29	27	50	1	1	.202	.285	.326	.611
Hank Foiles	79	245	222	24	47	10	2	7	25	17	56	0	1	.212	.266	.369	.635
Gene Freese	65	230	207	17	43	9	0	3	14	16	46	2	1	.208	.273	.295	.568
Johnny O'Brien	73	114	104	13	18	1	0	0	3	5	7	0	0	.173	.209	.183	.392
Dick Cole	72	110	99	7	21	2	1	0	9	11	9	0	0	.212	.291	.253	.543
Bob Friend	49	109	97	7	16	2	0	1	8	1	19	0	0	.165	.173	.216	.390
Ron Kline	44	89	79	2	10	0	0	0	3	4	26	1	0	.127	.167	.127	.293
Danny Kravitz	32	74	68	6	18	2	2	2	10	5	9	1	1	.265	.311	.441	.752
Curt Roberts	31	68	62	6	11	5	2	0	4	5	12	1	0	.177	.239	.323	.561
Vern Law	39	65	57	3	10	1	0	1	8	4	15	0	0	.175	.226	.246	.471
Eddie O'Brien	63	58	53	17	14	2	0	0	3	2	2	1	1	.264	.291	.302	.593
Spook Jacobs	11	41	37	4	6	2	0	0	1	2	5	0	2	.162	.225	.216	.441
Preston Ward	16	37	30	3	10	0	1	1	11	6	4	0	0	.333	.432	.500	.932
Dick Hall	33	33	28	4	10	0	0	0	1	5	7	0	0	.357	.455	.357	.812
Red Munger	35	33	28	2	3	1	0	0	2	2	10	0	0	.107	.194	.143	.336
Roy Face	69	27	26	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	.192	.192	.192	.385
Bobby Del Greco	14	24	20	4	4	0	0	2	3	3	3	0	0	.200	.304	.500	.804
John Powers	11	22	21	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	.048	.091	.048	.139
Toby Atwell	12	20	18	0	2	0	0	0	3	1	5	0	0	.111	.158	.111	.269
Jerry Lynch	19	20	19	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	4	0	0	.158	.200	.263	.463
Fred Waters	23	20	20	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	5	0	0	.050	.050	.150	.200
Nellie King	38	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Cholly Naranjo	17	8	7	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.143	.125	.286	.411
Laurin Pepper	11	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	.000	.143	.000	.143
Luis Arroyo	18	6	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000
Bill Hall	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Howie Pollet	19	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500
Dick Littlefield	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Jack McMahan	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Lino Donoso	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
Bob Garber	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
Bob Purkey	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
Max Surkont	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
Red Swanson	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–

Pitching (21)

Player	G	W–L	GS	CG	SV	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP
Bob Friend	49	17–17	42	19	3	310	137	120	85	166	25	314.1	3.44	1.26
Ron Kline	44	14–18	39	9	2	263	110	99	82	125	26	264.0	3.38	1.31
Vern Law	39	8–16	32	6	2	218	110	94	49	60	24	195.2	4.32	1.36
Roy Face	68	12–13	3	0	6	131	57	53	42	97	16	135.1	3.52	1.28
Red Munger	35	3–4	13	0	1	126	56	48	41	45	8	107.0	4.04	1.56
Dick Hall	19	0–7	9	1	1	64	36	33	21	27	8	62.1	4.76	1.36
Nellie King	38	4–1	0	0	5	53	24	21	19	26	8	60.0	3.15	1.20
Fred Waters	23	2–2	5	1	0	48	18	16	30	14	3	51.0	2.82	1.53
Cholly Naranjo	17	1–2	3	0	0	37	22	16	17	26	7	34.1	4.19	1.57
Laurin Pepper	11	1–1	7	0	0	30	17	10	25	12	1	30.0	3.00	1.83
Luis Arroyo	18	3–3	2	1	1	36	17	15	12	17	5	28.2	4.71	1.67
Howie Pollet	19	0–4	0	0	3	18	10	8	8	11	3	23.1	3.09	1.11
Johnny O'Brien	8	1–0	0	0	0	8	6	6	9	9	2	19.0	2.84	0.89
Jack McMahan	11	0–0	0	0	0	18	9	9	9	9	1	13.1	6.08	2.02
Dick Littlefield	6	0–0	2	0	0	14	8	6	6	10	2	12.2	4.26	1.58
Red Swanson	9	0–0	0	0	0	21	13	13	8	5	1	11.2	10.03	2.49
Bob Garber	2	0–0	0	0	0	3	1	1	3	3	1	4.0	2.25	1.50
Bob Purkey	2	0–0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	4.0	2.25	0.50
Eddie O'Brien	1	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0.00	0.50
Max Surkont	1	0–0	0	0	0	2	1	1	3	1	0	2.0	4.50	2.50
Lino Donoso	3	0–0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	1.2	0.00	1.80