Pittsburgh Pirates 1959

78–76record

.506win pct

651runs

680allowed

-29run diff

112home runs

37players

The three rarest things in 1959

Rarity	What	Who	Date	Rate	Game
56	Ten-Run Inning	Pittsburgh Pirates	1959-08-06	1 in 428 games	box score ↗
51	Three Wild Pitches	Bob Friend	1959-04-26	1 in 273 games	box score ↗
47	First-Inning Ejection	Don Hoak	1959-04-26	1 in 187 games	box score ↗

Batting (37)

Player	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Don Hoak	155	651	564	60	166	29	3	8	65	71	74	9	2	.294	.374	.399	.773
Dick Groat	147	641	593	74	163	22	7	5	51	33	35	0	2	.275	.313	.361	.674
Bob Skinner	143	617	547	78	153	18	4	13	61	67	65	10	6	.280	.357	.399	.756
Bill Virdon	144	583	519	67	132	24	2	8	41	55	65	7	3	.254	.327	.355	.682
Bill Mazeroski	135	537	493	50	119	15	6	7	59	29	55	1	3	.241	.283	.339	.621
Roberto Clemente	105	456	432	60	128	17	7	4	50	15	51	2	3	.296	.322	.396	.718
Dick Stuart	118	450	397	64	118	15	2	27	79	42	87	1	1	.297	.362	.549	.911
Smoky Burgess	114	418	377	41	112	28	5	11	59	31	16	0	0	.297	.349	.485	.834
Roman Mejias	96	308	276	28	65	6	1	7	28	21	49	1	2	.236	.298	.341	.639
Rocky Nelson	98	204	175	31	51	11	0	6	32	23	19	0	0	.291	.379	.457	.836
Danny Kravitz	52	169	162	18	41	9	1	3	21	5	14	0	1	.253	.274	.377	.650
Dick Schofield	81	163	145	21	34	10	1	1	9	16	22	1	0	.234	.311	.338	.648
Ted Kluszewski	60	127	122	11	32	10	1	2	17	5	14	0	0	.262	.291	.410	.701
Vern Law	38	105	96	6	16	2	0	1	8	3	20	0	0	.167	.192	.219	.411
Hank Foiles	53	88	80	10	18	3	0	3	4	7	16	0	0	.225	.287	.375	.662
Bob Friend	35	87	73	4	12	2	0	0	7	2	25	0	0	.164	.187	.192	.378
Harvey Haddix	31	87	83	3	12	4	0	0	5	3	17	0	0	.145	.174	.193	.367
Ron Kline	38	65	59	4	8	0	0	0	6	1	22	0	0	.136	.150	.136	.286
Harry Bright	40	54	48	4	12	1	0	3	8	5	9	0	0	.250	.321	.458	.779
Bennie Daniels	36	34	29	4	9	2	1	1	3	5	11	0	0	.310	.412	.552	.963
Roy Face	58	15	13	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.231	.231	.231	.462
Harry Simpson	9	15	15	3	4	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	.267	.267	.400	.667
Red Witt	15	15	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	0	.000	.077	.000	.077
Joe Christopher	15	14	12	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	.000	.077	.000	.077
Ken Hamlin	3	10	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.125	.300	.125	.425
R C Stevens	3	7	7	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.714	1.000
Fred Green	17	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Ron Blackburn	26	5	5	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.800	1.000
Al Jackson	8	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400
Don Gross	21	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bob Porterfield	36	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Jim Umbricht	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Don Williams	6	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	1.000	1.333
Dick Hall	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bob Smith	20	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Hardy Peterson	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Paul Giel	4	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
Vern Law	34	18–9	33	20	1	245	91	88	53	110	25	266.0	2.98	1.12
Bob Friend	35	8–19	35	7	0	267	129	105	52	104	19	234.2	4.03	1.36
Harvey Haddix	31	12–12	29	14	0	189	88	78	49	150	26	224.1	3.13	1.06
Ron Kline	33	11–13	29	7	0	186	95	88	70	91	23	186.0	4.26	1.38
Bennie Daniels	34	7–9	12	0	1	115	69	60	39	68	9	100.2	5.36	1.53
Roy Face	57	18–1	0	0	10	91	28	27	25	69	5	93.1	2.60	1.24
Red Witt	15	0–7	11	0	0	58	43	39	32	30	7	50.2	6.93	1.78
Ron Blackburn	26	1–1	0	0	1	50	21	18	15	19	5	44.1	3.65	1.47
Bob Porterfield	36	1–2	0	0	1	51	22	20	19	19	3	41.1	4.35	1.69
Fred Green	17	1–2	1	0	1	37	16	13	15	20	2	37.1	3.13	1.39
Don Gross	21	1–1	0	0	2	28	17	14	10	15	3	33.0	3.82	1.15
Bob Smith	20	0–0	0	0	0	32	16	11	17	12	1	28.1	3.49	1.73
Al Jackson	8	0–0	3	0	0	30	14	13	8	13	1	18.0	6.50	2.11
Don Williams	6	0–0	0	0	0	17	9	9	3	3	1	12.0	6.75	1.67
Dick Hall	2	0–0	1	0	0	12	5	3	1	3	1	8.2	3.12	1.50
Paul Giel	4	0–0	0	0	0	17	12	12	6	3	0	7.2	14.09	3.00
Jim Umbricht	1	0–0	1	0	0	7	5	5	4	3	3	7.0	6.43	1.57