1978 Atlanta Braves Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 69-93
Finished 6th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 904,494, Avg. 12,069
Ballpark: Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
Manager: Bobby Cox (69-93)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia

1978 Atlanta Braves Roster
1978 Atlanta Braves Results

The Atlanta Braves of the National League ended the 1978 season with a record of 69 wins and 93 losses, finishing sixth in the NL's West Division.

The Braves scored 600 runs and allowed 750 runs, most in the circuit. Bob Horner, Dale Murphy and Jeff Burroughs led Atlanta with 23 home runs apiece., while Gary Matthews walloped 20 or more, too. Dale Murphy drove in 79 runs. Jeff Burroughs paced all regular hitters by hitting .301. Phil Niekro topped the team with 19 wins and a team-best 2.88 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bobby Cox coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Phil Niekro	19	18	.514	2.88	44	42	1	22	4	1	334.3	295	129	107	16	102	5	248	13	3	11	1389
Larry McWilliams	9	3	.750	2.81	15	15	0	3	1	0	99.3	84	38	31	11	35	4	42	2	0	2	417
Preston Hanna	7	13	.350	5.13	29	28	1	0	0	0	140.3	132	89	80	10	93	5	90	3	2	11	637
Adrian Devine	5	4	.556	5.92	31	6	11	0	0	3	65.3	84	45	43	3	25	5	26	0	2	2	294
Gene Garber	4	4	.500	2.53	43	0	36	0	0	22	78.3	58	26	22	11	13	3	61	2	2	3	302
Dave Campbell	4	4	.500	4.80	53	0	35	0	0	1	69.3	67	39	37	10	49	12	45	5	2	2	322
Eddie Solomon	4	6	.400	4.08	37	8	13	0	0	2	106.0	98	52	48	12	50	11	64	2	1	5	459
Mickey Mahler	4	11	.267	4.68	34	21	3	1	0	0	134.7	130	82	70	16	66	6	92	7	3	12	597
Craig Skok	3	2	.600	4.35	43	0	11	0	0	2	62.0	64	38	30	8	27	8	28	0	1	4	273
Jamie Easterly	3	6	.333	5.65	37	6	8	0	0	1	78.0	91	52	49	9	45	6	42	2	0	7	355
Rick Camp	2	4	.333	3.75	42	4	9	0	0	0	74.3	99	42	31	5	32	10	23	3	1	1	344
Dick Ruthven	2	6	.250	4.11	13	13	0	2	1	0	81.0	78	43	37	8	28	2	45	0	0	3	342
Tommy Boggs	2	8	.200	6.71	16	12	2	1	1	0	59.0	80	46	44	8	26	3	21	1	1	3	283
Jim Bouton	1	3	.250	4.97	5	5	0	0	0	0	29.0	25	18	16	4	21	1	10	0	0	0	129
Mike Davey	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9
Duane Theiss	0	0		1.42	3	0	2	0	0	0	6.3	3	1	1	0	3	0	3	1	0	0	24
Max Leon	0	0		6.35	5	0	1	0	0	0	5.7	6	4	4	1	4	0	1	1	0	0	29
Frank LaCorte	0	1	.000	3.68	2	2	0	0	0	0	14.7	9	6	6	0	4	1	7	0	0	1	56
Totals	69	93	.426	4.10	455	162	133	29	7	32	1440.3	1404	750	656	132	624	82	848	42	18	67	6261

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Jeff Burroughs	153	611	488	72	147	30	6	23	77	1	2	117	92	.301	.432	.529	.961	258	16	0	0	6	12
Jerry Royster	140	600	529	67	137	17	8	2	35	27	17	56	49	.259	.331	.333	.664	176	9	3	8	4	2
Gary Matthews	129	542	474	75	135	20	5	18	62	8	7	61	92	.285	.366	.462	.828	219	16	2	1	4	2
Dale Murphy	151	583	530	66	120	14	3	23	79	11	7	42	145	.226	.284	.394	.679	209	15	3	3	5	3
Rowland Office	146	439	404	40	101	13	1	9	40	8	6	22	52	.250	.297	.354	.651	143	8	6	4	3	2
Bob Horner	89	359	323	50	86	17	1	23	63	0	0	24	42	.266	.313	.539	.852	174	7	2	1	9	2
Rod Gilbreath	116	356	326	22	80	13	3	3	31	7	6	26	51	.245	.300	.331	.632	108	6	0	3	1	3
Barry Bonnell	117	326	304	36	73	11	3	1	16	12	6	20	30	.240	.287	.306	.593	93	15	0	2	0	1
Biff Pocoroba	92	327	289	21	70	8	0	6	34	0	3	29	14	.242	.312	.332	.644	96	15	2	3	4	6
Darrel Chaney	89	274	245	27	55	9	1	3	20	1	0	25	48	.224	.295	.306	.601	75	1	0	3	1	7
Joe Nolan	95	249	213	22	49	7	3	4	22	3	2	34	28	.230	.339	.347	.686	74	3	1	1	0	5
Bob Beall	108	225	185	29	45	8	0	1	16	4	5	36	27	.243	.368	.303	.670	56	4	1	2	1	0
Glenn Hubbard	44	179	163	15	42	4	0	2	13	2	1	10	20	.258	.309	.319	.628	52	2	2	4	0	1
Brian Asselstine	39	122	103	11	28	3	3	2	13	2	1	11	16	.272	.339	.417	.756	43	1	2	1	5	1
Cito Gaston	60	124	118	5	27	1	0	1	9	0	0	3	20	.229	.244	.263	.507	31	4	0	1	2	0
Phil Niekro	45	129	120	5	27	4	0	0	10	0	0	3	25	.225	.248	.258	.506	31	3	1	4	1	0
Pat Rockett	55	157	142	6	20	2	0	0	4	1	2	13	12	.141	.212	.155	.366	22	6	0	1	1	3
Chico Ruiz	18	48	46	3	13	3	0	0	2	0	0	2	4	.283	.313	.348	.660	16	1	0	0	0	1
Bruce Benedict	22	58	52	3	13	2	0	0	1	0	0	6	6	.250	.328	.288	.616	15	0	0	0	0	2
Preston Hanna	29	52	49	4	9	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	18	.184	.200	.286	.486	14	1	0	2	0	0
Jamie Easterly	37	21	19	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.211	.250	.263	.513	5	1	0	1	0	0
Eddie Solomon	38	30	29	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.138	.167	.138	.305	4	3	1	0	0	0
Mickey Mahler	34	47	41	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.098	.119	.098	.217	4	1	0	5	0	0
Tom Paciorek	5	9	9	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	3	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Maddox	7	15	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.214	.267	.214	.481	3	1	0	0	0	0
Larry Whisenton	6	17	16	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.188	.235	.250	.485	4	0	0	0	0	0
Tommy Boggs	16	19	18	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.333	.500	6	0	0	1	0	0
Eddie Miller	6	24	21	5	3	1	0	0	2	3	0	2	4	.143	.250	.190	.440	4	0	1	0	0	0
Craig Skok	43	8	8	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.375	.625	3	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Ruthven	13	27	24	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.083	.083	.083	.167	2	0	0	3	0	0
Larry McWilliams	15	36	32	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	19	.063	.063	.125	.188	4	0	0	4	0	0
Rob Belloir	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Adrian Devine	31	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	1	0	0
Gene Garber	44	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	0	0	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	2	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Rick Camp	42	10	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Bouton	5	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	0	0	0
Duane Theiss	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hank Small	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Max Leon	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Davey	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2149	6066	5381	600	1313	191	39	123	558	90	65	550	874	.244	.315	.363	.677	1951	140	27	61	47	53

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Dale Murphy	1B	129	125	1108.3	1137	92	20	84	.984	9.980	9.527	0	0	0
Bob Beall	1B	40	30	281.7	275	24	4	23	.987	9.554	7.475	0	0	0
Cito Gaston	1B	4	4	28.3	21	2	1	1	.958	7.306	5.750	0	0	0
Tom Paciorek	1B	2	2	13.0	21	0	0	1	1.000	14.538	1.500	0	0	0
Hank Small	1B	1	1	9.0	12	1	0	1	1.000	13.000	13.000	0	0	0
Jerry Royster	2B	75	73	641.7	186	193	10	39	.974	5.316	5.053	0	0	0
Glenn Hubbard	2B	44	44	389.3	102	130	5	30	.979	5.363	5.273	0	0	0
Rod Gilbreath	2B	39	35	311.3	74	87	4	13	.976	4.654	4.128	0	0	0
Chico Ruiz	2B	14	10	95.0	31	31	1	5	.984	5.874	4.429	0	0	0
Darrel Chaney	2B	1	0	3.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
Bob Horner	3B	89	88	769.7	81	199	13	17	.956	3.274	3.146	0	0	0
Rod Gilbreath	3B	62	52	469.0	34	117	5	9	.968	2.898	2.435	0	0	0
Barry Bonnell	3B	15	14	114.0	15	28	3	2	.935	3.395	2.867	0	0	0
Darrel Chaney	3B	8	3	39.0	2	8	0	1	1.000	2.308	1.250	0	0	0
Jerry Maddox	3B	5	4	33.0	3	7	1	0	.909	2.727	2.000	0	0	0
Chico Ruiz	3B	1	1	8.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.125	1.000	0	0	0
Jerry Royster	3B	1	0	5.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rob Belloir	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Biff Pocoroba	C	79	77	682.7	454	43	5	1	.990	6.552	6.291	12	82	25	23.4
Joe Nolan	C	61	53	470.0	295	24	7	3	.979	6.109	5.230	14	55	9	14.1
Dale Murphy	C	21	16	146.7	83	13	3	0	.970	5.891	4.571	6	13	12	48.0
Bruce Benedict	C	22	16	141.0	81	14	1	1	.990	6.064	4.318	0	16	11	40.7
Jeff Burroughs	OF	146	147	1182.7	224	13	6	2	.975	1.804	1.623	0	0	0
Gary Matthews	OF	127	126	1076.7	238	10	8	0	.969	2.073	1.953	0	0	0
Rowland Office	OF	136	96	912.0	291	4	3	2	.990	2.911	2.169	0	0	0
Barry Bonnell	OF	105	59	599.0	172	7	3	1	.984	2.689	1.705	0	0	0
Brian Asselstine	OF	35	26	249.7	60	1	2	0	.968	2.199	1.743	0	0	0
Cito Gaston	OF	29	19	179.7	45	0	2	0	.957	2.254	1.552	0	0	0
Eddie Miller	OF	5	5	48.7	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.295	1.400	0	0	0
Bob Beall	OF	8	4	39.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.615	.875	0	0	0
Larry Whisenton	OF	4	3	33.7	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.337	1.250	0	0	0
Phil Niekro	P	44	42	334.3	17	65	2	4	.976	2.207	1.864	0	0	0
Preston Hanna	P	29	28	140.3	10	18	0	1	1.000	1.796	.966	0	0	0
Mickey Mahler	P	34	21	134.7	4	15	0	1	1.000	1.270	.559	0	0	0
Eddie Solomon	P	37	8	106.0	5	16	2	1	.913	1.783	.568	0	0	0
Larry McWilliams	P	15	15	99.3	10	19	0	1	1.000	2.628	1.933	0	0	0
Dick Ruthven	P	13	13	81.0	9	13	7	0	.759	2.444	1.692	0	0	0
Gene Garber	P	43	0	78.3	11	11	0	0	1.000	2.528	.512	0	0	0
Jamie Easterly	P	37	6	78.0	2	14	1	1	.941	1.846	.432	0	0	0
Rick Camp	P	42	4	74.3	8	12	3	0	.870	2.422	.476	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	P	53	0	69.3	6	9	1	1	.938	1.947	.283	0	0	0
Adrian Devine	P	31	6	65.3	10	9	1	1	.950	2.617	.613	0	0	0
Craig Skok	P	43	0	62.0	3	9	0	0	1.000	1.742	.279	0	0	0
Tommy Boggs	P	16	12	59.0	5	3	3	0	.727	1.220	.500	0	0	0
Jim Bouton	P	5	5	29.0	3	3	1	0	.857	1.862	1.200	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	P	2	2	14.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.614	.500	0	0	0
Duane Theiss	P	3	0	6.3	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.842	.667	0	0	0
Max Leon	P	5	0	5.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.588	.200	0	0	0
Mike Davey	P	3	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Darrel Chaney	SS	77	57	546.3	97	189	7	30	.976	4.711	3.714	0	0	0
Jerry Royster	SS	60	60	508.3	98	183	13	27	.956	4.975	4.683	0	0	0
Pat Rockett	SS	51	45	383.7	64	97	5	16	.970	3.777	3.157	0	0	0
Rob Belloir	SS	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1953	1457	12963.0	4321	1739	153	321	.975	4.207	3.103	32	166	57	25.6

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