1956 Baltimore Orioles Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 69-85
Finished 6th in the AL
Attendance: 897,473, Avg. 13,598
Ballpark: Memorial Stadium
Manager: Paul Richards (69-85)
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

1956 Baltimore Orioles Roster
1956 Baltimore Orioles Results

The Baltimore Orioles of the American League ended the 1956 season with a record of 69 wins and 85 losses, finishing sixth in the AL.

The Orioles scored 571 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 705 runs. Gus Triandos led Baltimore with 21 home runs and drove in 88 runs, while leading all regular hitters by hitting .279. Ray Moore topped the squad with 12 wins, and Connie Johnson registered a 3.43 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Paul Richards 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
Ray Moore	12	7	.632	4.18	32	27	2	9	1	0	185.0	161	90	86	12	99	1	105	1	0	2	792
Hal Brown	9	7	.563	4.04	35	14	11	4	1	2	151.7	142	72	68	18	37	3	57	1	1	5	620
Connie Johnson	9	10	.474	3.43	26	25	0	9	2	0	183.7	165	79	70	12	62	3	130	1	1	3	766
Bill Wight	9	12	.429	4.02	35	26	2	7	1	0	174.7	198	92	78	7	72	3	84	6	0	5	778
George Zuverink	7	6	.538	4.16	62	0	40	0	0	16	97.3	112	52	45	6	34	9	33	3	1	1	432
Jim Wilson	4	2	.667	5.03	7	7	0	1	0	0	48.3	49	27	27	5	16	1	31	2	0	1	205
Mike Fornieles	4	7	.364	3.97	30	11	9	1	1	1	111.0	109	59	49	7	25	2	53	0	1	3	444
Don Ferrarese	4	10	.286	5.03	36	14	9	3	1	2	102.0	86	60	57	8	64	0	81	3	0	5	450
Erv Palica	4	11	.267	4.49	29	14	5	2	0	0	116.3	117	64	58	10	50	3	62	1	0	4	512
Charlie Beamon	2	0	1.000	1.38	2	1	1	1	1	0	13.0	9	2	2	0	8	0	14	0	0	0	55
Billy Loes	2	7	.222	4.76	21	6	11	1	0	3	56.7	65	33	30	4	23	1	22	2	0	3	256
Fred Besana	1	0	1.000	5.60	7	2	1	0	0	0	17.7	22	12	11	0	14	0	7	2	0	1	93
Sandy Consuegra	1	1	.500	4.15	4	1	1	0	0	0	8.7	10	4	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	37
Morrie Martin	1	1	.500	10.80	9	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	10	6	6	1	2	0	3	1	0	0	29
Gordie Sundin	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
Billy O'Dell	0	0		1.13	4	1	2	0	0	0	8.0	6	1	1	0	6	1	6	0	0	0	34
Fritz Dorish	0	0		4.12	13	0	4	0	0	0	19.7	22	10	9	3	3	0	4	0	0	0	82
Mel Held	0	0		5.14	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	7	4	4	1	3	1	4	0	0	0	29
Babe Birrer	0	0		6.75	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.3	9	5	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	26
George Werley	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	6
Bob Harrison	0	0		16.20	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.7	3	3	3	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	13
Ron Moeller	0	1	.000	4.15	4	1	3	0	0	0	8.7	10	5	4	0	3	0	2	0	0	1	39
Johnny Schmitz	0	3	.000	3.99	18	3	8	0	0	0	38.3	49	23	17	3	14	1	15	1	0	0	175
Totals	69	85	.448	4.20	385	154	116	38	8	24	1360.7	1362	705	635	99	547	29	715	24	4	35	5875

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
Gus Triandos	131	509	452	47	126	18	1	21	88	0	0	48	73	.279	.348	.462	.810	209	21	2	3	4	4
Bob Nieman	114	478	388	60	125	20	6	12	64	1	5	86	59	.322	.442	.497	.940	193	10	0	1	3	3
Billy Gardner	144	560	515	53	119	16	2	11	50	5	5	29	53	.231	.281	.334	.615	172	15	7	8	1	1
Tito Francona	139	500	445	62	115	16	4	9	57	11	5	51	60	.258	.334	.373	.707	166	6	1	0	3	4
Dick Williams	87	390	353	45	101	18	4	11	37	5	5	30	40	.286	.342	.453	.795	160	10	0	7	0	1
Willy Miranda	148	513	461	38	100	16	4	2	34	3	6	46	73	.217	.287	.282	.569	130	8	0	5	1	3
George Kell	102	389	345	45	90	17	2	8	37	0	1	25	31	.261	.313	.391	.704	135	8	3	12	4	3
Bob Boyd	70	262	225	28	70	8	3	2	11	0	5	30	14	.311	.395	.400	.795	90	6	1	6	0	2
Hal Smith	77	250	229	16	60	14	0	3	18	1	0	17	22	.262	.315	.362	.677	83	16	1	2	1	3
Bob Hale	85	223	207	18	49	10	1	1	24	0	2	11	10	.237	.274	.309	.583	64	6	1	0	4	0
Hoot Evers	48	138	112	20	27	3	0	1	4	1	0	24	18	.241	.375	.295	.670	33	0	0	2	0	0
Jim Pyburn	84	176	156	23	27	3	3	2	11	4	1	17	26	.173	.251	.269	.521	42	4	0	1	2	0
Bobby Adams	41	143	111	19	25	6	1	0	7	1	1	25	15	.225	.362	.297	.660	33	1	0	5	2	0
Dave Philley	32	136	117	13	24	4	2	1	17	3	1	18	13	.205	.309	.299	.608	35	7	0	0	1	3
Ray Moore	32	77	70	9	19	3	0	2	6	0	0	2	21	.271	.301	.400	.701	28	0	1	4	0	0
Joe Frazier	45	87	74	7	19	6	0	1	12	0	0	11	6	.257	.356	.378	.735	28	2	1	0	1	2
Chuck Diering	50	125	97	15	18	4	0	1	4	2	5	23	19	.186	.342	.258	.599	25	1	0	5	0	0
Connie Johnson	26	70	58	5	15	1	0	0	4	1	0	6	9	.259	.328	.276	.604	16	1	0	6	0	0
Wayne Causey	53	97	88	7	15	0	1	1	4	0	0	8	23	.170	.237	.227	.464	20	2	0	0	1	0
Tex Nelson	39	76	68	5	14	2	0	0	5	0	0	7	22	.206	.276	.235	.512	16	2	0	0	1	0
Bill Wight	35	64	60	2	12	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	26	.200	.226	.200	.426	12	0	0	2	0	0
Tom Gastall	32	62	56	3	11	2	0	0	4	0	0	3	8	.196	.246	.232	.478	13	2	1	1	1	0
Brooks Robinson	15	45	44	5	10	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	5	.227	.244	.386	.631	17	0	0	0	0	0
Grady Hatton	27	75	61	4	9	1	0	1	3	0	0	13	6	.148	.297	.213	.510	13	0	0	1	0	1
Hal Brown	42	51	42	5	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	8	.190	.292	.238	.530	10	0	1	3	0	0
Jim Dyck	11	34	23	3	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	10	5	.217	.455	.304	.759	7	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Fornieles	33	31	30	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.167	.167	.200	.367	6	1	0	1	0	0
Erv Palica	30	32	32	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	.156	.156	.156	.313	5	1	0	0	0	0
Jim Wilson	7	19	15	3	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	3	.267	.421	.333	.754	5	1	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	21	18	17	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.176	.176	.176	.353	3	0	0	1	0	0
Dave Pope	12	21	19	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.158	.200	.158	.358	3	0	1	1	0	0
Fred Marsh	20	28	24	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	3	.125	.250	.125	.375	3	0	0	0	0	0
George Zuverink	62	22	17	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	7	.118	.167	.118	.284	2	0	0	4	0	0
Joe Ginsberg	15	32	28	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	4	.071	.129	.071	.200	2	2	0	1	1	0
Sandy Consuegra	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Don Ferrarese	36	30	28	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.036	.100	.036	.136	1	0	1	0	0	0
Charlie Beamon	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Babe Birrer	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Besana	7	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Schmitz	18	10	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Billy O'Dell	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Moeller	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fritz Dorish	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
George Werley	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Morrie Martin	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Held	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Harrison	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gordie Sundin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2017	5788	5090	571	1242	198	34	91	515	39	42	561	725	.244	.320	.350	.670	1781	133	22	84	31	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Boyd	1B	60	54	487.3	469	24	5	46	.990	9.105	8.217	0	0	0	0
Gus Triandos	1B	52	48	396.7	373	39	7	27	.983	9.348	7.923	0	0	0	0
Bob Hale	1B	51	41	355.0	366	29	10	33	.975	1.014	7.745	0	0	0	0
Tito Francona	1B	21	8	82.3	86	3	1	7	.989	9.729	4.238	0	0	0	0
Dick Williams	1B	10	3	36.0	36	7	0	4	1.000	1.750	4.300	0	0	0	0
George Kell	1B	2	0	3.3	4	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	2.500	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	2B	132	126	1058.7	274	331	16	76	.974	5.143	4.583	0	0	0	0
Bobby Adams	2B	18	14	129.3	39	25	4	7	.941	4.454	3.556	0	0	0	0
Grady Hatton	2B	15	8	78.7	19	26	0	3	1.000	5.148	3.000	0	0	0	0
Wayne Causey	2B	7	4	46.0	13	16	1	0	.967	5.674	4.143	0	0	0	0
Fred Marsh	2B	5	2	23.0	9	6	0	3	1.000	5.870	3.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Williams	2B	10	0	22.0	4	5	1	0	.900	3.682	.900	0	0	0	0
Brooks Robinson	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
George Kell	2B	1	0	1.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
George Kell	3B	97	93	749.0	97	165	7	19	.974	3.148	2.701	0	0	0	0
Bobby Adams	3B	24	22	158.7	23	40	1	5	.984	3.574	2.625	0	0	0	0
Wayne Causey	3B	30	13	145.3	13	36	1	4	.980	3.034	1.633	0	0	0	0
Brooks Robinson	3B	14	9	101.3	9	25	2	3	.944	3.020	2.429	0	0	0	0
Grady Hatton	3B	12	8	84.0	5	15	1	0	.952	2.143	1.667	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	3B	6	3	33.0	3	9	0	0	1.000	3.273	2.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Williams	3B	4	3	30.0	4	3	1	0	.875	2.100	1.750	0	0	0	0
Fred Marsh	3B	8	1	26.3	3	4	2	0	.778	2.392	.875	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	3B	5	1	20.0	2	4	1	1	.857	2.700	1.200	0	0	0	0
Chuck Diering	3B	2	1	13.0	1	1	2	0	.500	1.385	1.000	0	0	0	0
Gus Triandos	C	89	77	658.3	417	50	5	12	.989	6.384	5.247	3	13	25	21	45.7
Hal Smith	C	71	59	527.7	313	33	2	11	.994	5.901	4.873	1	16	28	14	33.3
Tom Gastall	C	20	11	113.7	67	6	0	1	1.000	5.780	3.650	1	3	3	1	25.0
Joe Ginsberg	C	8	7	61.0	31	3	0	0	1.000	5.016	4.250	0	3	3	0	0.0
Bob Nieman	OF	114	114	977.7	243	4	5	1	.980	2.274	2.167	0	0	0	0
Tito Francona	OF	122	103	950.7	240	10	6	1	.977	2.367	2.049	0	0	0	0
Dick Williams	OF	81	79	648.3	205	2	2	0	.990	2.874	2.556	0	0	0	0
Jim Pyburn	OF	77	38	393.7	114	5	3	3	.975	2.721	1.545	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	OF	31	31	256.0	56	2	4	2	.935	2.039	1.871	0	0	0	0
Chuck Diering	OF	40	26	249.7	73	4	0	0	1.000	2.776	1.925	0	0	0	0
Hoot Evers	OF	36	31	248.7	63	1	1	1	.985	2.316	1.778	0	0	0	0
Tex Nelson	OF	24	14	135.0	28	3	2	0	.939	2.067	1.292	0	0	0	0
Joe Frazier	OF	19	12	112.0	31	2	0	0	1.000	2.652	1.737	0	0	0	0
Jim Dyck	OF	9	9	62.0	10	2	1	0	.923	1.742	1.333	0	0	0	0
Dave Pope	OF	4	3	28.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	.964	.750	0	0	0	0
Bob Boyd	OF	8	2	20.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.213	.625	0	0	0	0
Ray Moore	P	32	27	185.0	6	22	4	4	.875	1.362	.875	0	0	0	0
Connie Johnson	P	26	25	183.7	8	14	1	0	.957	1.078	.846	0	0	0	0
Bill Wight	P	35	26	174.7	6	27	4	1	.892	1.700	.943	0	0	0	0
Hal Brown	P	35	14	151.7	7	25	1	4	.970	1.899	.914	0	0	0	0
Erv Palica	P	29	14	116.3	2	20	2	2	.917	1.702	.759	0	0	0	0
Mike Fornieles	P	30	11	111.0	4	28	0	3	1.000	2.595	1.067	0	0	0	0
Don Ferrarese	P	36	14	102.0	10	14	1	2	.960	2.118	.667	0	0	0	0
George Zuverink	P	62	0	97.3	8	17	0	2	1.000	2.312	.403	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	P	21	6	56.7	7	12	0	0	1.000	3.018	.905	0	0	0	0
Jim Wilson	P	7	7	48.3	3	8	0	2	1.000	2.048	1.571	0	0	0	0
Johnny Schmitz	P	18	3	38.3	4	8	1	1	.923	2.817	.667	0	0	0	0
Fritz Dorish	P	13	0	19.7	3	7	0	0	1.000	4.576	.769	0	0	0	0
Fred Besana	P	7	2	17.7	2	5	0	0	1.000	3.566	1.000	0	0	0	0
Charlie Beamon	P	2	1	13.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.077	1.500	0	0	0	0
Ron Moeller	P	4	1	8.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.038	.250	0	0	0	0
Sandy Consuegra	P	4	1	8.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.038	.250	0	0	0	0
Billy O'Dell	P	4	1	8.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Mel Held	P	4	0	7.0	0	3	0	1	1.000	3.857	.750	0	0	0	0
Babe Birrer	P	4	0	5.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Morrie Martin	P	9	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	.111	0	0	0	0
Bob Harrison	P	1	1	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
George Werley	P	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Gordie Sundin	P	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0	0
Willy Miranda	SS	147	145	1209.7	229	436	26	91	.962	4.948	4.524	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	SS	25	8	118.7	24	46	2	1	.972	5.309	2.800	0	0	0	0
Fred Marsh	SS	8	1	32.3	5	8	1	2	.929	3.619	1.625	0	0	0	0
Totals		1905	1386	12246.0	4082	1647	137	387	.977	4.210	3.007	5	35	59	36	37.9

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