1980 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 93-70
Finished 1st in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 2,278,217, Avg. 29,072
Ballpark: Astrodome
Won Division
National League Championship Series - Lost to Philadelphia Phillies 3-2
Manager: Bill Virdon (93-70)
Location: Houston, Texas

1980 Houston Astros Roster
1980 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1980 season with a record of 93 wins and 70 losses, finishing first in the NL's West Division.

The Astros gave up 589 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Houston plated 637 runs. Terry Puhl paced the team with 13 home runs Jose Cruz recorded 91 runs batted in. Cesar Cedeno led all regular hitters by hitting .309. Joe Niekro topped the squad with 20 wins, while Vern Ruhle recorded a 2.37 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon coached the team. The 1980 Houston Astros qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Joe Niekro	20	12	.625	3.55	37	36	1	11	2	0	256.0	268	119	101	12	79	3	127	4	0	12	1096
Vern Ruhle	12	4	.750	2.37	28	22	1	6	2	0	159.3	148	51	42	7	29	1	55	3	2	0	638
Ken Forsch	12	13	.480	3.20	32	32	0	6	3	0	222.3	230	90	79	15	41	1	84	7	3	1	926
Nolan Ryan	11	10	.524	3.35	35	35	0	4	2	0	233.7	205	100	87	10	98	1	200	3	1	10	982
J. R. Richard	10	4	.714	1.90	17	17	0	4	4	0	113.7	65	31	24	2	40	1	119	0	0	2	438
Joe Sambito	8	4	.667	2.19	64	0	40	0	0	17	90.3	65	26	22	3	22	3	75	2	0	3	354
Frank LaCorte	8	5	.615	2.82	55	0	44	0	0	11	83.0	61	29	26	4	43	5	66	0	0	2	342
Dave Smith	7	5	.583	1.93	57	0	35	0	0	10	102.7	90	24	22	1	32	7	85	4	1	3	422
Joaquin Andujar	3	8	.273	3.91	35	14	5	0	0	2	122.0	132	59	53	8	43	2	75	0	0	2	529
Bert Roberge	2	0	1.000	5.92	14	0	2	0	0	0	24.3	24	16	16	2	10	1	9	2	0	3	106
Bobby Sprowl	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	5
Randy Niemann	0	1	.000	5.45	22	1	3	0	0	1	33.0	40	21	20	2	12	1	18	0	1	0	147
Gordie Pladson	0	4	.000	4.35	12	6	1	0	0	0	41.3	38	23	20	3	16	0	13	0	0	0	175
Totals	93	70	.571	3.11	409	163	132	31	13	41	1482.7	1367	589	512	69	466	26	929	25	8	38	6160

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
Jose Cruz	160	680	612	79	185	29	7	11	91	36	11	60	66	.302	.360	.426	.787	261	11	0	0	8	13
Enos Cabell	152	637	604	69	167	23	8	2	55	21	13	26	84	.276	.305	.351	.656	212	13	1	1	5	6
Cesar Cedeno	137	569	499	71	154	32	8	10	73	48	15	66	72	.309	.389	.465	.854	232	13	1	1	2	11
Terry Puhl	141	608	535	75	151	24	5	13	55	27	11	60	52	.282	.357	.419	.776	224	3	4	6	3	3
Joe Morgan	141	562	461	66	112	17	5	11	49	24	6	93	47	.243	.367	.373	.740	172	4	0	3	5	6
Rafael Landestoy	149	434	393	42	97	13	8	1	27	23	12	31	37	.247	.306	.328	.634	129	3	3	6	1	2
Art Howe	110	364	321	34	91	12	5	10	46	1	0	34	29	.283	.350	.445	.795	143	9	1	4	4	6
Alan Ashby	116	394	352	30	90	19	2	3	48	0	0	35	40	.256	.319	.347	.665	122	11	0	2	5	12
Craig Reynolds	137	418	381	34	86	9	6	3	28	2	1	20	39	.226	.262	.304	.566	116	4	0	13	4	1
Denny Walling	100	321	284	30	85	6	5	3	29	4	3	35	26	.299	.374	.387	.761	110	2	0	0	2	4
Jeffrey Leonard	88	238	216	29	46	7	5	3	20	4	1	19	46	.213	.274	.333	.608	72	8	0	1	2	2
Luis Pujols	78	238	221	15	44	6	1	0	20	0	0	13	29	.199	.245	.235	.480	52	5	1	1	2	3
Danny Heep	33	97	87	6	24	8	0	0	6	0	0	8	9	.276	.340	.368	.708	32	0	1	0	1	0
Joe Niekro	37	102	80	7	22	5	0	0	10	0	0	4	15	.275	.310	.338	.647	27	2	0	18	0	0
Gary Woods	19	55	53	8	20	5	0	2	15	1	0	2	9	.377	.400	.585	.985	31	1	0	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	90	91	78	12	20	6	1	0	3	1	0	10	10	.256	.341	.359	.700	28	1	0	3	0	2
Ken Forsch	32	84	77	3	18	3	0	0	8	1	0	1	33	.234	.244	.273	.516	21	0	0	6	0	0
Vern Ruhle	28	57	49	7	12	3	0	0	2	0	0	4	15	.245	.302	.306	.608	15	2	0	4	0	0
J. R. Richard	17	43	39	2	6	2	0	1	3	0	0	0	15	.154	.154	.282	.436	11	0	0	4	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	40	54	52	5	6	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	8	.115	.132	.135	.267	7	1	0	1	0	1
Nolan Ryan	35	83	70	5	6	0	0	1	6	0	1	7	29	.086	.167	.129	.295	9	0	0	5	1	0
Joaquin Andujar	35	37	29	3	5	0	1	1	3	0	0	3	16	.172	.250	.345	.595	10	1	0	5	0	0
Bruce Bochy	22	28	22	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	7	.182	.357	.227	.584	5	0	1	0	0	1
Randy Niemann	22	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	1	0	0	0	0
Scott Loucks	8	3	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	55	9	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	0	0	2	0	0
Dave Smith	57	14	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Joe Sambito	64	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Fischlin	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alan Knicely	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bert Roberge	14	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Gordie Pladson	12	11	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Sprowl	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2132	6253	5566	637	1455	231	67	75	599	194	74	540	755	.261	.326	.367	.693	2045	96	13	89	45	73

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Art Howe	1B	77	69	585.3	580	49	9	47	.986	9.671	8.169	0	0	0
Denny Walling	1B	63	56	476.7	505	31	6	46	.989	1.120	8.508	0	0	0
Danny Heep	1B	22	21	176.0	188	8	2	8	.990	1.023	8.909	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	1B	59	8	174.3	183	16	1	23	.995	1.273	3.373	0	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	1B	11	9	64.0	74	3	1	7	.987	1.828	7.000	0	0	0
Bruce Bochy	1B	1	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	1B	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	2B	130	123	1037.0	244	348	7	68	.988	5.138	4.554	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	2B	94	40	434.7	97	134	2	33	.991	4.783	2.457	0	0	0
Art Howe	2B	3	0	8.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.333	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	2B	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	3B	150	150	1291.3	118	250	29	15	.927	2.565	2.453	0	0	0
Art Howe	3B	25	12	143.3	11	27	1	3	.974	2.386	1.520	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	3B	11	0	33.0	3	8	1	1	.917	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	3B	3	1	11.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	4.091	1.667	0	0	0
Luis Pujols	3B	1	0	4.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Alan Ashby	C	114	104	911.3	608	60	6	10	.991	6.597	5.860	14	91	27	22.9
Luis Pujols	C	75	57	541.0	348	35	4	5	.990	6.372	5.107	9	62	20	24.4
Bruce Bochy	C	10	2	30.3	19	1	0	0	1.000	5.934	2.000	1	4	0	0.0
Jose Cruz	OF	158	158	1405.3	323	16	11	1	.969	2.171	2.146	0	0	0
Terry Puhl	OF	135	130	1194.7	311	14	3	3	.991	2.448	2.407	0	0	0
Cesar Cedeno	OF	136	136	1188.7	338	9	8	3	.977	2.627	2.551	0	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	OF	56	37	392.3	87	6	2	0	.979	2.133	1.661	0	0	0
Denny Walling	OF	19	14	128.0	20	0	0	0	1.000	1.406	1.053	0	0	0
Gary Woods	OF	14	13	112.3	19	1	0	0	1.000	1.602	1.429	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	OF	5	1	19.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.895	.800	0	0	0
Scott Loucks	OF	4	0	6.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.350	.250	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	37	36	256.0	17	37	2	2	.964	1.898	1.459	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	P	35	35	233.7	13	27	5	0	.889	1.541	1.143	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	P	32	32	222.3	11	45	3	2	.949	2.267	1.750	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	P	28	22	159.3	15	17	2	2	.941	1.808	1.143	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	P	35	14	122.0	7	27	5	2	.872	2.508	.971	0	0	0
J. R. Richard	P	17	17	113.7	6	10	0	1	1.000	1.267	.941	0	0	0
Dave Smith	P	57	0	102.7	3	11	1	0	.933	1.227	.246	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	P	64	0	90.3	7	13	2	2	.909	1.993	.313	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	P	55	0	83.0	1	3	1	0	.800	.434	.073	0	0	0
Gordie Pladson	P	12	6	41.3	3	9	2	0	.857	2.613	1.000	0	0	0
Randy Niemann	P	22	1	33.0	4	8	0	0	1.000	3.273	.545	0	0	0
Bert Roberge	P	14	0	24.3	2	5	0	0	1.000	2.589	.500	0	0	0
Bobby Sprowl	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	SS	135	106	962.7	162	362	17	59	.969	4.899	3.881	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	SS	65	48	423.7	87	157	7	34	.972	5.183	3.754	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	SS	16	7	72.3	18	23	0	7	1.000	5.101	2.563	0	0	0
Art Howe	SS	5	2	22.0	7	6	0	2	1.000	5.318	2.600	0	0	0
Mike Fischlin	SS	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		2010	1467	13343.0	4448	1784	140	386	.978	4.204	3.100	24	157	47	23.0

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BF
Dave Smith	NLCS	1	0	1.000	3.86	3	0	1	0	0	2.3	4	1	1	0	2	2	4	0	13
Frank LaCorte	NLCS	1	1	.500	3.00	2	0	1	0	0	3.0	7	2	1	0	2	1	2	0	18
Joaquin Andujar	NLCS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
Joe Niekro	NLCS	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	10.0	6	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	39
Vern Ruhle	NLCS	0	0		3.86	1	1	0	0	0	7.0	8	3	3	0	1	0	3	0	29
Nolan Ryan	NLCS	0	0		5.40	2	2	0	0	0	13.3	16	8	8	0	3	0	14	0	55
Ken Forsch	NLCS	0	1	.000	4.15	2	1	0	1	0	8.7	10	4	4	1	1	0	6	0	36
Joe Sambito	NLCS	0	1	.000	4.91	3	0	1	0	0	3.7	4	2	2	0	2	2	6	0	16
Totals		2	3	.400	3.49	15	5	4	1	1	49.0	55	20	19	1	13	6	37	1	210

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	SF	IBB
Terry Puhl	NLCS	5	22	19	4	10	2	0	3	2	0	3	2	.526	.591	.632	1.222	12	0	0	0	0
Jose Cruz	NLCS	5	23	15	3	6	1	1	4	0	0	8	1	.400	.609	.600	1.209	9	1	0	0	4
Enos Cabell	NLCS	5	25	21	1	5	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	.238	.273	.286	.558	6	0	3	0	0
Art Howe	NLCS	5	18	15	0	3	1	1	2	0	0	2	2	.200	.278	.400	.678	6	0	0	1	2
Ken Forsch	NLCS	2	3	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	2	0	1	0	0
Gary Woods	NLCS	4	9	8	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	3	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	NLCS	5	10	9	3	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	0	0
Cesar Cedeno	NLCS	3	12	11	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	3	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	NLCS	4	19	13	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	6	1	.154	.421	.385	.806	5	0	0	0	1
Craig Reynolds	NLCS	4	17	13	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	.154	.313	.231	.543	3	0	1	0	1
Dave Bergman	NLCS	4	3	3	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	1.000	1.333	3	0	0	0	0
Alan Ashby	NLCS	2	8	8	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0
Denny Walling	NLCS	3	11	9	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	.111	.182	.111	.293	1	0	0	1	1
Luis Pujols	NLCS	4	13	10	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	.100	.308	.300	.608	3	0	0	0	0
Bruce Bochy	NLCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Heep	NLCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	NLCS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	NLCS	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	NLCS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	NLCS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	NLCS	2	6	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	1	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	NLCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	NLCS	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	1	0	0
Dave Smith	NLCS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals		73	212	172	19	40	7	5	18	4	1	31	19	.233	.346	.331	.678	57	4	7	2	9

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB
Art Howe	NLCS	1B	4	4	32.0	30	3	0	4	1.000	9.281	8.250	0
Dave Bergman	NLCS	1B	3	0	11.0	8	2	1	0	.909	8.182	3.333	0
Denny Walling	NLCS	1B	1	1	6.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	7.500	5.000	0
Joe Morgan	NLCS	2B	4	4	37.3	8	9	0	2	1.000	4.098	4.250	0
Rafael Landestoy	NLCS	2B	3	1	11.7	3	3	0	0	1.000	4.629	2.000	0
Enos Cabell	NLCS	3B	5	5	49.0	1	9	0	1	1.000	1.837	2.000	0
Luis Pujols	NLCS	C	4	4	32.0	21	2	0	0	1.000	6.469	5.750	1
Alan Ashby	NLCS	C	2	1	14.0	11	2	0	0	1.000	8.357	6.500	0
Bruce Bochy	NLCS	C	1	0	3.0	5	1	0	1	1.000	18.000	6.000	0
Terry Puhl	NLCS	CF	3	2	25.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.880	2.667	0
Cesar Cedeno	NLCS	CF	3	3	24.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.875	1.667	0
Jose Cruz	NLCS	LF	5	5	49.0	19	0	0	0	1.000	3.490	3.800	0
Nolan Ryan	NLCS	P	2	2	13.3	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.700	2.000	0
Joe Niekro	NLCS	P	1	1	10.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.900	1.000	0
Ken Forsch	NLCS	P	2	1	8.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.038	.500	0
Vern Ruhle	NLCS	P	1	1	7.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	2.571	2.000	0
Joe Sambito	NLCS	P	3	0	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Frank LaCorte	NLCS	P	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Dave Smith	NLCS	P	3	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Joaquin Andujar	NLCS	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Gary Woods	NLCS	RF	3	2	17.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.529	.333	0
Terry Puhl	NLCS	RF	2	2	16.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.813	2.500	0
Denny Walling	NLCS	RF	2	1	13.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.692	.500	0
Jeffrey Leonard	NLCS	RF	1	0	3.0	2	1	0	1	1.000	9.000	3.000	0
Craig Reynolds	NLCS	SS	4	4	39.0	8	12	1	1	.952	4.615	5.000	0
Rafael Landestoy	NLCS	SS	1	1	10.0	2	4	1	0	.857	5.400	6.000	0
Totals			66	45	441.0	147	52	3	11	.985	4.061	3.015	1

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