1970 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 89-73
Finished 1st in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 386,907, Avg. 9,673
Ballpark: Forbes Field/Three Rivers Stadium
Won Division
National League Championship Series - Lost to Cincinnati Reds 3-0
Manager: Danny Murtaugh (89-73)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1970 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1970 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1970 season with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses, finishing first in the NL's East Division.

The Pirates tallied 729 runs and surrendered 664 runs. Willie Stargell walloped 31 home runs for Pittsburgh, while Bob Robertson swatted 20 or more, too. Willie Stargell accounted for 85 RBI. Manny Sanguillen paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .325 clip. Luke Walker topped the team with 15 wins and a team-best 3.04 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Danny Murtaugh coached the team. The 1970 Pittsburgh Pirates 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
Luke Walker	15	6	.714	3.04	42	19	13	5	3	3	163.0	129	56	55	6	89	8	124	1	0	6	684
Dock Ellis	13	10	.565	3.21	30	30	0	9	4	0	201.7	194	81	72	9	87	11	128	10	0	3	863
Bob Moose	11	10	.524	3.99	28	27	0	9	2	0	189.7	186	88	84	14	64	5	119	3	0	0	784
Steve Blass	10	12	.455	3.52	31	31	0	6	1	0	196.7	187	92	77	14	73	8	120	5	1	2	824
Bob Veale	10	15	.400	3.92	34	32	0	5	1	0	202.0	189	99	88	15	94	11	178	3	1	9	882
Dave Giusti	9	3	.750	3.06	66	1	47	0	0	26	103.0	98	38	35	7	39	9	85	0	0	5	428
Bruce Dal Canton	9	4	.692	4.57	41	6	14	1	0	1	84.7	94	48	43	7	39	8	53	1	0	1	379
Jim Nelson	4	2	.667	3.42	15	10	1	1	1	0	68.3	64	32	26	5	38	5	42	3	0	2	298
Mudcat Grant	2	1	.667	2.25	8	0	5	0	0	0	12.0	8	3	3	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	44
Orlando Pena	2	1	.667	4.78	23	0	7	0	0	2	37.7	38	21	20	6	7	2	25	1	0	0	152
Dick Colpaert	1	0	1.000	5.91	8	0	2	0	0	0	10.7	9	7	7	3	8	2	6	0	0	1	47
George Brunet	1	1	.500	2.70	12	1	2	0	0	0	16.7	19	5	5	1	9	1	17	1	0	0	75
Chuck Hartenstein	1	1	.500	4.56	17	0	5	0	0	1	23.7	25	15	12	3	8	4	14	0	1	0	103
Fred Cambria	1	2	.333	3.51	6	5	0	0	0	0	33.3	37	15	13	2	12	0	14	1	0	0	150
Lou Marone	0	0		3.86	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Al McBean	0	0		8.10	7	0	3	0	0	1	10.0	13	11	9	2	7	0	3	0	0	0	48
Ed Acosta	0	0		13.50	3	0	2	0	0	1	2.7	5	4	4	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	16
John Lamb	0	1	.000	2.78	23	0	7	0	0	3	32.3	23	10	10	2	13	1	24	2	0	1	127
Joe Gibbon	0	1	.000	4.83	41	0	13	0	0	5	41.0	44	25	22	2	24	8	26	2	0	5	190
Gene Garber	0	3	.000	5.24	14	0	5	0	0	0	22.3	22	13	13	4	10	1	7	2	0	0	94
Totals	89	73	.549	3.71	450	162	126	36	12	43	1453.7	1386	664	599	106	625	84	990	36	3	35	6197

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
Matty Alou	155	718	677	97	201	21	8	1	47	19	11	30	18	.297	.329	.356	.685	241	9	4	4	3	3
Manny Sanguillen	128	510	486	63	158	19	9	7	61	2	3	17	45	.325	.344	.444	.788	216	15	0	1	6	9
Al Oliver	151	609	551	63	149	33	5	12	83	1	1	35	35	.270	.326	.414	.740	228	10	14	2	7	8
Roberto Clemente	108	455	412	65	145	22	10	14	60	3	0	38	66	.352	.407	.556	.963	229	7	2	1	2	14
Willie Stargell	136	529	474	70	125	18	3	31	85	0	1	44	119	.264	.329	.511	.839	242	14	5	0	6	11
Richie Hebner	120	475	420	60	122	24	8	11	46	2	3	42	48	.290	.362	.464	.827	195	8	7	3	3	5
Bob Robertson	117	451	390	69	112	19	4	27	82	4	1	51	98	.287	.367	.564	.931	220	8	2	1	7	2
Gene Alley	121	466	426	46	104	16	5	8	41	7	3	31	70	.244	.297	.362	.659	154	6	3	2	4	9
Bill Mazeroski	112	404	367	29	84	14	0	7	39	2	0	27	40	.229	.283	.324	.607	119	6	2	5	3	9
Dave Cash	64	230	210	30	66	7	6	1	28	5	2	17	25	.314	.365	.419	.784	88	9	1	0	2	3
Jose Pagan	95	252	230	21	61	14	1	7	29	1	1	20	24	.265	.321	.426	.748	98	6	0	0	2	1
Freddie Patek	84	276	237	42	58	10	5	1	19	8	2	29	46	.245	.322	.342	.664	81	2	0	6	4	1
Johnny Jeter	85	140	126	27	30	3	2	2	12	9	5	13	34	.238	.314	.341	.656	43	3	1	0	0	1
Jerry May	51	163	139	13	29	4	2	1	16	0	0	21	25	.209	.313	.288	.601	40	3	1	0	2	6
Gene Clines	31	39	37	4	15	2	0	0	3	2	1	2	5	.405	.436	.459	.895	17	2	0	0	0	0
Bob Moose	29	76	66	5	12	2	1	0	2	0	0	6	18	.182	.250	.242	.492	16	1	0	4	0	0
Bob Veale	34	72	67	5	11	4	0	0	6	0	0	4	34	.164	.211	.224	.435	15	2	0	1	0	0
Steve Blass	32	76	70	3	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	15	.114	.137	.129	.266	9	2	0	3	1	0
Dock Ellis	38	76	70	9	7	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	37	.100	.125	.114	.239	8	0	0	4	0	0
Luke Walker	42	57	46	0	6	0	0	0	5	0	0	3	26	.130	.184	.130	.314	6	0	0	8	0	0
Jim Nelson	15	23	20	1	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	6	.200	.227	.200	.427	4	0	0	1	1	0
George Kopacz	10	17	16	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.188	.188	.188	.375	3	0	0	1	0	0
Dave Giusti	66	20	16	1	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	6	.188	.316	.313	.628	5	0	0	1	0	0
Gene Garber	14	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Milt May	5	5	4	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.500	.600	.750	1.350	3	0	1	0	0	0
Fred Cambria	6	14	10	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	2	1	0	2	0	0
Dave Ricketts	14	12	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Martinez	19	22	20	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.050	.095	.050	.145	1	1	0	1	0	0
Bruce Dal Canton	41	20	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	9	.000	.158	.000	.158	0	1	1	1	0	0
Orlando Pena	23	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
George Brunet	12	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mudcat Grant	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Chuck Hartenstein	17	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al McBean	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Lamb	23	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Gibbon	41	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Colpaert	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Lou Marone	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Acosta	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2066	6231	5637	729	1522	235	70	130	676	66	34	444	871	.270	.325	.406	.731	2287	117	44	53	53	82

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Robertson	1B	99	96	853.0	907	78	5	107	.995	1.393	9.949	0	0	0
Al Oliver	1B	77	64	575.0	582	48	7	68	.989	9.861	8.182	0	0	0
George Kopacz	1B	3	2	21.0	17	0	0	2	1.000	7.286	5.667	0	0	0
Willie Stargell	1B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	1B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Bill Mazeroski	2B	102	99	888.0	227	325	7	87	.987	5.595	5.412	0	0	0
Dave Cash	2B	55	53	474.0	147	156	8	46	.974	5.753	5.509	0	0	0
Gene Alley	2B	8	6	57.0	13	30	0	4	1.000	6.789	5.375	0	0	0
Jose Martinez	2B	4	4	33.0	11	15	3	4	.897	7.091	6.500	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Richie Hebner	3B	117	108	978.0	64	235	19	24	.940	2.752	2.556	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	3B	53	48	415.0	43	91	6	14	.957	2.906	2.528	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	3B	5	5	34.0	4	3	1	1	.875	1.853	1.400	0	0	0
Gene Alley	3B	2	1	15.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.200	1.000	0	0	0
Jose Martinez	3B	7	0	11.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.636	.286	0	0	0
Manny Sanguillen	C	125	123	1081.0	775	66	10	12	.988	7.002	6.728	14	43	33	43.4
Jerry May	C	45	39	358.0	280	32	2	2	.994	7.844	6.933	6	20	20	50.0
Dave Ricketts	C	7	0	15.0	8	2	1	0	.909	6.000	1.429	0	1	1	50.0
Matty Alou	OF	153	153	1367.0	297	15	8	1	.975	2.054	2.039	0	0	0
Willie Stargell	OF	125	122	1055.0	184	16	5	1	.976	1.706	1.600	0	0	0
Roberto Clemente	OF	104	102	901.0	189	12	7	2	.966	2.008	1.933	0	0	0
Al Oliver	OF	80	79	680.0	136	4	2	1	.986	1.853	1.750	0	0	0
Johnny Jeter	OF	56	23	276.0	53	2	0	0	1.000	1.793	.982	0	0	0
Gene Clines	OF	7	3	39.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	.923	.571	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	OF	3	3	27.0	4	0	2	0	.667	1.333	1.333	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	OF	4	1	16.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.125	.500	0	0	0
Bob Veale	P	34	32	202.0	0	23	3	1	.885	1.025	.676	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	P	30	30	202.0	21	34	2	3	.965	2.450	1.833	0	0	0
Steve Blass	P	31	31	197.0	21	26	2	1	.959	2.147	1.516	0	0	0
Bob Moose	P	28	27	190.0	10	22	3	2	.914	1.516	1.143	0	0	0
Luke Walker	P	42	19	163.0	3	24	1	3	.964	1.491	.643	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	P	66	1	103.0	5	14	0	1	1.000	1.660	.288	0	0	0
Bruce Dal Canton	P	41	6	85.0	3	10	0	2	1.000	1.376	.317	0	0	0
Jim Nelson	P	15	10	68.0	7	4	2	1	.846	1.456	.733	0	0	0
Joe Gibbon	P	41	0	41.0	3	7	1	0	.909	2.195	.244	0	0	0
Orlando Pena	P	23	0	38.0	4	8	3	1	.800	2.842	.522	0	0	0
Fred Cambria	P	6	5	33.0	1	6	0	1	1.000	1.909	1.167	0	0	0
John Lamb	P	23	0	32.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	.563	.087	0	0	0
Chuck Hartenstein	P	17	0	24.0	1	8	1	1	.900	3.375	.529	0	0	0
Gene Garber	P	14	0	22.0	2	7	0	2	1.000	3.682	.643	0	0	0
George Brunet	P	12	1	17.0	0	4	1	0	.800	2.118	.333	0	0	0
Mudcat Grant	P	8	0	12.0	4	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	.750	0	0	0
Dick Colpaert	P	8	0	11.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.636	.250	0	0	0
Al McBean	P	7	0	10.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	1.800	.286	0	0	0
Ed Acosta	P	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Lou Marone	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gene Alley	SS	108	105	921.0	202	381	15	84	.975	5.697	5.398	0	0	0
Freddie Patek	SS	65	57	531.0	122	212	10	42	.971	5.661	5.138	0	0	0
Jose Martinez	SS	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1868	1458	13082.0	4361	1930	137	522	.979	4.328	3.368	20	64	54	45.8

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Joe Gibbon	NLCS	0		0.00	2	0	1	0.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Dave Giusti	NLCS	0		3.86	2	0	2	2.3	3	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	10
Luke Walker	NLCS	1	.000	1.29	1	1	0	7.0	5	2	1	1	1	1	5	1	27
Dock Ellis	NLCS	1	.000	2.79	1	1	0	9.7	9	3	3	0	4	2	1	0	41
Bob Moose	NLCS	1	.000	3.52	1	1	0	7.7	4	3	3	2	2	0	4	0	28
Totals		3	.000	2.67	7	3	3	27.0	22	9	8	3	8	4	12	1	108

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	IBB
Willie Stargell	NLCS	3	13	12	0	6	1	1	0	1	1	.500	.538	.583	1.122	7	0	0	0
Richie Hebner	NLCS	2	8	6	0	4	2	0	0	2	1	.667	.750	1.000	1.750	6	0	0	0
Matty Alou	NLCS	3	14	12	1	3	1	0	1	2	1	.250	.357	.333	.690	4	0	0	1
Roberto Clemente	NLCS	3	14	14	1	3	0	1	0	0	4	.214	.214	.214	.429	3	0	0	0
Al Oliver	NLCS	2	9	8	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	1
Manny Sanguillen	NLCS	3	12	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	NLCS	1	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	NLCS	2	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.400	.600	2	0	0	0
Dave Cash	NLCS	2	9	8	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	.125	.222	.250	.472	2	0	0	0
Luke Walker	NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Freddie Patek	NLCS	1	4	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	1	0	0
Bob Moose	NLCS	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Mazeroski	NLCS	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Johnny Jeter	NLCS	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	NLCS	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	2	0
Gene Alley	NLCS	2	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	NLCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Joe Gibbon	NLCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		35	116	102	3	23	6	3	2	12	19	.225	.307	.284	.591	29	1	2	2

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Al Oliver	NLCS	1B	2	2	18.0	22	1	0	1	1.000	11.500	11.500
Bob Robertson	NLCS	1B	1	1	9.0	11	1	0	1	1.000	12.000	12.000
Dave Cash	NLCS	2B	2	2	19.0	6	8	0	3	1.000	6.632	7.000
Bill Mazeroski	NLCS	2B	1	1	8.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	5.625	5.000
Richie Hebner	NLCS	3B	2	2	18.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000
Jose Pagan	NLCS	3B	1	1	9.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000
Manny Sanguillen	NLCS	C	3	3	27.0	13	1	1	0	.933	4.667	4.667
Matty Alou	NLCS	CF	3	3	27.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000
Willie Stargell	NLCS	LF	3	3	25.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.440	1.333
Johnny Jeter	NLCS	LF	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000
Dock Ellis	NLCS	P	1	1	9.7	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.793	3.000
Bob Moose	NLCS	P	1	1	7.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.522	3.000
Luke Walker	NLCS	P	1	1	7.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000
Dave Giusti	NLCS	P	2	0	2.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.857	.500
Joe Gibbon	NLCS	P	2	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Roberto Clemente	NLCS	RF	3	3	27.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	2.333	2.333
Gene Alley	NLCS	SS	2	2	19.0	6	7	0	3	1.000	6.158	6.500
Freddie Patek	NLCS	SS	1	1	8.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.375	3.000
Totals			32	27	243.0	81	37	2	8	.983	4.370	3.688

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