1973 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 80-82
Finished 3rd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,318,558, Avg. 18,313
Ballpark: Three Rivers Stadium
Manager: Bill Virdon (67-69)
Manager: Danny Murtaugh (13-13)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1973 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1973 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1973 season with a record of 80 wins and 82 losses, finishing third in the NL's East Division.

The Pirates scored 704 runs and surrendered 693 runs. Willie Stargell walloped 44 home runs for Pittsburgh, while Richie Hebner and Al Oliver swatted 20 or more also. Willie Stargell accounted for 119 RBI and topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .299 clip. Nelson Briles led the team with 14 wins and a team-best 2.84 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon and Danny Murtaugh 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
Nelson Briles	14	13	.519	2.84	33	33	0	7	1	0	218.7	201	87	69	19	51	3	94	1	0	1	893
Bob Moose	12	13	.480	3.53	33	29	1	6	3	0	201.3	219	86	79	11	70	11	111	4	1	3	870
Dock Ellis	12	14	.462	3.05	28	28	0	3	1	0	192.0	176	86	65	7	55	7	122	6	1	3	803
Jim Rooker	10	6	.625	2.85	41	18	9	6	3	5	170.3	143	59	54	12	52	10	122	2	0	4	694
Dave Giusti	9	2	.818	2.37	67	0	60	0	0	20	98.7	89	31	26	9	37	13	64	0	0	3	416
Luke Walker	7	12	.368	4.65	37	18	1	2	1	1	122.0	129	75	63	9	66	8	74	1	0	8	553
Bob Johnson	4	2	.667	3.62	50	2	11	0	0	4	92.0	98	41	37	12	34	7	68	5	0	2	402
Ramon Hernandez	4	5	.444	2.41	59	0	33	0	0	11	89.7	71	27	24	5	25	8	64	4	1	1	361
Bruce Kison	3	0	1.000	3.09	7	7	0	0	0	0	43.7	36	17	15	4	24	3	26	1	0	1	181
Steve Blass	3	9	.250	9.85	23	18	1	1	0	0	88.7	109	98	97	11	84	4	27	12	0	9	455
John Morlan	2	2	.500	3.95	10	7	1	1	0	0	41.0	42	18	18	4	23	3	23	0	0	3	181
Jim Foor	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	8
Chris Zachary	0	1	.000	3.00	6	0	2	0	0	1	12.0	10	4	4	1	1	0	6	0	0	1	48
Jim McKee	0	1	.000	5.67	15	1	2	0	0	0	27.0	31	21	17	2	17	0	13	1	1	2	130
Tom Dettore	0	1	.000	5.96	12	1	4	0	0	0	22.7	33	19	15	1	14	4	13	3	0	0	115
John Lamb	0	1	.000	6.07	22	0	11	0	0	2	29.7	37	24	20	3	10	3	11	0	0	1	134
Totals	80	82	.494	3.74	446	162	136	26	9	44	1450.7	1426	693	603	110	564	85	839	40	4	42	6244

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
Al Oliver	158	690	654	90	191	38	7	20	99	6	0	22	52	.292	.316	.463	.779	303	18	5	0	9	1
Manny Sanguillen	149	619	589	64	166	26	7	12	65	2	5	17	29	.282	.301	.411	.712	242	17	3	2	8	8
Willie Stargell	148	609	522	106	156	43	3	44	119	0	0	80	129	.299	.392	.646	1.038	337	6	3	0	4	22
Richie Hebner	144	576	509	73	138	28	1	25	74	0	1	56	60	.271	.346	.477	.823	243	8	4	3	4	12
Dave Cash	116	479	436	59	118	21	2	2	31	2	5	38	36	.271	.328	.342	.669	149	8	0	3	2	0
Rennie Stennett	128	491	466	45	113	18	3	10	55	2	3	16	63	.242	.265	.358	.623	167	8	0	4	5	3
Richie Zisk	103	354	333	44	108	23	7	10	54	0	0	21	63	.324	.364	.526	.890	175	8	0	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	119	455	397	43	95	16	0	14	40	0	4	55	77	.239	.332	.385	.717	153	12	1	0	2	4
Gene Clines	110	337	304	42	80	11	3	1	23	8	7	26	36	.263	.327	.329	.656	100	12	3	4	0	0
Milt May	101	322	283	29	76	8	1	7	31	0	1	34	26	.269	.349	.378	.727	107	9	2	1	2	12
Dal Maxvill	74	246	217	19	41	4	3	0	17	0	0	22	40	.189	.261	.235	.496	51	7	0	5	2	2
Dave Parker	54	144	139	17	40	9	1	4	14	1	1	2	27	.288	.308	.453	.761	63	2	2	1	0	1
Gene Alley	76	181	158	25	32	3	2	2	8	1	0	20	28	.203	.292	.285	.577	45	8	0	3	0	6
Jackie Hernandez	54	78	73	8	18	1	2	0	8	0	0	4	12	.247	.286	.315	.601	23	2	0	1	0	2
Vic Davalillo	59	85	83	9	15	1	0	1	3	0	2	2	7	.181	.200	.229	.429	19	1	0	0	0	0
Nelson Briles	33	82	72	3	14	2	0	1	6	0	0	2	21	.194	.224	.264	.488	19	0	1	6	1	0
Jim Rooker	42	57	49	5	12	0	0	0	5	0	0	2	24	.245	.288	.245	.533	12	0	1	5	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	37	51	49	5	11	0	1	1	5	0	0	1	11	.224	.255	.327	.581	16	1	1	0	0	0
Steve Blass	24	29	24	2	10	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.417	.417	.500	.917	12	0	0	5	0	0
Bob Moose	37	76	67	6	9	1	0	0	2	0	1	5	18	.134	.194	.149	.344	10	1	0	4	0	0
Dock Ellis	29	73	65	2	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	32	.108	.134	.108	.242	7	0	0	6	0	0
Dave Giusti	67	16	13	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.308	.357	.308	.665	4	0	0	2	0	0
Dave Augustine	11	7	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	1	0	0	0	0
John Morlan	10	12	11	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.182	.250	.273	.523	3	0	0	0	0	0
Luke Walker	37	33	30	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	14	.067	.067	.067	.133	2	0	0	3	0	0
Chuck Goggin	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry McNertney	9	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Campanis	6	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ramon Hernandez	59	10	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.125	.300	.125	.425	1	1	0	0	0	0
Bruce Kison	7	14	12	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	.083	.143	.250	.393	3	0	1	0	1	0
Bob Johnson	50	16	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.000	.067	.000	.067	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tom Dettore	12	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
John Lamb	22	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim McKee	15	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Zachary	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Foor	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2110	6167	5608	704	1465	257	44	154	664	23	30	432	842	.261	.315	.405	.720	2272	130	27	60	40	73

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Robertson	1B	107	106	945.3	957	79	5	91	.995	9.863	9.682	0	0	0
Al Oliver	1B	50	48	431.3	454	31	4	42	.992	1.120	9.700	0	0	0
Vic Davalillo	1B	10	8	74.0	77	9	2	8	.977	1.459	8.600	0	0	0
Dave Cash	2B	92	85	775.0	227	276	11	46	.979	5.841	5.467	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	2B	84	77	675.7	210	248	9	64	.981	6.101	5.452	0	0	0
Richie Hebner	3B	139	137	1208.0	92	260	23	19	.939	2.623	2.532	0	0	0
Dave Cash	3B	17	16	143.0	17	35	1	3	.981	3.273	3.059	0	0	0
Gene Alley	3B	8	5	59.7	7	12	0	3	1.000	2.866	2.375	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	3B	5	4	40.0	5	7	1	0	.923	2.700	2.400	0	0	0
Manny Sanguillen	C	89	83	764.0	493	35	9	9	.983	6.220	5.933	4	45	18	28.6
Milt May	C	79	78	666.7	402	36	12	4	.973	5.913	5.544	5	39	20	33.9
Jerry McNertney	C	9	1	18.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	5.500	1.222	0	0	1	100.0
Chuck Goggin	C	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Willie Stargell	OF	142	141	1218.0	261	14	7	1	.975	2.032	1.937	0	0	0
Al Oliver	OF	109	108	965.3	238	5	9	0	.964	2.266	2.229	0	0	0
Richie Zisk	OF	84	78	708.7	139	12	2	4	.987	1.918	1.798	0	0	0
Gene Clines	OF	77	66	599.0	145	6	5	0	.968	2.269	1.961	0	0	0
Manny Sanguillen	OF	59	59	523.7	139	6	8	2	.948	2.492	2.458	0	0	0
Dave Parker	OF	39	31	263.3	77	3	3	1	.964	2.734	2.051	0	0	0
Vic Davalillo	OF	10	2	36.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.200	0	0	0
Dave Augustine	OF	9	0	22.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	2.045	.556	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	OF	5	1	16.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.800	0	0	0
Nelson Briles	P	33	33	218.7	14	35	1	3	.980	2.017	1.485	0	0	0
Bob Moose	P	33	29	201.3	13	39	2	7	.963	2.325	1.576	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	P	28	28	192.0	16	30	1	3	.979	2.156	1.643	0	0	0
Jim Rooker	P	41	18	170.3	6	29	2	3	.946	1.849	.854	0	0	0
Luke Walker	P	37	18	122.0	4	16	2	1	.909	1.475	.541	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	P	67	0	98.7	10	4	1	0	.933	1.277	.209	0	0	0
Bob Johnson	P	50	2	92.0	2	4	1	1	.857	.587	.120	0	0	0
Ramon Hernandez	P	59	0	89.7	3	16	1	2	.950	1.907	.322	0	0	0
Steve Blass	P	23	18	88.7	8	18	0	1	1.000	2.639	1.130	0	0	0
Bruce Kison	P	7	7	43.7	2	7	0	0	1.000	1.855	1.286	0	0	0
John Morlan	P	10	7	41.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.317	.600	0	0	0
John Lamb	P	22	0	29.7	3	5	0	0	1.000	2.427	.364	0	0	0
Jim McKee	P	15	1	27.0	0	4	2	0	.667	1.333	.267	0	0	0
Tom Dettore	P	12	1	22.7	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.191	.250	0	0	0
Chris Zachary	P	6	0	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.167	0	0	0
Jim Foor	P	3	0	1.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	6.750	.333	0	0	0
Dal Maxvill	SS	74	73	601.0	105	234	10	46	.971	5.077	4.581	0	0	0
Gene Alley	SS	49	38	343.3	76	129	4	20	.981	5.374	4.184	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	SS	43	29	276.0	67	100	5	20	.971	5.446	3.884	0	0	0
Jackie Hernandez	SS	49	22	230.3	45	81	8	19	.940	4.923	2.571	0	0	0
Totals		1885	1458	13056.0	4352	1831	151	423	.976	4.262	3.280	9	84	39	31.7

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