1961 San Francisco Giants Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 85-69
Finished 3rd in the NL
Attendance: 1,390,679, Avg. 18,801
Ballpark: Candlestick Park
Manager: Al Dark (85-69)
Location: San Francisco, California

1961 San Francisco Giants Roster
1961 San Francisco Giants Results

The San Francisco Giants of the National League ended the 1961 season with a record of 85 wins and 69 losses, finishing third in the NL.

The Giants topped the league with 773 runs, fueled by 183 home runs. San Francisco yielded 655 runs. Orlando Cepeda walloped 46 home runs for the squad, while Willie McCovey, Felipe Alou and Willie Mays each added 20 or more, too. Orlando Cepeda accounted for 142 RBI and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .311 average. Stu Miller led the team with 14 wins, and Mike McCormick registered a 3.20 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Al Dark 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
Stu Miller	14	5	.737	2.66	63	0	46	0	0	17	122.0	95	41	36	4	37	11	89	1	0	0	487
Jack Sanford	13	9	.591	4.22	38	33	1	6	0	0	217.3	203	114	102	22	87	7	112	5	4	3	923
Juan Marichal	13	10	.565	3.89	29	27	2	9	3	0	185.0	183	88	80	24	48	5	124	2	1	7	769
Mike McCormick	13	16	.448	3.20	40	35	3	13	3	0	250.0	235	99	89	33	75	3	163	2	0	4	1033
Sam Jones	8	8	.500	4.49	37	17	10	2	0	1	128.3	134	72	64	12	57	7	105	8	0	7	579
Billy O'Dell	7	5	.583	3.59	46	14	9	4	1	2	130.3	132	63	52	10	33	6	110	1	0	2	554
Billy Loes	6	5	.545	4.24	26	18	2	3	1	0	114.7	114	62	54	13	39	4	55	5	1	0	494
Jim Duffalo	5	1	.833	4.23	24	4	7	1	0	1	61.7	59	31	29	9	32	7	37	2	0	1	271
Dick LeMay	3	6	.333	3.56	27	5	11	1	0	3	83.3	65	35	33	11	36	7	54	4	1	3	348
Bobby Bolin	2	2	.500	3.19	37	1	18	0	0	5	48.0	37	20	17	6	37	8	48	3	1	4	224
Dom Zanni	1	0	1.000	3.95	8	0	2	0	0	0	13.7	13	7	6	1	12	2	11	0	0	1	63
Eddie Fisher	0	2	.000	5.35	15	1	5	0	0	1	33.7	36	23	20	7	9	3	16	0	0	1	146
Totals	85	69	.552	3.77	390	155	116	39	8	30	1388.0	1306	655	582	152	502	70	924	33	8	33	5891

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
Orlando Cepeda	152	636	585	105	182	28	4	46	142	12	8	39	91	.311	.362	.609	.970	356	21	9	0	3	11
Willie Mays	154	659	572	129	176	32	3	40	123	18	9	81	77	.308	.393	.584	.977	334	14	2	0	4	15
Harvey Kuenn	131	529	471	60	125	22	4	5	46	5	4	47	34	.265	.329	.361	.690	170	15	1	3	7	2
Jim Davenport	137	503	436	64	121	28	4	12	65	4	3	45	65	.278	.342	.443	.785	193	10	2	12	8	1
Felipe Alou	132	447	415	59	120	19	0	18	52	11	4	26	41	.289	.333	.465	.798	193	11	2	2	2	2
Jose Pagan	134	474	434	38	110	15	2	5	46	8	5	31	45	.253	.306	.332	.638	144	13	2	7	0	7
Joey Amalfitano	109	433	384	64	98	11	4	2	23	7	4	44	59	.255	.331	.320	.651	123	2	0	4	1	2
Willie McCovey	106	374	328	59	89	12	3	18	50	1	2	37	60	.271	.350	.491	.841	161	8	5	0	4	3
Ed Bailey	107	393	340	39	81	9	1	13	51	1	5	42	41	.238	.324	.385	.709	131	8	4	1	6	6
Matty Alou	81	217	200	38	62	7	2	6	24	3	2	15	18	.310	.356	.455	.811	91	4	0	1	1	2
Chuck Hiller	70	280	240	38	57	12	1	2	12	4	4	32	30	.238	.328	.321	.649	77	1	1	6	1	0
Eddie Bressoud	59	128	114	14	24	6	0	3	11	1	1	11	23	.211	.276	.342	.618	39	6	0	1	2	4
John Orsino	25	87	83	5	23	3	2	4	12	0	0	3	13	.277	.310	.506	.816	42	0	1	0	0	0
Hobie Landrith	43	88	71	11	17	4	0	2	10	0	0	12	7	.239	.337	.380	.717	27	3	0	2	3	3
Jack Sanford	39	85	74	13	16	2	0	3	6	0	0	5	22	.216	.263	.365	.627	27	2	0	5	1	0
Mike McCormick	40	89	80	3	15	2	0	0	4	0	0	4	25	.188	.226	.213	.439	17	0	0	5	0	0
Tom Haller	30	73	62	5	9	1	0	2	8	0	1	9	23	.145	.260	.258	.518	16	1	1	0	1	0
Jim Marshall	44	40	36	5	8	0	0	1	7	0	0	3	8	.222	.275	.306	.581	11	1	0	0	1	0
Ernie Bowman	38	40	38	10	8	0	2	0	2	2	0	1	8	.211	.231	.316	.547	12	1	0	1	0	0
Juan Marichal	30	68	59	3	7	0	0	0	3	1	0	3	15	.119	.159	.119	.277	7	2	0	5	1	0
Jim Duffalo	25	18	17	2	5	2	0	1	4	0	0	1	7	.294	.333	.588	.922	10	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	26	38	32	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	.156	.206	.156	.362	5	1	0	4	0	0
Sam Jones	37	42	36	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.139	.162	.194	.357	7	0	0	5	0	0
Stu Miller	64	25	20	2	4	1	0	0	1	1	1	4	5	.200	.333	.250	.583	5	0	0	1	0	0
Billy O'Dell	49	45	39	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	10	.103	.122	.103	.225	4	0	0	4	1	0
Bobby Bolin	37	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Farley	13	23	20	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	5	.100	.217	.100	.317	2	0	0	0	0	0
Dick LeMay	27	29	26	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	14	.077	.143	.077	.220	2	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Schmidt	2	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.167	.143	.167	.310	1	0	0	0	1	0
Eddie Fisher	15	7	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.143	.143	.286	.429	2	0	0	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.667	.000	.667	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dom Zanni	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1967	5887	5233	773	1379	219	32	183	709	79	54	506	764	.264	.329	.423	.752	2211	124	30	70	48	58

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Willie McCovey	1B	84	79	710.3	669	55	11	55	.985	9.173	8.619	0	0	0	0
Orlando Cepeda	1B	81	75	664.7	644	47	2	50	.997	9.357	8.531	0	0	0	0
Jim Marshall	1B	4	0	9.0	8	1	0	1	1.000	9.000	2.250	0	0	0	0
Bob Farley	1B	1	1	4.0	4	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	4.000	0	0	0	0
Joey Amalfitano	2B	95	88	766.7	201	223	13	48	.970	4.977	4.463	0	0	0	0
Chuck Hiller	2B	67	63	574.3	133	158	8	34	.973	4.560	4.343	0	0	0	0
Ernie Bowman	2B	13	4	44.0	11	12	3	2	.885	4.705	1.769	0	0	0	0
Eddie Bressoud	2B	1	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Davenport	3B	132	120	1053.0	119	235	13	25	.965	3.026	2.682	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	3B	32	29	254.0	33	32	8	4	.890	2.303	2.031	0	0	0	0
Joey Amalfitano	3B	6	5	48.0	3	13	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.667	0	0	0	0
Ernie Bowman	3B	7	0	19.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.368	.714	0	0	0	0
Eddie Bressoud	3B	3	1	14.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.571	1.333	0	0	0	0
Ed Bailey	C	103	93	838.3	629	40	10	4	.985	7.182	6.495	5	18	38	16	29.6
John Orsino	C	25	22	192.0	130	9	6	4	.959	6.516	5.560	4	7	7	4	36.4
Hobie Landrith	C	30	18	174.3	126	9	2	2	.985	6.969	4.500	1	2	7	5	41.7
Tom Haller	C	25	20	165.3	117	7	0	4	1.000	6.750	4.960	0	4	11	3	21.4
Bob Schmidt	C	2	2	18.0	17	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	9.000	0	3	0	1	100.0
Willie Mays	OF	153	151	1335.0	385	7	8	3	.980	2.643	2.562	0	0	0	0
Felipe Alou	OF	122	100	919.0	196	10	2	1	.990	2.017	1.689	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	OF	93	91	780.7	157	9	2	0	.988	1.914	1.785	0	0	0	0
Orlando Cepeda	OF	80	76	658.3	130	4	3	0	.978	1.832	1.675	0	0	0	0
Matty Alou	OF	58	41	411.7	85	2	2	0	.978	1.902	1.500	0	0	0	0
Bob Farley	OF	3	3	25.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.080	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	OF	4	1	22.3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.209	.750	0	0	0	0
Ed Bailey	OF	1	1	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Marshall	OF	2	1	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500	0	0	0	0
Mike McCormick	P	40	35	250.0	12	37	0	1	1.000	1.764	1.225	0	0	0	0
Jack Sanford	P	38	33	217.3	9	41	3	1	.943	2.071	1.316	0	0	0	0
Juan Marichal	P	29	27	185.0	10	27	3	1	.925	1.800	1.276	0	0	0	0
Billy O'Dell	P	46	14	130.3	8	17	0	1	1.000	1.726	.543	0	0	0	0
Sam Jones	P	37	17	128.3	7	11	1	1	.947	1.262	.486	0	0	0	0
Stu Miller	P	63	0	122.0	10	29	0	4	1.000	2.877	.619	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	P	26	18	114.7	9	23	2	1	.941	2.512	1.231	0	0	0	0
Dick LeMay	P	27	5	83.3	3	15	2	1	.900	1.944	.667	0	0	0	0
Jim Duffalo	P	24	4	61.7	2	9	0	0	1.000	1.605	.458	0	0	0	0
Bobby Bolin	P	37	1	48.0	0	4	1	0	.800	.750	.108	0	0	0	0
Eddie Fisher	P	15	1	33.7	3	6	1	0	.900	2.406	.600	0	0	0	0
Dom Zanni	P	8	0	13.7	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.976	.375	0	0	0	0
Jose Pagan	SS	132	127	1097.0	227	334	21	55	.964	4.603	4.250	0	0	0	0
Eddie Bressoud	SS	34	25	240.7	46	60	4	12	.964	3.964	3.118	0	0	0	0
Ernie Bowman	SS	12	3	49.3	6	17	2	1	.920	4.196	1.917	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	SS	1	0	1.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1796	1395	12492.0	4164	1513	133	318	.977	4.090	3.161	10	34	63	29	31.5

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