1955 Brooklyn Dodgers Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 98-55
Finished 1st in the NL
Attendance: 1,031,271, Avg. 15,625
Ballpark: Ebbets Field
Won World Series
World Series - Defeated New York Yankees 4-3
Manager: Walter Alston (98-55)
Location: New York, New York

1955 Brooklyn Dodgers Roster
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers Results

The Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League ended the 1955 season with a record of 98 wins and 55 losses, finishing first in the NL.

The Dodgers led the circuit with 857 runs, powered by 201 home runs. Brooklyn allowed 650 runs, least in the league. Duke Snider walloped 42 home runs for the squad, while Don Zimmer, Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo and Gil Hodges each swatted 20 or more also. Duke Snider drove in 136 runs. Roy Campanella paced all regular hitters by hitting .318. Don Newcombe topped the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 3.20 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Walter Alston coached the team. The 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series.

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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
Don Newcombe	20	5	.800	3.20	34	31	1	17	1	0	233.7	222	103	83	35	38	1	143	1	0	0	943
Clem Labine	13	5	.722	3.24	60	8	32	1	0	11	144.3	121	61	52	12	55	4	67	0	0	5	592
Carl Erskine	11	8	.579	3.79	31	29	1	7	2	1	194.7	185	89	82	29	64	3	84	0	0	4	808
Billy Loes	10	4	.714	3.59	22	19	0	6	0	0	128.0	116	59	51	16	46	1	85	2	0	1	539
Johnny Podres	9	10	.474	3.95	27	24	0	5	2	0	159.3	160	80	70	15	57	2	114	4	0	5	684
Don Bessent	8	1	.889	2.70	24	2	8	1	0	3	63.3	51	19	19	7	21	2	29	0	0	1	255
Karl Spooner	8	6	.571	3.65	29	14	10	2	1	2	98.7	79	50	40	8	41	1	78	5	0	1	420
Russ Meyer	6	2	.750	5.42	18	11	1	2	1	0	73.0	86	46	44	8	31	6	26	0	0	3	327
Roger Craig	5	3	.625	2.78	21	10	4	3	0	2	90.7	81	37	28	8	43	6	48	1	0	3	388
Ed Roebuck	5	6	.455	4.71	47	0	27	0	0	12	84.0	96	51	44	14	24	5	33	3	0	3	368
Sandy Koufax	2	2	.500	3.02	12	5	4	2	2	0	41.7	33	15	14	2	28	1	30	1	1	2	183
Joe Black	1	0	1.000	2.93	6	0	2	0	0	0	15.3	15	5	5	1	5	1	9	0	1	0	62
Tom Lasorda	0	0		13.50	4	1	1	0	0	0	4.0	5	6	6	1	6	0	4	1	0	4	24
Chuck Templeton	0	1	.000	11.57	4	0	2	0	0	0	4.7	5	7	6	2	5	0	3	1	0	0	24
Jim Hughes	0	2	.000	4.22	24	0	15	0	0	6	42.7	41	22	20	10	19	1	20	0	0	3	182
Totals	98	55	.641	3.68	363	154	108	46	9	37	1378.0	1296	650	564	168	483	34	773	19	2	35	5799

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
Duke Snider	148	653	538	126	166	34	6	42	136	9	7	104	87	.309	.418	.628	1.046	338	9	1	4	6	19
Carl Furillo	140	578	523	83	164	24	3	26	95	4	5	43	43	.314	.371	.520	.891	272	15	7	1	4	5
Gil Hodges	150	642	546	75	158	24	5	27	102	2	1	80	91	.289	.377	.500	.877	273	16	3	3	10	3
Pee Wee Reese	145	652	553	99	156	29	4	10	61	8	7	78	60	.282	.371	.403	.774	223	22	3	13	5	1
Roy Campanella	123	522	446	81	142	20	1	32	107	2	3	56	41	.318	.395	.583	.978	260	14	6	5	9	9
Jim Gilliam	147	627	538	110	134	20	8	7	40	15	15	70	37	.249	.341	.355	.696	191	8	6	11	2	4
Sandy Amoros	119	455	388	59	96	16	7	10	51	10	5	55	45	.247	.347	.402	.749	156	8	6	2	4	5
Jackie Robinson	105	390	317	51	81	6	2	8	36	12	3	61	18	.256	.378	.363	.740	115	8	3	6	3	5
Don Hoak	94	332	279	50	67	13	3	5	19	9	5	46	50	.240	.350	.362	.712	101	9	1	6	0	0
Don Zimmer	88	309	280	38	67	10	1	15	50	5	3	19	66	.239	.289	.443	.731	124	7	2	4	4	5
Don Newcombe	57	125	117	18	42	9	1	7	23	1	0	6	18	.359	.395	.632	1.028	74	1	1	1	0	0
Frank Kellert	39	91	80	12	26	4	2	4	19	0	1	9	10	.325	.385	.575	.960	46	1	0	0	2	0
Rube Walker	48	120	103	6	26	5	0	2	13	1	0	15	11	.252	.342	.359	.701	37	8	0	0	2	4
Carl Erskine	42	76	74	12	15	3	0	1	11	0	0	0	12	.203	.197	.284	.481	21	1	0	0	2	0
George Shuba	44	64	51	8	14	2	0	1	8	0	0	11	10	.275	.422	.373	.794	19	2	2	0	0	1
Dixie Howell	16	45	42	2	11	4	0	0	5	0	0	1	7	.262	.273	.357	.630	15	0	0	1	1	0
Johnny Podres	32	68	60	9	11	2	0	0	5	0	1	4	5	.183	.234	.217	.451	13	1	0	4	0	0
Karl Spooner	29	32	28	3	8	3	1	0	4	0	0	2	14	.286	.333	.464	.798	13	0	0	2	0	0
Walt Moryn	11	24	19	3	5	1	0	1	3	0	0	5	4	.263	.417	.474	.890	9	0	0	0	0	1
Billy Loes	22	50	44	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	15	.091	.149	.091	.240	4	1	0	3	0	0
Clem Labine	60	37	31	4	3	0	0	3	5	0	0	3	18	.097	.176	.387	.564	12	0	0	3	0	0
Ed Roebuck	47	18	18	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	.111	.111	.111	.222	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Borkowski	9	20	19	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.105	.150	.105	.255	2	0	0	0	0	0
Don Bessent	24	23	20	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	8	.100	.100	.100	.200	2	1	0	3	0	0
Roger Craig	21	28	26	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.077	.111	.077	.188	2	0	0	1	0	0
Joe Black	6	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Russ Meyer	18	30	27	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	10	.037	.071	.074	.146	2	0	0	2	0	0
Sandy Koufax	12	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Hughes	24	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bert Hamric	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Lasorda	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Templeton	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1830	6037	5193	857	1406	230	44	201	800	79	56	674	718	.271	.356	.448	.804	2327	132	41	75	54	62

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Gil Hodges	1B	139	136	1211.0	1274	105	12	126	.991	1.249	9.921	0	0	0	0
Frank Kellert	1B	22	17	158.0	159	12	3	9	.983	9.741	7.773	0	0	0	0
Jackie Robinson	1B	1	1	9.0	11	0	1	0	.917	11.000	11.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Gilliam	2B	99	91	833.7	213	269	16	64	.968	5.204	4.869	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	2B	62	62	534.3	154	166	8	54	.976	5.390	5.161	0	0	0	0
Jackie Robinson	2B	1	1	10.0	4	2	0	1	1.000	5.400	6.000	0	0	0	0
Jackie Robinson	3B	84	82	712.0	74	180	9	18	.966	3.211	3.024	0	0	0	0
Don Hoak	3B	78	71	646.0	82	183	11	15	.960	3.692	3.397	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	3B	8	1	20.0	2	8	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.250	0	0	0	0
Roy Campanella	C	121	118	1042.0	672	54	6	8	.992	6.271	6.000	4	25	21	23	52.3
Rube Walker	C	35	27	248.0	147	10	2	3	.987	5.698	4.486	0	7	11	5	31.3
Dixie Howell	C	13	9	88.0	49	4	1	0	.981	5.420	4.077	1	2	2	0	0.0
Duke Snider	OF	146	144	1278.3	348	9	4	0	.989	2.513	2.445	0	0	0	0
Carl Furillo	OF	140	137	1227.3	249	10	5	4	.981	1.899	1.850	0	0	0	0
Sandy Amoros	OF	109	100	924.3	201	10	6	1	.972	2.054	1.936	0	0	0	0
Jim Gilliam	OF	46	43	368.7	96	2	3	0	.970	2.392	2.130	0	0	0	0
Gil Hodges	OF	16	14	123.0	17	1	2	0	.900	1.317	1.125	0	0	0	0
Jackie Robinson	OF	10	8	64.0	11	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	1.200	0	0	0	0
George Shuba	OF	9	7	59.7	10	0	1	0	.909	1.508	1.111	0	0	0	0
Bob Borkowski	OF	9	5	47.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.340	.778	0	0	0	0
Walt Moryn	OF	7	4	41.7	5	0	1	0	.833	1.080	.714	0	0	0	0
Don Newcombe	P	34	31	233.7	15	24	4	5	.907	1.502	1.147	0	0	0	0
Carl Erskine	P	31	29	194.7	6	26	3	1	.914	1.479	1.032	0	0	0	0
Johnny Podres	P	27	24	159.3	7	21	1	2	.966	1.582	1.037	0	0	0	0
Clem Labine	P	60	8	144.3	21	30	1	2	.981	3.180	.850	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	P	22	19	128.0	6	20	1	1	.963	1.828	1.182	0	0	0	0
Karl Spooner	P	29	14	98.7	9	11	0	0	1.000	1.824	.690	0	0	0	0
Roger Craig	P	21	10	90.7	6	11	1	1	.944	1.688	.810	0	0	0	0
Ed Roebuck	P	47	0	84.0	7	20	2	0	.931	2.893	.574	0	0	0	0
Russ Meyer	P	18	11	73.0	1	21	0	1	1.000	2.712	1.222	0	0	0	0
Don Bessent	P	24	2	63.3	1	11	0	0	1.000	1.705	.500	0	0	0	0
Jim Hughes	P	24	0	42.7	2	8	1	1	.909	2.109	.417	0	0	0	0
Sandy Koufax	P	12	5	41.7	1	6	1	0	.875	1.512	.583	0	0	0	0
Joe Black	P	6	0	15.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.587	.167	0	0	0	0
Chuck Templeton	P	4	0	4.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.929	.250	0	0	0	0
Tom Lasorda	P	4	1	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Pee Wee Reese	SS	142	142	1248.7	239	404	23	86	.965	4.635	4.528	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	SS	21	12	129.3	28	33	4	9	.938	4.245	2.905	0	0	0	0
Totals		1681	1386	12402.0	4134	1674	133	412	.978	4.215	3.455	5	34	34	28	45.2

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BF
Johnny Podres	WS	2	0	1.000	1.00	2	2	0	2	1	0	18.0	15	3	2	1	4	10	0	70
Clem Labine	WS	1	0	1.000	2.89	4	0	4	0	0	1	9.3	6	3	3	1	2	2	0	34
Roger Craig	WS	1	0	1.000	3.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	4	2	2	1	5	4	0	28
Russ Meyer	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	5.7	4	0	0	0	2	4	0	22
Don Bessent	WS	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	12
Ed Roebuck	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Carl Erskine	WS	0	0		9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	3	3	3	1	2	3	0	14
Don Newcombe	WS	0	1	.000	9.53	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.7	8	6	6	3	2	4	0	25
Billy Loes	WS	0	1	.000	9.82	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.7	7	4	4	0	1	5	2	18
Karl Spooner	WS	0	1	.000	13.50	2	1	0	0	0	0	3.3	4	5	5	1	3	6	0	16
Totals		4	3	.571	3.75	17	7	5	2	1	1	60.0	55	26	25	8	22	39	2	247

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Duke Snider	WS	7	28	25	5	8	1	0	4	7	0	0	2	6	.320	.370	.840	1.210	21	0	0	1	0	1
Carl Furillo	WS	7	31	27	4	8	1	0	1	3	0	0	3	5	.296	.387	.444	.832	12	1	1	0	0	1
Pee Wee Reese	WS	7	31	27	5	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	5	.296	.367	.333	.700	9	1	0	1	0	0
Jim Gilliam	WS	7	32	24	2	7	1	0	0	3	1	1	8	1	.292	.469	.333	.802	8	1	0	0	0	0
Gil Hodges	WS	7	29	24	2	7	0	0	1	5	0	1	3	2	.292	.357	.417	.774	10	0	0	1	1	0
Roy Campanella	WS	7	31	27	4	7	3	0	2	4	0	0	3	3	.259	.333	.593	.926	16	0	0	1	0	0
Sandy Amoros	WS	5	17	12	3	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	4	4	.333	.529	.583	1.113	7	0	1	0	0	1
Jackie Robinson	WS	6	24	22	5	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	2	1	.182	.250	.318	.568	7	2	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	WS	4	12	9	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	5	.222	.333	.222	.556	2	0	0	0	1	0
Don Hoak	WS	3	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.333	.600	.333	.933	1	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Kellert	WS	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	1	0	0	0	0
Johnny Podres	WS	2	8	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	1	0	0
Don Bessent	WS	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Carl Erskine	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clem Labine	WS	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Russ Meyer	WS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Newcombe	WS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
George Shuba	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Craig	WS	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	1	0	0
Ed Roebuck	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Karl Spooner	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		81	266	223	31	58	8	1	9	30	2	2	33	38	.260	.358	.426	.784	95	6	2	6	2	3

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Gil Hodges	WS	1B	7	7	60.0	74	4	0	11	1.000	11.700	11.143
Jim Gilliam	WS	2B	5	4	34.0	4	12	0	4	1.000	4.235	3.200
Don Zimmer	WS	2B	4	3	26.0	4	8	2	3	.857	4.154	3.000
Jackie Robinson	WS	3B	6	6	51.0	4	18	2	3	.917	3.882	3.667
Don Hoak	WS	3B	1	1	9.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000
Roy Campanella	WS	C	7	7	60.0	42	3	1	1	.978	6.750	6.429
Duke Snider	WS	CF	7	7	55.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.127	1.857
Sandy Amoros	WS	CF	1	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000
Sandy Amoros	WS	LF	5	4	34.0	8	2	0	1	1.000	2.647	2.000
Jim Gilliam	WS	LF	4	3	26.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	1.731	1.250
Johnny Podres	WS	P	2	2	18.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000
Clem Labine	WS	P	4	0	9.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.893	.750
Roger Craig	WS	P	1	1	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000
Don Newcombe	WS	P	1	1	5.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.588	1.000
Russ Meyer	WS	P	1	0	5.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.588	1.000
Billy Loes	WS	P	1	1	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Karl Spooner	WS	P	2	1	3.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.700	.500
Don Bessent	WS	P	3	0	3.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.700	.333
Carl Erskine	WS	P	1	1	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000
Ed Roebuck	WS	P	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000
Carl Furillo	WS	RF	7	7	60.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.200	1.143
Pee Wee Reese	WS	SS	7	7	60.0	15	23	1	7	.974	5.700	5.429
Totals			78	63	540.0	180	83	6	30	.978	4.383	3.372

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