1961 Cincinnati Reds Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 93-61
Finished 1st in the NL
Attendance: 1,123,147, Avg. 16,517
Ballpark: Crosley Field
Won League Championship Series
World Series - Lost to New York Yankees 4-1
Manager: Fred Hutchinson (93-61)
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

1961 Cincinnati Reds Roster
1961 Cincinnati Reds Results

The Cincinnati Reds of the National League ended the 1961 season with a record of 93 wins and 61 losses, finishing first in the NL.

The Reds topped the league with just 653 runs allowed. Cincinnati scored 710 runs. Frank Robinson walloped 37 home runs for the team, while Gene Freese, Vada Pinson, Wally Post and Gordy Coleman each added 20 or more also. Frank Robinson accounted for 124 RBI. Vada Pinson led batters with significant playing time by hitting .343. Joey Jay paced the squad with 21 wins, and Jim O'Toole and Bob Purkey also contributed 15 or more victories also Jim O'Toole recorded a 3.10 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Fred Hutchinson coached the team. The 1961 Cincinnati Reds won the League Championship 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
Joey Jay	21	10	.677	3.53	34	34	0	14	4	0	247.3	217	102	97	25	92	1	157	5	0	9	1032
Jim O'Toole	19	9	.679	3.10	39	35	2	11	3	2	252.7	229	101	87	16	93	7	178	3	2	6	1061
Bob Purkey	16	12	.571	3.73	36	34	2	13	1	1	246.3	245	118	102	27	51	4	116	6	0	7	1031
Jim Brosnan	10	4	.714	3.04	53	0	34	0	0	16	80.0	77	34	27	7	18	3	40	0	1	1	335
Ken Hunt	9	10	.474	3.96	29	22	3	4	0	0	136.3	130	70	60	13	66	1	75	6	0	5	586
Ken Johnson	6	2	.750	3.25	15	11	1	3	1	1	83.0	71	33	30	11	22	1	42	2	0	1	341
Jim Maloney	6	7	.462	4.37	27	11	4	1	0	2	94.7	86	54	46	16	59	4	57	1	0	5	424
Bill Henry	2	1	.667	2.19	47	0	32	0	0	16	53.3	50	18	13	8	15	4	53	0	0	0	224
Howie Nunn	2	1	.667	3.58	24	0	12	0	0	0	37.7	35	17	15	0	24	4	26	1	0	1	170
Sherman Jones	1	1	.500	4.42	24	2	9	0	0	2	55.0	51	32	27	6	27	6	32	2	2	3	239
Jay Hook	1	3	.250	7.76	22	5	3	0	0	0	62.7	83	55	54	14	22	2	36	5	0	1	291
Claude Osteen	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Marshall Bridges	0	1	.000	7.84	13	0	5	0	0	0	20.7	26	19	18	4	11	0	17	1	0	1	98
Totals	93	61	.604	3.78	364	154	108	46	9	40	1370.0	1300	653	576	147	500	37	829	32	5	40	5833

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
Vada Pinson	154	659	607	101	208	34	8	16	87	23	10	39	63	.343	.379	.504	.883	306	9	1	4	8	1
Frank Robinson	153	636	545	117	176	32	7	37	124	22	3	71	64	.323	.404	.611	1.015	333	15	10	0	10	23
Gene Freese	152	606	575	78	159	27	2	26	87	8	2	27	78	.277	.307	.466	.774	268	17	0	1	3	5
Gordy Coleman	150	578	520	63	149	27	4	26	87	1	3	45	67	.287	.341	.504	.845	262	9	2	4	7	11
Eddie Kasko	126	511	469	64	127	22	1	2	27	4	3	32	36	.271	.320	.335	.655	157	4	4	2	4	1
Don Blasingame	123	502	450	59	100	18	4	1	21	4	3	39	38	.222	.286	.287	.573	129	7	2	9	2	0
Wally Post	99	306	282	44	83	16	3	20	57	0	1	22	61	.294	.346	.585	.932	165	7	1	0	1	1
Leo Cardenas	74	216	198	23	61	18	1	5	24	1	0	15	39	.308	.353	.485	.838	96	5	0	1	2	1
Gus Bell	103	262	235	27	60	10	1	3	33	1	1	18	21	.255	.298	.345	.642	81	4	0	0	9	3
Jerry Lynch	96	210	181	33	57	13	2	13	50	2	2	27	25	.315	.407	.624	1.031	113	2	1	1	0	6
Jerry Zimmerman	76	222	204	8	42	5	0	0	10	1	1	11	21	.206	.252	.230	.483	47	10	2	4	1	0
Elio Chacon	61	158	132	26	35	4	2	2	5	1	4	21	22	.265	.374	.371	.745	49	0	2	3	0	0
Johnny Edwards	52	165	145	14	27	5	0	2	14	1	0	18	28	.186	.279	.262	.541	38	3	1	0	1	4
Dick Gernert	40	72	63	4	19	1	0	0	7	0	0	7	9	.302	.361	.317	.679	20	0	0	0	2	1
Darrell Johnson	20	56	54	3	17	2	0	1	6	0	0	1	2	.315	.321	.407	.729	22	1	0	0	1	0
Jim O'Toole	39	101	93	7	16	1	0	0	6	0	0	3	29	.172	.206	.183	.389	17	5	1	4	0	0
Ed Bailey	12	46	43	4	13	4	0	0	2	0	0	3	5	.302	.348	.395	.743	17	0	0	0	0	1
Jim Maloney	30	33	29	6	11	0	0	1	4	0	0	2	4	.379	.438	.483	.920	14	0	1	1	0	0
Bob Schmidt	27	79	70	4	9	0	0	1	4	0	0	8	14	.129	.218	.171	.389	12	5	0	1	0	1
Bob Purkey	36	90	80	6	8	2	0	1	4	0	0	2	32	.100	.133	.163	.295	13	2	1	7	0	0
Joey Jay	34	93	89	3	8	3	0	0	5	0	0	2	29	.090	.110	.124	.233	11	2	0	2	0	0
Ken Hunt	29	44	39	0	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	19	.179	.220	.231	.450	9	0	0	3	0	0
Ken Johnson	15	26	25	1	6	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	11	.240	.240	.280	.520	7	0	0	1	0	0
Pete Whisenant	26	17	15	6	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	4	.200	.294	.200	.494	3	1	0	0	0	0
Jim Baumer	10	25	24	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.125	.125	.125	.250	3	0	0	1	0	0
Howie Nunn	24	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Sherman Jones	24	12	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Brosnan	53	15	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.154	.214	.154	.368	2	1	0	1	0	0
Jay Hook	22	15	15	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Bevan	3	3	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	1.333	1.667	4	0	0	0	0	0
Harry Anderson	4	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Cliff Cook	4	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marshall Bridges	13	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Henry	48	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Willie Jones	9	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.222	.000	.222	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Gaines	5	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.400	.000	.400	0	0	0	0	0	0
Claude Osteen	6	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1952	5796	5243	710	1414	247	35	158	675	70	33	423	761	.270	.325	.421	.745	2205	109	29	50	51	59

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Gordy Coleman	1B	150	140	1244.0	1162	121	11	93	.991	9.282	8.553	0	0	0	0
Dick Gernert	1B	21	14	126.0	125	17	1	9	.993	1.143	6.762	0	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	2B	116	110	978.7	277	304	17	53	.972	5.343	5.009	0	0	0	0
Elio Chacon	2B	42	34	303.7	84	104	2	22	.989	5.572	4.476	0	0	0	0
Jim Baumer	2B	9	8	63.7	18	14	0	2	1.000	4.524	3.556	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	2B	6	2	22.0	7	8	0	1	1.000	6.136	2.500	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	2B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	3B	151	151	1309.0	123	254	20	23	.950	2.592	2.497	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	3B	12	3	52.0	6	7	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.083	0	0	0	0
Cliff Cook	3B	1	0	5.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0	0
Pete Whisenant	3B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Robinson	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Willie Jones	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jerry Zimmerman	C	76	64	546.7	374	22	10	8	.975	6.520	5.211	8	18	24	12	33.3
Johnny Edwards	C	52	39	384.0	257	15	5	2	.982	6.375	5.231	11	13	18	8	30.8
Bob Schmidt	C	27	22	198.0	137	6	1	1	.993	6.500	5.296	1	3	15	4	21.1
Darrell Johnson	C	20	17	143.0	99	10	0	2	1.000	6.860	5.450	2	6	10	7	41.2
Ed Bailey	C	12	12	97.3	54	5	2	0	.967	5.455	4.917	1	0	1	2	66.7
Pete Whisenant	C	1	0	1.0	0	1	1	0	.500	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Vada Pinson	OF	153	151	1334.0	391	19	10	4	.976	2.766	2.680	0	0	0	0
Frank Robinson	OF	150	149	1302.0	284	15	3	3	.990	2.067	1.993	0	0	0	0
Wally Post	OF	81	72	606.3	133	7	6	3	.959	2.078	1.728	0	0	0	0
Gus Bell	OF	75	54	510.7	112	1	1	0	.991	1.992	1.507	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lynch	OF	44	36	309.0	53	2	3	0	.948	1.602	1.250	0	0	0	0
Pete Whisenant	OF	12	0	20.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	.333	0	0	0	0
Elio Chacon	OF	7	0	17.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.529	.143	0	0	0	0
Joe Gaines	OF	3	0	9.0	1	0	1	0	.500	1.000	.333	0	0	0	0
Claude Osteen	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Maloney	OF	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim O'Toole	P	39	35	252.7	16	42	2	2	.967	2.066	1.487	0	0	0	0
Joey Jay	P	34	34	247.3	23	32	2	2	.965	2.001	1.618	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	P	36	34	246.3	29	69	2	2	.980	3.581	2.722	0	0	0	0
Ken Hunt	P	29	22	136.3	10	19	5	2	.853	1.914	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Maloney	P	27	11	94.7	5	13	1	0	.947	1.711	.667	0	0	0	0
Ken Johnson	P	15	11	83.0	9	19	0	1	1.000	3.036	1.867	0	0	0	0
Jim Brosnan	P	53	0	80.0	9	18	3	0	.900	3.038	.509	0	0	0	0
Jay Hook	P	22	5	62.7	10	4	0	0	1.000	2.011	.636	0	0	0	0
Sherman Jones	P	24	2	55.0	5	8	0	0	1.000	2.127	.542	0	0	0	0
Bill Henry	P	47	0	53.3	4	7	0	0	1.000	1.856	.234	0	0	0	0
Howie Nunn	P	24	0	37.7	1	6	0	1	1.000	1.673	.292	0	0	0	0
Marshall Bridges	P	13	0	20.7	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.306	.231	0	0	0	0
Claude Osteen	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	SS	112	108	920.7	201	286	18	59	.964	4.761	4.348	0	0	0	0
Leo Cardenas	SS	63	46	449.3	83	133	6	21	.973	4.326	3.429	0	0	0	0
Totals		1766	1386	12330.0	4110	1594	134	316	.977	4.164	3.230	23	40	68	33	32.7

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Joey Jay	WS	1	1	.500	5.59	2	2	0	1	9.7	8	6	6	2	6	0	6	0	42
Ken Johnson	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Ken Hunt	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4
Sherman Jones	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Jim Brosnan	WS	0	0		7.50	3	0	1	0	6.0	9	5	5	0	4	3	5	2	29
Bill Henry	WS	0	0		19.29	2	0	1	0	2.3	4	5	5	1	2	1	3	0	13
Jim Maloney	WS	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0.7	4	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	7
Bob Purkey	WS	0	1	.000	1.64	2	1	0	1	11.0	6	5	2	2	3	1	5	0	43
Jim O'Toole	WS	0	2	.000	3.00	2	2	0	0	12.0	11	4	4	2	7	0	4	0	51
Totals		1	4	.200	4.91	15	5	3	2	44.0	42	27	24	7	24	5	25	2	193

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	IBB
Eddie Kasko	WS	5	22	22	1	7	0	0	1	0	2	.318	.318	.318	.636	7	0	0	0
Wally Post	WS	5	19	18	3	6	1	1	2	0	1	.333	.368	.556	.924	10	1	1	0
Gordy Coleman	WS	5	20	20	2	5	0	1	2	0	1	.250	.250	.400	.650	8	0	0	0
Johnny Edwards	WS	3	11	11	1	4	2	0	2	0	0	.364	.364	.545	.909	6	0	0	0
Elio Chacon	WS	4	13	12	2	3	0	0	0	1	2	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	0	0	0
Frank Robinson	WS	5	20	15	3	3	2	1	4	3	4	.200	.400	.533	.933	8	0	2	0
Darrell Johnson	WS	2	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0
Vada Pinson	WS	5	22	22	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	.091	.091	.136	.227	3	0	0	0
Leo Cardenas	WS	3	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.667	1.000	2	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	WS	3	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0
Gene Freese	WS	5	19	16	0	1	1	0	0	3	4	.063	.211	.125	.336	2	0	0	2
Gus Bell	WS	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Gernert	WS	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joey Jay	WS	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lynch	WS	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	1
Jim O'Toole	WS	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	WS	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Brosnan	WS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Bill Henry	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Ken Hunt	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Ken Johnson	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Sherman Jones	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Jim Maloney	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Jerry Zimmerman	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		73	181	170	13	35	8	3	11	8	27	.206	.254	.306	.560	52	1	3	3

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB
Gordy Coleman	WS	1B	5	5	44.0	29	4	1	6	.971	6.750	6.600	0
Elio Chacon	WS	2B	3	3	25.0	12	9	0	4	1.000	7.560	7.000	0
Don Blasingame	WS	2B	3	2	19.0	5	4	0	0	1.000	4.263	3.000	0
Gene Freese	WS	3B	5	5	44.0	6	4	0	1	1.000	2.045	2.000	0
Johnny Edwards	WS	C	3	3	27.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	6.000	1
Darrell Johnson	WS	C	2	2	14.0	8	1	0	1	1.000	5.786	4.500	0
Jerry Zimmerman	WS	C	2	0	3.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	12.000	2.000	0
Vada Pinson	WS	CF	5	5	44.0	18	1	1	0	.950	3.886	3.800	0
Wally Post	WS	LF	3	3	27.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0
Frank Robinson	WS	LF	2	2	17.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Jim O'Toole	WS	P	2	2	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.500	0
Bob Purkey	WS	P	2	1	11.0	4	3	1	0	.875	5.727	3.500	0
Joey Jay	WS	P	2	2	9.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	.931	.500	0
Jim Brosnan	WS	P	3	0	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Bill Henry	WS	P	2	0	2.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.500	0
Ken Hunt	WS	P	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0
Jim Maloney	WS	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Sherman Jones	WS	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Ken Johnson	WS	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Frank Robinson	WS	RF	3	3	27.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.667	1.667	0
Wally Post	WS	RF	2	2	17.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.059	1.000	0
Eddie Kasko	WS	SS	5	5	44.0	13	13	1	5	.963	5.318	5.200	0
Totals			58	45	396.0	132	41	4	17	.977	3.932	2.983	1

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