1965 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 89-73
Finished 4th in the AL
Attendance: 1,029,735, Avg. 15,369
Ballpark: Tiger Stadium
Manager: Bob Swift (24-18)
Manager: Chuck Dressen (65-55)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1965 Detroit Tigers Roster
1965 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1965 season with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses, finishing fourth in the AL.

The Tigers scored 680 runs and allowed 602 runs. Norm Cash walloped 30 home runs for Detroit, while Al Kaline, Dick McAuliffe, Don Demeter and Willie Horton each swatted 20 or more also. Willie Horton drove in 104 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .273. Denny McLain led the team with 16 wins, and Mickey Lolich, too added 15 or more wins, too Denny McLain recorded a 2.61 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bob Swift and Chuck Dressen 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
Denny McLain	16	6	.727	2.61	33	29	2	13	4	1	220.3	174	73	64	25	62	1	192	2	2	3	881
Mickey Lolich	15	9	.625	3.44	43	37	5	7	3	3	243.7	216	103	93	23	72	2	226	12	1	7	1015
Hank Aguirre	14	10	.583	3.59	32	32	0	10	2	0	208.3	185	89	83	24	60	2	141	10	1	3	875
Joe Sparma	13	8	.619	3.18	30	28	1	6	0	0	167.0	142	69	59	13	75	5	127	3	0	7	713
Dave Wickersham	9	14	.391	3.78	34	27	1	8	3	0	195.3	179	91	82	12	61	6	109	11	1	3	824
Fred Gladding	6	2	.750	2.83	46	0	25	0	0	5	70.0	63	22	22	6	29	5	43	4	0	7	301
Terry Fox	6	4	.600	2.78	42	0	25	0	0	10	77.7	59	26	24	7	31	2	34	3	0	2	317
Orlando Pena	4	6	.400	2.51	30	0	19	0	0	4	57.3	54	18	16	5	20	5	55	1	0	3	239
Larry Sherry	3	6	.333	3.10	39	0	21	0	0	5	78.3	71	30	27	5	40	10	46	1	1	6	334
Ron Nischwitz	1	0	1.000	2.78	20	0	7	0	0	1	22.7	21	10	7	2	6	1	12	0	0	2	90
Jack Hamilton	1	1	.500	14.54	4	1	1	0	0	0	4.3	6	7	7	1	4	0	3	0	0	1	25
Phil Regan	1	5	.167	5.05	16	7	4	1	0	0	51.7	57	31	29	6	20	1	37	0	0	2	228
John Hiller	0	0		0.00	5	0	2	0	0	1	6.0	5	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	23
Leo Marentette	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	10
Vern Holtgrave	0	0		6.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	15
Ed Rakow	0	0		6.08	6	0	0	0	0	0	13.3	14	11	9	2	11	0	10	0	0	1	64
Johnnie Seale	0	0		12.00	4	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	7	4	4	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	18
Julio Navarro	0	2	.000	4.20	15	1	3	0	0	1	30.0	25	16	14	5	12	1	22	0	0	1	123
Totals	89	73	.549	3.35	402	162	117	45	12	31	1455.0	1283	602	542	137	509	41	1069	47	6	49	6095

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
Don Wert	162	697	609	81	159	22	2	12	54	5	6	73	71	.261	.341	.363	.704	221	15	3	8	4	4
Willie Horton	143	572	512	69	140	20	2	29	104	5	9	48	101	.273	.340	.490	.831	251	12	6	2	4	9
Jerry Lumpe	145	575	502	72	129	15	3	4	39	7	0	56	34	.257	.333	.323	.655	162	11	3	10	4	1
Norm Cash	142	553	467	79	124	23	1	30	82	6	6	77	62	.266	.371	.512	.883	239	9	4	1	4	5
Al Kaline	125	474	399	72	112	18	2	18	72	6	0	72	49	.281	.388	.471	.859	188	9	0	0	3	11
Don Demeter	122	424	389	50	108	16	4	16	58	4	2	23	65	.278	.325	.463	.788	180	11	6	3	3	3
Dick McAuliffe	113	456	404	61	105	13	6	15	54	6	9	49	62	.260	.342	.433	.775	175	3	2	0	1	4
Bill Freehan	130	485	431	45	101	15	0	10	43	4	2	39	63	.234	.306	.339	.645	146	10	7	5	3	5
Gates Brown	96	249	227	33	58	14	2	10	43	6	0	17	33	.256	.305	.467	.772	106	3	0	3	2	1
Jim Northrup	80	233	219	20	45	12	3	2	16	1	1	12	50	.205	.253	.315	.568	69	6	2	0	0	1
George Thomas	79	187	169	19	36	5	1	3	10	2	3	12	39	.213	.269	.308	.577	52	4	2	1	3	1
Ray Oyler	82	217	194	22	36	6	0	5	13	1	0	21	61	.186	.265	.294	.559	57	9	0	2	0	3
Jake Wood	58	115	104	12	30	3	0	2	7	3	3	10	19	.288	.357	.375	.732	39	7	1	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	30	121	117	14	28	6	0	3	13	1	0	3	12	.239	.256	.368	.624	43	2	0	0	1	0
John Sullivan	34	97	86	5	23	0	0	2	11	0	0	9	13	.267	.340	.337	.677	29	1	1	0	1	0
Joe Sparma	30	60	52	4	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	25	.135	.179	.154	.332	8	0	0	4	1	0
Hank Aguirre	32	78	70	4	6	1	0	0	4	0	0	4	43	.086	.135	.100	.235	7	1	0	4	0	0
Jackie Moore	21	61	53	2	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	12	.094	.183	.094	.278	5	3	0	1	1	2
George Smith	32	56	53	6	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	18	.094	.143	.151	.294	8	2	0	0	0	0
Mickey Lolich	43	91	86	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	37	.058	.080	.058	.138	5	0	0	3	0	0
Dave Wickersham	34	66	58	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	20	.069	.085	.069	.154	4	1	0	7	0	0
Denny McLain	33	85	74	2	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	6	32	.054	.123	.054	.178	4	0	0	4	1	0
Larry Sherry	39	13	10	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	.300	.364	.500	.864	5	0	0	2	0	0
Orlando Pena	30	10	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	1	0	0
Bill Roman	21	29	27	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	.074	.138	.074	.212	2	1	0	0	0	0
Phil Regan	16	15	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.083	.154	.083	.237	1	1	0	2	0	0
Fred Gladding	46	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Terry Fox	42	20	15	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	9	.000	.063	.000	.063	0	0	0	4	0	0
Julio Navarro	15	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Wayne Redmond	4	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Rakow	6	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Nischwitz	20	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vern Holtgrave	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Hiller	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Hamilton	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Leo Marentette	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Johnnie Seale	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2021	6064	5368	680	1278	190	27	162	635	57	41	554	952	.238	.312	.374	.686	2008	122	37	69	36	50

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Norm Cash	1B	139	129	1161.7	1091	97	9	96	.992	9.204	8.547	0	0	0	0
Don Demeter	1B	34	29	246.7	219	10	2	19	.991	8.355	6.735	0	0	0	0
Bill Roman	1B	6	3	36.7	38	1	0	2	1.000	9.573	6.500	0	0	0	0
Jake Wood	1B	1	1	9.0	10	0	0	1	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ray Oyler	1B	1	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	2B	139	130	1126.3	281	308	9	69	.985	4.706	4.237	0	0	0	0
Jake Wood	2B	20	17	153.0	47	38	2	11	.977	5.000	4.250	0	0	0	0
George Smith	2B	22	11	117.7	30	31	1	10	.984	4.666	2.773	0	0	0	0
Ray Oyler	2B	11	4	46.7	12	6	0	1	1.000	3.471	1.636	0	0	0	0
Don Wert	2B	1	0	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
George Thomas	2B	1	0	5.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	1.000	0	0	0	0
Don Wert	3B	161	161	1427.7	163	331	12	33	.976	3.114	3.068	0	0	0	0
George Smith	3B	3	0	8.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.000	0	0	0	0
Willie Horton	3B	1	0	6.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Al Kaline	3B	1	0	5.3	2	1	0	0	1.000	5.063	3.000	0	0	0	0
Jake Wood	3B	1	1	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ray Oyler	3B	1	0	4.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	6.750	3.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	C	129	120	1085.7	865	57	4	4	.996	7.643	7.147	20	32	39	22	36.1
John Sullivan	C	29	26	224.0	163	14	1	1	.994	7.112	6.103	1	8	5	6	54.5
Jackie Moore	C	20	16	145.3	128	6	2	1	.985	8.298	6.700	1	8	6	4	40.0
Willie Horton	OF	141	138	1215.0	249	7	3	1	.988	1.896	1.816	0	0	0	0
Al Kaline	OF	112	111	955.7	193	2	3	0	.985	1.836	1.741	0	0	0	0
Don Demeter	OF	82	68	632.0	158	1	2	1	.988	2.264	1.939	0	0	0	0
Jim Northrup	OF	54	48	453.7	82	0	2	0	.976	1.627	1.519	0	0	0	0
Gates Brown	OF	56	51	451.0	108	1	3	0	.973	2.175	1.946	0	0	0	0
George Thomas	OF	59	40	387.0	87	4	5	0	.948	2.116	1.542	0	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	OF	29	29	262.3	69	1	1	0	.986	2.402	2.414	0	0	0	0
Wayne Redmond	OF	2	1	8.3	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.240	1.500	0	0	0	0
Mickey Lolich	P	43	37	243.7	11	27	5	2	.884	1.404	.884	0	0	0	0
Denny McLain	P	33	29	220.3	17	30	1	1	.979	1.920	1.424	0	0	0	0
Hank Aguirre	P	32	32	208.3	8	32	4	0	.909	1.728	1.250	0	0	0	0
Dave Wickersham	P	34	27	195.3	15	37	2	0	.963	2.396	1.529	0	0	0	0
Joe Sparma	P	30	28	167.0	11	25	6	1	.857	1.940	1.200	0	0	0	0
Larry Sherry	P	39	0	78.3	4	15	0	1	1.000	2.183	.487	0	0	0	0
Terry Fox	P	42	0	77.7	6	22	1	2	.966	3.245	.667	0	0	0	0
Fred Gladding	P	46	0	70.0	2	9	1	0	.917	1.414	.239	0	0	0	0
Orlando Pena	P	30	0	57.3	3	5	1	0	.889	1.256	.267	0	0	0	0
Phil Regan	P	16	7	51.7	3	5	0	3	1.000	1.394	.500	0	0	0	0
Julio Navarro	P	15	1	30.0	2	6	0	0	1.000	2.400	.533	0	0	0	0
Ron Nischwitz	P	20	0	22.7	2	3	0	0	1.000	1.985	.250	0	0	0	0
Ed Rakow	P	6	0	13.3	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
John Hiller	P	5	0	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jack Hamilton	P	4	1	4.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	6.231	.750	0	0	0	0
Johnnie Seale	P	4	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Leo Marentette	P	2	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Vern Holtgrave	P	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dick McAuliffe	SS	112	107	962.3	190	286	22	58	.956	4.452	4.250	0	0	0	0
Ray Oyler	SS	57	54	467.3	79	156	11	17	.955	4.526	4.123	0	0	0	0
Don Wert	SS	3	1	15.3	0	6	0	1	1.000	3.522	2.000	0	0	0	0
George Smith	SS	3	0	9.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000	.667	0	0	0	0
Jake Wood	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1834	1458	13095.0	4358	1591	116	336	.981	4.089	3.244	22	48	50	32	39.0

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