1959 Los Angeles Dodgers Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 88-68
Finished 1st in the NL
Attendance: 2,119,483, Avg. 28,642
Ballpark: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Won World Series
World Series - Defeated Chicago White Sox 4-2
Manager: Walter Alston (88-68)
Location: Los Angeles, California

1959 Los Angeles Dodgers Roster
1959 Los Angeles Dodgers Results

The Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League ended the 1959 season with a record of 88 wins and 68 losses, finishing first in the NL.

The Dodgers scored 705 runs and allowed 670 runs. Gil Hodges paced Los Angeles with 25 home runs, while Charlie Neal, Duke Snider, Don Demeter and Wally Moon each walloped 20 or more, too. Duke Snider drove in 88 runs. Wally Moon led batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .302 clip. Don Drysdale topped the team with 17 wins, and Roger Craig recorded a 2.06 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Walter Alston coached the team. The 1959 Los Angeles 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 Drysdale	17	13	.567	3.46	44	36	7	15	4	2	270.7	237	113	104	26	93	9	242	18	2	4	1142
Johnny Podres	14	9	.609	4.11	34	29	1	6	2	0	195.0	192	93	89	23	74	7	145	3	0	8	823
Roger Craig	11	5	.688	2.06	29	17	3	7	4	0	152.7	122	49	35	13	45	3	76	1	0	2	612
Danny McDevitt	10	8	.556	3.97	39	22	8	6	2	4	145.0	149	83	64	16	51	5	106	14	0	3	645
Sandy Koufax	8	6	.571	4.05	35	23	6	6	1	2	153.3	136	74	69	23	92	4	173	0	1	5	679
Larry Sherry	7	2	.778	2.19	23	9	10	1	1	3	94.3	75	27	23	9	43	5	72	2	0	1	392
Stan Williams	5	5	.500	3.97	35	15	8	2	0	0	124.7	102	64	55	12	86	7	89	9	0	7	558
Clem Labine	5	10	.333	3.93	56	0	33	0	0	9	84.7	91	39	37	11	25	10	37	1	0	0	358
Johnny Klippstein	4	0	1.000	5.91	28	0	10	0	0	2	45.7	48	31	30	8	33	5	30	2	0	2	214
Chuck Churn	3	2	.600	4.99	14	0	6	0	0	1	30.7	28	17	17	2	10	4	24	1	0	0	125
Art Fowler	3	4	.429	5.31	36	0	17	0	0	2	61.0	70	39	36	8	23	7	47	0	1	0	271
Gene Snyder	1	1	.500	5.47	11	2	2	0	0	0	26.3	32	19	16	1	20	2	20	0	0	7	128
Fred Kipp	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	2	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	13
Bill Harris	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	8
Carl Erskine	0	3	.000	7.71	10	3	2	0	0	1	23.3	33	22	20	5	13	1	15	0	0	1	117
Totals	88	68	.564	3.79	397	156	113	43	14	26	1411.7	1317	670	595	157	614	71	1077	51	4	40	6085

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
Charlie Neal	151	685	616	103	177	30	11	19	83	17	6	43	86	.287	.337	.464	.802	286	22	4	21	1	2
Wally Moon	145	637	543	93	164	26	11	19	74	15	6	81	64	.302	.394	.495	.890	269	9	3	8	2	1
Jim Gilliam	145	655	553	91	156	18	4	3	34	23	10	96	25	.282	.387	.345	.732	191	3	0	3	3	4
Duke Snider	126	435	370	59	114	11	2	23	88	1	5	58	71	.308	.400	.535	.935	198	8	0	5	2	13
Gil Hodges	124	480	413	57	114	19	2	25	80	3	2	58	92	.276	.367	.513	.880	212	13	3	3	3	6
Don Demeter	139	401	371	55	95	11	1	18	70	5	6	16	87	.256	.294	.437	.731	162	7	6	3	5	1
John Roseboro	118	461	397	39	92	14	7	10	38	7	5	52	69	.232	.322	.378	.700	150	7	3	5	4	11
Norm Larker	108	351	311	37	90	14	1	8	49	0	1	26	25	.289	.344	.418	.762	130	12	2	8	4	1
Maury Wills	83	258	242	27	63	5	2	0	7	7	3	13	27	.260	.298	.298	.596	72	3	0	3	0	5
Ron Fairly	118	284	244	27	58	12	1	4	23	0	4	31	29	.238	.324	.344	.668	84	3	1	6	2	2
Don Zimmer	97	292	249	21	41	7	1	4	28	3	1	37	56	.165	.274	.249	.523	62	8	1	4	1	7
Joe Pignatano	52	166	139	17	33	4	1	1	11	1	0	21	15	.237	.346	.302	.648	42	2	2	4	0	2
Carl Furillo	50	103	93	8	27	4	0	0	13	0	0	7	11	.290	.333	.333	.667	31	5	0	1	2	2
Rip Repulski	53	109	94	11	24	4	0	2	14	0	1	13	23	.255	.343	.362	.704	34	3	0	1	1	2
Johnny Podres	34	75	65	4	16	1	0	0	4	0	0	6	13	.246	.306	.262	.567	17	1	0	3	1	0
Don Drysdale	46	104	91	9	15	1	1	4	12	0	1	4	31	.165	.198	.330	.528	30	2	0	8	1	0
Chuck Essegian	24	50	46	6	14	6	0	1	5	0	0	4	11	.304	.360	.500	.860	23	1	0	0	0	1
Bob Lillis	30	51	48	7	11	2	0	0	2	0	0	3	4	.229	.275	.271	.545	13	0	0	0	0	1
Jim Baxes	11	38	33	4	10	1	0	2	5	1	0	4	7	.303	.395	.515	.910	17	3	1	0	0	0
Dick Gray	21	59	52	8	8	1	0	2	4	0	0	6	12	.154	.241	.288	.530	15	1	0	1	0	0
Larry Sherry	23	34	32	3	7	0	0	2	5	0	0	1	6	.219	.242	.406	.649	13	0	0	1	0	0
Stan Williams	35	40	36	3	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	15	.194	.256	.194	.451	7	1	0	1	0	0
Sandy Koufax	35	58	54	3	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	29	.111	.143	.167	.310	9	0	0	2	0	0
Danny McDevitt	39	49	46	4	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	17	.109	.128	.130	.258	6	0	1	2	0	0
Frank Howard	9	23	21	2	3	0	1	1	6	0	0	2	9	.143	.217	.381	.598	8	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Craig	29	57	52	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	28	.058	.075	.058	.133	3	0	0	4	0	0
Solly Drake	9	9	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	0	0	0
Norm Sherry	2	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	1	1	0	0	0
Sandy Amoros	5	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Churn	14	6	6	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.333	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	28	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Art Fowler	36	13	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	0	0	1	0	0
Tommy Davis	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Snyder	11	9	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	1	0	0
Carl Erskine	10	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clem Labine	56	17	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bill Harris	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Kipp	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2020	6033	5282	705	1360	196	46	148	667	84	51	591	891	.257	.334	.396	.730	2092	115	28	100	32	61

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Gil Hodges	1B	113	106	952.3	891	66	8	77	.992	9.044	8.469	0	0	0	0
Norm Larker	1B	55	50	456.3	456	42	5	53	.990	9.822	9.055	0	0	0	0
Wally Moon	1B	1	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Charlie Neal	2B	151	150	1346.7	386	413	9	110	.989	5.340	5.291	0	0	0	0
Jim Gilliam	2B	8	6	63.0	16	13	1	2	.967	4.143	3.625	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	2B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Gilliam	3B	132	127	1156.3	121	245	16	18	.958	2.849	2.773	0	0	0	0
Dick Gray	3B	11	11	98.3	4	20	0	2	1.000	2.197	2.182	0	0	0	0
Jim Baxes	3B	10	10	87.0	11	29	2	2	.952	4.138	4.000	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	3B	5	4	37.0	5	13	0	0	1.000	4.378	3.600	0	0	0	0
Gil Hodges	3B	4	4	33.0	5	8	0	3	1.000	3.545	3.250	0	0	0	0
John Roseboro	C	117	114	1021.7	848	54	8	10	.991	7.946	7.709	14	29	17	25	59.5
Joe Pignatano	C	49	41	380.0	322	17	1	8	.997	8.029	6.918	5	10	7	6	46.2
Norm Sherry	C	2	1	10.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0	0
Wally Moon	OF	143	141	1271.0	224	13	4	2	.983	1.678	1.657	0	0	0	0
Duke Snider	OF	107	103	859.0	157	2	4	1	.975	1.666	1.486	0	0	0	0
Don Demeter	OF	124	81	854.0	223	5	4	1	.983	2.403	1.839	0	0	0	0
Ron Fairly	OF	88	58	551.3	97	8	4	1	.963	1.714	1.193	0	0	0	0
Norm Larker	OF	30	30	220.0	35	6	0	0	1.000	1.677	1.367	0	0	0	0
Rip Repulski	OF	31	20	170.7	30	0	0	0	1.000	1.582	.968	0	0	0	0
Carl Furillo	OF	25	16	146.0	23	0	2	0	.920	1.418	.920	0	0	0	0
Chuck Essegian	OF	10	9	77.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.100	0	0	0	0
Frank Howard	OF	6	5	42.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	2.143	1.667	0	0	0	0
Jim Gilliam	OF	3	4	30.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	2.000	0	0	0	0
Solly Drake	OF	4	1	14.0	2	0	1	0	.667	1.286	.500	0	0	0	0
Don Drysdale	P	44	36	270.7	18	48	3	4	.957	2.195	1.500	0	0	0	0
Johnny Podres	P	34	29	195.0	6	37	2	5	.956	1.985	1.265	0	0	0	0
Sandy Koufax	P	35	23	153.3	4	16	1	1	.952	1.174	.571	0	0	0	0
Roger Craig	P	29	17	152.7	19	18	1	2	.974	2.181	1.276	0	0	0	0
Danny McDevitt	P	39	22	145.0	11	22	4	2	.892	2.048	.846	0	0	0	0
Stan Williams	P	35	15	124.7	6	21	0	1	1.000	1.949	.771	0	0	0	0
Larry Sherry	P	23	9	94.3	3	11	1	1	.933	1.336	.609	0	0	0	0
Clem Labine	P	56	0	84.7	9	18	0	2	1.000	2.870	.482	0	0	0	0
Art Fowler	P	36	0	61.0	2	12	1	0	.933	2.066	.389	0	0	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	P	28	0	45.7	2	7	2	0	.818	1.774	.321	0	0	0	0
Chuck Churn	P	14	0	30.7	1	7	0	0	1.000	2.348	.571	0	0	0	0
Gene Snyder	P	11	2	26.3	1	2	1	1	.750	1.025	.273	0	0	0	0
Carl Erskine	P	10	3	23.3	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.543	.400	0	0	0	0
Fred Kipp	P	2	0	2.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Harris	P	1	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	SS	88	70	636.3	115	226	10	43	.972	4.823	3.875	0	0	0	0
Maury Wills	SS	82	70	635.0	121	220	12	39	.966	4.833	4.159	0	0	0	0
Bob Lillis	SS	20	16	132.3	27	52	7	10	.919	5.373	3.950	0	0	0	0
Charlie Neal	SS	1	0	8.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1818	1404	12705.0	4235	1680	114	401	.981	4.190	3.254	19	39	24	31	56.4

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BF
Larry Sherry	WS	2	0	1.000	0.71	4	0	4	2	12.7	8	1	1	0	2	0	5	1	47
Don Drysdale	WS	1	0	1.000	1.29	1	1	0	0	7.0	11	1	1	0	4	1	5	0	32
Johnny Podres	WS	1	0	1.000	4.82	2	2	0	0	9.3	7	5	5	1	6	0	4	1	42
Johnny Klippstein	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	7
Clem Labine	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
Stan Williams	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	8
Chuck Churn	WS	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0.7	5	6	2	1	0	0	0	0	9
Sandy Koufax	WS	0	1	.000	1.00	2	1	0	0	9.0	5	1	1	0	1	0	7	0	31
Roger Craig	WS	0	1	.000	8.68	2	2	0	0	9.3	15	9	9	2	5	1	8	0	46
Totals		4	2	.667	3.23	15	6	6	2	53.0	52	23	19	4	20	2	33	2	225

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	IBB
Charlie Neal	WS	6	27	27	4	10	2	0	2	6	1	0	0	1	.370	.370	.667	1.037	18	1	0	0
Gil Hodges	WS	6	24	23	2	9	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	2	.391	.417	.609	1.025	14	0	0	0
Wally Moon	WS	6	25	23	3	6	0	0	1	2	1	0	2	2	.261	.320	.391	.711	9	0	0	0
Jim Gilliam	WS	6	27	25	2	6	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	.240	.296	.240	.536	6	0	0	0
Maury Wills	WS	6	20	20	2	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	5	0	0	0
Don Demeter	WS	6	13	12	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	1	0	0
Norm Larker	WS	6	18	16	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.188	.278	.188	.465	3	0	0	0
Chuck Essegian	WS	4	4	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	1	.667	.750	2.667	3.417	8	0	0	0
Johnny Podres	WS	3	4	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.750	1.250	3	0	0	0
Larry Sherry	WS	5	5	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	1	0
Duke Snider	WS	4	12	10	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	.200	.333	.500	.833	5	0	0	0
John Roseboro	WS	6	23	21	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.095	.095	.095	.190	2	0	2	0
Carl Furillo	WS	4	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0
Roger Craig	WS	2	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0
Don Drysdale	WS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Fairly	WS	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Sandy Koufax	WS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Chuck Churn	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Clem Labine	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Joe Pignatano	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Rip Repulski	WS	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	1
Stan Williams	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		86	219	203	21	53	3	1	7	19	5	1	12	27	.261	.302	.389	.691	79	2	4	1

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Gil Hodges	WS	1B	6	6	53.0	53	3	0	6	1.000	9.509	9.333
Charlie Neal	WS	2B	6	6	53.0	18	19	1	7	.974	6.283	6.167
Jim Gilliam	WS	3B	6	6	53.0	4	10	0	1	1.000	2.377	2.333
John Roseboro	WS	C	6	6	52.0	35	4	0	1	1.000	6.750	6.500
Joe Pignatano	WS	C	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000
Don Demeter	WS	CF	6	3	36.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.500
Duke Snider	WS	CF	3	3	14.0	3	0	2	0	.600	1.929	1.000
Ron Fairly	WS	CF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Wally Moon	WS	CF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Wally Moon	WS	LF	4	3	30.0	8	1	0	0	1.000	2.700	2.250
Norm Larker	WS	LF	3	3	23.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	1.957	1.667
Larry Sherry	WS	P	4	0	12.7	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.842	1.000
Johnny Podres	WS	P	2	2	9.3	0	1	0	1	1.000	.964	.500
Roger Craig	WS	P	2	2	9.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.000
Sandy Koufax	WS	P	2	1	9.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Don Drysdale	WS	P	1	1	7.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000
Stan Williams	WS	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Johnny Klippstein	WS	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
Clem Labine	WS	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Chuck Churn	WS	P	1	0	0.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.000
Wally Moon	WS	RF	3	3	22.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.818	.667
Norm Larker	WS	RF	3	3	17.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	4.235	2.667
Ron Fairly	WS	RF	3	0	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Duke Snider	WS	RF	1	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000
Rip Repulski	WS	RF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Carl Furillo	WS	RF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Maury Wills	WS	SS	6	6	51.0	10	21	1	3	.969	5.471	5.167
Don Zimmer	WS	SS	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
Totals			77	54	477.0	159	69	4	19	.983	4.302	2.961

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