1909 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 98-54
Finished 1st in the AL
Attendance: 498,912, Avg. 6,565
Ballpark: Bennett Park
Won League Championship Series
World Series - Lost to Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3
Manager: Hughie Jennings (98-54)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1909 Detroit Tigers Roster
1909 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1909 season with a record of 98 wins and 54 losses, finishing first in the AL.

The Tigers topped the league with 666 runs, spearheaded by 19 home runs. Detroit surrendered 493 runs. Ty Cobb recorded 107 runs batted in and topped all regular batters by hitting .377. George Mullin notched 29 wins on the mound for the team, while Ed Willett and Ed Summers added 15 or more victories also Ed Killian recorded a 1.71 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Hughie Jennings coached the team. The 1909 Detroit Tigers 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	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
George Mullin	29	8	.784	2.22	40	35	5	29	3	1	303.7	258	96	75	1	78	124	8	0	5	1189
Ed Willett	21	10	.677	2.34	41	34	3	25	3	1	292.7	239	112	76	5	76	89	15	0	11	1173
Ed Summers	19	9	.679	2.24	35	32	3	24	3	1	281.7	243	91	70	4	52	107	10	1	5	1132
Ed Killian	11	9	.550	1.71	25	19	4	14	3	1	173.3	150	45	33	1	49	54	6	0	4	691
Bill Donovan	8	7	.533	2.31	21	17	4	13	4	2	140.3	121	50	36	0	60	76	6	0	4	580
Ralph Works	4	1	.800	1.97	16	4	10	4	0	2	64.0	62	19	14	0	17	31	1	0	2	256
Kid Speer	4	4	.500	2.83	12	8	3	4	0	1	76.3	88	39	24	2	13	12	4	0	4	317
Elijah Jones	1	1	.500	2.70	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.0	10	3	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	36
George Suggs	1	3	.250	2.03	9	4	5	2	0	1	44.3	34	12	10	1	10	18	3	0	1	162
Ed Lafitte	0	1	.000	3.86	3	1	2	1	0	1	14.0	22	14	6	2	2	11	1	0	1	67
Bill Lelivelt	0	1	.000	4.50	4	2	2	1	0	1	20.0	27	12	10	0	2	4	0	0	0	85
Totals	98	54	.645	2.26	208	158	41	117	16	12	1420.3	1254	493	357	16	359	528	54	1	37	5688

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Ty Cobb	156	651	573	115	216	33	10	9	107	76	48	45	.377	.431	.517	.947	296	6	24
Sam Crawford	156	662	589	83	185	35	14	6	97	30	47	32	.314	.366	.452	.817	266	1	25
Donie Bush	157	676	532	115	145	18	2	0	33	53	88	74	.273	.380	.314	.694	167	4	52
George Moriarty	133	515	473	43	129	20	4	1	39	34	24	49	.273	.309	.338	.648	160	1	17
Matty McIntyre	125	542	476	65	116	18	9	1	34	13	54	51	.244	.325	.326	.650	155	3	9
Claude Rossman	82	310	287	16	75	8	3	0	39	10	13	31	.261	.293	.310	.603	89	0	10
Germany Schaefer	87	308	280	26	70	12	0	0	22	12	14	48	.250	.286	.293	.579	82	0	14
Oscar Stanage	77	269	252	17	66	8	6	0	21	2	11	27	.262	.298	.341	.639	86	2	4
Davy Jones	69	239	204	44	57	2	2	0	10	12	28	26	.279	.369	.309	.678	63	1	6
Boss Schmidt	84	285	253	21	53	8	2	1	28	7	7	27	.209	.240	.269	.508	68	3	22
Charley O'Leary	76	278	261	29	53	10	0	0	13	9	6	21	.203	.224	.241	.465	63	1	10
Tom Jones	44	172	153	13	43	9	0	0	18	9	5	7	.281	.317	.340	.657	52	3	11
Jim Delahanty	46	185	150	29	38	10	1	0	20	9	17	23	.253	.364	.333	.697	50	9	9
George Mullin	53	141	126	13	27	7	0	0	17	2	13	25	.214	.288	.270	.558	34	0	2
Ed Willett	42	119	112	10	22	5	3	0	10	0	3	37	.196	.224	.295	.519	33	1	3
Red Killefer	23	68	61	6	17	2	2	1	4	2	3	8	.279	.343	.426	.770	26	3	1
Ed Killian	25	67	62	4	10	0	0	0	0	0	2	14	.161	.188	.161	.349	10	0	3
Ed Summers	35	101	94	4	10	1	0	0	3	0	4	30	.106	.143	.117	.260	11	0	3
Bill Donovan	22	53	45	6	9	0	0	0	1	0	2	9	.200	.250	.200	.450	9	1	5
Henry Beckendorf	15	30	27	1	7	1	0	0	1	0	2	8	.259	.310	.296	.607	8	0	1
Kid Speer	13	27	25	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	2	6	.120	.185	.160	.345	4	0	0
Hughie Jennings	2	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0
Bill Lelivelt	4	8	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.333	.500	.333	.833	2	0	0
Ed Lafitte	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0
Elijah Jones	2	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0
Del Gainer	2	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0
George Suggs	9	17	15	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	9	.067	.125	.133	.258	2	0	1
Ralph Works	16	17	17	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.059	.059	.059	.118	1	0	0
Joe Casey	3	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0
Totals	1561	5763	5095	666	1360	209	58	19	521	280	397	623	.267	.325	.342	.667	1742	39	232

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Claude Rossman	1B	75	75	680.0	913	36	18	30	.981	12.560	12.653	0	0	0
Tom Jones	1B	44	42	364.0	452	33	8	20	.984	11.992	11.023	0	0	0
George Moriarty	1B	24	23	206.0	283	12	3	12	.990	12.888	12.292	0	0	0
Sam Crawford	1B	18	16	142.0	189	10	6	2	.971	12.613	11.056	0	0	0
Del Gainer	1B	2	1	13.0	12	1	1	0	.929	9.000	6.500	0	0	0
Hughie Jennings	1B	2	1	10.0	9	1	0	2	1.000	9.000	5.000	0	0	0
Germany Schaefer	2B	86	84	747.0	180	273	16	26	.966	5.458	5.267	0	0	0
Jim Delahanty	2B	46	46	403.0	88	127	13	13	.943	4.801	4.674	0	0	0
Red Killefer	2B	17	14	141.0	28	55	8	3	.912	5.298	4.882	0	0	0
Charley O'Leary	2B	15	14	121.0	36	34	1	3	.986	5.207	4.667	0	0	0
George Moriarty	3B	106	105	942.0	117	253	24	11	.939	3.535	3.491	0	0	0
Charley O'Leary	3B	54	53	473.0	59	118	15	4	.922	3.368	3.278	0	0	0
Boss Schmidt	C	81	76	666.0	315	107	20	7	.955	5.703	5.210	3	84	83	49.7
Oscar Stanage	C	77	74	659.0	324	80	15	12	.964	5.517	5.247	3	91	62	40.5
Henry Beckendorf	C	15	7	76.0	36	9	2	4	.957	5.329	3.000	0	11	7	38.9
Joe Casey	C	3	1	13.0	9	5	0	1	1.000	9.692	4.667	0	3	4	57.1
Ty Cobb	OF	156	155	1380.0	222	24	14	7	.946	1.604	1.577	0	0	0
Sam Crawford	OF	139	140	1250.0	297	7	11	2	.965	2.189	2.187	0	0	0
Matty McIntyre	OF	122	118	1078.0	217	14	6	1	.975	1.929	1.893	0	0	0
Davy Jones	OF	57	54	470.0	103	4	2	1	.982	2.049	1.877	0	0	0
George Mullin	OF	2	2	18.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500	.500	0	0	0
Red Killefer	OF	1	2	17.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Boss Schmidt	OF	1	1	9.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ed Willett	OF	1	1	8.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0
Germany Schaefer	OF	1	1	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0
Charley O'Leary	OF	2	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.500	0	0	0
George Mullin	P	40	35	304.0	11	99	3	2	.973	3.257	2.750	0	0	0
Ed Willett	P	41	34	293.0	13	91	7	2	.937	3.195	2.537	0	0	0
Ed Summers	P	35	32	282.0	14	89	3	8	.972	3.287	2.943	0	0	0
Ed Killian	P	25	19	173.0	11	49	1	1	.984	3.121	2.400	0	0	0
Bill Donovan	P	21	17	140.0	9	29	1	1	.974	2.443	1.810	0	0	0
Kid Speer	P	12	8	76.0	4	30	2	2	.944	4.026	2.833	0	0	0
Ralph Works	P	16	4	64.0	2	16	2	1	.900	2.531	1.125	0	0	0
George Suggs	P	9	4	44.0	1	12	0	0	1.000	2.659	1.444	0	0	0
Bill Lelivelt	P	4	2	20.0	1	7	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0
Ed Lafitte	P	3	1	14.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	3.214	1.667	0	0	0
Elijah Jones	P	2	2	10.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000	0	0	0
Donie Bush	SS	157	157	1390.0	308	567	71	38	.925	5.665	5.573	0	0	0
Charley O'Leary	SS	4	1	25.0	6	9	2	1	.882	5.400	3.750	0	0	0
Totals		1516	1422	12730.0	4278	2206	275	217	.959	4.584	4.277	6	189	156	45.2

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
George Mullin	WS	2	1	.667	2.25	4	3	1	3	1	32.0	23	14	8	1	8	20	2	0	132
Bill Donovan	WS	1	1	.500	3.00	2	2	0	1	0	12.0	7	4	4	0	8	7	1	0	51
Ed Willett	WS	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	7.7	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	27
Ralph Works	WS	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	2.0	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	10
Ed Summers	WS	0	2	.000	8.59	2	2	0	0	0	7.3	13	13	7	1	4	4	1	2	41
Totals		3	4	.429	3.10	11	7	3	4	1	61.0	50	34	21	2	20	34	6	2	261

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH
Jim Delahanty	WS	7	29	26	2	9	5	0	4	0	0	2	5	.346	.414	.538	.952	14	0	1	0
Donie Bush	WS	7	32	22	5	7	1	0	3	1	2	5	3	.318	.483	.364	.846	8	0	2	3
Sam Crawford	WS	7	29	28	4	7	3	1	4	1	0	1	1	.250	.276	.464	.740	13	0	0	0
Davy Jones	WS	7	32	30	6	7	0	1	1	1	2	2	1	.233	.281	.333	.615	10	0	0	0
George Moriarty	WS	7	25	22	4	6	1	0	1	0	1	3	1	.273	.360	.318	.678	7	0	0	0
Tom Jones	WS	7	27	24	3	6	1	0	2	1	0	2	0	.250	.308	.292	.599	7	0	0	1
Ty Cobb	WS	7	29	26	3	6	3	0	5	2	1	2	2	.231	.310	.346	.656	9	0	1	0
Boss Schmidt	WS	6	20	18	0	4	3	0	4	0	0	2	0	.222	.300	.389	.689	7	0	0	0
George Mullin	WS	6	17	16	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.188	.235	.250	.485	4	0	0	0
Oscar Stanage	WS	2	6	5	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	1	0	1
Bill Donovan	WS	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Matty McIntyre	WS	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Charley O'Leary	WS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ed Summers	WS	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ed Willett	WS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ralph Works	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		75	261	232	28	56	18	2	26	6	6	20	22	.241	.313	.345	.657	80	1	4	5

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Tom Jones	WS	1B	7	7	60.0	73	1	1	1	.987	11.100	1.571
Sam Crawford	WS	1B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000
Jim Delahanty	WS	2B	7	7	61.0	10	17	2	1	.931	3.984	3.857
George Moriarty	WS	3B	7	7	54.0	7	15	0	2	1.000	3.667	3.143
Charley O'Leary	WS	3B	1	0	7.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000
Boss Schmidt	WS	C	6	5	46.0	31	10	3	3	.932	8.022	6.833
Oscar Stanage	WS	C	2	2	15.0	12	2	0	0	1.000	8.400	7.000
Sam Crawford	WS	CF	7	7	60.0	17	0	2	0	.895	2.550	2.429
Davy Jones	WS	CF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Davy Jones	WS	LF	7	7	60.0	14	0	1	0	.933	2.100	2.000
Matty McIntyre	WS	LF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
George Mullin	WS	P	4	3	32.0	0	12	0	0	1.000	3.375	3.000
Bill Donovan	WS	P	2	2	12.0	0	5	1	0	.833	3.750	2.500
Ed Willett	WS	P	2	0	7.7	1	3	1	0	.800	4.696	2.000
Ed Summers	WS	P	2	2	7.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.455	1.000
Ralph Works	WS	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
Ty Cobb	WS	RF	7	7	61.0	8	0	1	0	.889	1.180	1.143
Donie Bush	WS	SS	7	7	61.0	9	18	5	3	.844	3.984	3.857
Totals			72	63	549.0	183	88	17	10	.941	4.443	3.764

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