1972 Los Angeles Dodgers Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 85-70
Finished 2nd in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,860,498, Avg. 25,486
Ballpark: Dodger Stadium
Manager: Walter Alston (85-70)
Location: Los Angeles, California

1972 Los Angeles Dodgers Roster
1972 Los Angeles Dodgers Results

The Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League ended the 1972 season with a record of 85 wins and 70 losses, finishing second in the NL's West Division.

The Dodgers scored 584 runs and conceded 527 runs. Willie Davis and Frank Robinson led Los Angeles with 19 home runs apiece. Willie Davis drove in 79 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .289 clip. Claude Osteen paced the squad with 20 wins, while Don Sutton added 15 or more wins, too Don Sutton recorded a 2.08 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Walter Alston 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
Claude Osteen	20	11	.645	2.64	33	33	0	14	4	0	252.0	232	82	74	16	69	4	100	4	0	5	1033
Don Sutton	19	9	.679	2.08	33	33	0	18	9	0	272.7	186	78	63	13	63	1	207	4	1	9	1061
Tommy John	11	5	.688	2.89	29	29	0	4	1	0	186.7	172	68	60	14	40	1	117	3	0	10	766
Al Downing	9	9	.500	2.98	31	30	1	7	4	0	202.7	196	81	67	13	67	2	117	7	1	2	868
Jim Brewer	8	7	.533	1.26	51	0	41	0	0	17	78.3	41	16	11	6	25	11	69	2	0	1	303
Bill Singer	6	16	.273	3.67	26	25	0	4	3	0	169.3	148	84	69	8	60	4	101	5	0	5	708
Pete Mikkelsen	5	5	.500	4.06	33	0	17	0	0	5	57.7	65	32	26	3	23	4	41	5	1	3	265
Ron Perranoski	2	0	1.000	2.70	9	0	4	0	0	0	16.7	19	8	5	0	8	0	5	0	0	0	74
Doug Rau	2	2	.500	2.20	7	3	3	2	0	0	32.7	18	11	8	1	11	2	19	1	0	0	130
Pete Richert	2	3	.400	2.25	37	0	22	0	0	6	52.0	42	17	13	3	18	5	38	1	0	2	213
Mike Strahler	1	2	.333	3.26	19	2	5	1	0	0	47.0	42	25	17	5	22	1	25	1	0	2	207
Charlie Hough	0	0		3.38	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.7	2	1	1	0	2	0	4	1	0	0	13
Jose Pena	0	0		8.59	5	0	1	0	0	0	7.3	13	8	7	1	6	1	4	0	0	0	42
Hoyt Wilhelm	0	1	.000	4.62	16	0	9	0	0	1	25.3	20	16	13	0	15	0	9	0	0	4	112
Totals	85	70	.548	2.78	331	155	105	50	21	29	1403.0	1196	527	434	83	429	36	856	34	3	43	5795

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
Willie Davis	149	654	615	81	178	22	7	19	79	20	3	27	61	.289	.317	.441	.758	271	9	1	4	7	4
Bill Buckner	105	405	383	47	122	14	3	5	37	10	3	17	13	.319	.348	.410	.758	157	13	1	3	1	2
Manny Mota	118	410	371	57	120	16	5	5	48	4	4	27	15	.323	.375	.434	.809	161	10	5	5	2	6
Wes Parker	130	502	427	45	119	14	3	4	59	3	5	62	43	.279	.367	.354	.721	151	13	1	6	6	5
Bill Russell	129	477	434	47	118	19	5	4	34	14	7	34	64	.272	.326	.366	.693	159	4	2	5	2	9
Bobby Valentine	119	434	391	42	107	11	2	3	32	5	5	27	33	.274	.319	.335	.654	131	11	2	8	6	2
Frank Robinson	103	405	342	41	86	6	1	19	59	2	3	55	76	.251	.353	.442	.795	151	9	2	0	6	0
Steve Garvey	96	317	294	36	79	14	2	9	30	4	2	19	36	.269	.312	.422	.734	124	8	1	0	3	3
Lee Lacy	60	266	243	34	63	7	3	0	12	5	3	19	37	.259	.312	.313	.625	76	4	0	3	1	0
Willie Crawford	96	283	243	28	61	7	3	8	27	4	2	35	55	.251	.349	.403	.752	98	8	2	2	1	3
Chris Cannizzaro	73	233	200	14	48	6	0	2	18	0	1	31	38	.240	.341	.300	.641	60	4	0	1	1	5
Jim Lefebvre	70	188	169	11	34	8	0	5	24	0	0	17	30	.201	.271	.337	.609	57	3	0	0	2	6
Steve Yeager	35	124	106	18	29	0	1	4	15	0	0	16	26	.274	.374	.406	.780	43	3	1	1	0	2
Duke Sims	51	169	151	7	29	7	0	2	11	0	0	17	23	.192	.278	.278	.556	42	6	1	0	0	3
Claude Osteen	36	100	88	9	24	5	1	1	11	0	0	5	19	.273	.319	.386	.706	34	2	1	6	0	0
Billy Grabarkewitz	53	166	144	17	24	4	0	4	16	3	0	18	53	.167	.265	.278	.543	40	2	2	0	2	1
Maury Wills	71	152	132	16	17	3	1	0	4	1	1	10	18	.129	.190	.167	.357	22	3	0	10	0	0
Don Sutton	33	105	91	4	13	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	24	.143	.170	.143	.313	13	0	1	11	0	0
Tom Paciorek	11	48	47	4	12	4	0	1	6	1	0	1	7	.255	.271	.404	.675	19	1	0	0	0	0
Ron Cey	11	45	37	3	10	1	0	1	3	0	0	7	10	.270	.400	.378	.778	14	0	1	0	0	0
Tommy John	29	70	63	3	10	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	10	.159	.159	.159	.317	10	3	0	7	0	0
Davey Lopes	11	49	42	6	9	4	0	0	1	4	0	7	6	.214	.327	.310	.636	13	1	0	0	0	0
Dick Dietz	27	70	56	4	9	1	0	1	6	2	0	14	11	.161	.329	.232	.561	13	1	0	0	0	2
Al Downing	31	73	66	2	8	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	27	.121	.134	.167	.301	11	0	0	6	0	0
Joe Ferguson	8	27	24	2	7	3	0	1	5	0	0	2	4	.292	.346	.542	.888	13	2	0	1	0	0
Bill Singer	26	63	55	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	21	.073	.105	.091	.196	5	0	0	6	0	0
Pete Richert	37	7	6	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.500	.500	.500	1.000	3	0	0	1	0	0
Terry McDermott	9	26	23	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.130	.200	.130	.330	3	1	0	1	0	0
Mike Strahler	19	14	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	6	.182	.357	.182	.539	2	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Rau	7	9	7	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	.143	.250	.429	.679	3	0	0	1	0	0
Pete Mikkelsen	33	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hoyt Wilhelm	16	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Brewer	51	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Pena	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Hough	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1869	5903	5270	584	1349	178	39	98	543	82	39	480	786	.256	.319	.360	.679	1899	121	24	89	40	53

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Wes Parker	1B	120	110	1005.0	1074	68	4	91	.997	1.227	9.517	0	0	0
Bill Buckner	1B	35	31	275.0	311	21	3	28	.991	1.865	9.486	0	0	0
Tom Paciorek	1B	6	6	52.0	44	3	1	4	.979	8.135	7.833	0	0	0
Terry McDermott	1B	7	5	49.0	46	2	0	4	1.000	8.816	6.857	0	0	0
Steve Garvey	1B	3	3	22.0	33	2	0	3	1.000	14.318	11.667	0	0	0
Lee Lacy	2B	58	58	511.0	125	161	8	38	.973	5.037	4.931	0	0	0
Bobby Valentine	2B	49	43	395.0	110	132	6	28	.976	5.514	4.939	0	0	0
Jim Lefebvre	2B	33	27	257.0	66	82	2	21	.987	5.183	4.485	0	0	0
Billy Grabarkewitz	2B	19	16	142.0	45	43	4	12	.957	5.577	4.632	0	0	0
Davey Lopes	2B	11	11	98.0	27	27	2	5	.964	4.959	4.909	0	0	0
Steve Garvey	3B	85	73	670.0	71	187	28	18	.902	3.466	3.035	0	0	0
Bobby Valentine	3B	39	38	311.0	20	81	14	4	.878	2.923	2.590	0	0	0
Billy Grabarkewitz	3B	24	22	183.0	15	40	6	1	.902	2.705	2.292	0	0	0
Ron Cey	3B	11	11	96.0	7	20	3	1	.900	2.531	2.455	0	0	0
Jim Lefebvre	3B	11	8	74.0	4	17	2	3	.913	2.554	1.909	0	0	0
Maury Wills	3B	26	3	69.0	1	14	0	2	1.000	1.957	.577	0	0	0
Chris Cannizzaro	C	72	59	525.0	312	26	6	4	.983	5.794	4.694	4	30	10	25.0
Duke Sims	C	48	41	371.0	244	17	3	4	.989	6.332	5.438	2	21	9	30.0
Steve Yeager	C	35	34	306.0	220	19	4	2	.984	7.029	6.829	2	20	8	28.6
Dick Dietz	C	22	15	151.0	104	12	0	1	1.000	6.914	5.273	3	6	7	53.8
Joe Ferguson	C	7	6	50.0	37	1	0	1	1.000	6.840	5.429	1	2	3	60.0
Willie Davis	OF	146	146	1318.0	373	10	5	1	.987	2.615	2.623	0	0	0
Frank Robinson	OF	95	94	810.0	168	6	6	2	.967	1.933	1.832	0	0	0
Manny Mota	OF	99	85	787.0	141	3	1	1	.993	1.647	1.455	0	0	0
Willie Crawford	OF	74	63	576.0	111	2	2	0	.983	1.766	1.527	0	0	0
Bill Buckner	OF	61	57	509.0	123	1	1	0	.992	2.193	2.033	0	0	0
Bobby Valentine	OF	16	8	95.0	25	0	0	0	1.000	2.368	1.563	0	0	0
Tom Paciorek	OF	6	5	48.0	9	2	0	0	1.000	2.062	1.833	0	0	0
Wes Parker	OF	5	5	41.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	2.415	2.200	0	0	0
Joe Ferguson	OF	2	2	16.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.813	2.500	0	0	0
Bill Russell	OF	6	0	9.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.000	.833	0	0	0
Don Sutton	P	33	33	273.0	18	34	1	2	.981	1.714	1.576	0	0	0
Claude Osteen	P	33	33	252.0	9	40	1	2	.980	1.750	1.485	0	0	0
Al Downing	P	31	30	203.0	5	54	1	5	.983	2.616	1.903	0	0	0
Tommy John	P	29	29	187.0	11	45	0	3	1.000	2.695	1.931	0	0	0
Bill Singer	P	26	25	169.0	7	28	2	2	.946	1.864	1.346	0	0	0
Jim Brewer	P	51	0	78.0	1	11	1	1	.923	1.385	.235	0	0	0
Pete Mikkelsen	P	33	0	58.0	1	9	1	0	.909	1.552	.303	0	0	0
Pete Richert	P	37	0	52.0	3	5	2	2	.800	1.385	.216	0	0	0
Mike Strahler	P	19	2	47.0	3	6	2	0	.818	1.723	.474	0	0	0
Doug Rau	P	7	3	33.0	0	6	0	1	1.000	1.636	.857	0	0	0
Hoyt Wilhelm	P	16	0	25.0	3	5	0	0	1.000	2.880	.500	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	P	9	0	17.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.588	.333	0	0	0
Jose Pena	P	5	0	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.200	0	0	0
Charlie Hough	P	2	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Bill Russell	SS	121	118	1060.0	197	439	34	69	.949	5.400	5.256	0	0	0
Maury Wills	SS	31	27	250.0	38	89	2	18	.984	4.572	4.097	0	0	0
Bobby Valentine	SS	10	10	91.0	23	32	3	6	.948	5.440	5.500	0	0	0
Billy Grabarkewitz	SS	2	0	2.0	1	1	1	1	.667	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1726	1395	12628.0	4209	1806	162	391	.974	4.287	3.485	12	79	37	31.9

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