1981 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 61-49
Finished 3rd in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,321,222, Avg. 26,424
Ballpark: Astrodome
Won Division
National League West Division Series - Lost to Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2
Manager: Bill Virdon (61-49)
Location: Houston, Texas

1981 Houston Astros Roster
1981 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1981 season with a record of 61 wins and 49 losses, finishing third in the NL's West Division.

The Astros led the league with just 331 runs allowed. Houston scored 394 runs. Jose Cruz paced the team with 13 home runs and recorded 55 runs batted in. Art Howe topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .296. Nolan Ryan and Don Sutton paced the squad with 11 wins each, while Nolan Ryan recorded a 1.69 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon coached the team. The 1981 Houston Astros qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Nolan Ryan	11	5	.688	1.69	21	21	0	5	3	0	149.0	99	34	28	2	68	1	140	1	2	16	605
Don Sutton	11	9	.550	2.61	23	23	0	6	3	0	158.7	132	51	46	6	29	3	104	1	1	0	624
Bob Knepper	9	5	.643	2.18	22	22	0	6	5	0	156.7	128	41	38	5	38	1	75	4	0	0	617
Joe Niekro	9	9	.500	2.82	24	24	0	5	2	0	166.0	150	60	52	8	47	4	77	0	0	7	676
Dave Smith	5	3	.625	2.76	42	0	22	0	0	8	75.0	54	26	23	2	23	4	52	2	0	4	305
Joe Sambito	5	5	.500	1.84	49	0	32	0	0	10	63.7	43	17	13	4	22	5	41	2	0	0	255
Frank LaCorte	4	2	.667	3.64	37	0	22	0	0	5	42.0	41	18	17	1	21	3	40	0	0	6	184
Vern Ruhle	4	6	.400	2.91	20	15	3	1	0	1	102.0	97	36	33	6	20	1	39	1	0	0	412
Joaquin Andujar	2	3	.400	4.94	9	3	0	0	0	0	23.7	29	17	13	2	12	0	18	0	0	0	113
Billy Smith	1	1	.500	3.05	10	1	4	0	0	1	20.7	20	7	7	3	3	1	3	0	0	0	81
Gordie Pladson	0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	9	4	4	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	24
Bobby Sprowl	0	1	.000	5.97	15	1	4	0	0	0	28.7	40	20	19	1	14	1	18	0	0	3	138
Totals	61	49	.555	2.66	274	110	87	23	13	25	990.0	842	331	293	40	300	24	610	11	4	36	4034

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
Jose Cruz	107	451	409	53	109	16	5	13	55	5	7	35	49	.267	.319	.425	.745	174	7	0	0	7	4
Art Howe	103	406	361	43	107	22	4	3	36	1	3	41	23	.296	.365	.404	.770	146	8	0	1	3	7
Terry Puhl	96	394	350	43	88	19	4	3	28	22	4	31	49	.251	.315	.354	.670	124	3	4	4	5	5
Craig Reynolds	87	354	323	43	84	10	12	4	31	3	3	12	31	.260	.286	.402	.688	130	6	0	18	1	2
Cesar Cedeno	82	338	306	42	83	19	0	5	34	12	7	24	31	.271	.321	.382	.704	117	6	1	2	5	2
Alan Ashby	83	295	255	20	69	13	0	4	33	0	2	35	33	.271	.356	.369	.725	94	6	0	3	2	6
Tony Scott	55	243	225	28	66	13	2	2	22	8	3	15	32	.293	.338	.396	.733	89	1	0	3	0	1
Joe Pittman	52	149	135	11	38	4	2	0	7	4	4	11	16	.281	.333	.341	.674	46	3	0	2	1	3
Kiko Garcia	48	150	136	9	37	6	1	0	15	2	2	10	16	.272	.324	.331	.655	45	2	1	2	1	3
Denny Walling	65	189	158	23	37	6	0	5	23	2	1	28	17	.234	.346	.367	.713	58	4	0	1	2	1
Luis Pujols	40	128	117	5	28	3	1	1	14	1	0	10	17	.239	.297	.308	.605	36	4	0	0	1	3
Phil Garner	31	133	113	13	27	3	1	0	6	6	2	15	11	.239	.326	.283	.609	32	1	0	4	1	1
Dickie Thon	49	105	95	13	26	6	0	0	3	6	1	9	13	.274	.337	.337	.673	32	3	0	1	0	1
Danny Heep	33	106	96	6	24	3	0	0	11	0	0	10	11	.250	.321	.281	.602	27	3	0	0	0	2
Gary Woods	54	126	110	10	23	4	1	0	12	2	1	11	22	.209	.276	.264	.540	29	4	0	3	2	4
Dave Roberts	27	59	54	4	13	3	0	1	5	1	0	3	6	.241	.271	.352	.623	19	1	0	0	2	0
Nolan Ryan	21	60	51	3	11	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	18	.216	.286	.235	.521	12	1	0	4	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	35	94	74	6	11	1	1	0	4	4	1	16	9	.149	.300	.189	.489	14	4	0	4	0	4
Harry Spilman	28	36	34	5	10	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	3	.294	.333	.294	.627	10	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Ivie	19	45	42	2	10	3	0	0	6	0	1	2	11	.238	.267	.310	.576	13	0	0	0	1	0
Joe Niekro	24	64	51	1	9	1	0	0	6	0	0	2	10	.176	.208	.196	.404	10	0	0	11	0	0
Bob Knepper	22	53	47	3	7	2	0	1	3	0	0	0	15	.149	.167	.255	.422	12	0	1	5	0	0
Don Sutton	23	62	51	1	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	12	.137	.228	.137	.365	7	2	1	5	0	0
Vern Ruhle	20	34	24	1	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	6	11	.250	.400	.292	.692	7	0	0	4	0	0
Alan Knicely	3	7	7	2	4	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	.571	.571	1.429	2.000	10	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Loucks	10	8	7	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	.571	.625	.571	1.196	4	0	0	0	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	7	19	18	1	3	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	4	.167	.158	.333	.491	6	0	0	0	1	0
Dave Smith	42	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bert Pena	4	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	1	0	0
Frank LaCorte	37	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	6	6	6	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.667	.833	4	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Sprowl	15	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Tolman	4	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Smith	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	49	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	9	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	1	0	0
Gordie Pladson	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1402	4155	3693	394	948	160	35	45	369	81	43	340	488	.257	.318	.356	.673	1313	69	8	79	35	49

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Cesar Cedeno	1B	46	46	384.0	428	27	4	27	.991	1.664	9.891	0	0	0
Danny Heep	1B	22	22	185.7	198	9	2	12	.990	1.034	9.409	0	0	0
Denny Walling	1B	27	18	179.0	188	8	2	17	.990	9.855	7.259	0	0	0
Mike Ivie	1B	10	8	80.3	76	11	1	5	.989	9.747	8.700	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	1B	10	8	74.3	83	8	4	6	.958	11.018	9.100	0	0	0
Harry Spilman	1B	13	4	46.3	46	2	0	3	1.000	9.324	3.692	0	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	1B	2	2	20.0	23	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	12.000	0	0	0
Art Howe	1B	2	2	18.0	15	0	0	3	1.000	7.500	7.500	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	1B	1	0	2.3	3	1	0	0	1.000	15.429	4.000	0	0	0
Joe Pittman	2B	35	31	273.0	56	89	3	14	.980	4.780	4.143	0	0	0
Phil Garner	2B	31	30	262.0	62	102	3	17	.982	5.634	5.290	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	2B	31	24	214.0	52	63	4	11	.966	4.836	3.710	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	2B	28	18	170.7	37	39	4	10	.950	4.008	2.714	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	2B	9	7	66.3	16	26	1	2	.977	5.698	4.667	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	2B	3	0	4.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.333	0	0	0
Art Howe	3B	98	98	840.7	52	206	9	16	.966	2.762	2.633	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	3B	13	5	61.7	4	17	4	1	.840	3.065	1.615	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	3B	7	2	34.0	4	8	1	1	.923	3.176	1.714	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	3B	5	2	27.3	4	7	0	1	1.000	3.622	2.200	0	0	0
Joe Pittman	3B	4	3	26.3	3	3	0	0	1.000	2.051	1.500	0	0	0
Alan Ashby	C	81	74	672.0	434	58	9	6	.982	6.589	6.074	3	62	41	39.8
Luis Pujols	C	39	35	304.0	192	14	1	1	.995	6.099	5.282	5	24	11	31.4
Alan Knicely	C	2	1	13.0	11	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	6.500	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jose Cruz	OF	105	105	929.0	237	5	4	2	.984	2.344	2.305	0	0	0
Terry Puhl	OF	88	86	775.7	185	5	0	1	1.000	2.205	2.159	0	0	0
Tony Scott	OF	55	55	473.0	127	5	2	0	.985	2.512	2.400	0	0	0
Cesar Cedeno	OF	34	34	299.3	82	1	1	0	.988	2.496	2.441	0	0	0
Gary Woods	OF	40	24	244.0	61	1	1	0	.984	2.287	1.550	0	0	0
Denny Walling	OF	27	21	193.0	38	1	0	1	1.000	1.819	1.444	0	0	0
Scott Loucks	OF	5	1	19.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.368	1.000	0	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	OF	2	2	18.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.500	0	0	0
Tim Tolman	OF	3	1	14.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.667	0	0	0
Danny Heep	OF	1	1	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Alan Knicely	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	24	24	166.0	11	23	0	1	1.000	1.843	1.417	0	0	0
Don Sutton	P	23	23	158.7	11	24	2	3	.946	1.985	1.522	0	0	0
Bob Knepper	P	22	22	156.7	6	26	3	1	.914	1.838	1.455	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	P	21	21	149.0	5	16	1	3	.955	1.268	1.000	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	P	20	15	102.0	4	9	0	2	1.000	1.147	.650	0	0	0
Dave Smith	P	42	0	75.0	3	11	1	0	.933	1.680	.333	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	P	49	0	63.7	5	12	0	2	1.000	2.403	.347	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	P	37	0	42.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.286	.162	0	0	0
Bobby Sprowl	P	15	1	28.7	2	3	0	0	1.000	1.570	.333	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	P	9	3	23.7	1	1	1	0	.667	.761	.222	0	0	0
Billy Smith	P	10	1	20.7	2	3	0	1	1.000	2.177	.500	0	0	0
Gordie Pladson	P	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	SS	85	83	730.3	139	261	11	36	.973	4.929	4.706	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	SS	28	22	200.3	38	76	6	11	.950	5.121	4.071	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	SS	13	5	54.7	12	17	2	2	.935	4.774	2.231	0	0	0
Bert Pena	SS	3	0	4.7	1	1	0	1	1.000	3.857	.667	0	0	0
Totals		1284	990	8910.0	2970	1206	87	220	.980	4.218	3.252	8	86	52	37.7

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Joe Sambito	NWDIV	1	0	1.000	16.20	2	0	1	0	1.7	5	3	3	0	2	1	2	0	12
Nolan Ryan	NWDIV	1	1	.500	1.80	2	2	0	1	15.0	6	4	3	1	3	0	14	0	56
Frank LaCorte	NWDIV	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	3.7	2	0	0	0	1	1	5	0	14
Joe Niekro	NWDIV	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	8.0	7	0	0	0	3	0	4	0	34
Billy Smith	NWDIV	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Dave Smith	NWDIV	0	0		3.86	2	0	0	0	2.3	2	1	1	0	0	0	4	0	9
Vern Ruhle	NWDIV	0	1	.000	2.25	1	1	0	1	8.0	4	2	2	1	2	1	1	0	29
Bob Knepper	NWDIV	0	1	.000	5.40	1	1	0	0	5.0	6	3	3	1	2	1	4	1	25
Totals		2	3	.400	2.45	12	5	3	2	44.0	32	13	12	3	13	4	34	1	180

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	IBB
Jose Cruz	NWDIV	5	21	20	0	6	1	0	0	1	0	1	3	.300	.333	.350	.683	7	0	0	0
Terry Puhl	NWDIV	5	21	21	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	.190	.190	.238	.429	5	0	0	0
Denny Walling	NWDIV	3	6	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	3	0	0	0
Cesar Cedeno	NWDIV	4	16	14	0	3	1	0	0	2	2	2	2	.214	.313	.286	.598	4	1	0	1
Art Howe	NWDIV	5	18	16	1	3	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	.188	.278	.375	.653	6	0	0	1
Tony Scott	NWDIV	5	21	20	0	3	0	0	2	0	1	1	6	.150	.190	.150	.340	3	1	0	0
Dickie Thon	NWDIV	4	12	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	0	0	0
Phil Garner	NWDIV	5	21	18	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.111	.238	.111	.349	2	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	NWDIV	2	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	NWDIV	2	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0
Alan Ashby	NWDIV	3	11	9	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	.111	.273	.444	.717	4	0	0	1
Kiko Garcia	NWDIV	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Knepper	NWDIV	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	NWDIV	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Pittman	NWDIV	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Luis Pujols	NWDIV	2	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0
Dave Roberts	NWDIV	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	NWDIV	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0
Harry Spilman	NWDIV	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Gary Woods	NWDIV	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	NWDIV	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	NWDIV	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Billy Smith	NWDIV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dave Smith	NWDIV	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		63	177	162	6	29	3	2	6	4	3	13	24	.179	.240	.235	.475	38	2	2	3

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Cesar Cedeno	NWDIV	1B	4	4	36.0	38	2	1	1	.976	1.000	1.000
Denny Walling	NWDIV	1B	1	1	8.0	3	1	1	0	.800	4.500	4.000
Phil Garner	NWDIV	2B	5	5	44.0	5	8	1	0	.929	2.659	2.600
Art Howe	NWDIV	3B	5	5	40.0	5	8	0	0	1.000	2.925	2.600
Denny Walling	NWDIV	3B	1	0	4.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	6.750	3.000
Alan Ashby	NWDIV	C	3	3	25.0	24	2	0	0	1.000	9.360	8.667
Luis Pujols	NWDIV	C	2	2	19.0	12	1	0	0	1.000	6.158	6.500
Tony Scott	NWDIV	CF	5	5	44.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.200
Jose Cruz	NWDIV	LF	5	5	44.0	15	0	1	0	.938	3.068	3.000
Nolan Ryan	NWDIV	P	2	2	15.0	1	4	0	1	1.000	3.000	2.500
Vern Ruhle	NWDIV	P	1	1	8.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	4.000
Joe Niekro	NWDIV	P	1	1	8.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.125	1.000
Bob Knepper	NWDIV	P	1	1	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000
Frank LaCorte	NWDIV	P	2	0	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dave Smith	NWDIV	P	2	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Joe Sambito	NWDIV	P	2	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	.500
Billy Smith	NWDIV	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Terry Puhl	NWDIV	RF	5	5	44.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	1.636	1.600
Dickie Thon	NWDIV	SS	4	3	28.0	5	10	1	0	.938	4.821	3.750
Kiko Garcia	NWDIV	SS	1	1	9.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	6.000	6.000
Craig Reynolds	NWDIV	SS	1	1	7.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.857	3.000
Totals			54	45	396.0	132	50	5	3	.973	4.136	3.370

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