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What's exceptional about Lefty Grove Boston Red Sox 1938 ?


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wins a lot; season

Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox had the 2nd-highest winning percentage (77.8%) of the 227 pitchers in 1938.

Johnny Murphy of the New York Yankees was first with 80.0%.



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References

  1. Batting, pitching, fielding, personal, team, and awards data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  2. A pitcher's winning percentage is only counted if the number of decisions (wins plus losses) is at least 10. The raw data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Profile

Lefty Grove of the 1938 Boston Red Sox threw left-handed, made the All-Star team, played on a winning team, would make it into the Hall of Fame, played in Fenway Park II, and was born in Maryland.

  • achievement score (3.2 see References)
  • assists (29)
  • complete games (12)
  • double plays (0)
  • games finished (3)
  • games played (24)
  • games started (21)
  • innings pitched (163.7)
  • putouts (0)
  • saves (1)
  • shutouts (1)
  • strikeouts (99)
  • strikeouts per nine innings (5.4)
  • winning percentage (77.8%)
  • wins (14)
  • balks (0)
  • earned run average (3.08)
  • earned runs (56)
  • errors (0)
  • hit by pitch (1)
  • hits (169)
  • hits per nine innings (9.3)
  • homers given up (8)
  • homers per nine innings (.4)
  • losses (4)
  • runs allowed (65)
  • walks (52)
  • walks per nine innings (2.9)
  • wild pitches (3)
  • age (38 yrs)
  • batters faced (706)
  • height (6'3")
  • innings pitched per game (6.8)
  • weight (190 lbs)

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