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What's exceptional about Bob Purkey Pittsburgh Pirates 1957 ?


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fewer strikeouts; season

Bob Purkey of the Pittsburgh Pirates had the 5th-fewest strikeouts per nine innings (2.6) of the 267 pitchers in 1957.

surpassed Bob Miller of the Philadelphia Phillies (1.8), Tom Morgan of the Kansas City Athletics (2.0), Bob Keegan of the Chicago White Sox (2.3), and Bob Porterfield of the Boston Red Sox (2.5).



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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. Strikeouts, walks, hits and homers per nine innings, and innings per game, are counted only if at least 50 innings were pitched during the season for the specified team. 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

Bob Purkey of the 1957 Pittsburgh Pirates threw right-handed, played on a losing team, played in Forbes Field, and was born in Pennsylvania.

  • achievement score (-0.4 see References)
  • assists (30)
  • complete games (6)
  • double plays (3)
  • games finished (11)
  • games played (48)
  • games started (21)
  • innings pitched (179.7)
  • putouts (13)
  • saves (2)
  • shutouts (1)
  • strikeouts (51)
  • strikeouts per nine innings (2.6)
  • winning percentage (44.0%)
  • wins (11)
  • balks (0)
  • earned run average (3.86)
  • earned runs (77)
  • errors (3)
  • hit by pitch (7)
  • hits (194)
  • hits per nine innings (9.7)
  • homers given up (10)
  • homers per nine innings (.5)
  • intentional walks (9)
  • losses (14)
  • runs allowed (84)
  • walks (38)
  • walks per nine innings (1.9)
  • wild pitches (2)
  • age (28 yrs)
  • batters faced (761)
  • height (6'2")
  • innings pitched per game (3.7)
  • weight (175 lbs)

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