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AL · 86–70 (.551) · Rank 1 · Attendance 1892386 Division

Batting

Player	G	AB	H	HR	RBI	SB	BA	OPS
Aurelio Rodriguez	153	601	142	13	56	2	.236	.628
Ed Brinkman	156	516	105	6	49	0	.203	.538
Norm Cash	137	440	114	22	61	0	.259	.783
Mickey Stanley	142	435	102	14	55	1	.234	.673
Jim Northrup	134	426	111	8	42	4	.261	.686
Dick McAuliffe	122	408	98	8	30	0	.240	.692
Bill Freehan	111	374	98	10	56	0	.262	.755
Willie Horton	108	333	77	11	36	0	.231	.680
Al Kaline	106	278	87	10	32	1	.313	.849
Gates Brown	103	252	58	10	31	3	.230	.673
Tony Taylor	78	228	69	1	20	5	.303	.750
Tom Haller	59	121	25	2	13	0	.207	.623
Duke Sims	38	98	31	4	19	0	.316	.912
Mickey Lolich	41	89	6	0	0	0	.067	.312
Ike Brown	51	84	21	2	10	1	.250	.733
Joe Coleman	40	82	9	0	5	0	.110	.271
Paul Jata	32	74	17	0	3	0	.230	.553
Tom Timmermann	35	44	6	0	1	0	.136	.344
Woodie Fryman	16	40	5	0	3	0	.125	.250
Frank Howard	14	33	8	1	7	0	.242	.688
Bill Slayback	23	23	4	0	0	0	.174	.348
Fred Scherman	57	22	2	0	0	0	.091	.221
Chuck Seelbach	61	21	3	0	0	0	.143	.518
John Knox	14	13	1	0	0	0	.077	.297
Joe Niekro	18	12	3	0	1	0	.250	.641
Wayne Comer	27	9	1	0	1	0	.111	.211
Les Cain	5	7	1	0	0	0	.143	.286
Dalton Jones	7	7	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Marv Lane	8	6	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Ike Blessitt	4	5	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
John Hiller	24	4	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
John Gamble	6	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Fred Holdsworth	2	3	1	0	0	0	.333	.666
Phil Meeler	7	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Joe Staton	6	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Chris Zachary	25	2	1	0	0	0	.500	1.167
Bill Gilbreth	2	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Ron Perranoski	17	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Jim Foor	7	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Kilkenny	1	0	0	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	16	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Lamont	1	0	0	0	0	0
Don Leshnock	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Strampe	7	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Player	W	L	ERA	G	SV	SO	WHIP
Mickey Lolich	22	14	2.50	41	0	250	1.088
Joe Coleman	19	14	2.80	40	0	222	1.164
Tom Timmermann	8	10	2.89	34	0	88	1.082
Woodie Fryman	10	3	2.06	16	0	72	1.091
Chuck Seelbach	9	8	2.89	61	14	76	1.205
Fred Scherman	7	3	3.64	57	12	53	1.532
Bill Slayback	5	6	3.20	23	0	65	1.212
Joe Niekro	3	2	3.83	18	1	24	1.489
John Hiller	1	2	2.03	24	3	26	1.173
Chris Zachary	1	1	1.41	25	1	21	1.096
Lerrin LaGrow	0	1	1.32	16	2	9	1.024
Les Cain	0	3	3.80	5	0	16	1.437
Ron Perranoski	0	1	7.71	17	0	10	1.661
Phil Meeler	0	1	4.32	7	0	5	2.040
Fred Holdsworth	0	1	12.86	2	0	5	2.143
Bill Gilbreth	0	0	16.20	2	0	2	2.800
Bob Strampe	0	0	11.57	7	0	4	2.786
Jim Foor	1	0	14.73	7	0	2	3.273
Mike Kilkenny	0	0	9.00	1	0	0	1.000
Don Leshnock	0	0	0.00	1	0	2	2.000

Schedule (161 games)

Date	Opponent	Result
1972-04-15	vs BOS	W 3–2
1972-04-18	@ BAL	W 5–3
1972-04-19	@ BAL	L 2–5
1972-04-20	@ BAL	L 0–1
1972-04-22	@ ML4	W 8–2
1972-04-23	@ ML4	L 0–3
1972-04-25	@ TEX	W 4–1
1972-04-26	@ TEX	W 8–1
1972-04-28	vs CHA	W 12–0
1972-04-29	vs CHA	W 6–1
1972-04-30	vs CHA	L 3–6
1972-05-02	vs KCA	L 3–6
1972-05-03	vs KCA	W 6–1
1972-05-05	vs TEX	L 1–2
1972-05-06	vs TEX	W 4–1
1972-05-07	vs TEX	W 7–4
1972-05-09	@ CHA	W 5–2
1972-05-10	@ CHA	L 0–7
1972-05-13	@ KCA	W 3–1
1972-05-14	@ KCA	W 3–2
1972-05-14	@ KCA	L 4–8
1972-05-15	vs BAL	L 2–3
1972-05-16	vs BAL	L 3–8
1972-05-17	vs BAL	W 6–1
1972-05-18	vs BOS	W 7–2
1972-05-19	vs CLE	L 1–2
1972-05-20	vs CLE	L 1–2
1972-05-21	vs CLE	W 5–0
1972-05-23	vs ML4	L 0–3
1972-05-24	vs ML4	W 5–3
1972-05-25	vs ML4	L 0–2
1972-05-26	@ NYA	W 8–2
1972-05-27	@ NYA	W 2–1
1972-05-28	@ NYA	W 5–4
1972-05-29	@ NYA	L 1–5
1972-05-29	@ NYA	L 2–4
1972-05-31	@ CLE	W 5–4
1972-06-01	@ CLE	L 0–1
1972-06-02	vs MIN	W 5–4
1972-06-03	vs MIN	W 5–3
1972-06-04	vs MIN	W 3–0
1972-06-06	vs CAL	W 8–6
1972-06-06	vs CAL	L 0–4
1972-06-07	vs CAL	L 1–5
1972-06-09	vs OAK	L 5–10
1972-06-10	vs OAK	L 2–5
1972-06-11	vs OAK	W 3–2
1972-06-12	@ MIN	W 2–1
1972-06-13	@ MIN	L 1–3
1972-06-14	@ MIN	W 3–2
1972-06-16	@ CAL	W 3–0
1972-06-17	@ CAL	W 3–2
1972-06-18	@ CAL	W 2–0
1972-06-19	@ OAK	L 4–7
1972-06-20	@ OAK	L 2–3
1972-06-21	@ OAK	W 5–2
1972-06-24	@ BAL	L 1–3
1972-06-24	@ BAL	W 2–1
1972-06-25	@ BAL	L 1–2
1972-06-26	vs NYA	W 4–3
1972-06-27	vs NYA	W 5–2
1972-06-28	@ BOS	L 3–5
1972-06-29	@ BOS	W 8–4
1972-06-30	vs BAL	L 2–3
1972-07-01	vs BAL	W 2–0
1972-07-02	vs BAL	L 2–7
1972-07-03	vs BAL	L 3–15
1972-07-04	@ KCA	L 0–1
1972-07-05	@ KCA	L 2–8
1972-07-06	@ KCA	W 7–0
1972-07-07	@ CHA	W 6–4
1972-07-08	@ CHA	L 2–5
1972-07-09	@ CHA	L 4–5
1972-07-09	@ CHA	W 4–2
1972-07-10	vs TEX	W 8–3
1972-07-11	vs TEX	W 6–5
1972-07-12	vs TEX	W 3–1
1972-07-13	vs KCA	W 6–4
1972-07-14	vs KCA	L 0–1
1972-07-15	vs KCA	W 5–3
1972-07-16	vs KCA	W 2–0
1972-07-17	vs CHA	W 3–1
1972-07-18	vs CHA	W 4–3
1972-07-19	vs CHA	L 2–3
1972-07-20	@ TEX	W 5–1
1972-07-21	@ TEX	W 3–1
1972-07-22	@ TEX	W 6–2
1972-07-23	@ TEX	L 1–3
1972-07-27	@ ML4	W 3–2
1972-07-27	@ ML4	W 8–5
1972-07-28	@ ML4	L 2–3
1972-07-29	@ ML4	L 3–8
1972-07-30	vs BOS	L 3–4
1972-07-30	vs BOS	W 7–2
1972-07-31	vs BOS	W 5–2
1972-08-01	vs ML4	L 0–9
1972-08-02	vs ML4	L 1–13
1972-08-03	vs ML4	L 3–6
1972-08-04	@ CLE	L 0–1
1972-08-05	@ CLE	W 4–3
1972-08-06	@ CLE	L 1–2
1972-08-06	@ CLE	W 6–5
1972-08-08	@ NYA	L 2–4
1972-08-09	@ NYA	W 6–0
1972-08-09	@ NYA	L 1–2
1972-08-10	@ NYA	L 0–1
1972-08-11	vs CLE	L 1–5
1972-08-12	vs CLE	L 1–6
1972-08-13	vs CLE	W 3–2
1972-08-13	vs CLE	L 2–9
1972-08-15	vs MIN	L 6–7
1972-08-17	vs MIN	W 12–2
1972-08-17	vs MIN	L 6–7
1972-08-18	vs CAL	W 2–0
1972-08-19	vs CAL	W 10–1
1972-08-20	vs CAL	W 11–9
1972-08-21	vs OAK	L 1–5
1972-08-22	vs OAK	L 3–6
1972-08-23	vs OAK	W 7–5
1972-08-26	@ MIN	W 5–3
1972-08-27	@ MIN	W 5–3
1972-08-27	@ MIN	W 1–0
1972-08-29	@ CAL	L 1–3
1972-08-30	@ CAL	L 1–4
1972-08-31	@ CAL	L 0–4
1972-09-01	@ OAK	L 1–4
1972-09-02	@ OAK	W 3–1
1972-09-03	@ OAK	L 1–3
1972-09-04	vs CLE	W 2–1
1972-09-05	vs CLE	W 4–2
1972-09-06	@ BAL	W 4–3
1972-09-07	@ BAL	L 0–9
1972-09-08	@ BAL	W 2–1
1972-09-09	vs NYA	L 1–3
1972-09-10	vs NYA	L 0–5
1972-09-11	vs NYA	L 2–4
1972-09-12	vs BAL	W 3–2
1972-09-13	vs BAL	W 6–5
1972-09-15	@ ML4	W 2–1
1972-09-16	@ ML4	W 2–1
1972-09-17	@ ML4	W 6–2
1972-09-19	@ CLE	L 2–3
1972-09-19	@ CLE	L 4–6
1972-09-20	@ CLE	W 4–1
1972-09-21	@ BOS	W 10–3
1972-09-22	@ BOS	L 2–3
1972-09-23	@ BOS	W 7–1
1972-09-24	@ BOS	L 2–7
1972-09-27	vs NYA	W 6–5
1972-09-28	vs NYA	L 2–3
1972-09-29	vs ML4	W 12–5
1972-09-30	vs ML4	W 13–4
1972-10-01	vs ML4	W 5–1
1972-10-02	vs BOS	W 4–1
1972-10-03	vs BOS	W 3–1
1972-10-04	vs BOS	L 1–4
1972-10-07	@ OAK	L 2–3
1972-10-08	@ OAK	L 0–5
1972-10-10	vs OAK	W 3–0
1972-10-11	vs OAK	W 4–3
1972-10-12	vs OAK	L 1–2