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Batting

Player	G	AB	H	HR	RBI	SB	BA	OPS
Roy Smalley	162	621	168	24	95	2	.271	.794
Ron Jackson	159	583	158	14	68	3	.271	.766
Ken Landreaux	151	564	172	15	83	10	.305	.797
Butch Wynegar	149	504	136	7	57	2	.270	.714
Rob Wilfong	140	419	131	9	59	11	.313	.810
John Castino	148	393	112	5	52	5	.285	.728
Hosken Powell	104	338	99	2	36	5	.293	.739
Glenn Adams	119	326	98	8	50	2	.301	.770
Willie Norwood	96	270	67	6	30	9	.248	.684
Bombo Rivera	112	263	74	2	31	5	.281	.716
Mike Cubbage	94	243	67	2	23	1	.276	.721
Dave Edwards	96	229	57	8	35	6	.249	.712
Bob Randall	80	199	49	0	14	2	.246	.580
Jose Morales	92	191	51	2	27	0	.267	.654
Danny Goodwin	58	159	46	5	27	0	.289	.832
Rick Sofield	35	93	28	0	12	2	.301	.736
Glenn Borgmann	31	70	14	0	8	1	.200	.560
Craig Kusick	24	54	13	3	6	0	.241	.762
Gary Ward	10	14	4	0	1	0	.286	.698
Jesus Vega	4	7	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Dan Graham	2	4	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Mike Bacsik	31	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Brett	9	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Erickson	24	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Felton	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Goltz	36	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Hartzell	28	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Holly	6	0	0	0	0	0
Darrell Jackson	25	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Koosman	37	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Marshall	90	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Redfern	41	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Serum	20	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Stanfield	3	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Thormodsgard	1	0	0	0	0	0
Geoff Zahn	26	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Player	W	L	ERA	G	SV	SO	WHIP
Jerry Koosman	20	13	3.38	37	0	157	1.331
Dave Goltz	14	13	4.16	36	0	132	1.400
Geoff Zahn	13	7	3.57	26	0	58	1.314
Paul Hartzell	6	10	5.36	28	0	44	1.454
Mike Marshall	10	15	2.65	90	32	81	1.262
Roger Erickson	3	10	5.63	24	0	47	1.642
Pete Redfern	7	3	3.49	40	1	85	1.302
Darrell Jackson	4	4	4.28	24	0	43	1.659
Mike Bacsik	4	2	4.39	31	0	33	1.371
Gary Serum	1	3	6.61	20	0	31	1.766
Ken Brett	0	0	4.97	9	0	3	1.737
Jeff Holly	0	0	7.11	6	0	5	2.053
Kevin Stanfield	0	0	6.00	3	0	0	.667
Terry Felton	0	0	0.00	1	0	1	.000
Paul Thormodsgard	0	0	9.00	1	0	1	3.000

Schedule (162 games)

Date	Opponent	Result
1979-04-06	@ OAK	W 5–3
1979-04-07	@ OAK	W 3–1
1979-04-08	@ OAK	W 3–1
1979-04-10	@ CAL	W 8–1
1979-04-11	@ CAL	L 2–11
1979-04-12	@ CAL	L 1–7
1979-04-13	@ SEA	W 8–2
1979-04-14	@ SEA	W 6–5
1979-04-15	@ SEA	W 18–6
1979-04-17	vs CAL	L 0–6
1979-04-18	vs CAL	L 6–11
1979-04-19	vs CAL	L 4–6
1979-04-21	vs SEA	W 6–5
1979-04-22	vs SEA	W 3–1
1979-04-24	@ CLE	L 2–7
1979-04-25	@ CLE	W 4–2
1979-04-27	@ DET	W 5–3
1979-04-28	@ DET	L 3–5
1979-04-29	@ DET	W 5–3
1979-04-30	@ TOR	W 6–3
1979-05-01	@ TOR	W 3–2
1979-05-02	@ TOR	W 7–5
1979-05-03	vs DET	W 7–6
1979-05-04	vs DET	W 7–6
1979-05-05	vs DET	L 4–8
1979-05-06	vs DET	W 9–6
1979-05-07	vs TOR	W 6–1
1979-05-08	vs TOR	W 16–6
1979-05-11	vs CLE	W 4–3
1979-05-12	vs CLE	W 4–0
1979-05-13	vs CLE	L 2–3
1979-05-14	vs TEX	L 5–7
1979-05-15	vs TEX	L 8–9
1979-05-16	vs TEX	L 4–8
1979-05-17	@ KCA	W 7–6
1979-05-18	@ KCA	W 10–6
1979-05-20	@ KCA	L 1–5
1979-05-21	@ TEX	W 7–6
1979-05-22	@ TEX	L 3–4
1979-05-23	@ TEX	L 2–7
1979-05-25	vs KCA	L 3–4
1979-05-26	vs KCA	L 4–7
1979-05-27	vs KCA	L 1–2
1979-05-28	vs OAK	W 10–7
1979-05-30	vs OAK	L 4–5
1979-05-31	vs OAK	W 13–2
1979-06-01	vs BOS	L 2–5
1979-06-02	vs BOS	W 8–2
1979-06-03	vs BOS	L 2–8
1979-06-04	@ BAL	L 2–3
1979-06-05	@ BAL	W 3–1
1979-06-06	@ NYA	L 2–3
1979-06-07	@ NYA	W 4–1
1979-06-08	@ BOS	L 1–2
1979-06-09	@ BOS	L 6–12
1979-06-10	@ BOS	L 0–5
1979-06-12	vs NYA	L 1–4
1979-06-13	vs NYA	W 8–7
1979-06-14	vs NYA	W 4–2
1979-06-15	vs BAL	L 5–6
1979-06-17	vs BAL	L 5–8
1979-06-19	@ ML4	L 9–10
1979-06-20	@ ML4	L 3–8
1979-06-21	@ ML4	L 2–3
1979-06-22	@ CHA	W 5–3
1979-06-23	@ CHA	W 6–1
1979-06-24	@ CHA	W 4–3
1979-06-24	@ CHA	W 7–1
1979-06-26	vs ML4	W 8–7
1979-06-27	vs ML4	L 8–9
1979-06-28	vs ML4	L 5–6
1979-06-29	vs CHA	W 5–2
1979-06-30	vs CHA	W 16–4
1979-07-01	vs CHA	W 2–1
1979-07-02	vs SEA	W 7–0
1979-07-03	vs SEA	W 12–2
1979-07-03	vs SEA	L 2–10
1979-07-04	vs SEA	W 7–2
1979-07-05	vs SEA	L 0–4
1979-07-06	@ CLE	L 5–6
1979-07-07	@ CLE	L 3–9
1979-07-08	@ CLE	L 4–5
1979-07-08	@ CLE	W 7–2
1979-07-09	@ DET	W 5–3
1979-07-10	@ DET	L 5–6
1979-07-11	@ DET	W 3–0
1979-07-13	@ TOR	W 6–4
1979-07-14	@ TOR	L 2–4
1979-07-15	@ TOR	W 9–4
1979-07-19	vs DET	L 3–8
1979-07-20	vs DET	W 14–6
1979-07-21	vs TOR	W 6–4
1979-07-21	vs TOR	W 4–3
1979-07-22	vs TOR	W 13–1
1979-07-23	vs TOR	W 7–6
1979-07-24	vs CLE	L 2–4
1979-07-25	vs CLE	L 0–2
1979-07-26	vs CLE	L 2–7
1979-07-27	@ CAL	W 3–1
1979-07-28	@ CAL	L 0–5
1979-07-29	@ CAL	L 3–9
1979-07-30	@ OAK	W 3–0
1979-07-31	@ OAK	L 1–2
1979-08-01	@ OAK	L 1–7
1979-08-03	vs CAL	W 4–1
1979-08-04	vs CAL	L 1–7
1979-08-05	vs CAL	L 7–11
1979-08-05	vs CAL	W 7–1
1979-08-06	@ SEA	L 4–7
1979-08-07	@ SEA	W 5–2
1979-08-08	@ SEA	W 3–1
1979-08-10	vs OAK	L 5–6
1979-08-10	vs OAK	W 3–2
1979-08-11	vs OAK	W 9–7
1979-08-12	vs OAK	W 1–0
1979-08-13	@ BOS	L 5–6
1979-08-14	@ BOS	L 1–12
1979-08-15	@ BOS	L 5–9
1979-08-16	@ NYA	W 5–1
1979-08-17	@ NYA	W 5–2
1979-08-18	@ NYA	L 3–5
1979-08-19	@ NYA	L 3–4
1979-08-20	vs BOS	W 10–5
1979-08-21	vs BOS	W 7–2
1979-08-22	vs BOS	L 4–9
1979-08-24	vs NYA	L 5–7
1979-08-25	vs NYA	W 4–1
1979-08-27	vs BAL	W 4–3
1979-08-27	vs BAL	L 1–5
1979-08-29	vs BAL	L 0–4
1979-08-29	vs BAL	L 4–7
1979-08-30	@ BAL	L 4–5
1979-08-31	@ BAL	W 3–1
1979-09-01	@ BAL	W 3–2
1979-09-02	@ BAL	L 1–3
1979-09-03	vs KCA	L 0–1
1979-09-04	vs KCA	W 5–1
1979-09-05	vs KCA	W 8–3
1979-09-07	vs TEX	L 4–5
1979-09-08	vs TEX	L 2–6
1979-09-09	vs TEX	L 5–6
1979-09-10	@ KCA	L 5–6
1979-09-10	@ KCA	W 5–2
1979-09-11	@ KCA	W 3–1
1979-09-12	@ KCA	L 0–4
1979-09-13	@ TEX	W 7–4
1979-09-14	@ TEX	L 3–5
1979-09-15	@ TEX	W 11–4
1979-09-16	@ TEX	W 6–2
1979-09-17	@ CHA	W 10–3
1979-09-18	@ CHA	L 0–1
1979-09-19	@ CHA	L 0–6
1979-09-20	vs NYA	W 3–1
1979-09-21	@ ML4	W 3–2
1979-09-22	@ ML4	W 6–3
1979-09-23	@ ML4	L 7–8
1979-09-25	vs CHA	L 3–9
1979-09-26	vs CHA	L 5–6
1979-09-27	vs CHA	L 2–4
1979-09-28	vs ML4	L 1–10
1979-09-29	vs ML4	L 8–11
1979-09-30	vs ML4	W 5–0