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NL · 83–79 (.512) · Rank 3 · Attendance 1653007

Batting

Player	G	AB	H	HR	RBI	SB	BA	OPS
Don Kessinger	155	617	159	2	38	15	.258	.634
Billy Williams	157	594	179	28	93	7	.301	.888
Ron Santo	154	555	148	21	88	4	.267	.777
Glenn Beckert	131	530	181	2	42	3	.342	.773
Joe Pepitone	115	427	131	16	61	1	.307	.829
Jim Hickman	117	383	98	19	60	0	.256	.791
Brock Davis	106	301	77	0	28	0	.256	.647
Johnny Callison	103	290	61	8	38	2	.210	.639
Paul Popovich	89	226	49	4	28	0	.217	.570
Chris Cannizzaro	71	197	42	5	23	0	.213	.651
Cleo James	54	150	43	2	13	6	.287	.726
J. C. Martin	47	125	33	2	17	1	.264	.688
Fergie Jenkins	39	115	28	6	20	0	.243	.760
Milt Pappas	35	91	14	0	2	1	.154	.382
Jose Ortiz	36	88	26	0	3	2	.295	.745
Ernie Banks	39	83	16	3	6	0	.193	.572
Ken Rudolph	25	76	15	0	7	0	.197	.502
Bill Hands	36	72	6	0	6	0	.083	.279
Ken Holtzman	30	69	9	1	5	0	.130	.367
Danny Breeden	25	65	10	0	4	0	.154	.432
Hector Torres	31	58	13	0	2	0	.224	.550
Carmen Fanzone	12	43	8	2	5	0	.186	.594
Frank Fernandez	17	41	7	4	4	0	.171	.902
Pat Bourque	14	37	7	1	3	0	.189	.574
Hal Breeden	23	36	5	1	2	0	.139	.434
Juan Pizarro	16	34	6	1	2	0	.176	.510
Gene Hiser	17	29	6	0	1	1	.207	.510
Randy Hundley	9	21	7	0	2	0	.333	.714
Bill North	8	16	6	0	0	1	.375	.899
Ramon Webster	16	16	5	0	0	0	.312	.791
Bill Bonham	33	12	2	0	0	0	.167	.334
Joe Decker	22	8	2	0	0	0	.250	.708
Phil Regan	48	8	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Burt Hooton	3	7	0	0	0	0	.000	.125
Ray Newman	30	6	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Al Spangler	5	5	2	0	0	0	.400	.800
Garry Jestadt	3	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Earl Stephenson	16	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Larry Gura	6	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Bob Miller	2	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Jim Colborn	14	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Tompkins	35	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Player	W	L	ERA	G	SV	SO	WHIP
Fergie Jenkins	24	13	2.77	39	0	263	1.049
Milt Pappas	17	14	3.51	35	0	99	1.305
Bill Hands	12	18	3.42	36	0	128	1.230
Ken Holtzman	9	15	4.48	30	0	143	1.421
Juan Pizarro	7	6	3.46	16	0	67	1.164
Phil Regan	5	5	3.93	48	6	28	1.595
Bill Bonham	2	1	4.65	33	0	41	1.650
Joe Decker	3	2	4.73	21	0	37	1.905
Ron Tompkins	0	2	4.08	35	3	20	1.311
Ray Newman	1	2	3.52	30	2	35	1.226
Burt Hooton	2	0	2.11	3	0	22	.844
Earl Stephenson	1	0	4.43	16	1	11	1.721
Jim Colborn	0	1	6.97	14	0	2	2.032
Bob Miller	0	0	5.14	2	0	2	1.571
Larry Gura	0	0	6.00	6	1	2	2.333

Schedule (162 games)

Date	Opponent	Result
1971-04-06	vs SLN	W 2–1
1971-04-07	vs SLN	L 3–14
1971-04-08	@ HOU	L 3–7
1971-04-09	@ HOU	W 6–0
1971-04-10	@ HOU	L 1–2
1971-04-11	@ HOU	L 4–7
1971-04-12	@ LAN	L 3–4
1971-04-13	@ LAN	W 3–2
1971-04-15	@ SDN	W 4–3
1971-04-16	@ SFN	L 0–9
1971-04-17	@ SFN	L 3–5
1971-04-18	@ SFN	L 1–5
1971-04-18	@ SFN	L 1–8
1971-04-20	vs HOU	W 3–1
1971-04-22	vs HOU	L 1–6
1971-04-23	vs NYN	L 6–7
1971-04-24	vs NYN	W 7–5
1971-04-25	vs NYN	W 9–3
1971-04-28	vs MON	W 3–2
1971-04-29	vs MON	L 6–7
1971-04-30	vs PHI	L 0–1
1971-05-01	vs PHI	W 7–4
1971-05-02	vs PHI	W 7–1
1971-05-03	@ NYN	L 2–3
1971-05-04	@ NYN	L 1–2
1971-05-05	@ NYN	W 5–4
1971-05-07	@ MON	L 1–3
1971-05-08	@ MON	W 3–0
1971-05-09	@ MON	L 3–7
1971-05-10	@ PHI	W 3–0
1971-05-11	@ PHI	W 6–2
1971-05-12	@ PHI	W 9–4
1971-05-14	vs SDN	W 3–2
1971-05-15	vs SDN	W 6–4
1971-05-16	vs SDN	W 9–8
1971-05-16	vs SDN	W 6–4
1971-05-18	vs SFN	L 3–7
1971-05-19	vs SFN	W 9–5
1971-05-20	vs SFN	L 7–8
1971-05-21	vs LAN	L 1–8
1971-05-22	vs LAN	W 5–2
1971-05-23	vs LAN	L 3–4
1971-05-25	@ SLN	L 2–4
1971-05-26	@ SLN	L 4–9
1971-05-27	@ SLN	L 0–10
1971-05-28	@ PIT	W 4–2
1971-05-29	@ PIT	L 4–9
1971-05-30	@ PIT	L 0–10
1971-05-31	@ PIT	L 0–6
1971-06-02	@ CIN	W 6–3
1971-06-02	@ CIN	W 4–1
1971-06-03	@ CIN	W 1–0
1971-06-04	@ ATL	W 11–0
1971-06-05	@ ATL	L 4–6
1971-06-06	@ ATL	W 6–3
1971-06-07	vs PIT	L 6–11
1971-06-08	vs PIT	W 1–0
1971-06-09	vs PIT	W 3–1
1971-06-11	vs CIN	L 3–4
1971-06-12	vs CIN	W 5–2
1971-06-13	vs CIN	L 3–4
1971-06-14	vs ATL	W 3–2
1971-06-15	vs ATL	W 3–1
1971-06-16	vs ATL	L 5–6
1971-06-17	vs SLN	W 7–6
1971-06-18	vs SLN	W 15–5
1971-06-19	vs SLN	W 7–1
1971-06-20	vs SLN	L 4–5
1971-06-22	@ SFN	L 0–2
1971-06-23	@ SFN	L 2–5
1971-06-25	@ SLN	W 12–0
1971-06-26	@ SLN	W 5–1
1971-06-27	@ SLN	W 4–1
1971-06-28	vs LAN	L 4–6
1971-06-29	vs LAN	W 3–2
1971-06-30	vs LAN	W 10–5
1971-07-02	vs PIT	L 1–5
1971-07-03	vs PIT	W 3–1
1971-07-04	vs PIT	W 9–7
1971-07-05	vs PIT	L 2–6
1971-07-06	@ LAN	W 3–1
1971-07-07	@ LAN	W 6–5
1971-07-07	@ LAN	W 4–3
1971-07-08	@ LAN	W 4–2
1971-07-09	@ SDN	L 0–1
1971-07-09	@ SDN	L 2–7
1971-07-10	@ SDN	W 3–1
1971-07-11	@ SDN	W 2–0
1971-07-11	@ SDN	L 5–7
1971-07-15	vs PHI	W 7–6
1971-07-16	vs PHI	W 11–2
1971-07-17	vs PHI	L 2–5
1971-07-18	vs MON	W 8–4
1971-07-19	vs MON	L 3–5
1971-07-20	vs NYN	W 4–2
1971-07-21	vs NYN	W 11–7
1971-07-22	vs NYN	L 1–5
1971-07-23	@ PHI	L 3–4
1971-07-24	@ PHI	W 2–1
1971-07-25	@ PHI	L 1–2
1971-07-26	@ MON	W 5–2
1971-07-27	@ MON	L 1–6
1971-07-28	@ MON	W 10–2
1971-07-30	@ NYN	L 0–4
1971-07-31	@ NYN	L 2–5
1971-08-01	@ NYN	W 3–2
1971-08-02	@ HOU	L 1–2
1971-08-03	@ HOU	W 5–0
1971-08-04	vs SDN	W 3–0
1971-08-05	vs SDN	W 3–0
1971-08-07	vs SFN	W 6–5
1971-08-08	vs SFN	L 2–4
1971-08-08	vs SFN	W 8–0
1971-08-10	@ PIT	W 2–1
1971-08-11	@ PIT	L 2–3
1971-08-13	@ CIN	L 2–8
1971-08-14	@ CIN	W 3–1
1971-08-15	@ CIN	L 1–5
1971-08-16	@ ATL	W 3–0
1971-08-17	@ ATL	L 4–5
1971-08-18	@ ATL	W 7–2
1971-08-20	vs HOU	W 3–2
1971-08-20	vs HOU	W 5–4
1971-08-21	vs HOU	L 0–3
1971-08-22	vs HOU	L 3–4
1971-08-23	vs CIN	W 6–3
1971-08-24	vs CIN	L 4–5
1971-08-25	vs CIN	L 4–9
1971-08-27	vs ATL	W 3–0
1971-08-28	vs ATL	L 3–4
1971-08-29	vs ATL	L 4–5
1971-08-30	vs MON	L 2–6
1971-08-31	vs MON	W 7–6
1971-08-31	vs MON	L 2–11
1971-09-01	vs MON	W 5–2
1971-09-02	vs MON	L 5–9
1971-09-03	@ SLN	L 1–6
1971-09-04	@ SLN	W 7–5
1971-09-05	@ SLN	L 5–12
1971-09-06	@ PIT	L 1–4
1971-09-06	@ PIT	L 5–10
1971-09-08	@ PIT	L 1–10
1971-09-10	vs SLN	L 7–8
1971-09-11	vs SLN	W 7–0
1971-09-12	vs SLN	L 0–4
1971-09-13	vs PIT	L 1–5
1971-09-14	vs PIT	L 3–4
1971-09-15	@ NYN	W 6–2
1971-09-15	@ NYN	W 3–2
1971-09-16	@ NYN	W 1–0
1971-09-17	@ PHI	W 4–3
1971-09-18	@ PHI	L 3–4
1971-09-19	@ PHI	W 6–3
1971-09-21	vs NYN	W 3–0
1971-09-22	vs NYN	W 4–1
1971-09-23	vs NYN	L 4–5
1971-09-24	vs PHI	L 1–6
1971-09-25	vs PHI	W 4–2
1971-09-26	vs PHI	L 1–5
1971-09-28	@ MON	L 4–5
1971-09-29	@ MON	L 5–6
1971-09-30	@ MON	W 5–3