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NL · 75–79 (.487) · Rank 6 · Attendance 1199128

Batting

Player	G	AB	H	HR	RBI	SB	BA	OPS
Bill Virdon	146	599	156	9	58	5	.260	.682
Dick Groat	148	596	164	6	55	0	.275	.687
Roberto Clemente	146	572	201	23	89	4	.351	.949
Bill Mazeroski	152	558	148	13	59	2	.265	.678
Dick Stuart	138	532	160	35	117	0	.301	.925
Don Hoak	145	503	150	12	61	4	.298	.839
Bob Skinner	119	381	102	3	42	3	.268	.718
Smoky Burgess	100	323	98	12	52	1	.303	.851
Hal Smith	67	193	43	3	26	0	.223	.588
Joe Christopher	76	186	49	0	14	6	.263	.660
Rocky Nelson	75	127	25	5	13	0	.197	.671
Bob Friend	41	79	11	0	7	0	.139	.315
Dick Schofield	60	78	15	0	2	0	.192	.528
Gino Cimoli	21	67	20	0	6	0	.299	.692
Walt Moryn	40	65	13	3	9	0	.200	.589
Don Leppert	22	60	16	3	5	0	.267	.762
Joe Gibbon	31	59	8	0	6	0	.136	.334
Harvey Haddix	31	56	8	0	3	0	.143	.422
Johnny Logan	27	52	12	0	5	0	.231	.594
Donn Clendenon	9	35	11	0	2	0	.314	.800
Tom Sturdivant	13	32	8	0	1	0	.250	.500
Earl Francis	23	28	3	0	0	1	.107	.301
Vinegar Bend Mizell	25	23	3	0	1	0	.130	.322
Vern Law	11	19	5	0	5	0	.263	.634
Bobby Shantz	44	16	7	0	3	0	.438	1.026
Al McBean	28	15	4	1	3	0	.267	.734
Roy Face	62	11	3	0	1	0	.273	.546
Gene Baker	9	10	1	0	0	0	.100	.408
Clem Labine	56	10	1	0	0	0	.100	.282
Al Jackson	5	8	0	0	0	0	.000	.111
Larry Foss	3	6	1	0	1	0	.167	.334
Bob Oldis	4	5	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Fred Green	13	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Red Witt	9	2	1	0	0	0	.500	1.500
Roman Mejias	4	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Jim Umbricht	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Tom Cheney	1	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Player	W	L	ERA	G	SV	SO	WHIP
Bob Friend	14	19	3.85	41	1	108	1.339
Joe Gibbon	13	10	3.32	30	0	145	1.239
Harvey Haddix	10	6	4.10	29	0	99	1.282
Earl Francis	2	8	4.21	23	0	53	1.529
Vinegar Bend Mizell	7	10	5.04	25	0	37	1.510
Clem Labine	4	1	3.69	56	8	49	1.435
Roy Face	6	12	3.82	62	17	55	1.130
Bobby Shantz	6	3	3.32	43	2	61	1.310
Tom Sturdivant	5	2	2.84	13	1	45	1.144
Al McBean	3	2	3.75	27	0	49	1.534
Vern Law	3	4	4.70	11	0	20	1.517
Al Jackson	1	0	3.42	3	0	15	1.014
Fred Green	0	0	4.79	13	0	4	1.742
Red Witt	0	1	6.32	9	0	9	1.404
Larry Foss	1	1	5.87	3	0	9	1.696
Jim Umbricht	0	0	2.70	1	0	1	2.100
Tom Cheney	0	0		1	0	0

Schedule (154 games)

Date	Opponent	Result
1961-04-11	@ SFN	W 8–7
1961-04-12	@ SFN	L 1–2
1961-04-13	@ SFN	L 5–6
1961-04-14	@ LAN	W 6–3
1961-04-15	@ LAN	W 4–1
1961-04-16	@ LAN	L 6–13
1961-04-18	vs CHN	W 5–3
1961-04-19	vs CHN	W 4–1
1961-04-20	vs CHN	L 0–3
1961-04-23	vs ML1	L 1–3
1961-04-24	vs ML1	W 7–6
1961-04-26	vs PHI	W 3–2
1961-04-29	@ CIN	W 6–3
1961-04-30	@ CIN	W 6–3
1961-04-30	@ CIN	L 2–4
1961-05-02	@ SLN	W 6–0
1961-05-03	@ SLN	L 1–3
1961-05-05	vs LAN	L 0–10
1961-05-06	vs LAN	W 9–5
1961-05-07	vs LAN	L 2–4
1961-05-09	vs SFN	W 9–6
1961-05-10	vs SFN	L 0–3
1961-05-12	vs CIN	W 8–5
1961-05-13	vs CIN	W 13–5
1961-05-14	vs CIN	L 1–4
1961-05-16	vs SLN	W 2–1
1961-05-17	vs SLN	W 4–3
1961-05-19	@ PHI	L 1–4
1961-05-20	@ PHI	W 4–3
1961-05-21	@ PHI	W 13–11
1961-05-22	@ ML1	W 2–1
1961-05-23	@ ML1	L 0–1
1961-05-24	@ CHN	W 7–3
1961-05-26	@ SLN	L 2–12
1961-05-27	@ SLN	L 5–7
1961-05-28	@ SLN	L 4–8
1961-05-30	vs CHN	L 3–5
1961-05-30	vs CHN	L 0–10
1961-05-31	vs ML1	W 9–1
1961-06-01	vs ML1	W 8–2
1961-06-02	vs PHI	L 0–6
1961-06-03	vs PHI	W 5–1
1961-06-04	vs PHI	L 0–5
1961-06-05	@ LAN	W 5–2
1961-06-06	@ LAN	L 7–8
1961-06-07	@ LAN	L 3–7
1961-06-08	@ LAN	W 4–2
1961-06-09	@ SFN	L 6–9
1961-06-10	@ SFN	L 0–5
1961-06-11	@ SFN	W 8–4
1961-06-13	vs CIN	W 2–1
1961-06-14	vs CIN	W 5–4
1961-06-15	vs CIN	L 1–8
1961-06-16	vs SLN	L 2–5
1961-06-17	vs SLN	W 9–3
1961-06-18	vs SLN	W 5–3
1961-06-18	vs SLN	L 3–7
1961-06-20	@ PHI	W 6–2
1961-06-22	@ PHI	W 5–1
1961-06-23	vs PHI	L 11–12
1961-06-24	vs PHI	L 2–6
1961-06-25	vs PHI	W 10–5
1961-06-25	vs PHI	L 3–4
1961-06-27	vs LAN	L 5–9
1961-06-28	vs LAN	W 9–3
1961-06-29	vs LAN	W 4–2
1961-06-30	vs SFN	W 4–3
1961-07-01	vs SFN	L 3–4
1961-07-02	vs SFN	W 7–6
1961-07-02	vs SFN	W 9–0
1961-07-03	@ CIN	L 3–4
1961-07-04	@ CIN	L 0–2
1961-07-06	@ CHN	W 15–3
1961-07-06	@ CHN	L 1–5
1961-07-07	@ ML1	W 6–5
1961-07-08	@ ML1	W 4–3
1961-07-09	@ ML1	W 5–4
1961-07-13	@ SFN	L 1–2
1961-07-14	@ SFN	W 6–4
1961-07-15	@ SFN	L 3–8
1961-07-16	@ LAN	L 11–12
1961-07-17	@ LAN	L 4–6
1961-07-20	vs CHN	W 4–0
1961-07-21	vs ML1	L 3–5
1961-07-22	vs ML1	L 4–5
1961-07-23	vs ML1	L 4–11
1961-07-23	vs ML1	L 4–5
1961-07-25	vs SFN	L 7–16
1961-07-26	vs SFN	W 8–3
1961-07-27	vs SFN	L 0–2
1961-07-28	vs LAN	L 4–6
1961-07-29	vs LAN	L 4–5
1961-07-30	vs LAN	L 3–7
1961-08-02	@ SLN	L 2–4
1961-08-03	@ SLN	W 19–0
1961-08-04	@ CIN	L 4–5
1961-08-05	@ CIN	W 11–7
1961-08-06	@ CIN	W 9–4
1961-08-06	@ CIN	L 2–3
1961-08-07	@ PHI	W 3–1
1961-08-08	@ PHI	W 10–2
1961-08-08	@ PHI	W 3–2
1961-08-09	vs SLN	L 0–4
1961-08-10	vs SLN	L 2–3
1961-08-11	vs PHI	W 6–0
1961-08-12	vs PHI	W 4–0
1961-08-13	vs PHI	W 13–4
1961-08-14	@ ML1	L 3–8
1961-08-15	@ ML1	L 1–4
1961-08-16	@ ML1	L 1–2
1961-08-17	@ CHN	L 4–11
1961-08-17	@ CHN	W 4–3
1961-08-18	@ CHN	L 1–2
1961-08-19	@ CHN	W 4–3
1961-08-20	@ CHN	L 0–1
1961-08-22	vs ML1	W 4–1
1961-08-23	vs ML1	W 7–6
1961-08-24	vs ML1	L 1–6
1961-08-25	vs CHN	W 1–0
1961-08-26	vs CHN	L 3–7
1961-08-27	vs CHN	W 7–3
1961-08-27	vs CHN	L 5–6
1961-08-28	vs CHN	L 4–5
1961-08-29	vs CIN	L 0–3
1961-08-30	vs CIN	W 3–1
1961-09-01	@ SLN	L 4–8
1961-09-02	@ SLN	W 5–4
1961-09-03	@ SLN	W 8–1
1961-09-04	@ SLN	L 4–9
1961-09-05	@ CHN	W 8–3
1961-09-06	@ CHN	L 2–6
1961-09-07	@ CHN	W 7–5
1961-09-08	@ ML1	W 2–1
1961-09-09	@ ML1	L 3–4
1961-09-10	@ ML1	L 3–4
1961-09-11	@ SFN	L 3–4
1961-09-12	@ SFN	W 3–0
1961-09-13	@ LAN	W 8–2
1961-09-14	@ LAN	L 6–7
1961-09-16	vs SLN	L 3–6
1961-09-17	vs SLN	L 0–3
1961-09-18	vs SLN	W 8–6
1961-09-19	@ CIN	L 1–10
1961-09-20	@ CIN	L 2–3
1961-09-22	@ PHI	W 6–3
1961-09-23	@ PHI	L 4–5
1961-09-24	@ PHI	W 4–3
1961-09-26	vs LAN	L 3–5
1961-09-26	vs LAN	W 8–0
1961-09-27	vs SFN	W 5–3
1961-09-28	vs SFN	L 4–7
1961-09-29	vs CIN	L 1–8
1961-09-30	vs CIN	W 11–6
1961-10-01	vs CIN	W 3–1