PITCHERS' RECORD, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER—1894.
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Heading abbreviations used in this table:
G Games Played
%W Percent games won excluding tie games
RS Runs scored average per game
RE Runs earned, average per game
%BH Percent of base hits off pitcher
BoB Bases given on balls
SO No. struck out
%FC Percent fielding chances accepted
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Pitcher. Club. G %W RS RE %BH BoB SO %FC
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Breitenst'n St. Louis 49 .551 6.32 3.06 .280 162 138 .902
Colcolough Pittsburgh 15 .533 9.13 4.87 .354 59 19 .844
Cuppy Cleveland 37 .583 7.13 3.24 .298 119 63 .916
Carsey Philadelphia 31 .580 7.93 3.84 .314 95 40 .831
Clarkson St. Louis 26 .308 8.11 4.19 .318 102 42 .794
Chamberlain Cincinnati 19 .526 7.45 3.70 .309 78 57 .729
Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .500 7.3 4.13 .317 97 47 .902
Daub Brooklyn 26 .423 7.89 3.70 .306 71 33 .694
Esper Wash. and Balti. 26 .500 8.3 4.88 .339 59 36 .929
Ehret Pittsburgh 41 .436 7.05 4.17 .306 111 91 .808
Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .600 7.23 4.87 .326 73 60 .909
Griffith Chicago 32 .656 6.46 3.59 .300 79 67 .901
German New York 17 .471 7.82 3.53 .288 48 15 .842
Gleason St.L. and Balti. 29 .586 6.00 3.45 .312 59 39 .841
Hemming Louis. and Balti. 40 .500 6.02 2.85 .295 140 75 .893
Hawke Baltimore 23 .562 7.17 4.08 .311 58 50 .887
Hutchinson Chicago 30 .467 7.47 3.33 .314 125 60 .716
Hawley St. Louis 47 .413 7.04 3.72 .303 121 117 .708
Inks Balti. and Louis. 24 .478 7.96 4.04 .337 75 37 .846
Killen Pittsburgh 24 .583 6.25 3.87 .303 83 57 .909
Knell Louisville 30 .200 8.46 3.60 .329 97 65 .693
Kennedy Brooklyn 42 .545 7.55 4.21 .302 134 101 .771
Menafee Louis. and Pitts. 37 .351 6.59 3.67 .309 85 78 .904
Mercer Washington 38 .421 7.18 4.09 .303 105 57 .852
Meekin New York 47 .790 4.91 2.38 .253 147 127 .798
Maul Washington 24 .458 8.08 4.08 .307 60 31 .785
Mullane Balt. and Cleve. 17 .470 8.17 4.17 .297 80 44 .740
McMahon Baltimore 34 .735 5.51 3.00 .269 109 55 .869
McGill Chicago 24 .291 8.12 3.83 .321 98 55 .846
Nichols Boston 46 .711 6.78 3.56 .291 108 98 .856
Parrott Cincinnati 37 .459 7.24 3.94 .307 120 61 .824
Rusie New York 49 .734 4.73 2.12 .253 189 204 .867
Stratton Louis. & Chicago 21 .476 9.43 5.24 .366 52 29 .931
Stockdale Washington 16 .375 7.60 3.60 .353 39 8 .825
Stivetts Boston 39 .692 7.49 3.43 .306 100 73 .913
Stein Brooklyn 42 .619 6.26 3.05 .280 162 72 .785
Staley Boston 25 .520 8.88 5.72 .344 55 29 .744
Sullivan Wash. and Cleve. 23 .348 8.26 3.74 .320 97 28 .714
Terry Chicago 19 .278 9.73 4.00 .334 91 43 .782
Taylor Philadelphia 33 .719 5.30 2.76 .281 85 79 .796
Weyhing Philadelphia 33 .545 6.72 3.49 .324 101 79 .845
Wadsworth Louisville 21 .190 9.38 4.66 .360 97 58 .703
Westervelt New York 18 .412 7.39 3.83 .297 62 28 .654
Young Cleveland 47 .532 5.83 3.17 .293 100 100 .902
Tie games—Cuppy, 1; Dwyer, 1; Daub, 1; Ehret, 1; Gumbert, 1; Hawley, 1; Inks, 1; Meekin, 4; Nichols, 1; Stein, 1; Terry, 1; Taylor 1; Westervelt,1. —————————————————————————————————————-
The Batting of 1894.
THE TEAM-WORK AT THE BAT.
It goes to the credit of the leading teams in the pennant race of 1894 that the first three clubs did better team-work at the bat, and more of it, than any previous trio of the kind known in the annals of the League. In fact, competent managers and captains of teams have learned in recent years, by costly experiment, that one of the most potent factors in winning pennants is the method of handling the ash known as good team-work at the bat the very essence of which is devoting all the batsmen's efforts to forwarding runners by base hits, and not by each player's going to the bat simply to build up a high record of base hits without regard to forwarding runners on bases. Suppose the first baseman in a game to take his position at the bat makes a two or three-bagger at the outset. Of course the object of the batsman who succeeds him would be to send the runner home the best way he can, either by a base hit or a sacrifice hit. In striving to do this, the very worst plan, is to try solely for a home run hit, as it only succeeds once in thirty or forty times, and not that against skilful, strategic pitching. Time and again were batsmen, last season, left on third base after opening the innings with a three-bagger, owing to the stupid work of the succeeding batsmen in trying to "line 'em out for a homer," instead of doing real team-work at the bat. Of course, good "sacrifice hitting" is part and parcel of team-work at the bat, but this kind of hitting was not done to any special extent last season by a majority of the League batsmen.