1979 Los Angeles Dodgers Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 79-83
Finished 3rd in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 2,860,954, Avg. 35,320
Ballpark: Dodger Stadium
Manager: Tom Lasorda (79-83)
Location: Los Angeles, California

1979 Los Angeles Dodgers Roster
1979 Los Angeles Dodgers Results

The Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League ended the 1979 season with a record of 79 wins and 83 losses, finishing third in the NL's West Division.

The Dodgers tallied 739 runs and conceded 717 runs. Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Steve Garvey paced Los Angeles with 28 home runs apiece., while Joe Ferguson and Dusty Baker walloped 20 or more as well. Steve Garvey drove in 110 runs and topped all regular batters by connecting at a .315 clip. Rick Sutcliffe led the team with 17 wins, and Burt Hooton recorded a 2.97 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Tom Lasorda coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Rick Sutcliffe	17	10	.630	3.46	39	30	2	5	1	0	242.0	217	104	93	16	97	6	117	2	6	8	1016
Don Sutton	12	15	.444	3.82	33	32	1	6	1	1	226.0	201	109	96	21	61	6	146	1	1	4	927
Burt Hooton	11	10	.524	2.97	29	29	0	12	1	0	212.0	191	85	70	11	63	4	129	2	0	6	874
Charlie Hough	7	5	.583	4.76	42	14	10	0	0	0	151.3	152	88	80	16	66	2	76	8	1	9	662
Jerry Reuss	7	14	.333	3.54	39	21	11	4	1	3	160.0	178	88	63	4	60	7	83	3	0	7	712
Lerrin LaGrow	5	1	.833	3.41	31	0	18	0	0	4	37.0	38	16	14	2	18	2	22	0	1	2	161
Bob Welch	5	6	.455	3.98	25	12	10	1	0	5	81.3	82	42	36	7	32	4	64	3	0	0	349
Dave Patterson	4	1	.800	5.26	36	0	19	0	0	6	53.0	62	35	31	5	22	6	34	0	0	0	238
Ken Brett	4	3	.571	3.45	30	0	14	0	0	2	47.0	52	20	18	1	12	2	13	1	1	0	202
Bobby Castillo	2	0	1.000	1.11	19	0	15	0	0	7	24.3	26	5	3	0	13	1	25	1	0	0	110
Andy Messersmith	2	4	.333	4.91	11	11	0	1	0	0	62.3	55	34	34	9	34	2	26	0	0	3	266
Joe Beckwith	1	2	.333	4.34	17	0	8	0	0	2	37.3	42	18	18	4	15	1	28	0	1	0	168
Terry Forster	1	2	.333	5.51	17	0	8	0	0	2	16.3	18	11	10	0	11	4	8	0	0	1	73
Doug Rau	1	5	.167	5.30	11	11	0	1	1	0	56.0	73	37	33	3	22	0	28	4	0	1	260
Dennis Lewallyn	0	1	.000	5.11	7	0	4	0	0	0	12.3	19	8	7	0	5	3	1	1	0	0	61
Gerry Hannahs	0	2	.000	3.38	4	2	2	0	0	1	16.0	10	8	6	2	13	1	6	0	0	1	71
Lance Rautzhan	0	2	.000	7.45	12	0	10	0	0	1	9.7	9	9	8	0	11	2	5	1	0	2	47
Totals	79	83	.488	3.86	402	162	132	30	5	34	1444.0	1425	717	620	101	555	53	811	27	11	44	6197

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Steve Garvey	162	697	648	92	204	32	1	28	110	3	6	37	59	.315	.351	.497	.848	322	25	2	4	6	16
Bill Russell	153	670	627	72	170	26	4	7	56	6	9	24	43	.271	.297	.359	.656	225	20	1	14	4	2
Davey Lopes	153	692	582	109	154	20	6	28	73	44	4	97	88	.265	.372	.464	.836	270	8	4	6	3	4
Dusty Baker	151	616	554	86	152	29	1	23	88	11	4	56	70	.274	.340	.455	.795	252	16	1	2	3	0
Ron Cey	150	579	487	77	137	20	1	28	81	3	3	86	85	.281	.389	.499	.888	243	11	2	0	4	8
Derrel Thomas	141	460	406	47	104	15	4	5	44	18	5	41	49	.256	.330	.350	.679	142	9	5	5	3	7
Joe Ferguson	122	442	363	54	95	14	0	20	69	1	0	70	68	.262	.380	.466	.845	169	10	2	2	5	6
Gary Thomasson	115	362	315	39	78	11	1	14	45	4	2	43	70	.248	.339	.422	.761	133	5	1	2	1	4
Steve Yeager	105	346	310	33	67	9	2	13	41	1	0	29	68	.216	.282	.384	.665	119	12	0	5	2	8
Reggie Smith	68	270	234	41	64	13	1	10	32	6	5	31	50	.274	.359	.466	.825	109	5	2	0	3	3
Von Joshua	94	149	142	22	40	7	1	3	14	1	1	7	23	.282	.315	.408	.724	58	5	0	0	0	1
Ted Martinez	81	117	112	19	30	5	1	0	2	3	2	4	16	.268	.293	.330	.623	37	3	0	1	0	1
Mickey Hatcher	33	102	93	9	25	4	1	1	5	1	3	7	12	.269	.327	.366	.692	34	5	1	1	0	0
Rick Sutcliffe	40	93	85	6	21	3	0	1	17	0	0	1	20	.247	.253	.318	.571	27	4	0	6	1	0
Manny Mota	47	47	42	1	15	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	4	.357	.400	.357	.757	15	2	0	2	0	0
Pedro Guerrero	25	64	62	7	15	2	0	2	9	2	0	1	14	.242	.250	.371	.621	23	1	0	0	1	1
Burt Hooton	30	84	75	5	11	3	0	0	5	0	0	1	18	.147	.158	.187	.345	14	0	0	8	0	0
Don Sutton	33	86	77	2	11	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	17	.143	.154	.143	.297	11	1	0	8	0	0
Rick Monday	12	38	33	2	10	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	6	.303	.395	.303	.698	10	1	0	0	0	0
Vic Davalillo	29	29	27	2	7	1	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	.259	.310	.296	.607	8	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Reuss	39	49	42	4	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	19	.167	.239	.190	.430	8	1	1	3	0	0
Charlie Hough	42	43	38	1	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	9	.158	.158	.184	.342	7	0	0	5	0	0
Johnny Oates	26	51	46	4	6	2	0	0	2	0	1	4	1	.130	.200	.174	.374	8	0	0	1	0	1
Ken Brett	30	11	11	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.273	.273	.273	.545	3	1	0	0	0	0
Bob Welch	25	23	19	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	6	.158	.200	.158	.358	3	0	1	3	0	0
Doug Rau	11	17	14	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.143	.250	.214	.464	3	0	0	1	0	0
Andy Messersmith	11	23	22	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	.091	.091	.136	.227	3	0	0	1	0	0
Dennis Lewallyn	7	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	31	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Gerry Hannahs	4	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Patterson	37	9	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	2	0	0
Joe Beckwith	17	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bobby Castillo	19	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Forster	17	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Lance Rautzhan	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2072	6188	5490	739	1443	220	24	183	713	106	46	556	834	.263	.331	.412	.743	2260	145	23	83	36	62

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Steve Garvey	1B	162	162	1408.7	1402	93	7	101	.995	9.552	9.228	0	0	0
Pedro Guerrero	1B	8	0	33.3	33	2	1	0	.972	9.450	4.375	0	0	0
Gary Thomasson	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Davey Lopes	2B	152	152	1321.0	341	384	14	82	.981	4.939	4.770	0	0	0
Ted Martinez	2B	18	8	99.0	25	29	0	2	1.000	4.909	3.000	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	2B	5	2	24.0	5	9	0	1	1.000	5.250	2.800	0	0	0
Ron Cey	3B	150	148	1182.3	123	265	9	25	.977	2.953	2.587	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	3B	18	9	104.0	20	15	3	3	.921	3.029	1.944	0	0	0
Mickey Hatcher	3B	17	2	85.3	11	23	4	0	.895	3.586	2.000	0	0	0
Ted Martinez	3B	23	3	65.3	4	6	3	1	.769	1.378	.435	0	0	0
Pedro Guerrero	3B	3	0	7.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	3.857	1.000	0	0	0
Steve Yeager	C	103	88	803.0	513	56	9	7	.984	6.377	5.524	9	55	38	40.9
Joe Ferguson	C	67	62	532.3	326	35	7	6	.981	6.103	5.388	8	51	18	26.1
Johnny Oates	C	20	12	108.7	64	13	2	2	.975	6.377	3.850	4	12	7	36.8
Dusty Baker	OF	150	147	1290.7	289	14	3	4	.990	2.113	2.020	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	OF	119	93	855.7	269	10	1	4	.996	2.935	2.345	0	0	0
Gary Thomasson	OF	100	77	731.0	194	4	4	1	.980	2.438	1.980	0	0	0
Reggie Smith	OF	62	62	505.3	159	5	2	0	.988	2.921	2.645	0	0	0
Joe Ferguson	OF	52	45	396.3	88	2	2	2	.978	2.044	1.731	0	0	0
Von Joshua	OF	46	22	228.7	56	2	2	0	.967	2.283	1.261	0	0	0
Mickey Hatcher	OF	19	18	144.7	36	1	1	0	.974	2.302	1.947	0	0	0
Pedro Guerrero	OF	12	12	90.0	19	0	0	0	1.000	1.900	1.583	0	0	0
Rick Monday	OF	10	10	77.7	27	0	1	0	.964	3.129	2.700	0	0	0
Vic Davalillo	OF	3	0	11.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.636	.667	0	0	0
Manny Mota	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rick Sutcliffe	P	39	30	242.0	18	24	0	1	1.000	1.562	1.077	0	0	0
Don Sutton	P	33	32	226.0	16	24	1	2	.976	1.593	1.212	0	0	0
Burt Hooton	P	29	29	212.0	12	26	0	3	1.000	1.613	1.310	0	0	0
Jerry Reuss	P	39	21	160.0	2	35	3	1	.925	2.081	.949	0	0	0
Charlie Hough	P	42	14	151.3	5	26	1	0	.969	1.844	.738	0	0	0
Bob Welch	P	25	12	81.3	2	8	3	3	.769	1.107	.400	0	0	0
Andy Messersmith	P	11	11	62.3	5	9	0	1	1.000	2.021	1.273	0	0	0
Doug Rau	P	11	11	56.0	2	10	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.091	0	0	0
Dave Patterson	P	36	0	53.0	6	5	0	1	1.000	1.868	.306	0	0	0
Ken Brett	P	30	0	47.0	7	14	0	1	1.000	4.021	.700	0	0	0
Joe Beckwith	P	17	0	37.3	5	5	2	0	.833	2.411	.588	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	P	31	0	37.0	0	5	0	0	1.000	1.216	.161	0	0	0
Bobby Castillo	P	19	0	24.3	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.479	.211	0	0	0
Terry Forster	P	17	0	16.3	1	5	0	0	1.000	3.306	.353	0	0	0
Gerry Hannahs	P	4	2	16.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.688	.750	0	0	0
Dennis Lewallyn	P	7	0	12.3	1	4	0	0	1.000	3.649	.714	0	0	0
Lance Rautzhan	P	12	0	9.7	2	3	0	0	1.000	4.655	.417	0	0	0
Bill Russell	SS	150	148	1296.0	218	452	30	70	.957	4.653	4.467	0	0	0
Ted Martinez	SS	21	12	127.0	16	34	2	4	.962	3.543	2.381	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	SS	3	2	21.0	4	4	1	0	.889	3.429	2.667	0	0	0
Totals		1898	1458	12996.0	4332	1669	118	329	.981	4.156	3.162	21	118	63	34.8

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