1979 Boston Red Sox season

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1979 Boston Red Sox
Major league affiliations
Location
1979 Information
Owner(s) Buddy LeRoux, Haywood Sullivan, Jean Yawkey
Manager(s) Don Zimmer
Local television WSBK-TV, Ch. 38
(Ken Harrelson, Ned Martin, Bob Montgomery)
Local radio WITS-AM 1510
(Ken Coleman, Rico Petrocelli)

The 1979 Boston Red Sox season involved the Red Sox finishing 3rd in the American League East with a record of 91 wins and 69 losses.

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[edit] Regular season: Yaz and 61 Years and Counting

In 1979 Fred Lynn hit a league-leading .333 and had 39 homers and 122 RBIs. Jim Rice batted .325, with 39 homers and 130 RBIs, but Dennis Eckersley fell to 17 wins, and Mike Torrez had 16 wins again. Boston finished 11 games back of the eventual American League champion Baltimore Orioles, and 4 in back of the Milwaukee Brewers. Highlights of the year were Carl Yastrzemski's 3,000th hit and his 400th home run. He was the first American Leaguer ever to do that and the 15th in Major League Baseball history.

[edit] Season standings

American League East
Rank Club Wins Losses Win % GB
1st Baltimore Orioles 102   57 .642    --
2nd Milwaukee Brewers   95   66 .590   8.0
3rd Boston Red Sox   91   69 .569 11.5
4th New York Yankees   89   71 .556 13.5
5th Detroit Tigers   85   76 .528 18.0
6th Cleveland Indians   81   80 .503 22.0
7th Toronto Blue Jays   53 109 .327 50.5

[edit] Roster

1979 Boston Red Sox roster
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Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

Coaches

[edit] Player stats

[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

[edit] Other batters

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

[edit] Starting pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO

[edit] Other pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA

[edit] Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO

[edit] References

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