1927 AL

The 1927 season of the American League was the twenty-seventh season of the league.

[edit] Season summary

Bold indicates league champion, Italics indicates World Series champion

Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT	GB	RS (RS/G)	RA (RA/G)	AVG	OBP	SLG	ERA	FPCT
1	New York Yankees	155	110	44	1	.710	-.-	975 (6.29)	599 (3.86)	0.307	0.381	0.489	3.20	0.969
2	Philadelphia Athletics	155	91	63	1	.587	19.0	841 (5.43)	726 (4.68)	0.303	0.369	0.414	3.97	0.969
3	Washington Senators	157	85	69	3	.541	25.0	782 (4.98)	730 (4.65)	0.287	0.348	0.386	3.97	0.969
4	Detroit Tigers	156	82	71	3	.526	27.5	845 (5.42)	805 (5.16)	0.289	0.360	0.409	4.14	0.967
5	Chicago White Sox	153	70	83	0	.458	39.5	662 (4.33)	708 (4.63)	0.278	0.341	0.378	3.91	0.971
6	Cleveland Indians	153	66	87	0	.431	43.5	668 (4.37)	766 (5.01)	0.283	0.332	0.379	4.27	0.968
7	St. Louis Browns	155	59	94	2	.381	50.5	724 (4.67)	904 (5.83)	0.276	0.333	0.380	4.95	0.960
8	Boston Red Sox	154	51	103	0	.331	59.0	597 (3.88)	856 (5.56)	0.259	0.315	0.357	4.72	0.964

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	155
At Bats	Earle Combs	New York Yankees	648
Runs Scored	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	158
Hits	Earle Combs	New York Yankees	231
Doubles	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	52
Triples	Earle Combs	New York Yankees	23
Home Runs	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	60
Total Bases	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	447
Runs Batted In	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	175
Stolen Bases	George Sisler	St. Louis Browns	27
Caught Stealing	Ty Cobb Joe Sewell	Philadelphia Athletics Cleveland Indians	16
Walks	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	137
Hit by Pitch	Frank O'Rourke	St. Louis Browns	12
Strikeouts	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	89
Sacrifice Hits	Bucky Harris	Washington Senators	30
Batting Average	Harry Heilmann	Detroit Tigers	0.398
On-Base Percentage	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	0.486
Slugging Percentage	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	0.772
On-Base plus Slugging	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	1.258
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	226

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Waite Hoyt Ted Lyons	New York Yankees Chicago White Sox	22
Losses	Slim Harriss	Boston Red Sox	21
Win-Loss Percentage	Eddie Rommel	Philadelphia Athletics	0.786
Appearances	Garland Braxton	Washington Senators	58
Games Started	Tommy Thomas	Chicago White Sox	36
Complete Games	Ted Lyons	Chicago White Sox	30
Shutouts	Hod Lisenbee	Washington Senators	4
Games Finished	Garland Braxton	Washington Senators	32
Saves	Garland Braxton Wilcy Moore	Washington Senators New York Yankees	13
Innings Pitched	Ted Lyons Tommy Thomas	Chicago White Sox Chicago White Sox	307.2
Batters Faced	Ted Lyons	Chicago White Sox	1262
Hits Allowed	Willis Hudlin Ted Lyons	Cleveland Indians Chicago White Sox	291
Home Runs Allowed	Milt Gaston Rube Walberg	St. Louis Browns Philadelphia Athletics	18
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Earl Whitehill	Detroit Tigers	105
Hit Batsmen	Howard Ehmke	Philadelphia Athletics	14
Strikeouts	Lefty Grove	Philadelphia Athletics	174
Wild Pitches	Garland Buckeye	Cleveland Indians	10
Balks	Bobby Burke Del Lundgren Earl Whitehill John Wilson	Washington Senators Boston Red Sox Detroit Tigers Boston Red Sox	2
Runs Allowed	Milt Gaston	St. Louis Browns	177
Earned Runs Allowed	Milt Gaston	St. Louis Browns	141
Earned Run Average	Wilcy Moore	New York Yankees	2.28
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Garland Braxton	Washington Senators	1.139

In the World Series, the American League champion New York Yankees defeated the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 0.

The winner of the league's League Award, given its Most Valuable Player, was Lou Gehrig, a first baseman with the New York Yankees. In the award's voting, he had 56 out of a possible 64 points and 7 first place votes.