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1887 Philadelphia Athletics Statistics

Record: 64-69-4, Finished 5th in American Association (Schedule and Results)

Managers: Frank Bancroft (26-29) and Charlie Mason (38-40-4)

Ballpark: Jefferson Street Grounds

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 99, Pitching - 98
One-year: Batting - 99, Pitching - 100

Pythagorean W-L: 67-66, 893 Runs, 890 Runs Allowed

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Apr 16, PHA @ BAL
Apr 20, PHA @ BAL
Apr 21, PHA vs. NYP
Apr 23, PHA vs. NYP
Apr 25, PHA vs. NYP
Apr 26, PHA vs. NYP
Apr 27, PHA vs. BRO
Apr 30, PHA vs. BRO

May 2, PHA vs. BRO
May 3, PHA @ BAL
May 4, PHA vs. BAL
May 5, PHA vs. BAL
May 6, PHA vs. BAL
May 7, PHA vs. BAL
May 10, PHA @ LOU
May 12, PHA @ LOU
May 13, PHA @ LOU
May 14, PHA @ LOU
May 16, PHA @ STL
May 17, PHA @ STL
May 18, PHA @ STL
May 19, PHA @ STL
May 20, PHA @ CLE
May 21, PHA @ CLE
May 23, PHA @ CLE
May 24, PHA @ CLE
May 25, PHA @ CIN
May 26, PHA @ CIN
May 27, PHA @ CIN
May 28, PHA @ CIN
May 30, PHA vs. LOU
May 30, PHA vs. LOU
May 31, PHA vs. LOU

Jun 1, PHA vs. LOU
Jun 4, PHA vs. CIN
Jun 7, PHA vs. CIN
Jun 8, PHA vs. CIN
Jun 8, PHA vs. CIN
Jun 9, PHA vs. STL
Jun 10, PHA vs. STL
Jun 11, PHA vs. STL
Jun 13, PHA vs. STL
Jun 14, PHA vs. CLE
Jun 15, PHA vs. CLE
Jun 16, PHA vs. CLE
Jun 17, PHA vs. CLE
Jun 18, PHA @ NYP
Jun 20, PHA @ NYP
Jun 21, PHA @ NYP
Jun 23, PHA @ BAL
Jun 24, PHA @ BAL
Jun 25, PHA @ BAL
Jun 26, PHA @ BRO
Jun 28, PHA @ BRO
Jun 29, PHA @ BRO
Jun 30, PHA @ BRO

Jul 1, PHA vs. BAL
Jul 2, PHA vs. BAL
Jul 4, PHA @ LOU
Jul 5, PHA @ LOU
Jul 6, PHA @ LOU
Jul 7, PHA @ CLE
Jul 8, PHA @ CLE
Jul 9, PHA @ CLE
Jul 12, PHA @ CIN
Jul 13, PHA @ CIN
Jul 14, PHA @ CIN
Jul 15, PHA @ STL
Jul 16, PHA @ STL
Jul 17, PHA @ STL
Jul 20, PHA vs. CLE
Jul 22, PHA vs. CLE
Jul 25, PHA vs. CIN
Jul 26, PHA vs. CIN
Jul 27, PHA vs. LOU
Jul 28, PHA vs. LOU
Jul 29, PHA vs. LOU
Jul 30, PHA vs. STL

Aug 1, PHA vs. STL
Aug 2, PHA vs. STL
Aug 3, PHA vs. NYP
Aug 4, PHA vs. NYP
Aug 5, PHA vs. NYP
Aug 6, PHA vs. NYP
Aug 8, PHA vs. BRO
Aug 9, PHA @ BRO
Aug 10, PHA @ BRO
Aug 11, PHA @ NYP
Aug 12, PHA @ NYP
Aug 13, PHA @ NYP
Aug 15, PHA vs. BRO
Aug 16, PHA vs. BRO
Aug 17, PHA vs. BRO
Aug 19, PHA @ STL
Aug 20, PHA @ STL
Aug 21, PHA @ STL
Aug 22, PHA @ LOU
Aug 23, PHA @ LOU
Aug 24, PHA @ LOU
Aug 25, PHA @ CLE
Aug 26, PHA @ CLE
Aug 27, PHA @ CLE
Aug 29, PHA @ CIN
Aug 30, PHA @ CIN
Aug 31, PHA @ CIN

Sep 2, PHA vs. CIN
Sep 3, PHA vs. CIN
Sep 3, PHA vs. CIN
Sep 5, PHA vs. CIN
Sep 6, PHA vs. CLE
Sep 8, PHA vs. CLE
Sep 9, PHA vs. STL
Sep 10, PHA vs. STL
Sep 12, PHA vs. STL
Sep 13, PHA vs. LOU
Sep 14, PHA vs. LOU
Sep 15, PHA vs. LOU
Sep 16, PHA vs. BAL
Sep 17, PHA vs. NYP
Sep 18, PHA @ BRO
Sep 19, PHA vs. NYP
Sep 20, PHA @ NYP
Sep 21, PHA @ BRO
Sep 23, PHA @ BRO
Sep 24, PHA @ BRO
Sep 26, PHA vs. NYP
Sep 27, PHA vs. NYP
Sep 30, PHA @ BAL

Oct 1, PHA @ BAL
Oct 1, PHA @ BAL
Oct 3, PHA vs. BAL
Oct 4, PHA vs. BAL
Oct 5, PHA vs. BAL
Oct 6, PHA vs. BAL
Oct 7, PHA vs. BRO
Oct 8, PHA vs. BRO
Oct 10, PHA vs. BRO

Top 12 Players

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Team Batting

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Team Batting
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Wilbert Robinson	23	68	279	264	28	60	6	2	1	24	15		14	15	.227	.269	.277	.545	52	73		1
2	1B	John Milligan	25	95	401	377	54	114	27	4	2	50	8		21	30	.302	.344	.411	.755	110	155		3
3	2B	Lou Bierbauer*	21	126	543	530	74	144	19	7	1	82	40		13	12	.272	.289	.340	.629	75	180		0
4	SS	Chippy McGarr	24	137	561	536	93	158	23	6	1	63	84		23	67	.295	.326	.366	.692	92	196		2
5	3B	Denny Lyons	21	137	623	570	128	209	43	14	6	102	73		47	16	.367	.421	.523	.943	162	298		6
6	OF	Harry Stovey	30	124	560	497	125	142	31	12	4	77	74		56	38	.286	.366	.421	.787	119	209		7
7	OF	Tom Poorman*	29	135	630	585	140	155	18	19	4	61	88		35	46	.265	.317	.381	.699	94	223		10
8	OF	Henry Larkin	27	126	553	497	105	154	22	12	3	88	37		48	13	.310	.380	.421	.800	123	209		8
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	OF	Fred Mann*	29	55	250	229	42	63	14	6	0	32	16		15	18	.275	.336	.389	.725	101	89		6
10	C	George Townsend	20	31	112	109	12	21	3	0	0	14	8		3	1	.193	.214	.220	.434	21	24		0
11	OF	James Roseman	30	21	88	73	16	16	2	1	0	8	3		10	9	.219	.352	.274	.626	76	20		5
12	1B	Ed Flanagan?	25	19	84	80	12	20	5	0	1	10	3		3	11	.250	.286	.350	.636	77	28		1
13	OF	Ed Greer	23	3	11	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	2		0	3	.182	.182	.182	.364	1	2		0
14	UT	Jim Roxburgh	29	2	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	-30	1		0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
15	P	Ed Seward?	20	74	284	266	31	50	10	0	5	28	14		16	36	.188	.239	.282	.521	45	75		2
16	P	Gus Weyhing	20	57	215	209	19	42	6	1	0	16	8		6	39	.201	.223	.239	.462	29	50		0
17	P	Al Atkinson	26	16	64	59	8	12	2	0	1	5	3		5	12	.203	.266	.288	.554	54	17		0
18	P	Bobby Mathews	35	7	29	25	5	5	0	0	0	0	0		4	3	.200	.310	.200	.510	44	5		0
19	P	Bill Hart?	21	3	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	2	.077	.077	.077	.154	-57	1		0
20	P	Ledell Titcomb*	20	3	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	7	.000	.167	.000	.167	-51	0		0
21	P	Billy Taylor	32	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0		0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	39	1		0
22	P	Frank Chapman	25	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0
23	P	Tommy Casey?		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0						0		0
		Team Totals	25.0	137	5326	4954	893	1370	231	84	29	661	476		321	379	.277	.327	.375	.702	95	1856		51
		Rank in 8 AA teams				2	5	3	2	4	4		4		8	5	3	6	4	4		3		4
		Non-Pitcher Totals	25.4	137	4703	4366	830	1259	213	83	23	611	451		288	280	.288	.339	.391	.730	103	1707		49
		Pitcher Totals	21.5	137	623	588	63	111	18	1	6	50	25		33	99	.189	.234	.253	.488	36	149		2
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

Team Pitching

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Team Pitching
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Ed Seward	20	25	25	.500	4.13	55	52	2	52	3	0	470.2	445	293	216	7	140		155	24	0	58	1990	102	3.86	1.243	8.5	0.1	2.7	3.0	1.11
2	SP	Gus Weyhing	20	26	28	.481	4.27	55	55	0	53	2	0	466.1	465	342	221	12	167		193	37	1	49	2042	99	4.10	1.355	9.0	0.2	3.2	3.7	1.16
3	SP	Al Atkinson	26	6	8	.429	5.92	15	15	2	11	0	0	124.2	156	121	82	2	54		34	6	0	11	594	71	4.38	1.684	11.3	0.1	3.9	2.5	0.63
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
4		Bobby Mathews	35	3	4	.429	6.67	7	7	0	7	0	0	58.0	75	64	43	4	25		9	3	0	2	280	63	5.31	1.724	11.6	0.6	3.9	1.4	0.36
5		Bill Hart	21	1	2	.333	4.50	3	3	0	3	0	0	26.0	28	22	13	1	17		4	1	0	1	121	95	5.55	1.731	9.7	0.3	5.9	1.4	0.24
6		Ledell Titcomb*	20	1	2	.333	6.75	3	3	0	3	0	0	24.0	31	30	18	1	19		16	0	0	7	123	63	4.86	2.083	11.6	0.4	7.1	6.0	0.84
7		Billy Taylor	32	1	0	1.000	3.00	1	1	0	1	0	0	9.0	10	5	3	1	7		0	0	0	2	42	146	7.05	1.889	10.0	1.0	7.0	0.0	0.00
8		Frank Chapman	25	0	0		7.20	1	1	0	1	0	0	5.0	8	6	4	0	2		4	0	0	1	24	63	2.88	2.000	14.4	0.0	3.6	7.2	2.00
9		Lou Bierbauer	21	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	0	0	3		1.28	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.0
10		Tommy Casey*		0	0		18.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	4	3	2	0	1		0	0	0	0	7	32	6.28	5.000	36.0	0.0	9.0	0.0	0.00
11		Tom Poorman	29	0	0		40.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	5	4	3	1	1		1	0	0	2	8	16	24.28	9.000	67.5	13.5	13.5	13.5	1.00
12		James Roseman	30	0	0			0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	21.5	63	69	.477	4.59	137	137	6	131	5	1	1186.1	1227	890	605	29	433		417	71	1	133	5234	92	4.17	1.399	9.3	0.2	3.3	3.2	0.96
		Rank in 8 AA teams		5	4		6				6	4	3	4	2	5	6	5	6		3
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W