1979 Cincinnati Reds Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 90-71
Finished 1st in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 2,356,933, Avg. 30,610
Ballpark: Riverfront Stadium
Won Division
National League Championship Series - Lost to Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0
Manager: John McNamara (90-71)
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

1979 Cincinnati Reds Roster
1979 Cincinnati Reds Results

The Cincinnati Reds of the National League ended the 1979 season with a record of 90 wins and 71 losses, finishing first in the NL's West Division.

The Reds scored 731 runs and surrendered 644 runs. George Foster walloped 30 home runs for Cincinnati, while Johnny Bench, Dave Concepcion and Dan Driessen each swatted 20 or more also. George Foster drove in 98 runs. Ray Knight led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .318. Tom Seaver topped the team with 16 wins, and Tom Hume earned a 2.76 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

John McNamara coached the team. The 1979 Cincinnati Reds qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Tom Seaver	16	6	.727	3.14	32	32	0	9	5	0	215.0	187	85	75	16	61	6	131	0	0	4	868
Mike LaCoss	14	8	.636	3.50	35	32	0	6	1	0	205.7	202	92	80	13	79	8	73	2	3	3	868
Doug Bair	11	7	.611	4.29	65	0	42	0	0	16	94.3	93	47	45	7	51	12	86	3	0	3	430
Fred Norman	11	13	.458	3.64	34	31	0	5	0	0	195.3	193	86	79	14	57	4	95	0	1	2	817
Tom Hume	10	9	.526	2.76	57	12	33	2	0	17	163.0	162	54	50	12	33	9	80	0	0	2	669
Bill Bonham	9	7	.563	3.79	29	29	0	2	0	0	175.7	173	80	74	14	60	3	78	8	3	6	741
Frank Pastore	6	7	.462	4.25	30	9	10	2	1	4	95.3	102	47	45	8	23	5	63	1	0	2	407
Paul Moskau	5	4	.556	3.89	21	15	1	1	0	0	106.3	107	53	46	9	51	3	58	0	0	6	470
Mario Soto	3	2	.600	5.30	25	0	7	0	0	0	37.3	33	25	22	2	30	2	32	1	0	0	169
Dave Tomlin	2	2	.500	2.62	53	0	17	0	0	1	58.3	59	29	17	3	18	5	30	1	0	2	244
Pedro Borbon	2	2	.500	3.43	30	0	18	0	0	2	44.7	48	17	17	2	8	4	23	0	0	0	188
Doug Capilla	1	0	1.000	8.53	5	0	0	0	0	0	6.3	7	6	6	1	5	0	0	1	0	0	32
Charlie Leibrandt	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	2	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	16
Manny Sarmiento	0	4	.000	4.66	23	1	5	0	0	0	38.7	47	21	20	2	7	2	23	1	0	0	164
Totals	90	71	.559	3.60	442	161	134	27	7	40	1440.3	1415	644	576	103	485	63	773	18	7	30	6083

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
Ray Knight	150	604	551	64	175	37	4	10	79	4	4	38	57	.318	.360	.454	.814	250	20	3	4	8	4
Dave Concepcion	149	666	590	91	166	25	3	16	84	19	7	64	73	.281	.348	.415	.764	245	18	0	6	6	5
George Foster	121	505	440	68	133	18	3	30	98	0	2	59	105	.302	.386	.561	.948	247	11	3	0	3	7
Dan Driessen	150	589	515	72	129	24	3	18	75	11	5	62	77	.250	.330	.414	.744	213	6	3	2	7	11
Johnny Bench	130	538	464	73	128	19	0	22	80	4	2	67	73	.276	.364	.459	.824	213	11	0	3	4	8
Dave Collins	122	429	396	59	126	16	4	3	35	16	9	27	48	.318	.364	.402	.765	159	6	2	3	1	2
Ken Griffey	95	420	380	62	120	27	4	8	32	12	5	36	39	.316	.374	.471	.845	179	7	1	0	3	3
Joe Morgan	127	538	436	70	109	26	1	9	32	28	6	93	45	.250	.379	.376	.756	164	8	1	3	5	11
Cesar Geronimo	123	400	356	38	85	17	4	4	38	1	1	37	56	.239	.312	.343	.655	122	8	2	3	2	11
Junior Kennedy	83	250	220	29	60	7	0	1	17	4	3	28	31	.273	.355	.318	.673	70	4	0	2	0	0
Hector Cruz	74	215	182	24	44	10	2	4	27	0	1	31	39	.242	.350	.385	.735	70	8	0	1	1	3
Vic Correll	48	150	133	14	31	12	0	1	15	0	0	14	26	.233	.309	.346	.655	46	3	1	1	1	2
Rick Auerbach	62	116	100	17	21	8	1	1	12	0	1	14	19	.210	.304	.340	.644	34	1	0	1	1	1
Paul Blair	75	155	140	7	21	4	1	2	15	0	0	11	27	.150	.209	.236	.445	33	4	0	2	2	3
Harry Spilman	43	65	56	7	12	3	0	0	5	0	0	7	5	.214	.323	.268	.591	15	1	2	0	0	2
Champ Summers	27	74	60	10	12	2	1	1	11	0	1	13	15	.200	.351	.317	.668	19	1	1	0	0	0
Tom Seaver	33	81	76	3	12	3	0	2	8	0	0	1	29	.158	.169	.276	.445	21	2	0	4	0	0
Fred Norman	34	71	59	2	9	0	0	0	6	0	0	6	22	.153	.231	.153	.383	9	3	0	6	0	0
Mike LaCoss	35	78	70	3	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	25	.129	.164	.143	.307	10	2	0	5	0	0
Tom Hume	57	48	46	1	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	17	.174	.191	.196	.387	9	0	0	1	0	0
Bill Bonham	29	63	57	3	8	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	18	.140	.140	.175	.316	10	1	0	6	0	0
Arturo DeFreites	23	35	34	2	7	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	16	.206	.200	.265	.465	9	1	0	0	1	0
Mario Soto	25	7	7	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.571	.571	.571	1.143	4	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Pastore	30	27	25	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.160	.160	.160	.320	4	1	0	2	0	0
Ken Henderson	10	13	13	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.231	.231	.308	.538	4	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Moskau	21	45	37	3	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	13	.081	.103	.108	.211	4	1	0	6	1	0
Pedro Borbon	30	6	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Capilla	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Tomlin	53	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sam Mejias	7	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Rafael Santo Domingo	7	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Oester	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Bair	65	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manny Sarmiento	23	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2075	6218	5477	731	1445	266	31	132	686	99	47	614	902	.264	.338	.396	.734	2169	128	19	62	46	73

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Dan Driessen	1B	143	138	1221.0	1289	79	9	112	.993	1.084	9.566	0	0	0
Harry Spilman	1B	12	5	64.3	62	2	0	3	1.000	8.953	5.333	0	0	0
Dave Collins	1B	10	5	55.3	64	1	0	6	1.000	1.572	6.500	0	0	0
Champ Summers	1B	6	6	48.3	41	5	1	4	.979	8.566	7.667	0	0	0
Arturo DeFreites	1B	6	5	37.3	37	0	1	5	.974	8.920	6.167	0	0	0
Johnny Bench	1B	2	2	14.0	13	1	0	1	1.000	9.000	7.000	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	2B	121	120	1018.3	259	329	12	74	.980	5.197	4.860	0	0	0
Junior Kennedy	2B	59	41	414.0	95	144	5	28	.980	5.196	4.051	0	0	0
Rick Auerbach	2B	3	0	8.0	2	0	1	0	.667	2.250	.667	0	0	0
Ray Knight	3B	149	149	1294.3	120	262	15	26	.962	2.656	2.564	0	0	0
Rick Auerbach	3B	18	9	106.0	2	26	2	2	.933	2.377	1.556	0	0	0
Harry Spilman	3B	4	3	30.0	2	9	0	0	1.000	3.300	2.750	0	0	0
Junior Kennedy	3B	4	0	10.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500	0	0	0
Johnny Bench	C	126	123	1083.3	619	68	10	11	.986	5.707	5.452	5	70	45	39.1
Vic Correll	C	47	38	357.0	221	19	2	1	.992	6.050	5.106	4	40	10	20.0
George Foster	OF	116	116	999.0	214	7	4	1	.982	1.991	1.905	0	0	0
Cesar Geronimo	OF	118	96	893.3	291	11	2	2	.993	3.043	2.559	0	0	0
Ken Griffey	OF	93	94	799.7	175	8	3	1	.984	2.060	1.968	0	0	0
Dave Collins	OF	91	79	685.3	159	2	4	2	.976	2.114	1.769	0	0	0
Hector Cruz	OF	69	49	471.7	119	8	2	4	.984	2.423	1.841	0	0	0
Paul Blair	OF	67	37	366.3	117	3	1	0	.992	2.948	1.791	0	0	0
Champ Summers	OF	13	11	88.0	15	1	1	0	.941	1.636	1.231	0	0	0
Ken Henderson	OF	2	1	8.7	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.077	1.000	0	0	0
Sam Mejias	OF	5	0	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.200	0	0	0
Arturo DeFreites	OF	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Tom Seaver	P	32	32	215.0	22	26	2	2	.960	2.009	1.500	0	0	0
Mike LaCoss	P	35	32	205.7	15	34	2	4	.961	2.144	1.400	0	0	0
Fred Norman	P	34	31	195.3	4	26	3	1	.909	1.382	.882	0	0	0
Bill Bonham	P	29	29	175.7	9	31	4	0	.909	2.049	1.379	0	0	0
Tom Hume	P	57	12	163.0	6	27	2	1	.943	1.822	.579	0	0	0
Paul Moskau	P	21	15	106.3	3	19	2	3	.917	1.862	1.048	0	0	0
Frank Pastore	P	30	9	95.3	5	13	0	2	1.000	1.699	.600	0	0	0
Doug Bair	P	65	0	94.3	5	9	1	1	.933	1.336	.215	0	0	0
Dave Tomlin	P	53	0	58.3	4	10	3	1	.824	2.160	.264	0	0	0
Pedro Borbon	P	30	0	44.7	3	7	1	1	.909	2.015	.333	0	0	0
Manny Sarmiento	P	23	1	38.7	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.164	.217	0	0	0
Mario Soto	P	25	0	37.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	.723	.120	0	0	0
Doug Capilla	P	5	0	6.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.842	.400	0	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	P	3	0	4.3	1	0	0	1	1.000	2.077	.333	0	0	0
Dave Concepcion	SS	148	148	1297.3	284	495	27	102	.967	5.404	5.264	0	0	0
Rick Auerbach	SS	16	8	93.0	27	28	2	5	.965	5.323	3.438	0	0	0
Junior Kennedy	SS	5	5	45.0	10	16	0	2	1.000	5.200	5.200	0	0	0
Ron Oester	SS	2	0	5.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.500	0	0	0
Totals		1898	1449	12963.0	4321	1738	124	409	.980	4.207	3.192	9	110	55	33.3

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	BK	BF
Dave Tomlin	NLCS	0		0.00	3	0	1	3.0	3	1	0	0	2	2	3	0	14
Charlie Leibrandt	NLCS	0		0.00	1	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Mario Soto	NLCS	0		0.00	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	6
Tom Seaver	NLCS	0		2.25	1	1	0	8.0	5	2	2	1	2	0	5	0	30
Frank Pastore	NLCS	0		2.57	1	1	0	7.0	7	2	2	0	3	1	1	0	28
Fred Norman	NLCS	0		18.00	1	0	0	2.0	4	4	4	2	1	0	1	0	11
Tom Hume	NLCS	1	.000	6.75	3	0	1	4.0	6	3	3	1	0	0	2	0	19
Doug Bair	NLCS	1	.000	9.00	1	0	1	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	6
Mike LaCoss	NLCS	1	.000	10.80	1	1	0	1.7	1	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	11
Totals		3	.000	4.34	13	3	3	29.0	28	15	14	4	13	4	13	1	126

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	SF	IBB
Dave Concepcion	NLCS	3	14	14	1	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	.429	.429	.500	.929	7	1	0	0	0
Dave Collins	NLCS	3	14	14	0	5	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	.357	.357	.429	.786	6	0	0	0	0
Ray Knight	NLCS	3	14	14	0	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.286	.286	.357	.643	5	1	0	0	0
Johnny Bench	NLCS	3	14	12	1	3	0	1	1	1	0	1	2	2	.250	.357	.667	1.024	8	0	0	0	0
George Foster	NLCS	3	14	10	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	3	.200	.429	.500	.929	5	0	0	0	0
Hector Cruz	NLCS	2	5	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.400	.600	2	0	0	0	0
Cesar Geronimo	NLCS	2	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	1	0	0
Dan Driessen	NLCS	3	13	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.083	.154	.083	.237	1	0	0	0	1
Rick Auerbach	NLCS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Hume	NLCS	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	NLCS	3	14	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	.000	.214	.000	.214	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Norman	NLCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Seaver	NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Harry Spilman	NLCS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Bair	NLCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Mike LaCoss	NLCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	NLCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Frank Pastore	NLCS	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0		.500			0	0	0	1	0
Mario Soto	NLCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Dave Tomlin	NLCS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals		42	120	107	5	23	4	1	2	5	4	2	11	26	.215	.286	.327	.613	35	2	1	1	1

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Dan Driessen	NLCS	1B	3	3	29.0	33	0	0	2	1.000	1.241	11.000
Joe Morgan	NLCS	2B	3	3	29.0	11	12	0	2	1.000	7.138	7.667
Ray Knight	NLCS	3B	3	3	29.0	0	5	0	0	1.000	1.552	1.667
Johnny Bench	NLCS	C	3	3	29.0	17	2	0	0	1.000	5.897	6.333
Cesar Geronimo	NLCS	CF	2	2	18.0	8	0	1	0	.889	4.000	4.000
Hector Cruz	NLCS	CF	1	1	11.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.636	2.000
George Foster	NLCS	LF	3	3	29.0	6	2	0	0	1.000	2.483	2.667
Tom Seaver	NLCS	P	1	1	8.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Frank Pastore	NLCS	P	1	1	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Tom Hume	NLCS	P	3	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	.667
Dave Tomlin	NLCS	P	3	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.000	.667
Mario Soto	NLCS	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Fred Norman	NLCS	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Mike LaCoss	NLCS	P	1	1	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000
Doug Bair	NLCS	P	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000
Charlie Leibrandt	NLCS	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dave Collins	NLCS	RF	3	3	29.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.862	2.000
Dave Concepcion	NLCS	SS	3	3	29.0	3	13	0	2	1.000	4.966	5.333
Totals			37	27	261.0	87	39	1	6	.992	4.345	3.405

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