1979 Milwaukee Brewers season

The 1979 Milwaukee Brewers season involved the Brewers' finishing second in the American League East with a record of 95 wins and 66 losses. They scored at least one run in each of their first 160 games of the season, and were shutout (losing 5-0 to Minnesota) only in the 161-st game which was to be their last game of the season.

1979 Milwaukee Brewers
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Bud Selig
General manager(s)Harry Dalton
Manager(s)George Bamberger
Local televisionWTMJ-TV
(Merle Harmon, Bob Uecker, Mike Hegan)
Local radio620 WTMJ
(Merle Harmon, Bob Uecker)
StatsESPN.com
BB-reference
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Offseason

Regular season

Gorman Thomas enjoyed his best season in the majors, compiling career high numbers in home runs (45, tops in the AL), RBI (123), runs scored (97), hits (136), doubles (29), walks (98), on-base percentage (.356), total bases (300), slugging average (.539) and OPS (.895).

Season standings
AL East W L Pct. GB Home Road
Baltimore Orioles 10257 0.642 — 55–24 47–33
Milwaukee Brewers 9566 0.590 8 52–29 43–37
Boston Red Sox 9169 0.569 11½ 51–29 40–40
New York Yankees 8971 0.556 13½ 51–30 38–41
Detroit Tigers 8576 0.528 18 46–34 39–42
Cleveland Indians 8180 0.503 22 47–34 34–46
Toronto Blue Jays 53109 0.327 50½ 32–49 21–60

Record vs. opponents
1979 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —8–59–38–38–57–66–68–58–45–68–410–26–611–2
Boston 5–8—5–75–66–78–58–48–49–35–89–38–46–69–4
California 3–97–5—9–46–64–87–67–59–47–510–37–65–87–5
Chicago 3–86–54–9—6–63–95–85–75–84–89–45–811–27–5
Cleveland 5–87–66–66–6—6–66–64–98–45–88–47–55–78–5
Detroit 6–75–88–49–36–6—5–76–74–87–67–57–56–69–4
Kansas City 6–64–86–78–56–67–5—5–77–65–79–47–66–79–3
Milwaukee 5–84–85–77–59–47–67–5—8–49–46–69–39–310–3
Minnesota 4–83–94–98–54–88–46–74–8—7–59–410–34–911–1
New York 6–58–55–78–48–56–77–54–95–7—9–36–68–49–4
Oakland 4–83–93–104–94–85–74–96–64–93–9—8–52–114–8
Seattle 2–104–86–78–55–75–76–73–93–106–65–8—6–78–4
Texas 6–66–68–52–117–56–67–63–99–44–811–27–6—7–5
Toronto 2–114–95–75–75–84–93–93–101–114–98–44–85–7—

Opening Day starters

Notable transactions

Roster
1979 Milwaukee Brewers
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CCharlie Moore111337101.300538
1BCecil Cooper150590182.30824106
2BPaul Molitor140584188.322962
SSRobin Yount149577154.267851
3BSal Bando130476117.246943
LFBen Oglivie139514145.2822981
CFGorman Thomas156557136.24445123
RFSixto Lezcano138473152.32128101
DHDick Davis9133589.2661241

Other batters

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
Don Money9235083.237638
Jim Gantner7020859.284222
Buck Martinez6919653.270426
Jim Wohlford6317546.263117
Larry Hisle269627.281314
Ray Fosse195212.23102
Lenn Sakata4147.50001
Tim Nordbrook221.50000

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Lary Sorensen34235.115143.9863
Mike Caldwell302351663.2989
Jim Slaton322131593.6380
Bill Travers30187.11483.8974
Moose Haas29184.211114.7895

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Paul Mitchell1875335.7632

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Jerry Augustine439653.4741
Bill Castro393162.0310
Bob McClure365253.8837
Bob Galasso313134.3828
Reggie Cleveland291546.7122
Dan Boitano50001.505
Andy Replogle30005.632
Lance Rautzhan30009.002
Sal Bando10006.000
Jim Gantner10000.000
Buck Martinez10009.000

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Vancouver Canadians Pacific Coast League John Felske
AA Holyoke Millers Eastern League George Farson
A Stockton Ports California League Lee Sigman
A Burlington Bees Midwest League Duane Espy
Rookie Butte Copper Kings Pioneer League Ken Richardson and Tom Gamboa

Notes
  1. Steve Lake page on Baseball Reference
  2. Eduardo Rodríguez page on Baseball Reference
  3. Vic Harris at Baseball Reference
  4. Dan Boitano at Baseball Reference
  5. Randy Stein at Baseball Reference
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