Bobby Mathews stats
Pitcher
Bio
- Debut
- 1871
Bio
- Debut
- 1871
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 323
- W
- 166
- L
- 136
- ERA
- 3.00
- IP
- 2734.1
- K
- 1,199
- BB
- 336
- WHIP
- 1.22
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | W: Games in which this pitcher was credited with the win. | L: Games in which this pitcher was charged with the loss. | ERA: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched — lower is better. Under 3.00 is excellent. | IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | WHIP: Walks and hits allowed per inning pitched — lower is better. Around 1.00 is elite. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876 | — | 56 | 21 | 34 | 2.86 | 516.0 | 37 | 24 | 1.39 |
| 1877 | — | 15 | 3 | 12 | 4.04 | 129.1 | 9 | 17 | 1.74 |
| 1879 | — | 27 | 12 | 6 | 2.29 | 189.0 | 90 | 26 | 1.16 |
| 1881 | — | 19 | 5 | 8 | 3.02 | 125.1 | 33 | 32 | 1.40 |
| 1882 |  ATL | 34 | 19 | 15 | 2.87 | 285.0 | 153 | 22 | 1.05 |
| 1883 | — | 44 | 30 | 13 | 2.46 | 381.0 | 203 | 31 | 1.12 |
| 1884 | — | 49 | 30 | 18 | 3.32 | 430.2 | 286 | 49 | 1.04 |
| 1885 | — | 48 | 30 | 17 | 2.43 | 422.1 | 286 | 57 | 1.07 |
| 1886 | — | 24 | 13 | 9 | 3.96 | 197.2 | 93 | 53 | 1.41 |
| 1887 | — | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6.67 | 58.0 | 9 | 25 | 1.72 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 289
- SHO
- 10
- K/9
- 3.9
- GB
- 0
- FB
- 0
- G/F
- 0.00
- WP
- 0
| QS: Quality starts: six innings or more with no more than three earned runs. | CG: Complete games, pitched from the first out to the last. | SHO: Shutouts — complete games with no run allowed. | K/9: Strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. | GB: Ground balls hit against this pitcher. | FB: Fly balls hit against this pitcher. | G/F: Ground balls for every fly ball hit against this pitcher. | WP: Wild pitches — throws the catcher had no chance to stop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876 | — | 0 | 55 | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1877 | — | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1879 | — | 0 | 15 | 1 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1881 | — | 0 | 11 | 1 | 2.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1882 | ATL | 0 | 31 | 0 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1883 | — | 0 | 41 | 1 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1884 | — | 0 | 48 | 3 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1885 | — | 0 | 46 | 2 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 | — | 0 | 22 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1887 | — | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Bobby Mathews's career stats?
Bobby Mathews played 10 seasons for the Braves. He had 166 wins and 1,199 strikeouts with a 3.00 ERA over 2,734.1 innings. His best season was 1883: 30 wins, a 2.46 ERA and 203 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
10 seasons, 1876 to 1887
All-time career rank
- 196th in wins (pitching) (166)
Among the 8,948 MLB players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
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