Christy Mathewson stats
Pitcher
Bio
- Debut
- 1900
Bio
- Debut
- 1900
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 635
- W
- 373
- L
- 188
- ERA
- 2.13
- IP
- 4780.2
- K
- 2,502
- BB
- 844
- WHIP
- 1.06
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | SF | 6 | 0 | 3 | 5.08 | 33.2 | 15 | 20 | 1.69 |
| 1901 | SF | 40 | 20 | 17 | 2.41 | 336.0 | 221 | 97 | 1.15 |
| 1902 | SF | 34 | 14 | 17 | 2.11 | 276.2 | 159 | 73 | 1.13 |
| 1903 | SF | 45 | 30 | 13 | 2.26 | 366.1 | 267 | 100 | 1.15 |
| 1904 | SF | 48 | 33 | 12 | 2.03 | 367.2 | 212 | 78 | 1.04 |
| 1905 | SF | 43 | 31 | 9 | 1.28 | 338.2 | 206 | 64 | 0.93 |
| 1906 | SF | 38 | 22 | 12 | 2.97 | 266.2 | 128 | 77 | 1.27 |
| 1907 | SF | 41 | 24 | 12 | 2.00 | 315.0 | 178 | 53 | 0.96 |
| 1908 | SF | 56 | 37 | 11 | 1.43 | 390.2 | 259 | 42 | 0.84 |
| 1909 | SF | 37 | 25 | 6 | 1.14 | 275.1 | 149 | 36 | 0.83 |
| 1910 | SF | 38 | 27 | 9 | 1.89 | 318.1 | 184 | 60 | 1.11 |
| 1911 | SF | 45 | 26 | 13 | 1.99 | 307.0 | 141 | 38 | 1.11 |
| 1912 | SF | 43 | 23 | 12 | 2.12 | 310.0 | 134 | 34 | 1.11 |
| 1913 | SF | 40 | 25 | 11 | 2.06 | 306.0 | 93 | 21 | 1.02 |
| 1914 | SF | 41 | 24 | 13 | 3.00 | 312.0 | 80 | 23 | 1.08 |
| 1915 | SF | 27 | 8 | 14 | 3.58 | 186.0 | 57 | 20 | 1.18 |
| 1916 |  SF/CIN | 13 | 4 | 4 | 3.01 | 74.2 | 19 | 8 | 1.10 |
Career Postseason
- GP
- 11
- W
- 5
- L
- 5
- ERA
- 1.07
- IP
- 101.0
- K
- 48
- BB
- 10
- WHIP
- 0.85
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 434
- SHO
- 79
- K/9
- 4.7
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | SF | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901 | SF | 0 | 36 | 5 | 5.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902 | SF | 0 | 29 | 8 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1903 | SF | 0 | 37 | 3 | 6.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904 | SF | 0 | 33 | 4 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905 | SF | 0 | 32 | 8 | 5.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906 | SF | 0 | 22 | 6 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907 | SF | 0 | 31 | 8 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908 | SF | 0 | 34 | 11 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909 | SF | 0 | 26 | 8 | 4.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910 | SF | 0 | 27 | 2 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911 | SF | 0 | 29 | 5 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912 | SF | 0 | 27 | 0 | 3.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913 | SF | 0 | 25 | 4 | 2.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914 | SF | 0 | 29 | 5 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915 | SF | 0 | 11 | 1 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916 | SF/CIN | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Christy Mathewson's career stats?
Christy Mathewson played 17 seasons for the Giants. He had 373 wins and 2,502 strikeouts with a 2.13 ERA over 4,780.2 innings. His best season was 1908: 37 wins, a 1.43 ERA and 259 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
17 seasons, 4 postseasons, 1900 to 1916
Christy Mathewson sits top 10 all time in wins (pitching).
Championships
- 1905 World Series with the San Francisco Giants
All-time career rank
- 40th in strikeouts (pitching) (2,502)
- 3rd in wins (pitching) (373)
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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