Bio
- Debut
- 1953
Bio
- Debut
- 1953
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 450
- W
- 49
- L
- 54
- ERA
- 3.69
- IP
- 755.2
- K
- 519
- BB
- 327
- WHIP
- 1.36
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | CHC | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14.40 | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 2.20 |
| 1957 |  LAD/CHC | 40 | 6 | 7 | 3.54 | 145.0 | 103 | 55 | 1.34 |
| 1958 | CHC | 69 | 9 | 8 | 2.88 | 97.0 | 84 | 39 | 1.18 |
| 1959 | CHC | 65 | 10 | 8 | 3.32 | 97.2 | 82 | 46 | 1.26 |
| 1960 | CHC | 60 | 8 | 9 | 3.40 | 127.0 | 85 | 55 | 1.29 |
| 1961 | CHC | 58 | 6 | 7 | 5.59 | 93.1 | 59 | 45 | 1.64 |
| 1962 | CHC | 57 | 4 | 8 | 2.44 | 66.1 | 37 | 32 | 1.34 |
| 1963 | CHC | 51 | 4 | 1 | 2.83 | 70.0 | 41 | 21 | 1.11 |
| 1964 | CHC | 48 | 2 | 5 | 5.30 | 54.1 | 26 | 34 | 1.88 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 2
- SHO
- 0
- K/9
- 6.2
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | LAD/CHC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1963 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Don Elston's career stats?
Don Elston played 9 seasons for the Cubs. He had 49 wins and 519 strikeouts with a 3.69 ERA over 755.2 innings. His best season was 1959: 10 wins, a 3.32 ERA and 82 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
9 seasons, 1953 to 1964
All-time career rank
- 289th in saves (63)
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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