Bio
- Debut
- 1884
Bio
- Debut
- 1884
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 149
- W
- 57
- L
- 78
- ERA
- 3.87
- IP
- 1231.1
- K
- 532
- BB
- 496
- WHIP
- 1.43
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | — | 11 | 3 | 6 | 4.10 | 79.0 | 20 | 20 | 1.66 |
| 1885 | — | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11.25 | 12.0 | 9 | 10 | 2.42 |
| 1886 | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2.16 | 25.0 | 15 | 8 | 0.96 |
| 1887 | — | 58 | 25 | 30 | 3.79 | 491.1 | 206 | 176 | 1.43 |
| 1888 | — | 38 | 16 | 20 | 3.55 | 314.0 | 171 | 147 | 1.33 |
| 1889 | — | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4.40 | 43.0 | 12 | 25 | 1.81 |
| 1890 |  PIT/PHI | 29 | 9 | 15 | 4.06 | 248.0 | 96 | 102 | 1.41 |
| 1891 | PHI | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4.26 | 19.0 | 3 | 8 | 1.47 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 128
- SHO
- 2
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | — | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1885 | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 | — | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1887 | — | 0 | 54 | 1 | 3.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1888 | — | 0 | 34 | 0 | 4.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1889 | — | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1890 | PIT/PHI | 0 | 24 | 1 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1891 | PHI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Phenomenal Smith's career stats?
Phenomenal Smith played 8 seasons for the Phillies. He had 57 wins and 532 strikeouts with a 3.87 ERA over 1,231.1 innings. His best season was 1887: 25 wins, a 3.79 ERA and 206 strikeouts.
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