Bio
- Debut
- 1944
Bio
- Debut
- 1944
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 322
- W
- 88
- L
- 68
- ERA
- 3.79
- IP
- 1484.0
- K
- 829
- BB
- 663
- WHIP
- 1.37
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | LAD | 21 | 0 | 2 | 7.05 | 44.2 | 16 | 32 | 1.75 |
| 1945 | LAD | 16 | 5 | 6 | 3.04 | 109.2 | 69 | 79 | 1.39 |
| 1946 | LAD | 24 | 3 | 1 | 3.88 | 67.1 | 42 | 41 | 1.53 |
| 1947 | LAD | 43 | 21 | 12 | 2.67 | 280.0 | 148 | 98 | 1.25 |
| 1948 | LAD | 36 | 14 | 9 | 3.51 | 215.2 | 122 | 80 | 1.25 |
| 1949 | LAD | 34 | 13 | 5 | 4.39 | 186.2 | 109 | 91 | 1.46 |
| 1950 | LAD | 43 | 7 | 9 | 4.69 | 142.0 | 100 | 55 | 1.46 |
| 1951 | LAD | 42 | 13 | 12 | 3.26 | 204.0 | 118 | 85 | 1.30 |
| 1952 | LAD | 16 | 4 | 2 | 3.84 | 61.0 | 26 | 21 | 1.20 |
| 1953 |  LAD/DET | 24 | 4 | 7 | 4.70 | 113.0 | 55 | 36 | 1.32 |
| 1954 |  DET/NYY | 22 | 4 | 3 | 5.12 | 58.0 | 22 | 43 | 1.98 |
| 1956 | LAD | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.0 | 2 | 2 | 1.50 |
Career Postseason
- GP
- 4
- W
- 1
- L
- 2
- ERA
- 6.75
- IP
- 16.0
- K
- 14
- BB
- 9
- WHIP
- 1.56
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 71
- SHO
- 12
- K/9
- 5.0
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | LAD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945 | LAD | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946 | LAD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947 | LAD | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | LAD | 0 | 11 | 1 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949 | LAD | 0 | 9 | 2 | 5.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950 | LAD | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951 | LAD | 0 | 13 | 3 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952 | LAD | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | LAD/DET | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | DET/NYY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956 | LAD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Ralph Branca's career stats?
Ralph Branca played 12 seasons for the Dodgers. He had 88 wins and 829 strikeouts with a 3.79 ERA over 1,484.0 innings. His best season was 1947: 21 wins, a 2.67 ERA and 148 strikeouts.
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