Bio
- Debut
- 1910
Bio
- Debut
- 1910
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 437
- W
- 150
- L
- 144
- ERA
- 3.09
- IP
- 2517.1
- K
- 950
- BB
- 712
- WHIP
- 1.26
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | CIN | 12 | 0 | 1 | 4.74 | 38.0 | 15 | 23 | 1.76 |
| 1911 | CIN | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2.01 | 44.2 | 28 | 23 | 1.50 |
| 1912 | CIN | 50 | 18 | 20 | 3.10 | 302.0 | 162 | 118 | 1.44 |
| 1913 | CIN | 23 | 11 | 7 | 3.49 | 144.1 | 68 | 60 | 1.39 |
| 1914 | CIN | 41 | 16 | 18 | 2.96 | 271.0 | 121 | 95 | 1.17 |
| 1915 |  CIN/SF | 45 | 9 | 18 | 3.19 | 237.0 | 109 | 76 | 1.26 |
| 1916 | SF | 38 | 16 | 8 | 2.87 | 238.2 | 115 | 58 | 1.12 |
| 1917 | SF | 35 | 15 | 9 | 2.72 | 215.0 | 70 | 41 | 1.07 |
| 1918 | SF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1.88 | 24.0 | 9 | 3 | 0.83 |
| 1919 | SF | 35 | 17 | 11 | 2.63 | 209.0 | 53 | 52 | 1.11 |
| 1920 | SF | 33 | 9 | 16 | 3.03 | 193.1 | 52 | 31 | 1.31 |
| 1921 | SF | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2.88 | 72.0 | 11 | 17 | 1.24 |
| 1923 | CIN | 33 | 14 | 10 | 3.66 | 219.0 | 59 | 57 | 1.37 |
| 1924 | CIN | 32 | 7 | 9 | 2.77 | 162.2 | 42 | 24 | 1.17 |
| 1925 | CIN | 33 | 9 | 10 | 4.05 | 146.2 | 36 | 34 | 1.47 |
Career Postseason
- GP
- 2
- W
- 1
- L
- 1
- ERA
- 0.00
- IP
- 14.0
- K
- 8
- BB
- 1
- WHIP
- 0.71
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 145
- SHO
- 24
- K/9
- 3.4
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | CIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911 | CIN | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912 | CIN | 0 | 22 | 2 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913 | CIN | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914 | CIN | 0 | 16 | 5 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915 | CIN/SF | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916 | SF | 0 | 15 | 3 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917 | SF | 0 | 14 | 3 | 2.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1918 | SF | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919 | SF | 0 | 11 | 1 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920 | SF | 0 | 12 | 4 | 2.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921 | SF | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923 | CIN | 0 | 15 | 0 | 2.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1924 | CIN | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1925 | CIN | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Rube Benton's career stats?
Rube Benton played 15 seasons for the Reds and the Giants. He had 150 wins and 950 strikeouts with a 3.09 ERA over 2,517.1 innings. His best season was 1912: 18 wins, a 3.10 ERA and 162 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
15 seasons, 1 postseason, 1910 to 1925
Championships
- 1921 World Series with the San Francisco Giants
All-time career rank
- 254th in wins (pitching) (150)
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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