Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895
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Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895
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THE CHAMPION BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD.
The complete record of the pitching percentages of victories pitched in,
shows that Baltimore's full season's team of pitchers had a general
percentage of victories pitched in of .695 by the eight pitchers who
occupied the box during the season's campaign. This record excelled the
percentage figures of New York's team of five pitchers by 31 points, and
that of Boston's seven pitchers by 66 points, the respective percentage
figures being, .695, .664 and .629. These figures show the relative
strength of the three battery teams, as far as the record of percentage
can show them. A better criterion of pitching skill would be, of course,
at command, were the scoring rules giving the data of runs earned off
the pitching revised properly; but as they were not in 1894, we have to
take the next best data at command, that being the percentage of
victories pitched in. Taking the records of the first three pitchers
named in the Baltimore "battery" team record, as a whole, we do not
hesitate to award to McMahon the position of leading pitcher of the club
for 1894. Brown led McMahon in percentage of victories against the five
Eastern teams, but the former was last on the list against the six
Western teams, McMahon's percentage figures against the Western batsmen
being .812 against Brown's .500. Against the Eastern teams
Brown's figures were .750 to McMahon's .706. But McMahon pitched in 17
games against the Eastern batsmen, to Brown's 4 games only, and that
fact counts to McMahon's advantage. Esper stood second in percentage
figures against the Western batsmen with the percentage of .889 in 9
games to McMahon's .812 in 16 games. Gleason stood third against the
Eastern teams with .625 to McMahon's .706; but against the West, Gleason
was fourth, with the percentage of .769 to McMahon's .812. Hawke did
service against the West with .688 to .556 against the East. Inks and
Mullane stood even at .667 against the West, but Inks led Mullane by
.511 to .500 against the East, Horner only pitched in one game. Here is
a full record of the eight pitchers of the Baltimore team of 1894,
showing what each pitcher did against the Eastern and Western batsmen
separately, in victories and defeats against each club, and in
percentage of victories pitched in against the batsmen of each
section. It is a valuable record, if only in its showing what each
pitcher did in the way of victories, against each club of each division.
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