Английская Википедия:1945 Washington Senators season

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox baseball team season The 1945 Washington Senators won 87 games, lost 67, and finished in second place in the American League. They were managed by Ossie Bluege and played their home games at Griffith Stadium, where they drew 652,660 fans, fourth-most in the eight-team league. The 1945 Senators represented the 45th edition of the Major League Baseball franchise and were the last of the 20th-century Senators to place higher than fourth in the American League; the team moved to Minneapolis–Saint Paul in 1961 to become the modern Minnesota Twins.

When the regular season ended on September 30, Washington trailed the pennant-winning Detroit Tigers (88–65) by 1Шаблон:Fraction games. But because of World War II travel restrictions and the need to convert Griffith Stadium's playing field to host its autumn football tenants, the NFL Washington Redskins and Georgetown University, the Senators' 1945 schedule had actually ended seven days before, on Sunday, September 23. On that day, the "Griffs" stood one full game behind 86–64 Detroit. As the idle Senators waited, the Tigers had four games to play, two each against the fifth-place Cleveland Indians and third-place St. Louis Browns. After splitting against the Indians, Detroit was rained out for three days in St. Louis. When the Tigers defeated the Browns 6–3 in the first game of the doubleheader on September 30 (on a come-from-behind, grand slam home run by Hank Greenberg), the Senators were mathematically eliminated and Detroit clinched the pennant. The second game of the twin bill was rained out.

Outstanding pitching drove the 1945 Senators' success. Washington led the American League in team earned run average (2.92). Its starting rotation featured four knuckleball artists—Roger Wolff, Dutch Leonard, Johnny Niggeling and Mickey Haefner—who combined for 60 victories. Wolff and Leonard posted sterling 2.12 and 2.13 earned run averages, third and fourth in the league.

Regular season

• August 4, 1945: Amputee and World War II veteran Bert Shepard pitches in an official American League game against the Boston Red Sox. Shepard, a United States Army Air Forces fighter pilot who lost his right leg 11 inches below the knee when his plane was shot down over Germany on May 21, 1944, was fitted with an artificial leg. In spring 1945, the Senators signed the former minor league hurler as a coach and batting practice pitcher and activated him in August. Called into a one-sided contest in the second game of a doubleheader at Griffith Stadium on August 4, Shepard gave up only one run in Шаблон:Frac innings while striking out two Red Sox batters.
• September 7, 1945: Washington first baseman Joe Kuhel homers off the Browns' Bob Muncrief to provide the winning margin in a 3–2 Senator victory at Griffith Stadium. It is the only four-bagger struck all season by the Senators in 78 home games in their spacious ballpark—and it was an inside-the-park job. Opposing teams hit only six home runs themselves in 1945 at Washington's home field.

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Шаблон:Sortname	91	286	76	.266	1	38
1B	Шаблон:Sortname	142	533	152	.285	2	75
2B	Шаблон:Sortname	133	490	145	.296	1	39
SS	Шаблон:Sortname	147	562	133	.237	0	48
3B	Шаблон:Sortname	119	375	79	.211	8	53
OF	Шаблон:Sortname	69	258	86	.333	2	37
OF	Шаблон:Sortname	145	550	153	.278	6	81
OF	Шаблон:Sortname	123	504	148	.294	1	31

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Шаблон:Sortname	80	268	63	.235	1	25
Шаблон:Sortname	45	158	44	.278	1	23
Шаблон:Sortname	51	150	39	.260	2	19
Шаблон:Sortname	60	147	44	.299	1	14
Шаблон:Sortname	56	138	29	.210	1	15
Шаблон:Sortname	54	131	38	.290	0	13
Шаблон:Sortname	31	98	19	.194	0	3
Шаблон:Sortname	18	58	12	.207	0	2
Шаблон:Sortname	15	54	13	.241	0	10
Шаблон:Sortname	20	49	12	.245	0	1
Шаблон:Sortname	18	44	6	.136	0	5
Шаблон:Sortname	6	11	1	.091	0	2

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Шаблон:Sortname	33	250.0	20	10	2.12	108
Шаблон:Sortname	37	238.1	16	14	3.47	83
Шаблон:Sortname	31	216.0	17	7	2.13	96
Шаблон:Sortname	26	176.2	7	12	3.16	90

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Шаблон:Sortname	44	233.1	14	13	3.32	66
Шаблон:Sortname	35	122.2	7	5	2.71	38
Шаблон:Sortname	28	81.1	3	3	4.54	26
Шаблон:Sortname	4	25.0	1	2	1.08	14
Шаблон:Sortname	6	21.1	1	0	3.38	12

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Шаблон:Sortname	15	1	1	0	2.30	14
Шаблон:Sortname	3	0	0	0	0.00	0
Шаблон:Sortname	2	0	0	0	6.00	0
Шаблон:Sortname	1	0	0	0	1.69	2
Шаблон:Sortname	1	0	0	0	189.00	1

References

• 1945 Washington Senators at Baseball-Reference
• 1945 Washington Senators team page at www.baseball-almanac.com