1918 Red Sox
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General Info
W-L Record: 75-51
Pythagorean W-L: 76-50
Scored 474 runs, Allowed 380 runs
1st in the American League
World Series Champions
Manager: Ed Barrow
Notes
The 1918 Red Sox ended an abbreviated regular season just after Labor Day with a 75-51 record, finishing 2.5 games ahead of Cleveland and 4 games ahead of Washington.
Managed by Ed Barrow, they went on to defeat the Chicago Cubs in six games to win the World Series. It was the Red Sox's fifth championship (an unprecedented number at that time), their third in four years, and fourth in seven years (1912, 1915, 1916, 1918). As everyone knows, the 1918 club was most famous for being the last Red Sox World Series champions until 2004.
The team scored 3.76 runs per game, 3rd best in the eight-team American League (Cleveland and the Yankees both scored 3.91). The Red Sox of this era relied heavily on pitching and fielding. Boston's pitching staff's 2.31 ERA was second only to the Washington Senators (2.14). In 1918, the team's batting average and on-base percentage were below the league average, and only Babe Ruth's slugging lifted their team slugging percentage a little bit above average.
1918 was also the first year that Ruth was not a full-time pitcher. Ruth started games at first base, left field and center field.
Ruth led the AL with a .555 slugging percentage and was second to Ty Cobb with a .411 on-base percentage. Ruth tied Tilly Walker of the Philadelphia Athletics for the league lead with 11 home runs. Ruth was second in doubles and third in RBI. On the mound, Ruth has the second-lowest WHIP in the league (finishing behind Walter Johnson) and was 4th in fewest hits allowed per 9 innings.
Roster
| REGULARS | BA | HR | RBI | Salary | ||
| 1B | Stuffy McInnis | .272 | 0 | 56 | $ | |
| 2B | Dave Shean | .264 | 0 | 34 | $ | |
| SS | Everett Scott | .221 | 0 | 43 | $ | |
| 3B | Fred Thomas | .257 | 1 | 11 | $ | |
| LF | Babe Ruth | .300 | 11 | 66 | $ | |
| CF | Amos Strunk | .257 | 0 | 35 | $ | |
| RF | Harry Hooper | .289 | 1 | 44 | $ | |
| C | Wally Schang | .244 | 0 | 20 | $ | |
| Other position players: Sam Agnew (.166, 0, 6), Dick Hoblitzel (.159, 0, 4), Frank Truesdale (.278, 0, 2), Eusebio Gonzalez (.400, 0, 0), George Whiteman (.266, 1, 28), George Cochran (.117, 0, 3), Wally Mayer (.224, 0, 5), Jack Stansbury (.128, 0, 2), Jack Coffey (.159, 1, 2), Walter Barbare (.172, 0, 2), Hack Miller (.276, 0, 4), Heinie Wagner (.125, 0, 0), Red Bluhm (.000, 0, 0)
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| STARTERS | W-L | ERA | SV | |||
| R | Carl Mays | 21-13 | 2.21 | 0 | $ | |
| R | Joe Bush | 15-15 | 2.11 | 2 | $ | |
| L | Babe Ruth | 13-7 | 2.22 | 0 | $ | |
| R | Sam Jones | 16-5 | 2.25 | 0 | $ | |
| L | Dutch Leonard | 8-6 | 2.72 | 0 | $ | |
| Other pitchers: Lore Bader (1-3, 3.33), Walt Kinney (0-0, 1.80), Jean Dubuc (0-1, 4.22), Vince Molyneaux (1-0, 3.38), Dick McCabe (0-1, 2.79), Bill Pertica (0-0, 3.00), Weldon Wyckoff (0-0, 0.00) | ||||||
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