1968 Cleveland Indians season

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1968  Cleveland Indians
League American League
Ballpark Cleveland Municipal Stadium
City Cleveland, Ohio
Owners Vernon Stouffer
General managers Gabe Paul
Managers Alvin Dark
Television WJW-TV
Radio WERE (1300)
  1967 Seasons 1969  

The 1968 Cleveland Indians season was their 68th season of baseball in the American League. It saw their pitching staff lead the major leagues with the most strikeouts (1,157) while allowing the fewest hits (1,087). [1] Despite this, they finished 3rd in the American League, their highest finish in nine years. They would not finish higher than 4th again until 1994.

Contents

Off season

Regular season

Transactions

Season standings

American League
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
Detroit Tigers 10359.63656254734
Baltimore Orioles 9171.5621247334438
Cleveland Indians 8675.53416½43374338
Boston Red Sox 8676.5311746354041
New York Yankees 8379.5122039424437
Oakland Athletics 8280.5062144383842
Minnesota Twins 7983.4882441403843
California Angels 6795.4143632493546
Chicago White Sox 6795.4143636453150
Washington Senators 6596.40437½34473149

Record vs. opponents


Sources:
TeamBALBOSCALCWSCLEDETMINNYYOAKWSH
Baltimore 9–910–811–77–118–1010–813–59–914–4
Boston 9–99–914–410–86–129–910–88–1011–7
California 8–109–98–107–115–137–116–125–1312–6
Chicago 7–114–1410–85–135–1310–86–1210–810–8
Cleveland 11–78–1011–713–56–1214–410–8–16–127–10
Detroit 10–812–613–513–512–610–810–8–113–5–110–8
Minnesota 8–109–911–78–104–148–1012–68–1011–7
New York 5–138–1012–612–68–10–18–10–16–1210–814–4
Oakland 9–910–813–58–1012–65–13–110–88–107–11
Washington 4–147–116–128–1010–78–107–114–1411–7

Opening Day Lineup

Opening Day Starters
#NamePosition
21 Tommy Harper LF
13 Vern Fuller 2B
1 José Cardenal CF
9 Duke Sims C
11 Tony Horton 1B
25 Vic Davalillo RF
10 Max Alvis 3B
16 Larry Brown SS
42 Sonny Siebert P

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Roster

1968 Cleveland Indians
Roster
PitchersCatchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

Manager

Coaches

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

PosPlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
C Joe Azcue 115357100.280442
1B Tony Horton 133477119.2491459
2B Vern Fuller 9724459.242018
SS Larry Brown 154495116.234635
3B Max Alvis 131452101.223837
LF Lee Maye 10929984.281426
CF José Cardenal 157583150.257744
RF Vic Davalillo 5118043.239213

Other batters

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

PlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
Duke Sims 12236190.2491144
Chico Salmon 10327659.214312
Tommy Harper 13023551.217626
Russ Snyder 6821761.281223
Lou Johnson 6520252.257523
Dave Nelson 8818944.233019
Jimmie Hall 5311122.19818
Billy Harris 389420.21303
Richie Scheinblum 195512.21805
José Vidal 37549.16725
Leon Wagner 38499.18406
Willie Smith 33426.14303
Lou Klimchock 11152.13303
Ken Suarez 17101.10000
Lou Piniella 650.00001
Russ Nagelson 531.33300
Eddie Leon 610.00000
Ray Fosse 100----00

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

PlayerGIPWLERASO
Sam McDowell 38269.015141.81283
Luis Tiant 34258.12191.60264
Sonny Siebert 31206.012102.97146
Steve Hargan 32158.18154.1578

Other pitchers

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

PlayerGIPWLERASO
Stan Williams 44194.113112.50147
Mike Paul 3691.2583.9387
Horacio Piña 1231.1111.7224
Steve Bailey 25.0013.601

Relief pitchers

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

PlayerGWLSVERASO
Vicente Romo 4053121.6254
Eddie Fisher 544242.8542
Hal Kurtz 281015.2116
Billy Rohr 171016.875
Rob Gardner 50006.756
Darrell Sutherland 30008.102
Tommy Gramly 30102.701
Mike Hedlund 300010.800
Willie Smith 20000.001

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system

LevelTeamLeagueManager
AAA Portland Beavers Pacific Coast League Red Davis
AA Waterbury Indians Eastern League Phil Cavarretta and Ray Mueller
A Reno Silver Sox California League Clay Bryant
A Rock Hill Indians Western Carolinas League Pinky May
Rookie GCL Indians Gulf Coast League Ken Aspromonte

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References

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