1909 Washington Senators season

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox baseball team season The 1909 Washington Senators, a professional baseball team, won 42 games, lost 110, and finished in eighth place in the American League. They were managed by Joe Cantillon and played home games at National Park. The Senators still hold the Major League record for the most games lost in one month of a season, with 29 losses (and only 5 wins) in July.

Regular season

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The 1909 Washington Senators team.

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	Gabby Street	137	407	86	.211	0	29
1B	Jiggs Donahue	84	283	67	.237	0	28
2B	Jim Delahanty	90	302	67	.222	1	21
SS	George McBride	156	504	118	.234	0	34
3B	Wid Conroy	139	488	119	.244	1	20
OF	Clyde Milan	130	400	80	.200	1	15
OF		103	393	107	.272	1	16
OF	Jack Lelivelt	91	318	93	.292	0	24

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
Bob Unglaub	130	480	127	.265	3	41
Otis Clymer	45	138	27	.196	0	6
Germany Schaefer	37	128	31	.242	1	4
Red Killefer	40	121	21	.174	0	5
Bill Yohe	21	72	15	.208	0	4
Bob Ganley	19	63	16	.254	0	5
Cliff Blankenship	39	60	15	.250	0	9
Jack Slattery	32	56	12	.214	0	6
Doc Gessler	17	54	13	.241	0	8
	26	51	11	.216	0	1
Jerry Freeman	19	48	8	.167	0	3
Speed Kelly	17	42	6	.143	0	1
Jesse Tannehill	16	36	6	.167	0	1
	10	24	4	.167	0	4
Bill Shipke	9	16	2	.125	0	0
Mike Kahoe	4	8	1	.125	0	0
Tom Crooke	3	7	2	.286	0	2
Orth Collins	8	7	0	.000	0	0
Gavvy Cravath	4	6	0	.000	0	1
Frank Hemphill	1	3	0	.000	0	0
Jimmy Sebring	1	0	0	----	0	0

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
Walter Johnson	40	296.1	13	25	2.22	164
Bob Groom	44	260.2	7	26	2.87	131
	36	218.0	5	19	3.59	87
Charlie Smith	23	145.2	3	12	3.27	72
Dixie Walker	4	36.0	3	1	2.50	25
	2	11.0	0	2	4.91	2

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
	22	120.1	4	7	2.69	77
Roy Witherup	12	68.0	1	5	4.24	26
Doc Reisling	10	66.2	2	4	2.43	22
Frank Oberlin	9	41.0	1	4	3.73	13
Nick Altrock	9	38.0	1	3	5.45	9
	6	29.1	1	1	1.23	13
Jesse Tannehill	3	21.0	1	1	3.43	8

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
Joe Ohl	4	0	0	0	2.08	2
Joe Hovlik	3	0	0	0	4.50	1
Burt Keeley	2	0	0	0	11.57	0
Orth Collins	1	0	0	0	0.00	1

See also

• List of worst Major League Baseball season records

External links

• 1909 Washington Senators at Baseball-Reference
• 1909 Washington Senators team page at www.baseball-almanac.com

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