Dodgers Player and Team Statistics
The Individual and Team Records for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers
Aug 16, 2007
A Brief History of the Dodgers
They began as the Brooklyn Atlantics in a league that failed in 1891. Lucky for them, however, the Brooklyn baseball team jumped to the stable National League in 1890. Lo and behold, in the ensuing decades, the Dodgers would move from struggling wanna-be to perrenial pennant winner. In fact, between 1947 and 1966, the Men in Blue won 10 National League pennants and four World Series crowns.
Then, after a brief rebuilding period, the Dodgers dominated the National League in the 1970s. They won the National League four times from 1974 through 1981 and took home the World title in that strike-shortened season.
In the 1988 World Series, largely fueled by Kirk Gibson's walk-off homer in Game 1, the Dodgers hammered the heavily-favored Oakland A's, 4 Games to 1.
The franchise that began as the Brooklyn Atlantics and evolved into the Los Angeles Dodgers has won 21 National League pennants, most recently in 1988. The Dodgers have won also six World Series titles, in the following seasons: 1955, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, and 1988.
What follows is a summary of the hitting and pitching records, and major award winners, for the Dodgers.
Hitting Records
Single Season Records
Batting Average: Babe Herman -.390 (1930)
Base Hits: Babe Herman - 241 (1930)
Doubles: Johnny Frederick - 52 (1929)
Triples: Hy Myers - 22 (1920)
Home Runs: Shawn Green - 49 (2001)
Runs Batted In: Tommy Davis - 153 (1962)
Runs Scored: Babe Herman - 143 (1930)
Stolen Bases: Maury Wills - 104 (1962)
Career Hitting Records
Batting Average: Willie Keeler - .354
Base Hits: Zack Wheat - 2,804
Doubles: Zack Wheat - 464
Triples: Zack Wheat - 171
Home Runs: Duke Snider - 389
Runs Batted In: Duke Snyder - 1,293
Runs Scored: Pee Wee Reese - 1,338
Stolen Bases: Maury Wills - 490
Pitching Records
Single Season Records
*Modern Wins: (28) by Dazzy Vance in 1924. The all-time record is 40, set by Bob Caruthers in 1889.
Strikeouts - 382 (1965) by Sandy Koufax
Season ERA: 1.58 (1916) by Rube Marquard
WHIP: 0.855 (1965) by Sandy Koufax
Career Records
Wins: Don Sutton - 233
Strikeouts: Don Sutton - 2,696
ERA: Jeff Pfeffer - 2.31
WHIP: Kevin Brown - 1.100
* The Modern Era begun when both current major leagues existed, which is 1901.
Dodgers' Most Valuable Player Award Winners
- Jake Daubert (1913)
- Dazzy Vance (1924)
- Dolph Camilli (1941)
- Jackie Robinson (1949)
- Roy Campanella (1951, 1953, 1955)
- Don Newcombe (1956)
- Maury Wills (1962)
- Sandy Koufax (1963)
- Steve Garvey (1974)
- Kirk Gibson (1988)
Dodgers' Cy Young Award Winners
- Don Newcombe (1956)
- Don Drysdale (1962)
- Sandy Koufax (1963, 1965, 1966)
- Mike Marshall (1974)
- Fernando Valenzuela (1981)
- Orel Hershiser (1988)
- Eric Gagne (2003)
Dodgers' Rookie of the Year Award Winners
- Jackie Robinson (1947)
- Don Newcombe (1949)
- Joe Black (1952)
- Frank Howard (1960)
- Jim LeFebrve (1965)
- Ted Sizemore (1969)
- Rick Sutcliffe (1979)
- Steve Howe (1980)
- Fernando Valenzuela (1981)
- Steve Sax (1982)
- Eric Karros (1992)
- Mike Piazza (1993)
- Raul Mondesi (1994)
- Hideo Nomo (1995)
- Todd Hollandsworth (1996)
