1920 Boston Braves season

The 1920 Boston Braves season was the 50th season of the franchise.

Regular season

On May 1, the Braves and the Brooklyn Robins played what remains the longest major league baseball game, tied 1 to 1 at the end of nine innings and then going scoreless for 17 more until the 26-inning game was called because of darkness

Notable transaction

August 21, 1920: Frank Gibson was purchased by the Braves from the San Antonio Bears.

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		112	304	86	.283	0	28
1B	Walter Holke	144	551	162	.294	3	64
2B	Charlie Pick	95	383	105	.274	2	28
SS	Rabbit Maranville	134	493	131	.266	1	43
3B	Tony Boeckel	153	582	156	.268	3	62
OF	Ray Powell	147	609	137	.225	6	29
OF	Leslie Mann	115	424	117	.276	3	32
OF	Walton Cruise	91	288	80	.278	1	21

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
Hod Ford	88	257	62	.241	1	30
	81	250	74	.296	1	28
Eddie Eayrs	87	244	80	.328	1	24
Hank Gowdy	80	214	52	.243	0	18
Lloyd Christenbury	65	106	22	.208	0	14
Gene Bailey	13	24	2	.083	0	0
Art Wilson	16	19	1	.053	0	0
Red Torphy	3	15	3	.200	0	2
Johnny Rawlings	5	3	0	.000	0	2
Tom Whelan	1	1	0	.000	0	0
	5	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
Joe Oeschger	38	299.0	15	13	3.46	80
	44	291.0	10	21	3.53	94
	37	272.0	12	21	3.11	66
	38	225.2	11	15	3.55	53
Mule Watson	13	74.2	5	4	3.62	16

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
Dick Rudolph	18	89.0	4	8	4.04	24
	11	43.0	0	3	5.65	9
Eddie Eayrs	7	26.1	1	2	5.47	7
Al Pierotti	6	25.0	1	1	2.88	12
Leo Townsend	7	24.1	2	2	1.48	0
	3	9.2	1	0	6.52	6
Ira Townsend	4	6.2	0	0	1.35	1