1979 Boston Red Sox season

MLB yearly infobox
name = Boston Red Sox
season = 1979
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Eastern Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Fenway Park
y4 = 1912
city = Boston, Massachusetts
y5 = 1901
owners = Buddy LeRoux, Haywood Sullivan, Jean Yawkey
managers = Don Zimmer
television = WSBK-TV, Ch. 38
(Ken Harrelson, Ned Martin, Bob Montgomery)
radio = WITS-AM 1510
(Ken Coleman, Rico Petrocelli)|The by|1979 Boston Red Sox season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Red Sox finishing 3rd in the American League East with a record of 91 wins and 69 losses.

Regular season: Yaz and 61 Years and Counting

In 1979 Fred Lynn hit a league-leading .333 and had 39 homers and 122 RBIs. Jim Rice batted .325, with 39 homers and 130 RBIs, but Dennis Eckersley fell to 17 wins, and Mike Torrez had 16 wins again. Boston finished 11 games back of the eventual American League champion Baltimore Orioles, and 4 in back of the Milwaukee Brewers. Highlights of the year were Carl Yastrzemski's 3,000th hit and his 400th home run. He was the first American Leaguer ever to do that and the 15th in Major League Baseball history. Yaz joined the 3,000-Hit Club with a single off Jim Beattie on September 12, 1979. [http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/3000_hit_club/yastrzemski_carl.htm] The hit came against the New York Yankees. The same game also marked the final appearance at Fenway Park for Hall of Fame pitcher Catfish Hunter.

eason standings

Transactions

*June 13, 1979: Pete Ladd, a player to be named later, and cash were traded by the Red Sox to the Houston Astros for Bob Watson. The Red Sox completed the deal by sending Bobby Sprowl to the Astros on June 19. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/watsobo01.shtml Bob Watson page at Baseball Reference] ]

Opening Day Line Up

Other batters

Relief pitchers

Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball," 2nd edition. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 2007]

* Class AAA: Pawtucket Red Sox (International League; Joe Morgan, manager)
* Class AA: Bristol Red Sox (Eastern League; Tony Torchia, manager)
* Class A: Winston-Salem Red Sox (Carolina League; Bill Slack, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class A: Winter Haven Red Sox (Florida State League; Rac Slider, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class SS-A: Elmira Pioneers (New York-Penn League; Dick Berardino, manager)

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1979.shtml 1979 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1979&t=BOS 1979 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com]