1928 New York Yankees season

The New York Yankees' 1928 season was their 26th season. The team finished with a record of 101–53, winning their sixth pennant, finishing 2.5 games ahead of the Philadelphia Athletics. New York was managed by Miller Huggins. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they swept the St. Louis Cardinals. Pitcher Urban Shocker died in September due to complications from pneumonia.

1928 New York Yankees
1928 World Series Champions
1928 American League Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Jacob Ruppert
General manager(s)Ed Barrow
Manager(s)Miller Huggins
Local televisionnone
Local radionone
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Regular season

Season standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 10153 0.656 — 52–25 49–28
Philadelphia Athletics 9855 0.641 2½ 52–25 46–30
St. Louis Browns 8272 0.532 19 43–34 39–38
Washington Senators 7579 0.487 26 37–43 38–36
Chicago White Sox 7282 0.468 29 37–40 35–42
Detroit Tigers 6886 0.442 33 36–41 32–45
Cleveland Indians 6292 0.403 39 28–49 34–43
Boston Red Sox 5796 0.373 43½ 26–47 31–49

Record vs. opponents
1928 American League Records

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston —10–129–137–156–163–189–1313–9–1
Chicago 12–10—12–10–113–99–136–1610–1210–12
Cleveland 13–910–12–1—10–126–166–167–1510–12
Detroit 15–79–1312–10—7–158–149–138–14
New York 16–613–916–615–7—16–612–1013–9
Philadelphia 18–316–616–614–86–16—16–612–10
St. Louis 13–912–1015–713–910–126–16—13–9
Washington 9–13–112–1012–1014–89–1310–129–13—

Roster
1928 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders 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

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CJohnny Grabowski7520248.238121
1BLou Gehrig154562210.37427142
2BTony Lazzeri116404134.3321082
3BJoe Dugan9431286.276634
SSMark Koenig132533170.319463
OFBabe Ruth154536173.32354142
OFEarle Combs149626194.310756
OFBob Meusel131518154.29711113

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
Leo Durocher10229680.270031
Gene Robertson8325173.291136
Benny Bengough5816143.26709
Pat Collins7013630.221614
Cedric Durst7413534.252210
Ben Paschal657925.316115
Mike Gazella325613.23202
Bill Dickey10153.20002
George Burns442.50000

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
George Pipgras46300.224133.38139
Waite Hoyt422732373.3667
Herb Pennock282111762.5653
Hank Johnson312991494.30110
Tom Zachary745.2333.947

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
Al Shealy2396865.0639
Stan Coveleski1258515.745
Fred Heimach1368233.3125

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
Wilcy Moore354424.1818
Archie Campbell130125.259
Myles Thomas121003.4110
Rosy Ryan300016.505
Urban Shocker10000.000

1928 World Series
Main article: 1928 World Series
Game Date Visitor Score Home Score Record

(NYY-STL)

 Attendance
1 October 4 St. Louis Cardinals 1 New York Yankees 4 1–0 61,425
2 October 5 St. Louis Cardinals 3 New York Yankees 9 2–0 60,714
3 October 7 New York Yankees 7 St. Louis Cardinals 3 3–0 39,602
4 October 9 New York Yankees 7 St. Louis Cardinals 3 4–0 37,331
New York Yankees win 4–0

References
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