1943 Boston Red Sox season

The 1943 Boston Red Sox season was the 43rd season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished seventh in the American League (AL) with a record of 68 wins and 84 losses. The team set a major league record which still stands by playing in 31 extra innings games,[1] winning 15 and losing 14, with 2 games tied.[2] They played 73 extra innings in total, equivalent to playing an additional eight 9-inning games.[3]

1943 Boston Red Sox
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Tom Yawkey
General manager(s)Eddie Collins
Manager(s)Joe Cronin
Local radioWAAB
(Jim Britt)
WNAC
(Tom Hussey, George Hartrick)
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Offseason

Regular season

Season standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 9856 0.636 — 54–23 44–33
Washington Senators 8469 0.549 13½ 44–32 40–37
Cleveland Indians 8271 0.536 15½ 44–33 38–38
Chicago White Sox 8272 0.532 16 40–36 42–36
Detroit Tigers 7876 0.506 20 45–32 33–44
St. Louis Browns 7280 0.474 25 44–33 28–47
Boston Red Sox 6884 0.447 29 39–36 29–48
Philadelphia Athletics 49105 0.318 49 27–51 22–54

Record vs. opponents
1943 American League Records

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston —8–1412–1011–11–15–17–111–1111–9–110–12
Chicago 14–8—7–159–1310–1218–4–110–1214–8
Cleveland 10–1215–7—15–79–1316–69–138–13
Detroit 11–11–113–97–15—10–1213–911–1113–9
New York 17–5–112–1013–912–10—16–617–511–11
Philadelphia 11–114–18–16–169–136–16—8–145–17
St. Louis 9–11–112–1013–911–115–1714–8—8–14
Washington 12–108–1413–89–1311–1117–514–8—

Opening Day lineup
  7Eddie LakeSS
12Pete FoxRF
  1Bobby Doerr2B
14Johnny LazorLF
  3Tony Lupien1B
15Ford GarrisonCF
26Skeeter Newsome    3B
11Johnny Peacock    C
21Tex HughsonP

Roster
1943 Boston Red Sox
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

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
Eddie Lake7521643.199316
Joe Cronin597724.312529

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

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

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
Mace Brown496692.1240

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AA Louisville Colonels American Association Bill Burwell
A Scranton Red Sox Eastern League Nemo Leibold
B Roanoke Red Sox Piedmont League Heinie Manush

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Notes
  1. "Game Length Records Inning Based Records". Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  2. "Team Batting Game Finder: From 1908 to 2018, Only extra-inning games, sorted by greatest number of games in a single season matching the selected criteria". Baseball Reference. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  3. "1943 Boston Red Sox Schedule". Baseball Reference. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  4. Abraham, Peter (June 20, 2020). "Red Sox plan to hold spring training at Fenway Park". The Boston Globe. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  5. Webb, Melville (January 19, 1943). "Sox Complete Spring Plans". The Boston Globe. p. 16. Retrieved June 21, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  6. Bill Howerton page at Baseball Reference
  7. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

References
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