July 9, 1980

The Phillies had many questions to answer heading in to the second half of the season.  While Steve Carlton was pitching like, well... Steve Carlton and Dick Ruthven had been good enough to win nine games, the rest of the projected starting staff was either hurt (Nino Espinosa, Larry Christenson) or grossly ineffective (Randy Lerch).  Offensively, the Phils were not running on full cylinders, as Greg Luzinski was limping into the All-Star break, and would break down entirely in the second half.  Mike Schmidt had a good first half... and would help lead the team to glory in the second half.  He would get a lot of help, a great deal of that coming from young players like Lonnie Smith.



NL East Standings - All Star Break

Team

Wins

Losses

Pct.

GB

Expos

42

35

.545

-

Phillies

41

35

.539

½

Pirates

42

37

.532

1

Mets

38

40

.487

Cubs

34

43

.442

8

Cardinals

34

46

.425

First Half Batting Statistics

Player

G

AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR

RBI

SB

Avg.

Aguayo

13

37

7

10

1

1

1

6

0

.270

Aviles

25

52

4

14

3

0

1

5

0

.269

Boone

70

251

17

56

13

1

5

28

2

.223

Bowa

67

245

29

62

9

3

1

13

9

.253

Gross

57

74

10

15

5

1

0

6

1

.203

Luzinski

71

249

35

61

15

1

15

42

3

.245

Maddox

66

266

24

71

18

2

5

34

13

.267

McBride

60

245

31

74

16

6

5

45

7

.302

Moreland

22

55

5

16

4

0

3

14

2

.291

Rose

76

302

52

86

22

1

1

26

8

.285

Schmidt

68

250

51

70

13

3

21

57

6

.280

Smith

36

65

22

25

5

2

0

4

9

.385

Trillo

61

219

29

70

12

4

0

16

2

.320

Unser

44

48

7

13

1

3

0

4

0

.271

G. Vukovich

40

29

5

6

0

1

0

3

0

.207

J. Vukovich

23

38

2

4

1

0

0

2

0

.167

First Half Pitching Statistics

Player

G

IP

R

ER

BB

SO

W

L

S

ERA

Carlton

20

155.1

39

37

48

153

14

4

0

2.14

Christenson

6

25.2

19

18

12

21

3

0

0

6.31

Espinosa

1

8.0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0.00

LaGrow

24

38.0

20

16

15

21

0

2

3

3.79

Larson

6

21.1

14

8

12

11

0

2

0

3.38

Lerch

17

110.1

66

54

35

43

3

11

0

4.40

McGraw

24

40.0

12

12

13

33

0

3

7

2.70

Munninghoff

4

6.0

3

3

5

2

0

0

0

4.50

Noles

22

43.1

21

17

21

31

1

3

4

3.53

Reed

31

55.0

22

22

17

29

6

2

4

3.60

Ruthven

17

115.0

57

49

42

40

9

4

0

3.83

Saucier

24

29.0

10

9

9

15

3

3

0

2.79

Walk

9

51.0

27

26

21

33

4

0

0

4.59

Transactions

Phillies

None

 

National League

Montreal Expos - Signed Rick Grapenthin, pitcher, as a non-drafted free agent. 

 

American League

None