1988 Pittsburgh Pirates season

1988 Pittsburgh Pirates
Major League affiliations
	National League (since 1887);
	Eastern Division (since 1969);
Location
	Three Rivers Stadium (since 1970);
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (since 1907);
Results
Record	85–75 (.531)
Divisional place	2nd
Other information
Owner(s)	Pittsburgh Associates
General manager(s)	Syd Thrift; Larry Doughty
Manager(s)	Jim Leyland
Local television	KDKA-TV; Jim Rooker; John Sanders; Lanny Frattare; Steve Blass; KBL; Jim Rooker; Lanny Frattare; Steve Blass
Local radio	KDKA; Jim Rooker; Lanny Frattare; Steve Blass
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The 1988 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 107th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 102nd in the National League. The Pirates finished second in the National League East with a record of 85–75.

Offseason

January 20, 1988: Dave Hostetler was signed as a free agent by the Pirates.^[2]
March 26, 1988: Mackey Sasser and Tim Drummond were traded by the Pirates to the New York Mets for Randy Milligan and Scott Henion (minors).^[3]
March 30, 1988: Hipólito Peña was traded by the Pirates to the New York Yankees for Orestes Destrade.^[4]
March 31, 1988: Mike Bielecki was traded by the Pirates to the Chicago Cubs for Mike Curtis (minors).^[5]

Regular season

Season standings

v t e NL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
New York Mets	100	60	0.625	—	56–24	44–36
Pittsburgh Pirates	85	75	0.531	15	43–38	42–37
Montreal Expos	81	81	0.500	20	43–38	38–43
Chicago Cubs	77	85	0.475	24	39–42	38–43
St. Louis Cardinals	76	86	0.469	25	41–40	35–46
Philadelphia Phillies	65	96	0.404	35½	38–42	27–54

Record vs. opponents

1988 National League Records v t e Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Team	ATL	CHC	CIN	HOU	LAD	MON	NYM	PHI	PIT	SD	SF	STL
Atlanta	—	5–7	5–13	5–13	4–14	4–8	4–8	6–6	5–5	8–10	5–13	3–9
Chicago	7–5	—	6–6	7–5	4–8–1	9–9	9–9	8–10	7–11	8–4	5–7	7–11
Cincinnati	13–5	6–6	—	9–9	7–11	5–7	4–7	9–3	7–5	10–8	11–7	6–6
Houston	13–5	5–7	9–9	—	9–9	6–6	5–7	8–4	8–4	6–12	7–11	6–6
Los Angeles	14–4	8–4–1	11–7	9–9	—	8–4	1–10	11–1	6–6	7–11	12–6	7–5
Montreal	8–4	9–9	7–5	6–6	4–8	—	6–12	9–9–1	8–10	4–8	7–5	13–5
New York	8–4	9–9	7–4	7–5	10–1	12–6	—	10–8	12–6	7–5	4–8	14–4
Philadelphia	6-6	10–8	3–9	4–8	1–11	9–9–1	8–10	—	7–11	4–7	7–5	6–12
Pittsburgh	5–5	11–7	5–7	4–8	6–6	10–8	6–12	11–7	—	8–4	8–4	11–7
San Diego	10–8	4–8	8–10	12–6	11–7	8–4	5–7	7–4	4–8	—	8–10	6–6
San Francisco	13–5	7–5	7–11	11–7	6–12	5–7	8–4	5–7	4–8	10–8	—	7–5
St. Louis	9–3	11–7	6–6	6–6	5–7	5–13	4–14	12–6	7–11	6–6	5–7	—

Game Log

1988 Game Log (85–75)

April (16–6)

May(14–14)

June (13–14)

July (15–11)

August (13–17)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
104	August 1	@ Mets	7–2	Drabek (10–5)	Gooden	—	52,231	59–45
105	August 2	Expos	3–2 (10)	Gott (5–3)	Heaton	—	12,296	60–45
106	August 3	Expos	4–6	Perez	Smiley (0–8)	Burke	16,099	60–46
107	August 4	Expos	2–3	Dopson	Fisher (0–9)	Burke	17,726	60–47
108	August 5	Mets	2–3	Darling	Walk (0–7)	Myers	39,925	60–48
109	August 6	Mets	3–5	McClure	Gott (0–4)	McDowell	48,272	60–49
110	August 7	Mets	2–6	Cone	Kipper (0–3)	—	44,931	60–50
111	August 8	Mets	1–0	Reed (1–0)	Ojeda	Gott (18)	38,307	61–50
112	August 9	@ Expos	10–8	Fisher (7–9)	Dopson	Gott (19)	37,681	62–50
113	August 10	@ Expos	4–5	Martinez	Walk (0–8)	Burke	29,196	62–51
114	August 11	@ Expos	6–1	Drabek (11–5)	Holman	Gott (20)	33,599	63–51
115	August 12	@ Phillies	1–9	Gross	Dunne (0–9)	—	—	63–52
116	August 12	@ Phillies	4–6	Bedrosian	Kipper (0–4)	—	37,673	63–53
117	August 13	@ Phillies	10–4	Robinson (9–2)	Harris	—	35,432	64–53
118	August 14	@ Phillies	9–8	Gott (6–4)	Bedrosian	—	36,468	65–53
119	August 15	Braves	3–4	Puleo	Walk (0–9)	Olwine	12,112	65–54
120	August 16	Braves	4–2	Drabek (12–5)	Smith	Gott (21)	13,994	66–54
121	August 17	Braves	2–1	LaPoint (1–0)	Glavine	Gott (22)	33,164	67–54
122	August 19	Astros	1–5	Darwin	Dunne (0–10)	—	26,352	67–55
123	August 20	Astros	2–1	Smiley (10–8)	Ryan	Gott (23)	23,183	68–55
124	August 21	Astros	1–2 (14)	Agosto	Kipper (0–5)	—	38,290	68–56
125	August 22	Reds	0–2	Jackson	Drabek (0–6)	—	17,540	68–57
126	August 23	Reds	2–0	LaPoint (2–0)	Charlton	Gott (24)	13,406	69–57
127	August 24	Reds	2–6	Browning	Dunne (0–11)	—	24,660	69–58
128	August 26	@ Astros	0–2	Deshaies	Smiley (0–9)	—	27,650	69–59
129	August 27	@ Astros	1–3	Meads	Walk (0–10)	Agosto	25,993	69–60
130	August 28	@ Astros	4–3	Drabek (13–6)	Darwin	Gott (25)	20,368	70–60
131	August 29	@ Reds	8–1	LaPoint (3–0)	Brown	—	19,519	71–60
132	August 30	@ Reds	4–6	Jackson	Fisher (0–10)	Franco	17,429	71–61
133	August 31	@ Reds	1–4	Charlton	Gott (0–5)	Franco	18,586	71–62

September (14–11)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
134	September 2	@ Braves	1–2	Assenmacher	Gott (0–6)	—	7,938	71–63
135	September 5	Mets	5–7	Cone	Robinson (0–3)	Myers	38,876	71–64
136	September 6	Mets	3–2	Smiley (11–9)	Ojeda	Gott (26)	21,296	72–64
137	September 7	Expos	5–4	Drabek (14–6)	Smith	Gott (27)	16,494	73–64
138	September 8	Expos	4–5	Perez	Robinson (0–4)	Hesketh	11,289	73–65
139	September 9	Phillies	5–2	Dunne (7–11)	Sebra	Gott (28)	15,446	74–65
140	September 10	Phillies	5–1	LaPoint (4–0)	Rawley	—	27,804	75–65
141	September 11	Phillies	4–7	Freeman	Smiley (0–10)	—	18,132	75–66
142	September 12	@ Mets	2–3	Myers	Robinson (0–5)	—	39,576	75–67
143	September 13	@ Mets	1–0	Walk (12–10)	Gooden	Gott (29)	36,633	76–67
144	September 14	@ Expos	4–1 (12)	Fisher (8–10)	Burke	—	10,886	77–67
145	September 15	@ Expos	4–9	Johnson	LaPoint (0–1)	McGaffigan	9,494	77–68
146	September 16	@ Phillies	7–5	Robinson (10–5)	Harris	Gott (30)	17,446	78–68
147	September 17	@ Phillies	7–2	Drabek (15–6)	Carman	Robinson (9)	14,528	79–68
148	September 18	@ Phillies	5–6 (10)	Bedrosian	Kramer (0–1)	—	21,282	79–69
149	September 19	@ Cardinals	5–4	Robinson (11–5)	Dayley	Gott (31)	19,683	80–69
150	September 20	@ Cardinals	5–1	Medvin (2–0)	Terry	Gott (32)	27,441	81–69
151	September 21	@ Cardinals	5–0	Smiley (12–10)	DeLeon	—	28,350	82–69
152	September 23	Cubs	3–5 (10)	Moyer	Kipper (0–6)	—	19,552	82–70
153	September 24	Cubs	1–2	Gossage	Rucker (0–2)	DiPino	16,161	82–71
154	September 25	Cubs	7–4	Kramer (1–1)	Sutcliffe	Gott (33)	23,095	83–71
155	September 26	Cardinals	1–7	DeLeon	LaPoint (0–2)	—	9,044	83–72
156	September 27	Cardinals	3–2	Smiley (13–10)	Hill	Gott (34)	8,994	84–72
157	September 28	Cardinals	1–2	Magrane	Drabek (0–7)	—	21,004	84–73
158	September 30	@ Cubs	10–9 (10)	Medvin (3–0)	Gossage	Fisher (1)	9,805	85–73

October (0–2)

Legend: = Win = Loss
Bold = Pirates team member

Roster

1988 Pittsburgh Pirates

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

10 Jim Leyland

Coaches

45 Rich Donnelly (bullpen)
32 Gene Lamont (third base)
39 Milt May (hitting)
31 Ray Miller (pitching)
37 Tommy Sandt (first base)

Opening Day starters

LF – Barry Bonds
2B – José Lind
CF – Andy Van Slyke
3B – Bobby Bonilla
RF – Darnell Coles
1B – Randy Milligan
C – Mike LaValliere
SS – Al Pedrique
P – Mike Dunne

Player stats

Batting

Regular Season^[6]
Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
B. Distefano	16	29	10	0.345	1	6
A. Van Slyke	154	587	169	0.288	25	100
B. Bonds	144	538	152	0.283	24	58
J. Ortiz	49	118	33	0.280	2	18
F. Fermín	43	87	24	0.276	0	2
B. Bonilla	159	584	160	0.274	24	100
G. Wilson	37	126	34	0.270	2	15
S. Bream	148	462	122	0.264	10	65
J. Lind	154	611	160	0.262	2	49
M. LaValliere	120	352	92	0.261	2	47
J. Cangelosi	75	118	30	0.254	0	8
D. Hostetler	6	8	2	0.250	0	0
R. Reynolds	130	323	80	0.248	6	51
D. Coles	68	211	49	0.232	5	36
M. Diaz	47	74	17	0.230	0	5
K. Oberkfell	20	54	12	0.222	0	2
R. Milligan	40	82	18	0.220	3	8
R. Belliard	122	286	61	0.213	0	11
T. Gregg	14	15	3	0.200	1	3
R. Rodríguez	2	5	1	0.200	0	1
G. Redus	30	71	14	0.197	2	4
D. González	24	32	6	0.188	0	1
J. Robinson	75	16	3	0.188	0	1
A. Pedrique	50	128	23	0.180	0	4
T. Prince	29	74	13	0.176	0	6
D. Drabek	33	76	13	0.171	0	5
O. Destrade	36	47	7	0.149	1	3
M. Dunne	34	46	5	0.109	0	3
B. Walk	34	69	6	0.087	0	5
J. Smiley	34	63	5	0.079	0	1
D. LaPoint	8	16	1	0.063	0	0
B. Fisher	33	42	2	0.048	0	1
J. Gott	67	1	0	0.000	0	0
B. Jones	42	5	0	0.000	0	0
B. Kipper	50	4	0	0.000	0	0
R. Kramer	5	2	0	0.000	0	0
S. Medvin	17	3	0	0.000	0	0
V. Palacios	7	8	0	0.000	0	0
R. Reed	2	4	0	0.000	0	0
D. Rucker	31	2	0	0.000	0	0
M. García	1	0	0	—	0	0
M. Madden	6	0	0	—	0	0

Pitching

Regular Season^[7]
Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
M. Madden	5	5²⁄₃	0	0	0.00	3
J. Cangelosi	1	2	0	0	0.00	0
B. Walk	32	212²⁄₃	12	10	2.71	81
D. LaPoint	8	52	4	2	2.77	19
R. Reed	2	12	1	0	3.00	6
J. Robinson	75	124²⁄₃	11	5	3.03	87
B. Jones	42	56¹⁄₃	1	1	3.04	31
D. Drabek	33	219¹⁄₃	15	7	3.08	127
J. Smiley	34	205	13	11	3.25	129
J. Gott	67	77¹⁄₃	6	6	3.49	76
B. Kipper	50	65	2	6	3.74	39
M. Dunne	30	170	7	11	3.92	70
M. García	1	2	0	0	4.50	2
B. Fisher	33	146¹⁄₃	8	10	4.61	66
D. Rucker	31	28¹⁄₃	0	2	4.76	16
S. Medvin	17	27²⁄₃	3	0	4.88	16
R. Kramer	5	10	1	2	5.40	7
V. Palacios	7	24¹⁄₃	1	2	6.66	15

Awards and honors

1988 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Bobby Bonilla, 3B, Starter
Andy Van Slyke, OF, Reserve
Bob Walk, P, Reserve

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Buffalo Bisons	American Association	Rocky Bridges
AA	Harrisburg Senators	Eastern League	Dave Trembley
A	Salem Buccaneers	Carolina League	Jay Ward
A	Augusta Pirates	South Atlantic League	Jeff Cox and Woody Huyke
Short-Season A	Watertown Pirates	New York-Penn League	Stan Cliburn
Rookie	Princeton Pirates	Appalachian League	Jim Thrift
Rookie	GCL Pirates	Gulf Coast League	Julio Garcia

References

↑ From 1882-1906, the team played in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which became annexed by Pittsburgh as the North Shore in 1907.
↑ Dave Hostetler page at Baseball Reference
↑ Randy Milligan page at Baseball Reference
↑ Hipólito Peña page at Baseball Reference
↑ Mike Bielecki page at Baseball Reference
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1988 Pittsburgh Pirates team page at Baseball Reference
1988 Pittsburgh Pirates team page at www.baseball-almanac.com
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[1] From 1882-1906, the team played in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which became annexed by Pittsburgh as the North Shore in 1907.

[hostetler-2] Dave Hostetler page at Baseball Reference

[3] Randy Milligan page at Baseball Reference

[4] Hipólito Peña page at Baseball Reference

[5] Mike Bielecki page at Baseball Reference

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v t e 1988 MLB season by team
AL East	Baltimore Boston Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee New York Toronto
AL West	California Chicago Kansas City Minnesota Oakland Seattle Texas
NL East	Chicago Montréal New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis
NL West	Atlanta Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco
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1988 Pittsburgh Pirates
Major League affiliations
National League (since 1887)
Eastern Division (since 1969)
Location
Three Rivers Stadium (since 1970)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania^[1] (since 1907)
Results
Record	85–75 (.531)
Divisional place	2nd
Other information
Owner(s)	Pittsburgh Associates
General manager(s)	Syd Thrift Larry Doughty
Manager(s)	Jim Leyland
Local television	KDKA-TV Jim Rooker John Sanders Lanny Frattare Steve Blass KBL Jim Rooker Lanny Frattare Steve Blass
Local radio	KDKA Jim Rooker Lanny Frattare Steve Blass
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