Here are the records of the pitchers of the team against the five Eastern and the six Western teams for 1894:
THE SECTIONAL RECORDS. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. P h i W P C L B l a C i i o W a a B s l t S n u o l d r h P e t C t c i P NEW YORK n t B e o i e v s h . i s e / i o l o n T r e b i L n v T r vs. L m s p k g o c l u c o n i o c o o t h l t t e a r a u a l t e s r o i y o a n n g g i t l a n Pitchers t e n a n n l t Pitchers d h o s i e l t ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meekin W 3 3 1 3 4 14 .778 Russie 4 4 4 4 2 6 24 .889 L 0 1 2 0 1 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 Rusie W 2 2 2 3 3 12 .545 Meekin 4 4 5 2 2 5 22 .783 L 2 3 3 1 1 10 1 0 1 1 3 0 6 German W 1 0 1 0 2 4 .500 Westervelt 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 .571 L 1 1 0 2 0 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 Westervelt W 0 1 0 1 1 3 .333 German 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 .471 L 2 1 2 1 0 6 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 Clarke W 0 0 1 0 0 1 .333 Clarke 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .333 L 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The summary giving the full totals of the season's record entire is appended:
------------------------------------------------------------ Games Per cent. of PITCHERS Victories Defeats Pitched Victories ------------------------------------------------------------ Meekin 36 10 46 .783 Rusie 36 13 49 .735 Westervelt 7 9 16 .498 German 8 9 17 .471 Clarke 2 4 6 .333 ------------------------------------------------------------
While the Boston team of 1893 went through the season of that year with virtually but four pitchers to do their box work--Quarles and Coyle pitching in but three games in 1893--the batteries of the club for 1894 included seven pitchers, two of the seven each pitching in but single games, Nichols, Stivetts and Staley doing the brunt of the work of the past season. Nichols did his best work against the five Eastern teams, he being most effective against Philadelphia and Brooklyn, neither of which clubs won a game with him in the box against them. He also took both Cleveland and Louisville into camp without their being able to win a single game off his pitching, the only team to strike even figures in games against his pitching being the Cincinnatis--3 to 3, Baltimore winning 2 out of 3 with Nichols opposed to them, and New York 2 out of 5, St. Louis also getting the same figures. Beyond question, Nichols led the Boston pitching record of 1894, he ranking in strategic skill with the best in the League. Stivetts excelled even Nichols against the Western batsmen by a percentage of .763 to Nichols' .692; but against the stronger Eastern teams Nichols led Stivetts by the percentage figures of .756 to .417, an advantage more than off-setting the Western figures of the two pitchers. Lovett and Hodson both excelled Stivetts against the Eastern teams, by .714 and .500, respectively, against Stivetts' .417; but against the Western teams, Stivetts led by .763 to Hodson's .600 and Lovett's .500. Staley was very ineffective against the batsmen of both sections. Lampe pitched in but one game, and that one a defeat by Pittsburgh; Stephens pitching, too, in but one game but it was a victory over Washington. Here are the sectional records for the season, together with the column giving the totals of the season: