1917 Chicago Cubs season

1917 Chicago Cubs
Ballpark	Weeghman Park
City	Chicago, Illinois
Owners	Charles Weeghman
Managers	Fred Mitchell
Seasons

The 1917 Chicago Cubs season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fifth in the National League with a record of 74-80, 24 games behind the New York Giants.

Regular season

• May 2, 1917: For the first, and to date only, time in major league history, a regulation nine innings was played at Wrigley Field (known in 1917 as Weeghman Park) without either team logging a hit. Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds and Hippo Vaughn of the Cubs dueled for 9 hitless innings. In the top of the tenth, Reds outfielder Jim Thorpe drove in the winning run in the 10th inning. The Reds scored on a couple of hits after Vaughn had retired the first batter, while Toney continued to hold the Cubs hitless in the bottom of the inning, winning the game for the Reds.

Season standings

National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
New York Giants	98	56	0.636	—	50–28	48–28
Philadelphia Phillies	87	65	0.572	10	46–29	41–36
St. Louis Cardinals	82	70	0.539	15	38–38	44–32
Cincinnati Reds	78	76	0.506	20	39–38	39–38
Chicago Cubs	74	80	0.481	24	35–42	39–38
Boston Braves	72	81	0.471	25½	35–42	37–39
Brooklyn Robins	70	81	0.464	26½	36–38	34–43
Pittsburgh Pirates	51	103	0.331	47	25–53	26–50

Notable transactions

• September 20, 1917: Fred Lear was drafted by the Cubs from the Bridgeport Americans in the 1917 rule 5 draft.

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
C	Art Wilson	81	211	45	.213	2	25
2B	Larry Doyle	135	476	121	.254	6	61

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
Dutch Ruether	31	44	12	.273	0	11
Roy Leslie	7	19	4	.211	0	1
William Marriott	3	6	0	.000	0	0
Harry Wolfe	9	5	2	.400	0	1
Herb Hunter	3	3	0	.000	0	0

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
Hippo Vaughn	41	295.2	23	13	2.01	195
Phil Douglas	51	293.1	14	20	2.55	151
Al Demaree	24	141.1	5	9	2.55	43

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
Claude Hendrix	40	215	10	12	2.60	81
Paul Carter	23	113.1	5	8	3.26	34
Vic Aldridge	30	106.2	6	6	3.12	44
Mike Prendergast	35	99.1	3	6	3.35	43
Dutch Ruether	10	36.1	2	0	2.48	3
Roy Walker	2	7	0	1	3.86	4

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
Gene Packard	2	0	0	0	10.80	1

External links

• 1917 Chicago Cubs season at Baseball Reference