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1969 San Francisco Giants season

Field	Value
name	San Francisco Giants
season	1969
league	National League
division	West
ballpark	Candlestick Park
city	San Francisco, California
owners	Horace Stoneham
general_managers	Chub Feeney
managers	Clyde King
television	KTVU
(Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, Bill Thompson)
radio	KSFO
(Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, Bill Thompson, Bill Rigney)

(Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, Bill Thompson) (Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, Bill Thompson, Bill Rigney) |}} The 1969 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 87th season in Major League Baseball, their 12th season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their tenth at Candlestick Park. The team finished second in the newly established National League West with a record of 90–72, 3 games behind the Atlanta Braves, their fifth consecutive season of finishing second. The Giants set a Major League record which still stands for the most double plays grounded into by a team in a single game, with 7 against the Houston Astros on May 4.

Offseason

October 14, 1968: Jesús Alou was drafted from the Giants by the Montreal Expos as the 13th pick in the 1968 MLB expansion draft.
December 6, 1968: Nate Oliver was traded by the Giants to the New York Yankees for Charley Smith.
March 16, 1969, Giants pitching prospect Néstor Chávez was killed in a plane crash
March 28, 1969: Charley Smith was purchased from the Giants by the Chicago Cubs.

Regular season

July 20, 1969: Pitcher Gaylord Perry hit the first home run of his career (he hit 6). It was in the third inning off pitcher Claude Osteen.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day starters

Bobby Bonds
Dick Dietz
Bobby Etheridge
Jim Ray Hart
Ron Hunt
Hal Lanier
Juan Marichal
Willie Mays
Willie McCovey

Notable transactions

August 8, 1969: The Giants traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Don McMahon. The Giants completed the deal by sending César Gutiérrez to the Tigers on September 2.

Roster

1969 San Francisco Giants
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases

Pos.	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB
C	79	244	28	56	.230	11	35	0
1B	149	491	101	157	.320	45	126	0
2B	128	478	72	125	.262	3	41	9
3B	112	303	20	73	.241	2	42	0
SS	150	495	37	113	.228	0	35	0
LF	110	267	32	62	.232	2	33	1
CF	117	403	64	114	.283	13	58	6
RF	158	622	120*	161	.259	32	90	45

Tied with Pete Rose

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases

G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB
113	374	42	84	.225	6	44	6
104	250	43	57	.228	0	13	1
95	236	27	60	.254	3	26	0
69	194	18	38	.196	7	34	0
67	183	28	54	.295	1	14	2
97	161	20	37	.230	6	27	0
56	131	13	34	.260	1	10	0
49	106	5	18	.170	0	1	0
22	27	2	6	.222	0	3	0
15	23	4	5	.217	0	0	1
11	12	0	4	.333	0	2	0
7	10	2	1	.100	0	0	0
2	6	0	3	.500	0	2	0
9	5	1	2	.400	0	1	0
1	1	0	0	.000	0	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts

G	GS	IP	W	L	ERA	BB	SO
40	39	325.1	19	14	2.49	91	233
37	36	299.2	21	11	2.10	54	205
32	28	196.2	11	9	3.34	77	76
30	22	146.1	7	7	4.43	49	102
29	17	138.1	5	8	4.23	53	104

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
16	57.2	4	3	4.37	30
17	44.1	1	3	5.48	20
7	11.0	0	2	4.09	7
1	2.0	0	0	4.50	2

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
58	116.1	14	9	11	3.64	62
39	87.1	4	1	1	4.02	34
16	20.0	1	3	0	3.60	9
13	23.2	3	1	2	3.04	21

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system

Notes

References

1969 San Francisco Giants team at Baseball-Reference
1969 San Francisco Giants team page at Baseball Almanac

References

"Game Related Grounding Into Double Play Records". Baseball-Almanac.com.
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/a/alouje01.shtml Jesús Alou] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/smithch04.shtml Charley Smith] at ''Baseball-Reference''
"Box Score of Game played on Sunday, July 20, 1969 at Candlestick Park".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/gutiece01.shtml César Gutiérrez] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SFG/1969.shtml 1969 San Francisco Giants Statistics and Roster – Baseball-Reference.com]
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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