1985 Pittsburgh Pirates season

1985 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	57–104 (.354)
Divisional place	6th
Other information
Owner(s)	John W. Galbreath; Warner Communications
General manager(s)	Harding "Pete" Peterson, Joe L. Brown
Manager(s)	Chuck Tanner
Local television	KDKA-TV; Lanny Frattare, Jim Rooker, John Sanders, Steve Blass
Local radio	KDKA; Lanny Frattare, Jim Rooker, Bob Prince (select games until death on June 10)
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The 1985 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 104th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 99th in the National League. The Pirates finished sixth and last in the National League East with a record of 57–104, 43½ games behind the NL Champion St. Louis Cardinals.

Offseason

The team was beset during the offseason with the triple threat of its longtime owner taking bids for the debt laden franchise, rumors of a possible relocation to cities such as Tampa, Denver and New Orleans and the expanding Pittsburgh drug trials.^[2]

Off season transactions included:

December 12, 1984: Brian Harper and John Tudor were traded by the Pirates to the St. Louis Cardinals for George Hendrick and Steve Barnard (minors).^[3]
December 20, 1984: Jay Buhner, Dale Berra and Alfonso Pulido were traded by the Pirates to the New York Yankees for Steve Kemp, Tim Foli, and cash.^[4]
February 28, 1985: Rick Reuschel was signed as a free agent by the Pirates.^[5]
March 1, 1985: Scott Loucks was signed as a free agent by the Pirates.^[6]

Regular season

Season standings

v t e NL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
St. Louis Cardinals	101	61	0.623	—	54–27	47–34
New York Mets	98	64	0.605	3	51–30	47–34
Montreal Expos	84	77	0.522	16½	44–37	40–40
Chicago Cubs	77	84	0.478	23½	41–39	36–45
Philadelphia Phillies	75	87	0.463	26	41–40	34–47
Pittsburgh Pirates	57	104	0.354	43½	35–45	22–59

Record vs. opponents

1985 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	7–11	8–10	5–13	3–9	2–10	10–2	6–6	7–11	10–8	3–9
Chicago	7–5	—	5–6	5–7	5–7	7–11	4–14	13–5	13–5	8–4	6–6	4–14
Cincinnati	11–7	6–5	—	11–7	7–11	8–4	4–8	7–5	9–3	9–9	12–6	5–7
Houston	10–8	7–5	7–11	—	6–12	6–6	4–8	4–8	6–6	12–6	15–3	6–6
Los Angeles	13–5	7–5	11–7	12–6	—	7–5	7–5	4–8	8–4	8–10	11–7	7–5
Montreal	9–3	11–7	4–8	6–6	5–7	—	9–9	8–10	9–8	5–7	7–5	11–7
New York	10–2	14–4	8–4	8–4	5–7	9–9	—	11–7	10–8	7–5	8–4	8–10
Philadelphia	2-10	5–13	5–7	8–4	8–4	10–8	7–11	—	11–7	5–7	6–6	8–10
Pittsburgh	6–6	5–13	3–9	6–6	4–8	8–9	8–10	7–11	—	4–8	3–9	3–15
San Diego	11–7	4–8	9–9	6–12	10–8	7–5	5–7	7–5	8–4	—	12–6	4–8
San Francisco	8–10	6–6	6–12	3–15	7–11	5–7	4–8	6–6	9–3	6–12	—	2–10
St. Louis	9–3	14–4	7–5	6–6	5–7	7–11	10–8	10–8	15–3	8–4	10–2	—

Game Log

1985 Game Log (57–104)

April (6–12)

May (9–17)

June (9–18)

July (8–19)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
72	July 1	@ Mets	1–0	Reuschel (6–1)	Fernandez	Candelaria (8)	21,610	25–47
73	July 2	@ Mets	4–5	Darling	McWilliams (4–7)	McDowell	22,651	25–48
74	July 3	@ Mets	2–6	Lynch	DeLeon (2–11)	—	46,220	25–49
75	July 4	Padres	1–9	Show	Rhoden (5–8)	—	10,102	25–50
76	July 5	Padres	5–4 (12)	Reuschel (7–1)	Lefferts	—	8,986	26–50
77	July 6	Padres	8–7	Candelaria (2–3)	Lefferts	—	10,281	27–50
78	July 7	Padres	0–3	Hoyt	Reuschel (7–2)	—	11,608	27–51
79	July 8	Dodgers	3–4	Valenzuela	DeLeon (2–12)	—	6,537	27–52
80	July 9	Dodgers	3–8	Honeycutt	Rhoden (5–9)	Niedenfuer	6,748	27–53
81	July 10	Dodgers	4–5	Reuss	Tunnell (0–6)	Howell	12,934	27–54
82	July 11	Giants	6–4	Guante (2–1)	Krukow	—	5,188	28–54
83	July 12	Giants	3–1	Reuschel (8–2)	Gott	Candelaria (9)	7,915	29–54
84	July 13	Giants	1–4	LaPoint	DeLeon (2–13)	—	10,050	29–55
85	July 14	Giants	3–7	Laskey	Rhoden (5–10)	Davis	18,313	29–56
86	July 18	@ Padres	2–3	Lefferts	Candelaria (2–4)	Gossage	20,740	29–57
87	July 19	@ Padres	0–6	Hawkins	DeLeon (2–14)	—	30,386	29–58
88	July 20	@ Padres	2–4	Hoyt	Rhoden (5–11)	Gossage	36,340	29–59
89	July 21	@ Padres	5–2	Tunnell (1–6)	Show	—	23,481	30–59
90	July 22	@ Dodgers	6–3	McWilliams (5–7)	Honeycutt	Guante (1)	29,888	31–59
91	July 23	@ Dodgers	0–6	Hershiser	Reuschel (8–3)	—	33,013	31–60
92	July 24	@ Dodgers	1–9	Welch	Robinson (2–4)	—	34,051	31–61
93	July 25	@ Giants	3–4	Minton	Guante (2–2)	—	3,821	31–62
94	July 26	@ Giants	1–3	Laskey	Tunnell (1–7)	Garrelts	5,305	31–63
95	July 27	@ Giants	3–8	LaPoint	Robinson (2–5)	Minton	8,271	31–64
96	July 28	@ Giants	2–3 (10)	Garrelts	Guante (2–3)	—	10,976	31–65
97	July 30	Phillies	0–2	Gross	Rhoden (5–12)	Tekulve	7,496	31–66
98	July 31	Phillies	4–3 (10)	Guante (3–3)	Tekulve	—	6,797	32–66

August (8–20)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
99	August 1	Phillies	0–3	Denny	Robinson (2–6)	—	6,199	32–67
100	August 2	Expos	2–3	Hesketh	Reuschel (8–4)	Reardon	6,705	32–68
101	August 3	Expos	5–6	Roberge	McWilliams (5–8)	Reardon	10,593	32–69
102	August 4	Expos	4–3	Rhoden (6–12)	Gullickson	Guante (2)	10,981	33–69
103	August 5	Expos	2–5	Burke	Winn (2–4)	Reardon	7,838	33–70
104	August 8	@ Phillies	3–7	Denny	Robinson (2–7)	Carman	18,142	33–71
105	August 9	@ Expos	2–7	Smith	Reuschel (8–5)	Reardon	18,165	33–72
106	August 10	@ Expos	5–7	St. Claire	Rhoden (6–13)	Roberge	19,982	33–73
107	August 11	@ Expos	5–6	Burke	Guante (3–4)	—	21,741	33–74
108	August 12	@ Cardinals	1–8	Tudor	Winn (2–5)	—	24,516	33–75
109	August 13	@ Cardinals	5–6	Andujar	Robinson (2–8)	Dayley	30,469	33–76
110	August 15	@ Cardinals	1–3	Kepshire	Reuschel (8–6)	Dayley	—	33–77
111	August 15	@ Cardinals	3–4 (12)	Campbell	Guante (3–5)	—	34,170	33–78
112	August 16	Mets	7–1	Rhoden (7–13)	Lynch	—	9,289	34–78
113	August 17	Mets	3–4	Fernandez	Tunnell (1–8)	McDowell	10,200	34–79
114	August 18	Mets	5–0	Robinson (3–8)	Aguilera	Clements (1)	14,508	35–79
115	August 20	Reds	3–2	Reuschel (9–6)	Soto	—	7,827	36–79
116	August 21	Reds	5–8	Browning	Walk (0–1)	Franco	17,198	36–80
117	August 22	Reds	5–1	Rhoden (8–13)	Tibbs	Scurry (2)	10,437	37–80
118	August 23	Astros	0–2 (10)	Dawley	Clements (0–1)	DiPino	4,198	37–81
119	August 25	Astros	9–3	Reuschel (10–6)	Scott	—	—	38–81
120	August 25	Astros	10–9	Robinson (4–8)	Calhoun	—	7,929	39–81
121	August 26	@ Braves	1–2	Garber	Robinson (4–9)	—	4,125	39–82
122	August 27	@ Braves	6–7	Garber	Robinson (4–10)	—	4,580	39–83
123	August 28	@ Braves	1–6	Barker	Tunnell (1–9)	McMurtry	5,187	39–84
124	August 29	@ Reds	0–6	Browning	DeLeon (2–15)	—	18,789	39–85
125	August 30	@ Reds	0–1	Tibbs	Reuschel (10–7)	—	21,253	39–86
126	August 31	@ Reds	6–0	Walk (1–1)	McGaffigan	—	28,656	40–86

September (13–14)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
127	September 1	@ Reds	2–3	Soto	Scurry (0–1)	Franco	30,062	40–87
128	September 2	Braves	5–4	Tunnell (2–9)	Mahler	Guante (3)	5,378	41–87
129	September 3	Braves	0–2	Johnson	DeLeon (2–16)	Sutter	3,019	41–88
130	September 4	Braves	2–0	Reuschel (11–7)	Perez	—	4,613	42–88
131	September 5	@ Astros	3–4	Knepper	Walk (1–2)	Smith	6,003	42–89
132	September 6	@ Astros	3–4 (10)	Dawley	Robinson (4–11)	—	7,163	42–90
133	September 7	@ Astros	7–1	Tunnell (3–9)	Kerfeld	—	15,999	43–90
134	September 10	Cubs	2–1	Reuschel (12–7)	Engel	—	3,133	44–90
135	September 11	Cubs	1–3	Meridith	DeLeon (2–17)	Baller	5,432	44–91
136	September 12	Cubs	10–2	Rhoden (9–13)	Eckersley	Robinson (3)	3,439	45–91
137	September 13	Phillies	3–6	Denny	Walk (1–3)	Tekulve	4,429	45–92
138	September 14	Phillies	6–3	Tunnell (4–9)	Carlton	Guante (4)	5,549	46–92
139	September 15	Phillies	5–4	Reuschel (13–7)	Shipanoff	—	5,961	47–92
140	September 16	Cardinals	4–8	Tudor	DeLeon (2–18)	Worrell	—	47–93
141	September 16	Cardinals	1–3	Perry	Clements (0–2)	—	3,601	47–94
142	September 17	Cardinals	4–10	Andujar	Kipper (0–1)	—	3,924	47–95
143	September 18	@ Expos	10–6 (11)	Robinson (5–11)	Roberge	—	8,448	48–95
144	September 19	@ Expos	8–6 (10)	Winn (3–5)	Burke	—	7,627	49–95
145	September 20	@ Mets	7–5 (11)	Guante (4–5)	Latham	DeLeon (1)	33,803	50–95
146	September 21	@ Mets	1–12	Gooden	Rhoden (9–14)	—	49,931	50–96
147	September 22	@ Mets	5–3	Kipper (1–1)	Leach	Clements (2)	35,679	51–96
148	September 23	@ Cardinals	4–5	Lahti	Guante (4–6)	Worrell	17,611	51–97
149	September 24	@ Cardinals	4–5	Horton	Tunnell (4–10)	Dayley	20,054	51–98
150	September 25	Expos	8–2	Reuschel (14–7)	Laskey	—	2,648	52–98
151	September 27	Mets	8–7	McWilliams (6–8)	Gardner	DeLeon (2)	4,843	53–98
152	September 28	Mets	1–3	Aguilera	Kipper (1–2)	Orosco	4,410	53–99
153	September 29	Mets	7–9 (10)	Orosco	McWilliams (6–9)	—	13,956	53–100

October (4–4)

Legend: = Win = Loss
Bold = Pirates team member

Roster

1985 Pittsburgh Pirates

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

26 Junior Ortiz
6 Tony Peña

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

7 Chuck Tanner

Coaches

32 Steve Demeter (first base)
31 Milt Graff (bench)
23 Grant Jackson (pitching)
55 Rick Peterson (bullpen)
4 Bob Skinner (third base)
8 Willie Stargell (first base)

Opening Day starters

CF – Marvell Wynne
2B – Johnny Ray
3B – Bill Madlock
1B – Jason Thompson
RF – George Hendrick
C – Tony Peña
LF – Doug Frobel
SS – Tim Foli
P – Rick Rhoden

Player stats

Batting

Regular Season^[7]
Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
A. Holland	38	5	2	0.400	0	0
P. Clements	27	3	1	0.333	0	0
M. Brown	57	205	68	0.332	5	33
R. Reynolds	31	130	40	0.308	3	17
J. Orsulak	121	397	119	0.300	0	21
J. Ortiz	23	72	21	0.292	1	5
S. Loucks	4	7	2	0.286	0	1
S. Bream	26	95	27	0.284	3	15
L. Mazzilli	92	117	33	0.282	1	9
J. Ray	154	594	163	0.274	7	70
B. Almon	88	244	66	0.270	6	29
J. Morrison	92	244	62	0.254	4	22
B. Madlock	110	399	100	0.251	10	41
S. Kemp	92	236	59	0.250	2	21
B. Kipper	5	8	2	0.250	0	0
T. Peña	147	546	136	0.249	10	59
J. Thompson	123	402	97	0.241	12	61
D. Robinson	44	21	5	0.238	1	4
S. Khalifa	95	320	76	0.238	2	31
G. Hendrick	69	256	59	0.230	2	25
D. González	35	124	28	0.226	4	12
S. Lezcano	72	116	24	0.207	3	9
M. Wynne	103	337	69	0.205	2	18
D. Frobel	53	109	22	0.202	0	7
R. Belliard	17	20	4	0.200	0	1
T. Foli	19	37	7	0.189	0	2
R. Rhoden	37	74	14	0.189	0	6
R. Reuschel	31	59	10	0.169	1	7
J. LeMaster	22	58	9	0.155	1	6
T. Davis	2	7	1	0.143	0	0
L. McWilliams	32	40	5	0.125	0	2
J. Winn	30	18	2	0.111	0	0
L. Tunnell	24	47	4	0.085	0	1
C. Guante	63	17	1	0.059	0	0
J. DeLeón	31	36	2	0.056	0	0
M. Bielecki	13	10	0	0.000	0	0
J. Candelaria	37	1	0	0.000	0	0
J. Dybzinski	5	4	0	0.000	0	0
R. Scurry	30	4	0	0.000	0	0
B. Walk	9	17	0	0.000	0	0
R. Krawczyk	8	0	0	—	0	0
K. Tekulve	3	0	0	—	0	0
D. Tomlin	1	0	0	—	0	0

Pitching

Regular Season^[8]
Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
D. Tomlin	1	1	0	0	0.00	0
R. Reuschel	31	194	14	8	2.27	138
C. Guante	63	109	4	6	2.72	92
R. Scurry	30	47²⁄₃	0	1	3.21	43
A. Holland	38	58²⁄₃	1	3	3.38	47
J. Candelaria	37	54¹⁄₃	2	4	3.64	47
P. Clements	27	34¹⁄₃	0	2	3.67	17
B. Walk	9	58²⁄₃	2	3	3.68	40
D. Robinson	44	95¹⁄₃	5	11	3.87	65
L. Tunnell	24	132¹⁄₃	4	10	4.01	74
R. Rhoden	35	213¹⁄₃	10	15	4.47	128
M. Bielecki	12	45²⁄₃	2	3	4.53	22
L. McWilliams	30	126¹⁄₃	7	9	4.70	52
J. DeLeón	31	162²⁄₃	2	19	4.70	149
B. Kipper	5	24²⁄₃	1	2	5.11	13
J. Winn	30	75²⁄₃	3	6	5.23	22
R. Krawczyk	8	8¹⁄₃	0	2	14.04	9
K. Tekulve	3	3¹⁄₃	0	0	16.20	4

Awards and honors

Rick Rueschel, Hutch Award,^[9] National League Comeback Player of the Year

1985 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Tony Peña, C, Reserve

Transactions

October 15, 1984 – Dale Mohorcic granted Free Agency.
October 15, 1984 – Nelson Norman granted Free Agency.
October 15, 1984 – Kelly Paris granted Free Agency.
November 8, 1984 – Lee Lacy granted Free Agency.
November 8, 1984 – Milt May granted Free Agency.
December 3, 1984 – Drafted Junior Ortiz from the New York Mets in the 1984 rule 5 draft.
December 12, 1984 – Traded Brian Harper and John Tudor to the St. Louis Cardinals. Received Steve Barnard (minors) and George Hendrick.
December 20, 1984 – Traded Dale Berra, Jay Buhner and Alfonso Pulido to the New York Yankees. Received Tim Foli, Steve Kemp and cash.
January 3, 1985 – Drafted Greg Vaughn in the 1st round (19th pick) of the 1985 amateur draft (January Secondary), but did not sign the player.
January 3, 1985 – Drafted Derek Lee in the 9th round of the 1985 amateur draft (January), but did not sign the player.
January 15, 1985 – Signed Juan Eichelberger as a free agent.
January 22, 1985 – Signed Sixto Lezcano as a free agent.
February 22, 1985 – Signed Orlando Merced as an amateur free agent.
February 28, 1985 – Signed Rick Reuschel as a free agent.
March 1, 1985 – Signed Scott Loucks as a free agent.
April 7, 1985 – Released Juan Eichelberger.
April 8, 1985 – Signed Bill Almon as a free agent.
April 11, 1985 – Signed Jerry Dybzinski as a free agent.
April 11, 1985 – Signed John Henry Johnson as a free agent.
April 20, 1985 – Traded Kent Tekulve to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Frankie Griffin (minors) and Al Holland.
April 27, 1985 – Traded Steve Herz (minors) to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Mike Diaz.
May 30, 1985 – Traded a player to be named later to the Cleveland Indians. Received Johnnie LeMaster. The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Scott Bailes (July 3, 1985) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.
June 3, 1985 – Drafted Tommy Hinzo in the 1st round (4th pick) of the 1985 amateur draft (June Secondary), but did not sign the player.
June 3, 1985 – Drafted Barry Bonds in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1985 amateur draft. Player signed June 5, 1985.
June 3, 1985 – Drafted Brett Gideon in the 6th round of the 1985 amateur draft.
June 3, 1985 – Drafted Tommy Gregg in the 7th round of the 1985 amateur draft. Player signed June 7, 1985.
June 3, 1985 – Drafted Bill Sampen in the 12th round of the 1985 amateur draft.
June 3, 1985 – Drafted Tommy Shields in the 36th round of the 1985 amateur draft, but did not sign the player.
June 17, 1985 – Released Tim Foli.
July 26, 1985 – Released John Henry Johnson.
August 2, 1985 – Traded John Candelaria, George Hendrick and Al Holland to the California Angels. Received a player to be named later, Mike Brown and Pat Clements. The California Angels sent Bob Kipper (August 16, 1985) to the Pittsburgh Pirates to complete the trade.
August 12, 1985 – Sold Doug Frobel to the Montreal Expos.
August 31, 1985 – Traded Bill Madlock to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Received players to be named later. The Los Angeles Dodgers sent R.J. Reynolds (September 3, 1985), Cecil Espy (September 9, 1985) and Sid Bream (September 9, 1985) to the Pittsburgh Pirates to complete the trade.
September 14, 1985 – Sold Rod Scurry to the New York Yankees.
October 4, 1985 – Released Jerry Dybzinski.
October 4, 1985 – Released Mitchell Page.
October 4, 1985 – Released Eddie Vargas.
October 15, 1985 – Dave Tomlin granted Free Agency.

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Hawaii Islanders	Pacific Coast League	Tommy Sandt
AA	Nashua Pirates	Eastern League	Johnny Lipon
A	Prince William Pirates	Carolina League	Ed Ott
A	Macon Pirates	South Atlantic League	Mike Quade
Short-Season A	Watertown Pirates	New York-Penn League	Woody Hunt
Rookie	GCL Pirates	Gulf Coast League	Woody Huyke

References

↑ From 1882-1906, the team played in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which became annexed by Pittsburgh as the North Shore in 1907.
↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WYMcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UWIEAAAAIBAJ&dq=tampa%20pirates&pg=1868%2C7818403
↑ Brian Harper page at Baseball Reference
↑ Jay Buhner page at Baseball Reference
↑ Rick Reuschel page at Baseball Reference
↑ Scott Loucks page at Baseball Reference
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[5] Rick Reuschel page at Baseball Reference

[6] Scott Loucks page at Baseball Reference

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1985 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	57–104 (.354)
Divisional place	6th
Other information
Owner(s)	John W. Galbreath Warner Communications
General manager(s)	Harding "Pete" Peterson, Joe L. Brown
Manager(s)	Chuck Tanner
Local television	KDKA-TV Lanny Frattare, Jim Rooker, John Sanders, Steve Blass
Local radio	KDKA Lanny Frattare, Jim Rooker, Bob Prince (select games until death on June 10)
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