MLB / Players

Al Downing

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornJune 28, 1941 · Trenton, NJ, USA

MLB debutJuly 19, 1961

Final gameJuly 13, 1977

Seasons17 (1961–1977)

New York Yankees 1961–1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970; Oakland Athletics 1970; Los Angeles Dodgers 1971–1977

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified pitchers

4.7

17.4

10.5

82.6

15.1

SHO

33.7

155

96.5

87.2

65.1

124

44.2

52.3

193.0

20.9

ERA

3.31

58.1

WHIP

1.155

87.2

K/9

5.78

FIP

3.62

52.3

FIP-

103.9

31.4

ERA+

105.2

44.2

sWAR

2.2

32.6

of 87 qualified 1973 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.9

61.1

sWAR

26.8

95.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1961	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.9	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1962	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1963	24	64	58	4	6	2	0	0	2	3	31	.103	.148	.138	.285	-28.2	-18.1	.138	3.6
1964	40	93	85	5	15	1	1	0	7	4	33	.176	.213	.212	.425	10.8	19.3	.199	3.0
1965	36	83	74	4	8	2	0	1	7	3	30	.108	.143	.176	.319	-20.6	-9.1	.150	2.0
1966	30	79	70	4	7	0	1	0	7	4	30	.100	.149	.129	.277	-26.4	-17.9	.137	1.2
1967	31	72	66	5	8	1	0	1	2	5	29	.121	.183	.182	.365	4.8	10.3	.179	3.3
1968	15	18	17	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	10	.176	.222	.176	.399	16.9	24.3	.197	0.1
1969	30	48	44	2	6	1	0	0	5	2	17	.136	.174	.159	.333	-12.6	-3.9	.163	1.4
1970	27	43	35	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	17	.114	.114	.114	.229	-56.4	-36.0	.106	1.4
1971	37	106	92	4	16	2	0	0	10	6	28	.174	.224	.196	.420	20.4	24.0	.206	4.7
1972	31	73	66	2	8	1	1	0	2	1	27	.121	.134	.167	.301	-29.3	-13.3	.140	2.8
1973	30	69	57	2	5	2	0	0	3	5	18	.088	.161	.123	.284	-19.8	-17.7	.149	2.2
1974	21	34	29	3	5	0	0	0	2	1	11	.172	.194	.172	.366	-1.7	6.1	.177	0.7
1975	22	19	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	8	.000	.105	.000	.105	-70.2	-67.8	.080	1.1
1976	17	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.7	-100.0	.000	0.1
1977	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.7	-100.0	.000	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1961	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	7	8	12	12	0	9.0	8.00	2.111	12.00	4.17	110.0	47.4	-0.4
1962	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.0	0.00	.000	9.00	0.51	13.6	—	0.1
1963	24	22	13	5	0	10	4	114	50	80	171	7	175.7	2.56	1.104	8.76	2.40	67.8	138.1	3.6
1964	37	35	13	8	2	11	1	201	94	120	217	18	244.0	3.47	1.316	8.00	3.12	86.0	104.5	3.0
1965	35	32	12	14	0	8	2	185	80	105	179	16	212.0	3.40	1.368	7.60	3.21	93.9	100.5	2.0
1966	30	30	10	11	0	1	0	178	79	79	152	23	200.0	3.56	1.285	6.84	3.61	108.5	93.6	1.2
1967	31	28	14	10	0	10	4	158	59	61	171	13	201.7	2.63	1.086	7.63	2.56	81.9	118.7	3.3
1968	15	12	3	3	0	1	0	54	24	20	40	7	61.3	3.52	1.207	5.87	3.43	118.7	82.1	0.1
1969	30	15	7	5	0	5	1	117	49	49	85	12	130.7	3.38	1.270	5.85	3.38	97.3	102.9	1.4
1970	27	22	5	13	0	2	0	118	53	81	79	13	135.3	3.52	1.470	5.25	4.39	119.0	104.8	1.4
1971	37	36	20	9	0	12	5	245	78	84	136	16	262.3	2.68	1.254	4.67	3.29	100.8	122.1	4.7
1972	31	30	9	9	0	7	4	196	67	67	117	13	202.7	2.98	1.298	5.20	3.30	98.6	112.6	2.8
1973	30	28	9	9	0	5	2	155	71	68	124	19	193.0	3.31	1.155	5.78	3.62	103.9	105.2	2.2
1974	21	16	5	6	0	1	1	94	40	45	63	7	98.3	3.66	1.414	5.77	3.69	107.3	94.1	0.7
1975	22	6	2	1	1	0	0	59	24	28	39	6	74.7	2.89	1.165	4.70	3.82	111.2	118.9	1.1
1976	17	3	1	2	0	0	0	43	20	18	30	3	46.7	3.86	1.307	5.79	3.35	99.0	87.9	0.1
1977	12	1	0	1	0	0	0	22	15	16	23	4	20.0	6.75	1.900	10.35	5.43	141.7	56.8	-0.5

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

409

809

717

RBI

293

.1269

OBP

.1693

SLG

.1604

OPS

.3297

Pitching

G (P)

405

317

307th-most career GS

123

424th-most career W

107

474th-most career L

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,268

319th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,639

182nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

933

145th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.218

269th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2692

426th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.50

284th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1966-06-03	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	0	5	4
1964-05-27	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	4
1965-08-08	NYY @ DET Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	3	4
1967-06-23	DET @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1971-05-28	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-07-06	NYY @ CLE Gameday	7.2	6	4	4	5	14	2
1964-06-21	NYY @ CWS Gameday	12.0	7	1	1	4	13	0
1963-08-25	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	13	0
1964-05-03	TEX @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	5	13	0
1967-05-24	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	13	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.