MLB / Players

Grover Lowdermilk

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 190 lb
BornJanuary 15, 1885 · Sandborn, IN, USA
MLB debutJuly 3, 1909
Final gameMay 12, 1920
Seasons9 (1909–1920)

St. Louis Cardinals 1909; St. Louis Cardinals 1911; Chicago Cubs 1912; Detroit Tigers 1915; St. Louis Browns 1915; Cleveland Indians 1916; Detroit Tigers 1916; St. Louis Browns 1917–1918; Chicago White Sox 1919; St. Louis Browns 1919; Chicago White Sox 1920

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified pitchers

G
45
85.6
GS
34
84
W
13
46.4
L
18
5.6
SV
0
0
CG
14
44.8
SHO
1
16
H
200
50.4
ER
90
9.6
BB
157
0.8
SO
148
89.6
HR
1
80
IP
250.3
65.6
ERA
3.24
23.2
WHIP
1.426
7.2
K/9
5.32
88
FIP
3.33
9.6
FIP-
116.1
8.8
ERA+
88.6
24
sWAR
1.0
24

of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 159 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
0.4
56.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1909710100100000400.100.100.100.200-51.0-37.2.097-1.2
191111990100000500.111.111.111.222-48.0-37.5.106-1.2
19122440000000100.000.000.000.000-112.7-100.0.000-0.9
1915458880210110362600.125.195.163.3587.78.3.1891.0
19161119181320000800.167.167.278.4449.330.3.2080.4
19173770000000200.000.000.000.000-124.8-100.0.0000.4
19181329283730021500.250.276.357.63383.292.3.3060.5
191927353513000101910.086.086.086.171-73.8-51.7.0811.5
19203000000000000-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1909730201028203014029.06.212.0004.344.60181.740.7-1.2
19111120101137273315133.37.292.1004.055.26156.046.3-1.2
191221010101714148113.09.692.3855.545.75171.534.6-0.9
1915453413180141200901571481250.33.241.4265.323.33116.188.61.0
19161191502052184828051.73.141.9354.884.20142.194.40.4
1917322102116349019.01.421.0534.261.8269.8184.00.4
191813112604074283825180.03.151.4002.813.24118.886.50.5
19192711550501013147490108.72.571.3624.063.1798.9124.91.5
19203000000945005.36.752.6250.005.71151.955.7-0.1

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

G
122
PA
201
AB
191
R
7
H
25
2B
6
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
6
BB
7
SO
70
SB
1
BA
.1309
OBP
.1658
SLG
.1728
OPS
.3386

Pitching

G (P)
122
GS
73
W
23
L
39
SV
0
CG
30
SHO
3
IP
590
SO (P)
296
BB allowed
376
ERA
3.583
WHIP
1.5415
K/9
4.51

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1915-07-04CLE @ BAL Gameday312100003
1915-04-27BAL @ DET Gameday301010003
1916-06-24CLE @ DET Gameday211100002
1916-07-11CLE @ NYY Gameday401100002
1918-04-26CWS @ BAL Gameday111100002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1909-10-01STL @ CIN Gameday8.09607100
1915-04-16CWS @ BAL Gameday9.0321390
1916-07-11CLE @ NYY Gameday9.0721780
1915-04-19CLE @ BAL Gameday9.0220570
1915-05-24BOS @ BAL Gameday9.0231870

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.