relief pitchers with most games pitched 1979

Kent Tekulve pitched in the most games by a relief pitcher in 1979, with 94 games.

	NAME	G	SEASON	TM	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	H/9
1	Kent Tekulve K. Tekulve	94	1979	PIT	10	8	.556	0	2.75	75	0	0	31	134.1	109	41	46	5	49	2	67	20	550	4	5.02	3.28	1.53	0.33	13.6	8.9	1.18	.248	3.08	7.30
2	Mike Marshall M. Marshall	89	1979	MIN	10	14	.417	0	2.62	79	0	0	32	140.2	131	41	46	7	47	4	84	2	578	8	5.05	3.01	1.68	0.45	13.7	8.1	1.27	.281	2.94	8.38
3	Enrique Romo E. Romo	84	1979	PIT	10	5	.667	0	2.99	106	0	0	5	129.1	122	43	50	11	43	3	25	9	537	6	7.38	2.99	2.47	0.77	19.7	8.0	1.28	.297	3.48	8.49
4	Dick Tidrow D. Tidrow	77	1979	TOT	13	6	.684	0	3.66	75	0	0	6	125.1	124	51	55	10	46	2	37	11	526	5	5.39	3.30	1.63	0.72	14.3	8.7	1.36	.290	3.95	8.90
5	Sid Monge S. Monge	76	1979	CLE	12	10	.545	0	2.40	108	0	0	19	131.0	96	35	37	9	64	1	53	8	542	9	7.42	4.40	1.69	0.62	19.9	11.8	1.22	.242	2.54	6.60
6	Grant Jackson G. Jackson	72	1979	PIT	8	5	.615	0	2.96	39	0	0	14	82.0	67	27	32	9	35	2	29	5	339	3	4.28	3.84	1.11	0.99	11.5	10.3	1.24	.228	3.51	7.35
7	Jim Kern J. Kern	71	1979	TEX	13	5	.722	0	1.57	136	0	0	29	143.0	99	25	35	5	62	2	57	6	578	5	8.56	3.90	2.19	0.31	23.5	10.7	1.13	.252	2.20	6.23
8	Gary Lavelle G. Lavelle	70	1979	SFG	7	9	.438	0	2.51	80	0	0	20	96.2	86	27	31	5	42	2	55	15	407	2	7.45	3.91	1.90	0.47	19.7	10.3	1.32	.291	2.89	8.01
9	Gene Garber G. Garber	68	1979	ATL	6	16	.273	0	4.33	56	0	0	25	106.0	121	51	66	10	24	5	55	9	461	0	4.75	2.04	2.33	0.85	12.1	5.2	1.37	.303	5.60	10.27
10	Sparky Lyle S. Lyle	67	1979	TEX	5	8	.385	0	3.13	48	0	0	13	95.0	78	33	37	9	28	0	53	6	384	3	4.55	2.65	1.71	0.85	12.5	7.3	1.12	.231	3.51	7.39
11	Dale Murray D. Murray	67	1979	TOT	5	10	.333	0	4.57	41	0	0	5	110.1	119	56	62	7	55	0	27	16	481	3	3.34	4.49	0.75	0.57	8.5	11.4	1.58	.296	5.06	9.71
12	Doug Bair D. Bair	65	1979	CIN	11	7	.611	0	4.29	86	0	0	16	94.1	93	45	47	7	51	3	42	12	430	3	8.20	4.87	1.69	0.67	20.0	11.9	1.53	.304	4.48	8.87
13	Tug McGraw T. McGraw	64	1979	PHI	4	3	.571	0	4.97	56	0	0	16	79.2	78	44	52	8	27	2	43	7	338	2	6.33	3.05	2.07	0.90	16.6	8.0	1.32	.286	5.87	8.81
14	Mark Littell M. Littell	63	1979	STL	9	4	.692	0	2.19	67	0	0	13	82.1	60	20	22	2	39	0	40	5	342	7	7.32	4.26	1.72	0.22	19.6	11.4	1.20	.248	2.40	6.56
15	Joe Sambito J. Sambito	63	1979	HOU	8	7	.533	0	1.77	83	0	0	22	91.1	80	18	20	8	23	4	51	4	375	0	8.18	2.27	3.61	0.79	22.1	6.1	1.13	.280	1.97	7.88
16	Bruce Sutter B. Sutter	62	1979	CHC	6	6	.500	0	2.22	110	0	0	37	101.1	67	25	29	3	32	0	56	5	403	9	9.77	2.84	3.44	0.27	27.3	7.9	0.98	.248	2.58	5.95
17	Dave Heaverlo D. Heaverlo	62	1979	OAK	4	11	.267	0	4.20	40	0	0	9	85.2	97	40	42	7	42	4	42	18	392	0	4.20	4.41	0.95	0.74	10.2	10.7	1.62	.301	4.41	10.19
18	Elias Sosa E. Sosa	62	1979	MON	8	7	.533	0	1.96	59	0	0	18	96.2	77	21	24	2	37	2	41	11	396	1	5.49	3.44	1.59	0.19	14.9	9.3	1.18	.253	2.23	7.17
19	Aurelio Lopez A. Lopez	61	1979	DET	10	5	.667	0	2.41	106	0	0	21	127.0	95	34	37	12	51	3	49	3	519	3	7.51	3.61	2.08	0.85	20.4	9.8	1.15	.239	2.62	6.73
20	Ron Reed R. Reed	61	1979	PHI	13	8	.619	0	4.15	58	0	0	5	102.0	110	47	52	9	32	2	37	9	439	3	5.12	2.82	1.81	0.79	13.2	7.3	1.39	.299	4.59	9.71
21	Victor Cruz V. Cruz	61	1979	CLE	3	9	.250	0	4.23	63	0	0	10	78.2	70	37	41	10	44	1	48	4	343	1	7.21	5.03	1.43	1.14	18.4	12.8	1.45	.267	4.69	8.01
22	Pedro Borbon P. Borbon	60	1979	TOT	6	5	.545	0	4.17	49	0	0	5	90.2	104	42	45	9	21	0	31	7	390	0	4.86	2.08	2.33	0.89	12.6	5.4	1.38	.305	4.47	10.32
23	Al Hrabosky A. Hrabosky	58	1979	KCR	9	4	.692	0	3.74	39	0	0	11	65.0	67	27	31	3	41	1	37	10	294	7	5.40	5.68	0.95	0.42	13.3	13.9	1.66	.305	4.29	9.28
24	Tom Griffin T. Griffin	56	1979	SFG	5	3	.625	0	3.14	70	0	0	2	80.1	66	28	33	7	37	3	13	6	339	3	7.84	4.15	1.89	0.78	20.6	10.9	1.28	.266	3.70	7.39
25	Stan Bahnsen S. Bahnsen	55	1979	MON	3	1	.750	0	3.15	71	0	0	5	94.1	80	33	34	10	42	0	15	4	388	2	6.77	4.01	1.69	0.95	18.3	10.8	1.29	.264	3.24	7.63

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