relief pitchers with most innings pitched 1979

Jim Kern pitched the most innings by a relief pitcher in 1979, with 143 innings.

	NAME	IP	SEASON	TM	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	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	Jim Kern J. Kern	143.0	1979	TEX	71	13	5	.722	0	1.57	136	0	0	29	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
2	Mike Marshall M. Marshall	140.2	1979	MIN	89	10	14	.417	0	2.62	79	0	0	32	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	Kent Tekulve K. Tekulve	134.1	1979	PIT	94	10	8	.556	0	2.75	75	0	0	31	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
4	John Montague J. Montague	134.0	1979	TOT	54	8	3	.727	0	5.24	66	0	0	7	137	78	81	15	56	2	25	13	579	5	4.43	3.76	1.18	1.01	11.4	9.7	1.44	.277	5.44	9.20
5	Sid Monge S. Monge	131.0	1979	CLE	76	12	10	.545	0	2.40	108	0	0	19	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	Enrique Romo E. Romo	129.1	1979	PIT	84	10	5	.667	0	2.99	106	0	0	5	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
7	Aurelio Lopez A. Lopez	127.0	1979	DET	61	10	5	.667	0	2.41	106	0	0	21	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
8	Dick Tidrow D. Tidrow	125.1	1979	TOT	77	13	6	.684	0	3.66	75	0	0	6	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
9	Dale Murray D. Murray	110.1	1979	TOT	67	5	10	.333	0	4.57	41	0	0	5	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
10	Mark Clear M. Clear	109.0	1979	CAL	52	11	5	.688	0	3.63	98	0	0	14	87	44	48	6	68	3	37	5	481	9	8.09	5.61	1.44	0.50	20.4	14.1	1.42	.265	3.96	7.18
11	Gene Garber G. Garber	106.0	1979	ATL	68	6	16	.273	0	4.33	56	0	0	25	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
12	Ron Reed R. Reed	102.0	1979	PHI	61	13	8	.619	0	4.15	58	0	0	5	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
13	Bruce Sutter B. Sutter	101.1	1979	CHC	62	6	6	.500	0	2.22	110	0	0	37	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
14	Gary Lavelle G. Lavelle	96.2	1979	SFG	70	7	9	.438	0	2.51	80	0	0	20	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
15	Elias Sosa E. Sosa	96.2	1979	MON	62	8	7	.533	0	1.96	59	0	0	18	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
16	Sparky Lyle S. Lyle	95.0	1979	TEX	67	5	8	.385	0	3.13	48	0	0	13	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
17	Stan Bahnsen S. Bahnsen	94.1	1979	MON	55	3	1	.750	0	3.15	71	0	0	5	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
18	Doug Bair D. Bair	94.1	1979	CIN	65	11	7	.611	0	4.29	86	0	0	16	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
19	Sammy Stewart S. Stewart	93.2	1979	BAL	28	5	5	.500	0	3.94	58	0	0	1	84	41	42	9	57	5	10	4	404	5	5.57	5.48	1.02	0.86	14.4	14.1	1.51	.273	4.04	8.07
20	Joe Sambito J. Sambito	91.1	1979	HOU	63	8	7	.533	0	1.77	83	0	0	22	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
21	Pedro Borbon P. Borbon	90.2	1979	TOT	60	6	5	.545	0	4.17	49	0	0	5	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
22	Byron McLaughlin B. McLaughlin	89.2	1979	SEA	40	5	4	.556	0	3.21	54	0	0	14	80	32	32	6	43	0	31	8	382	5	5.42	4.32	1.26	0.60	14.1	11.3	1.37	.265	3.21	8.03
23	Ed Farmer E. Farmer	88.2	1979	TOT	48	4	4	.500	0	1.62	60	0	0	14	60	16	30	3	37	0	35	10	363	7	6.09	3.76	1.62	0.30	16.5	10.2	1.09	.217	3.05	6.09
24	Tom Burgmeier T. Burgmeier	88.2	1979	BOS	44	3	2	.600	0	2.74	60	0	0	4	89	27	32	8	16	4	24	4	368	1	6.09	1.62	3.75	0.81	16.3	4.3	1.18	.289	3.25	9.03
25	Mike Barlow M. Barlow	86.0	1979	CAL	35	1	1	.500	0	5.13	33	0	0	0	106	49	54	8	30	4	15	2	378	6	3.45	3.14	1.10	0.84	8.7	7.9	1.58	.323	5.65	11.09

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Fri 9/4	TBR	@	TEX	8:05 PM
Sat 9/5	TBR	@	TEX	7:05 PM
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