Lee Stange

Lee Stange
Pitcher
Born: October 27, 1936 Chicago
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 15, 1961, for the Minnesota Twins
Last MLB appearance
September 21, 1970, for the Chicago White Sox
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	62–61
Earned run average	3.56
Strikeouts	718
Teams
Minnesota Twins (1961–1964) Cleveland Indians (1964–1966) Boston Red Sox (1966–1970) Chicago White Sox (1970)

Albert Lee Stange (born October 27, 1936) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. The right-hander was signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent before the 1957 season. He played for the Minnesota Twins (1961–64), Cleveland Indians (1964–66), Boston Red Sox (1966–70), and Chicago White Sox (1970).

The majority of his 359 appearances were as a relief pitcher, but he did start 125 games. In 1963, he was 12–5 and finished sixth in the American League in earned run average (2.62) and fifth in winning percentage (.705). In 1967, he was 8–10, 2.77 for the pennant-winning "Impossible Dream" Red Sox, and pitched two scoreless innings in World Series Game # 3 (October 7, 1967). He finished his career with a total of 62 wins, 61 losses, 32 complete games, 8 shutouts, 21 saves, 77 games finished, 718 strikeouts and only 344 walks in 1,216 innings pitched, and an ERA of 3.56.

Stange was later a pitching coach for the Boston Red Sox (1972–74; 1981–84), Minnesota Twins (1975), and Oakland Athletics (1977–79). He was a roving minor league pitching instructor in the Red Sox farm system in 1971, 1980 and 1985–94, and managed Oakland's Triple-A Tucson Toros farm club for the final weeks of the 1976 season.

Stange currently serves as the pitching coach for NCAA Division II Florida Institute of Technology.

See also

• List of Major League Baseball single-inning strikeout leaders

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
• Retrosheet