List of Philadelphia Phillies seasons

The 1915 World Series was the Phillies’ first post-season appearance (1915 team pictured).

The Philadelphia Phillies have completed 131 seasons in Major League Baseball since their inception in 1883. Through 2013, they have played 19,052 regular season games, winning 9,035 and losing 10,162, for a winning percentage of .471. The Phillies have also a combined record of 49—55 (.471) in post-season play.^[1] This list documents the season-by-season records of the Phillies’ franchise including their year as the “Quakers” and the years where they shared the names “Quakers” and “Phillies.” The team was formed in the National League after the dissolution of the Worcester baseball franchise at the end of 1882, though there is no additional connection between the teams.^[2]

At times, the Phillies’ search for success has been seen as an exercise in futility,^[3][4] because of their long stretches of losing seasons,^[5] including sixteen consecutive from 1933 through 1948.^[6] However, the Phillies do own seven National League pennants, won in 1915, 1950, 1980, 1983, 1993, 2008, and 2009, as well as championships in the 1980 and 2008 World Series. Compared to the team's early days, the Phillies have recently been more successful than not, with two periods of extended success: the first from 1975 to 1983, when they won five East Division championships as well as the first-half championship in the strike-shortened 1981 season,^[5] and the second starting in 2001, with a winning percentage of .540 over those nine seasons, finishing above .500 in all but one, and making the playoffs from 2007 to 2011.

During their record-setting streak of sixteen consecutive losing seasons, the Phillies posted their franchise record for losses in a season in 1941 with 111,^[7] falling shy of the modern (post-dead-ball era) Major League record of 120 losses in a season.^[8][9] During the 2007 season, the franchise also became the first professional sports team in American history to reach 10,000 losses.^[10] The Phillies have thrice surpassed the century mark for wins in a season: in 1976 with 101 wins,^[11] when they made their first playoff appearance in twenty-six seasons; again the next season when they matched that mark;^[12] and in 2011, when they set the franchise single-season record for wins with 102 victories and clinched a playoff position at the earliest point in team history.^[13][14] Philadelphia finished the 2010 season with a record of 97–65, marking the first time that the team completed a season with Major League Baseball’s best record;^[15] they duplicated this accomplishment in 2011 as the majors' only 100-win team.^[14] Since 2011, the Phillies have declined again and in 2015 they suffered the worst record in MLB and the franchise’s worst since an equally-poor record in 1969, with their worst before than from 1961.

Year by year

Big Ed Delahanty, 2B/OF/1B, 1888–1889, 1891–1901

Bob Allen, SS/manager, 1890–1894

Hugh Duffy, OF/manager, 1904–1906

Kaiser Wilhelm, P/manager, 1921–1922

Chuck Klein, OF, 1928–1933, 1936–1939, 1940–1944

Jim Konstanty, P, 1948–1954

Mike Schmidt, 3B, 1972–1989

Pat Burrell, OF, 2000–2008

Ryan Howard, 1B, 2004–present

Cole Hamels, P, 2006–2015

World Series champions (1903–present)

National League champions (1883–present)

Division champions (1969–present)*

Wild card berth (1994–present)^§

MLB season	Team season	League[1]	Division[1]	Regular season					Postseason	Awards
				Finish^[a]	Wins^[b]	Losses	Win%	GB^[c]
Philadelphia Quakers
1883	1883	NL		8th	17	81	.173	46
Philadelphia Quakers/Philadelphia Phillies
1884	1884	NL		6th	39	73	.348	45
1885	1885	NL		3rd	56	54	.509	30
1886	1886	NL		4th	71	43	.623	14
1887	1887^[m]	NL		2nd	75	48	.610	3^1⁄2
1888	1888	NL		3rd	69	61	.531	14^1⁄2
1889	1889	NL		4th	63	64	.496	20^1⁄2
Philadelphia Phillies
1890	1890	NL		3rd	78	54	.591	9^1⁄2
1891	1891	NL		4th	68	69	.496	18^1⁄2
1892	1892	NL		4th	87	66	.569	16^1⁄2
1893	1893	NL		4th	72	57	.558	14
1894	1894	NL		4th	71	57	.555	18
1895	1895	NL		3rd	78	53	.595	9^1⁄2
1896	1896	NL		8th	62	68	.477	28^1⁄2
1897	1897	NL		10th	55	77	.417	38
1898	1898	NL		6th	78	71	.523	24
1899	1899	NL		3rd	94	58	.618	9
1900	1900	NL		3rd	75	63	.543	8
1901	1901	NL		2nd	83	57	.593	7^1⁄2
1902	1902	NL		7th	56	81	.409	46
1903	1903	NL		7th	49	86	.363	39^1⁄2
1904	1904	NL		8th	52	100	.342	53^1⁄2
1905	1905	NL		4th	83	69	.546	21^1⁄2
1906	1906	NL		4th	71	82	.464	45^1⁄2
1907	1907	NL		3rd	83	64	.565	21^1⁄2
1908	1908	NL		4th	83	71	.539	16
1909	1909	NL		5th	74	79	.484	36^1⁄2
1910	1910	NL		4th	78	75	.510	25^1⁄2
1911	1911	NL		4th	79	73	.520	19^1⁄2
1912	1912	NL		5th	73	79	.480	30^1⁄2
1913	1913	NL		2nd	88	63	.583	12^1⁄2
1914	1914	NL		6th	74	80	.481	20^1⁄2
1915	1915	NL		1st	90	62	.592	—	Lost World Series to Boston Red Sox, 4–1 [16]
1916	1916	NL		2nd	91	62	.595	2^1⁄2
1917	1917	NL		2nd	87	65	.572	10
1918	1918	NL		6th	55	68	.447	26
1919	1919	NL		8th	47	90	.343	47^1⁄2
1920	1920	NL		8th	62	91	.405	30^1⁄2
1921	1921	NL		8th	51	103	.331	43^1⁄2
1922	1922	NL		7th	57	96	.373	35^1⁄2
1923	1923	NL		8th	50	104	.325	45^1⁄2
1924	1924	NL		7th	55	96	.364	37
1925	1925	NL		6th	68	85	.444	27
1926	1926	NL		8th	58	93	.384	29^1⁄2
1927	1927	NL		8th	51	103	.331	43
1928	1928	NL		8th	43	109	.283	51
1929	1929	NL		5th	71	82	.464	27^1⁄2
1930	1930	NL		8th	52	102	.338	40
1931	1931	NL		6th	66	88	.429	35
1932	1932	NL		4th	78	76	.506	12		Chuck Klein (MVP)^[h][17]
1933	1933	NL		7th	60	92	.395	31		Chuck Klein (NL Triple Crown)
1934	1934	NL		7th	56	93	.376	37
1935	1935	NL		7th	64	89	.418	35^1⁄2
1936	1936	NL		8th	54	100	.351	38
1937	1937^[n]	NL		7th	61	92	.399	34^1⁄2
1938	1938^[o]	NL		8th	45	105	.300	43
1939	1939	NL		8th	45	106	.298	50^1⁄2
1940	1940	NL		8th	50	103	.327	50
1941	1941	NL		8th	43	111	.279	57
1942	1942	NL		8th	42	109	.278	62^1⁄2
1943	1943	NL		7th	64	90	.416	41
1944	1944	NL		8th	61	92	.399	43^1⁄2
1945	1945	NL		8th	46	108	.299	52
1946	1946	NL		5th	69	85	.448	28
1947	1947	NL		7th	62	92	.403	32
1948	1948	NL		6th	66	88	.429	25^1⁄2
1949	1949	NL		3rd	81	73	.526	16
1950	1950	NL		1st	91	63	.591	—	Lost World Series to New York Yankees, 4–0[18]	Jim Konstanty (MVP)[17] Eddie Sawyer (MOY)^[g][19]
1951	1951	NL		5th	73	81	.474	23^1⁄2
1952	1952	NL		4th	87	67	.565	9^1⁄2
1953	1953	NL		3rd	83	71	.539	22
1954	1954	NL		4th	75	79	.487	22
1955	1955	NL		4th	77	77	.500	21^1⁄2
1956	1956	NL		5th	71	83	.461	22
1957	1957	NL		5th	77	77	.500	18		Jack Sanford (ROY)^[i][20]
1958	1958	NL		8th	69	85	.448	23
1959	1959	NL		8th	64	90	.416	23
1960	1960	NL		8th	59	95	.383	36
1961	1961	NL		8th	47	107	.305	46
1962	1962	NL		7th	81	80	.503	20		Gene Mauch (MOY) [21]
1963	1963	NL		4th	87	75	.537	12
1964	1964	NL		2nd	92	70	.568	1		Dick Allen (ROY)[20] Gene Mauch (MOY) [21]
1965	1965	NL		6th	85	76	.528	11^1⁄2
1966	1966	NL		4th	87	75	.537	8
1967	1967	NL		5th	82	80	.506	19^1⁄2
1968	1968	NL		7th	76	86	.469	21
1969	1969	NL	East	5th	63	99	.389	37
1970	1970^[p]	NL	East	5th	73	88	.453	15^1⁄2
1971	1971^[q]	NL	East	6th	67	95	.414	30
1972^[j]	1972	NL	East	6th	59	97	.378	37^1⁄2		Steve Carlton (CYA)^[f][22]
1973	1973	NL	East	6th	71	91	.438	11^1⁄2
1974	1974	NL	East	3rd	80	82	.494	8
1975	1975	NL	East	2nd	86	76	.531	6^1⁄2
1976	1976	NL	East*	1st	101	61	.623	—	Lost NLCS^[e] to Cincinnati Reds, 3–0[11]	Danny Ozark (MOY)[23]
1977	1977	NL	East*	1st	101	61	.623	—	Lost NLCS to Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–1[12]	Steve Carlton (CYA)[22]
1978	1978	NL	East*	1st	90	72	.556	—	Lost NLCS to Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–1[24]
1979	1979	NL	East	4th	84	78	.519	14
1980	1980	NL	East*	1st	91	71	.562	—	Won NLCS vs. Houston Astros, 3–2 Won World Series vs. Kansas City Royals, 4–2[25]	Mike Schmidt (MVP,[17] WSMVP)^[aa] Steve Carlton (CYA)[22]
1981^[k]	1981	NL	East	1st	34	21	.618	—	Lost NLDS^[d] to Montréal Expos, 3–2[26]	Mike Schmidt (MVP)[17]
				3rd	25	27	.481	4^1⁄2
1982	1982	NL	East	2nd	89	73	.549	3		Steve Carlton (CYA)[22]
1983	1983	NL	East*	1st	90	72	.556	—	Won NLCS vs. Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–1 Lost World Series to Baltimore Orioles, 4–1[27]	John Denny (CYA)[22]
1984	1984	NL	East	4th	81	81	.500	15^1⁄2
1985	1985	NL	East	5th	75	87	.463	26
1986	1986	NL	East	2nd	86	75	.534	21^1⁄2		Mike Schmidt (MVP)[17]
1987	1987	NL	East	5th	80	82	.494	15		Steve Bedrosian (CYA)[22]
1988	1988	NL	East	6th	65	96	.404	35^1⁄2
1989	1989	NL	East	6th	67	95	.414	26
1990	1990	NL	East	4th	77	85	.475	18
1991	1991	NL	East	3rd	78	84	.481	20
1992	1992	NL	East	6th	70	92	.432	26
1993	1993	NL	East*	1st	97	65	.599	—	Won NLCS vs. Atlanta Braves, 4–2 Lost World Series to Toronto Blue Jays, 4–2[28]
1994^[l]	1994	NL	East	4th	54	61	.470	20^1⁄2
1995	1995	NL	East	3rd	69	75	.479	21
1996	1996	NL	East	5th	67	95	.414	29
1997	1997	NL	East	5th	68	94	.420	33		Scott Rolen (ROY)[20]
1998	1998	NL	East	3rd	75	87	.463	31
1999	1999	NL	East	3rd	77	85	.475	26
2000	2000	NL	East	5th	65	97	.401	30
2001	2001	NL	East	2nd	86	76	.531	2		Larry Bowa (MOY)[23]
2002	2002	NL	East	3rd	80	81	.497	21^1⁄2
2003	2003^[r]	NL	East	3rd	86	76	.531	15
2004	2004^[s]	NL	East	2nd	86	76	.531	10		Jason Michaels (BLOOP)^[t]
2005	2005	NL	East	2nd	88	74	.543	2		Ryan Howard (ROY)[20]
Totals					Wins	Losses	Win%
					9,464	10,552	.473	All-time regular season record (1883–2014)
					49	54	.476	All-time postseason record
					9,513	10,606	.473	All-time regular and postseason record

These statistics are current as of the conclusion of the 2014 Major League Baseball season.

Footnotes

This commemorative plate marks the location of home plate at the former site of Veterans Stadium in the Citizens Bank Park parking lot.

The iconic Liberty Bell at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park

The Phillies' Wall of Fame at Citizens Bank Park

• ^a The Finish column lists regular season results and excludes postseason play.
• ^b The Wins and Losses columns list regular season results and exclude any postseason play. Regular and postseason records are combined only at the bottom of the list.
• ^c The GB column lists "Games Back" from the team that finished in first place that season. It is determined by finding the difference in wins plus the difference in losses divided by two.
• ^d NLDS stands for National League Division Series.
• ^e NLCS stands for National League Championship Series.
• ^f CYA stands for Cy Young Award.
• ^g MOY stands for Manager of the Year.
• ^h MVP stands for Most Valuable Player.
• ⁱ ROY stands for National League Rookie of the Year.
• ^j The 1972 Major League Baseball strike forced the cancellation of the first seven games (13 game-days) of the season.^[29]
• ^k The 1981 Major League Baseball strike caused the season to split into two halves. This caused Major League Baseball to hold the Divisional Series so that the first- and second-half champions could play each other to determine playoff spots for the NLCS and World Series.^[30]
• ^l The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike ended the season on August 11, as well as cancelling the entire postseason.^[31]
• ^m This was the Phillies' first season in Baker Bowl.
• ⁿ This was the Phillies' last season in Baker Bowl.
• ^o This was the Phillies' first season in Shibe Park.
• ^p This was the Phillies' last season in Shibe Park.
• ^q This was the Phillies' first season in Veterans Stadium.
• ^r This was the Phillies' last season in Veterans Stadium.
• ^s This was the Phillies' first season in Citizens Bank Park.
• ^t BLOOP stands for "Blooper of the Year", one of the This Year in Baseball Awards, which are voted on by the fans and sponsored by State Farm Insurance. Jason Michaels was the winner in 2004 for bobbling a home run over the center field wall at Citizens Bank Park.^[32]
• ^u CLO stands for "Closer of the Year", one of the This Year in Baseball Awards, which are voted on by the fans and sponsored by State Farm Insurance. Brad Lidge was the winner in 2008 for notching a perfect 48-for-48 season in saves and posting an ERA under 2.00.^[33]
• ^v CPOY stands for Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year.
• ^w MGR stands for "Manager of the Year", one of the This Year in Baseball Awards, which are voted on by the fans and sponsored by State Farm Insurance. This award is separate and distinct from the Major League Baseball-awarded Manager of the Year Award. Charlie Manuel was the winner in 2008 for winning the World Series.^[34]
• ^x EXEC stands for "Executive of the Year", one of the This Year in Baseball Awards, which are voted on by the fans and sponsored by State Farm Insurance. Pat Gillick was the winner in 2008 for building the World Series-winning team.^[34]
• ^y PMY stands for "Postseason Moment of the Year", one of the This Year in Baseball Awards, which are voted on by the fans and sponsored by State Farm Insurance. Chase Utley was the winner in 2008 for his fake throw to first that enabled him to pick off Jason Bartlett at home during the World Series.^[35]
• ^z LCSMVP stands for League Championship Series MVP Award.
• ^aa WSMVP stands for World Series MVP Award.

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