Jim Coates Stats

In 1961 Coates went 11-5 as a spot starter for perhaps the Major Leagues' greatest-ever team. Led by the hitting of Maris, Skowron, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and Elston Howard, the infield defense of Clete Boyer, Tony Kubek and Bobby Richardson, and Whitey Ford’s 25-4 season, the now-Ralph Houk-led Yankees (Stengel had been fired immediately after the 1960 World Series) won the World Series over the Cincinnati Reds in five games. Coates relieved Ford in Game Four of the Series and pitched four scoreless innings for the save in a 7-0 Yankee win; Ford had left the game with an injury, but not without first breaking Babe Ruth’s World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings.
In 1962 Coates went 7-6 for a Yankee team that repeated as World Champions. Coates was the losing pitcher in Game Four of this Series, which the Yankees won over the San Francisco Giants in seven games.
In his career, Coates, whose nickname, “The Mummy,” came from his funereal visage on the mound, won 43 games against 22 losses, with a 4.00 ERA and 396 strikeouts in 683 1/3 innings pitched. He was also well-known for throwing at opposing batters. Jim Bouton, in his book, Ball Four, said Coates, after throwing at the opposing hitters, “would not get into the fights that followed.”