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Snowman · May 13th, 2008, 08:38 PM

Hmm, talk about your extremes...

So, I decided to break up our record into completely arbitrary sections: those games in which we scored 3 runs or fewer, those games in which we scored 4,5, or 6 runs, and those games in which we scored 7 or more.

Scored:
3 or fewer: 3-14 (.176)
4-6: 7-4 (.636)
7 or more: 9-1 (.900)

With absolutely nothing to back it up, my gut says that the record in gams in which we scored 3 or fewer is abnormally low. I would expect it to bad, but more like .400 bad, or maybe even .350 bad. This would make think that perhaps, despite our good ERA, our pitching staff is having a lot of good games and not a lot of really good games. So let's do the same thing by runs allowed.

Allowed:
3 or fewer: 15-4 (.789)
4-6: 3-12 (.200)
7 or more: 1-3 (.250)

Well, this time it's when our pitching is average that the results are extraordinarily low, which would point the finger back at the hitters. Hell, this team is a Moebius strip.

Our scores in the one-run games: 2-3, 11-12, 3-4, 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 3-4, 2-3, 5-4, 2-3, 4-5.

So, we have four games where our pitching was good and our hitting failed, three 4-3 losses, which is basically our pitching being slightly above average and our hitting struggling, four games in which out hitting and pitching were both rather average (and our one win in this group falls in here), one game in which our hitting was average and our pitching stunk, and one game in which our hitting was awesome and our pitching stunk.

So it would seem that a good bit of the onus falls on the early inconsistency of the hitting (something I think will improve as we begin to get more from 1B, LF, and RF, even though C, 3B and SS should all regress some), but there just also seems to be an element of.... not-firing-on-all-cylinders-a-lot-of-the-time-ness.... here. When our pitching is average, out hitting isn't good enough. When our pitching struggles, they struggle by too large a margin for the hitters to overcome. And when they're both in that rough average range, we find a way to fall short far too often.

May 13th, 2008, 08:38 PM	#60 (permalink)
Snowman Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Topsail Beach, NC Posts: 1,385	Hmm, talk about your extremes... So, I decided to break up our record into completely arbitrary sections: those games in which we scored 3 runs or fewer, those games in which we scored 4,5, or 6 runs, and those games in which we scored 7 or more. Scored: 3 or fewer: 3-14 (.176) 4-6: 7-4 (.636) 7 or more: 9-1 (.900) With absolutely nothing to back it up, my gut says that the record in gams in which we scored 3 or fewer is abnormally low. I would expect it to bad, but more like .400 bad, or maybe even .350 bad. This would make think that perhaps, despite our good ERA, our pitching staff is having a lot of good games and not a lot of really good games. So let's do the same thing by runs allowed. Allowed: 3 or fewer: 15-4 (.789) 4-6: 3-12 (.200) 7 or more: 1-3 (.250) Well, this time it's when our pitching is average that the results are extraordinarily low, which would point the finger back at the hitters. Hell, this team is a Moebius strip. Our scores in the one-run games: 2-3, 11-12, 3-4, 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 3-4, 2-3, 5-4, 2-3, 4-5. So, we have four games where our pitching was good and our hitting failed, three 4-3 losses, which is basically our pitching being slightly above average and our hitting struggling, four games in which out hitting and pitching were both rather average (and our one win in this group falls in here), one game in which our hitting was average and our pitching stunk, and one game in which our hitting was awesome and our pitching stunk. So it would seem that a good bit of the onus falls on the early inconsistency of the hitting (something I think will improve as we begin to get more from 1B, LF, and RF, even though C, 3B and SS should all regress some), but there just also seems to be an element of.... not-firing-on-all-cylinders-a-lot-of-the-time-ness.... here. When our pitching is average, out hitting isn't good enough. When our pitching struggles, they struggle by too large a margin for the hitters to overcome. And when they're both in that rough average range, we find a way to fall short far too often. __________________ That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.