11/21/24
April 10, 2007
It was a close game...until it started.:
An NCAA Division III baseball game produced an interesting result. As the box score shows, the rally in the 6th inning fell a little bit short.
Boy, if this doesn't underscore the importance of throwing strikes. 20 walks. You're going to lose if you give up 20 walks. (Also, 44 hits. Also, 57 runs. You just can't give up 57 runs and expect your hitters to get your back.) I would say the problem here is pitching. I was going to make the same comment about Torres and Mathew. 32 batters each. When I was a pitcher, I had some outings that felt like they were that bad, but no, I never faced 32 batters in two innings. I hope the Newbury players and coaches have a good sense of humor. After all, it counts the same as a 1-0 loss in the standings. Why is it whenever I hear a story like this, I always identify with the losing team? Thanks for the great post, Grum.
posted by The Crafty Sousepaw at 08:35 PM on April 10, 2007
Holy Shit! Thats a rough season.....oops, I mean game. Thanks Grum.
posted by jojomfd1 at 12:06 AM on April 11, 2007
4 hit batters, 20 walks, and 5 errors are what stick out when I look at that box score. I guess anyway you look at this game they were probably going to lose but a college player ought to be able to put the ball in the strikezone, but with 44 hits allowed I suppose that wasn't really working either.
posted by kyrilmitch_76 at 05:22 AM on April 11, 2007
Steve Smith had seven hits, 10 RBIs and scored seven times Oughta just give him the rest of the week off. That's a friggin' month for some guys...unfortunately, including those on my fantasy teams.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 07:27 AM on April 11, 2007
57-1 is UFB. My son's college team had a DH similar to this this past weekend. Won the first game 24-0, scoring 14 before the first out was recorded, and he pitched the second winning 14-0 in 5 IP. Sort of lame. The coach had him working on his breaking ball, throwing 3 or four per AB, only throwing FB if he got behind. I thought this was bad. The stuff upthread about stats is very true.
posted by sfts2 at 09:33 AM on April 11, 2007
Torres, 85.5 ERA, 10.5 WHIP Mathew 49.5 ERA, 11.5 WHIP How do you calculate the ERA and WHIP for DiClemente when he has 0 IPs?
posted by bperk at 11:22 AM on April 11, 2007
bperk, the best thing about the start of baseball used to be scanning the early stat lines looking for pitchers with ERA: (infinity symbol)1 1. which is ∞ and works on preview
posted by yerfatma at 11:30 AM on April 11, 2007
I wonder if there is anyone who has the infinity symbol for their ERA for their major league career.
posted by bperk at 11:57 AM on April 11, 2007
Lou Bauer Fred Bruckbauer Bill Childers Doc Hamann Will Koenigsmark Mike Palagyi Jim Schelle Gordie Sundin Lino Urdaneta ... off the top of my head.
posted by The Crafty Sousepaw at 12:22 PM on April 11, 2007
That's great. I wish they had the actual symbol instead of the "inf". I was compelled to google Urdaneta. He is with the Mets.
posted by bperk at 05:12 PM on April 11, 2007
Completely unrelated to the story, but tangently related to the post by TCS, I would like to point out that Larry Yount (brother of some other player) has the most "Moonlight Graham-esque" career of any pitcher. He injured himself during his warm-up on the mound as a relief pitcher and had to be taken out before throwing a single pitch. He never appeared in the majors again. September 15th, 1971
posted by grum@work at 05:44 PM on April 11, 2007
I'd be sending extra jars of IcyHot to Jamison Torres and Homas Mathew for each of them facing almost a full game worth of batters in just 2 innings of work. This is reason #1 why high school/college stats are always taken with grain of salt by the scouts.