As I said earlier this weekend, today I would start pulling apart other statistics through the first four series of the 2008 Baseball season. The difference between this series of posts, and the other Numbers Daily posts that look at the numbers from each series, including the series before them, working like bench marks for the season. These posts look at scoring tendencies from each two, three, or four game sets.
This time we are gong to travel back a bit look at the first series with the Marlins again:
Game 1: Mets 7, Marlins 2
Game 2: Mets 4, Marlins 5, F/10
Game 3: Mets 13, Marlins 0
In the first game the Mets had 10 hits, gave up 5.
Second game, Mets had 9 hits, and the Marlins matched that.
In the third game, the Mets had 17 hits! The Marlins had 6.
So the Mets averaged 8 runs for each of those games this year, and 12 hits per game.
The Mets allowed 2.3 runs per game, and allowed on average 6.67 hits per game.
Now for the scoring tendencies. I find patterns interesting for scores per inning because over a period of time, they can spell out the thinking properties for the Mets. For example, if they do not score for an extended period of time in the first 3 innings, they are either unsettled and need to relax before the game, or they can't figure out the pitcher the first time through. A lack of scoring late can signify that the other team is starting clamp down and try to take control of the game. Can we deduce anything from innings scores of the first three games?
Game 1: 6 runs in the 4th, 1 run in the 9th
Game 2: 3 runs in the 4th, 1 run in the 5th
Game 3: 3 runs in the 2nd, 1 run in the 3rd, 1 run in the 5th, 5 runs in the 6th, 1 run in the 7th, 2 runs in the 9th
Totals By inning: (first numbers total by inning, second numbers avg per game)
1st- 0, 0
2nd- 3, 1
3rd- 1, .333
4th- 9, 3
5th- 2, .667
6th- 5, 1.67
7th- 1, .333
8th- 0,0
9th-3,1
10-0,0
The only thing thats slightly noticeable about the trends is that for two games straight, the mets had big middle innings, (4th, then 4th and 5th and then 5th and 6th). From recent memory, ie this past weekend, the Mets did not have this. I have always been a proponent for scoring in the middle innings because it separates one team from the other in the long stretch of the marathon. This also says a lot about the Marlins starting pitching, that they could the Mets for the first few innings, and then they started unravellings.
I find these numbers interesting, but I find all numbers interesting.
