June 20, 2005
Dominant League
The American League is dominating interleague play this season. The AL recorded 118 wins so far to just 92 for the National League. The only AL team that has a poor record against the NL is the Devil Rays at 3-12; Tononto, Minnesota and Oakland are just under .500 at 7-8. In the NL, interleague play helped cement the Nationals and Cardinals in first place, each pacing the NL with a 10-5 record.
The Indians have the best record vs. the NL this season, going 13-2. And while they've gained ground in the wild card race, the White Sox posted an 11-4 record vs. the NL to keep Cleveland from moving up much in the division race.
The NL West is a real punching bag for the AL teams, going a combined 24-47 vs. the AL Central, the Padres and Dodgers each adding ten losses to that total.
Posted by David Pinto at
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If you want a few chuckles, check the run differentials for the NL West teams. It's pretty funny when the second-place team is 55 runs below water. At least the first-place team has outscored its opposition, though not by an impressive amount.
Now watch the wild card somehow come out of the division...
Naw.
Can someone find a home/road breakdown for interleague? It seems to me that the home team has a TREMENDOUS advantage. Example: The Nationals have been playing Wil Cordero at DH. NL teams just aren't built with a DH in mind.
I can get the home/road breakdown later today.
Overall, NL DH's aren't doing too badly. Their combined BA is .251, which would put them right in the middle of the pack among the AL DH's. That's misleading, though. 6 of the 14 NL teams have DH's batting a combined.348 and slugging .519. The other 8 NL club's DH's are batting only .186 and slugging .278. So either they have performed very well or very poorly; no NL team is in the middle.
