Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 04, 2006
Blowout Series

The Oakland Athletics got their revenge on the Indians this afternoon. After losing 14-3 yesterday, the A's came back to take a 12-4 victory from Cleveland today. In four of their last five games, Oakland scored or allowed 10 runs. Cleveland has scored 10 runs or more five times, and allowed 10 or more five times, but not in the same game.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:35 PM | Series | TrackBack (0)
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An absolutely bizarre game for sabermetricians. Cleveland got fourteen baserunners and twenty total bases, and still managed only four runs and lost in a blowout. They beat Oakland in team SLG and BA for the game and still lost huge.

Of course, those stats didn't pick up the absurd eleven walks dished out by the Tribe's hurlers. That's why team OBP and OPS for the game called the outcome correctly.

OPS comes through again, though the difference between the two teams was only about fifty points. This was one of the "closer" 12-4 games, in sabermetric terms (smile).

The real difference, as you might expect, was when the hits and walks occurred. Oakland bunched four hits and two walks into the first inning, scored five, and never trailed afterwards. Cleveland scattered their offense and never managed more than a single run in any inning. Earl Weaver, patron saint of the big inning, triumphs again.

Posted by: Casey Abell at May 5, 2006 09:22 AM
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