Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 02, 2007
Bacsik in Play

Mike Bacsik is an extreme pitch to contact hurler. Coming into today, he had the highest percentage of batters faced putting the ball in play, 87.1%. Not surprisingly, he came into the game with a rather high batting average allowed, .287. But it worked tonight, as he struck out three and walked none in twenty four batters faced. He allowed just three hits, although two were home runs. So on 19 fieldable balls in play, he only allowed one hit as the Nationals defeated the Reds 7-3.

Here are the five highest Ball in Play Percentages (300 BFP):

PitcherBFPNIPIPPct
Mike Bacsik3254287.07692
Zachary Duke4185886.1244
Carlos Silva5808785
Paul Byrd5528384.96377
Ramon Ortiz3675784.46866

And the five lowest:

PitcherBFPNIPIPPct
Scott Kazmir60521564.46281
Byung-Hyun Kim37813664.02116
Tim Lincecum40715063.14496
A.J. Burnett40215561.44279
Erik Bedard59623360.90604

Posted by David Pinto at 10:03 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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