Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 11, 2007
High Scoring Day

So far four teams have scored at least thirteen runs today. The Rangers defeated the Tigers this afternoon 13-6, the Red Sox are up 16-9 on the Devil Rays, Florida took Washington 13-8 and the Braves defeated the Mets 13-5. That makes the Angels offense look week as they only managed ten runs against the Orioles!

In the history of the Day by Day Database (back to 1957), there was a day with six thirteen-runs games, June 9, 1999. Four such contests tie for second in that time period. It also happened earlier this season on July 29, 2007.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:45 PM | Offense | TrackBack (0)
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After a slow start that now seems to have been an artifact of cold weather and small sample-itis, the hitters have rebounded nicely. The runs scored per game average has now risen to 9.57, just a shade below last year.

September has been particularly high scoring, for whatever reason. Yesterday the bigs bashed out 197 runs in sixteen games - more than twelve per game - as football-ish scores abounded. In fact, the Sox-Rays tilt put 26 points on the board, equal to or more than four of the 16 NFL games in the first week.

Like everybody else, I speculated a lot at the start of the seeason about the relative lack of offense. But all my speculation seems to have been wasted.

Offense is still below the rock 'em, sock 'em levels around the turn of the millenium. It may be less chemical assistance or the Coors humidor or a slightly less bouncy baseball or a slightly bigger strike zone or a general attitude that baseball doesn't need huge offense now that the 1994 strike is history. Or it may just be pure dumb luck. But we seem to have seen the last of the 10+ runs per game seasons for a while.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 12, 2007 08:23 AM

Funny thing. I just compared the Sox-Rays game to NFL scoring. So I went to the mlb.com wrap of the game, and there's a picture of Julio Lugo running over Dioner Navarro at the plate. Looks like something out of the NFL, except Lugo is too skinny and he's not wearing any pads. Maybe the players are taking this football-scoring thing too far.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 12, 2007 08:30 AM
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