data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.baseball.105150 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Michael Zimmers)
Subject: Re: Time of Game
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Sherri Nichols) writes:
>The reason I'm unhappy with the length of games today is summed up above.
>For an extra 15 minutes/game (average) in the AL, and an extra 11 minutes
>(average) in the NL, I'm seeing fewer runs score.
>
>Now, what I think I *am* seeing is more pitches. More strikeouts (over
>1/game in the AL, over .6/game more in the NL), more walks (.2/game more in
Yep. And the Ks don't have to denote a slow game, either. Last night,
Sid Fernandez was mowing the Giants hitters down (14 Ks in 8 innings),
yet the first 7 1/2 innings of the game were quite brisk.
He also threw 119 pitches, leading me to believe it isn't just the
number of pitches that determines the length of a game, but the
behavior *between* pitches.
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