A few days ago when I posted about run-scoring by inning, there was a cool blog post written about the length of games in extra innings. Read that one first, then come back here for some more data. (more…)
OK, here is part two of yesterday’s post. (more…)
Reader MikeC asked about scoring by inning in the two leagues, and whether it was different, so I did a quick analysis. (more…)
Yesterday, I wrote about the PI’s Team Inning Summary function, and here’s another thing you can do with it.
For each year, I looked at run scoring for all teams (in total) and extracted the total number of games that a team had a lead going into the 9th inning and then ended up behind at the end of the 9th inning (i.e. losing the game.) Click through for detailed results. (more…)
The PI has a neat feature about team scoring and records by inning. It can be reached from the main PI page.
Here are the runs score for all teams in 2007:
Runs Scored by inning.
Inning # 0 Any 1 2 3 4 ≥5 Most Total Avg Avg/9inn
+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+
1 4862 3276 1586 845 394 191 100 56 11 2921 0.60 5.41
2 4862 3507 1355 782 337 133 54 49 8 2357 0.48 4.36
3 4862 3445 1417 736 360 174 78 69 8 2670 0.55 4.94
4 4862 3434 1428 757 362 182 63 64 10 2631 0.54 4.87
5 4862 3427 1435 717 379 187 82 70 11 2777 0.57 5.14
6 4858 3363 1495 764 367 205 90 69 11 2869 0.59 5.32
7 4856 3500 1356 723 331 169 71 62 8 2519 0.52 4.67
8 4854 3525 1329 695 334 151 77 72 11 2534 0.52 4.70
9 3754 2819 935 524 237 100 42 32 7 1640 0.44 4.00
10 440 323 117 79 20 12 3 3 8 185 0.46 4.13
11 246 180 66 49 11 3 2 1 5 93 0.41 3.72
12 128 89 39 25 6 2 4 2 6 70 0.58 5.24
13 62 44 18 10 5 3 0 0 3 29 0.51 4.61
14 30 21 9 6 1 2 0 0 3 14 0.50 4.50
15 12 8 4 2 1 0 0 1 5 9 0.75 6.75
16 6 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.18 1.59
17 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 3 0.75 6.75
+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+
43560 30968 12592 6716 3146 1514 666 550 11 23322 0.54 4.83
So, for example, let’s say you want to know how many times a team scored 1 run in the 7th inning of a game. Well, you go down the list to Inning # 7, then read across to the column for “1″ and you see it happened 723 times in 2007.
There are so many interesting things we can glean from the data above: (more…)
One of the really cool things about PI are the inning reports you can get for each team since 1957.
For example, did you know that the all-time-great ‘98 Yankees peaked in the 4th and 5th innings offensively (with a minor revival in the 9th), but their pitching was tops in the first and last innings. The 1st inning productivity is odd because that is the most productive inning, offensively speaking, over history, because managers work so hard to manufacture their entire lineup to focus around it, often costing production in the second and even third innings. But the Yankees held offenses back the best in the first. The 9th inning production can be explained in one word: Mariano.
Two more somewhat interesting inning reports:
- The ‘86 Tigers, for reasons I cannot explain or imagine, exploded in the 7th inning offensively.
- Last year’s historically bad Royals did not help themselves late in games. Thanks to their Hall of Fame-caliber, sterling bullpen, Kansas City would have coughed up 7.61 runs per game if every inning was the 8th inning. Wow. But even better than that, the starting pitchers decide to out-do the ‘pen: If every inning was the 3rd inning for the Royals in 2006, Kansas City would have yielded 7.67 runs per game.
Take the time to check out some fun inning reports of your own. This post took about five searches to find three interesting things, so it doesn’t take long to enjoy yourself.
Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index Team Inning Summary for the Yankees, so far, this year, shows us the following - in terms of how the Yankees are allowing runs this season, per inning:
Inning # 0 Any 1 2 3 4 ≥5 Most Total Avg Avg/9inn
+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+
1 77 58 19 11 4 4 0 0 3 31 0.40 3.62
2 77 57 20 11 6 1 2 0 4 34 0.44 3.97
3 77 51 26 15 9 1 1 0 4 40 0.52 4.68
4 77 47 30 17 9 3 1 0 4 48 0.62 5.61
5 77 55 22 9 7 3 1 2 8 49 0.64 5.73
6 77 62 15 7 5 1 2 0 4 28 0.36 3.27
7 77 48 29 14 3 7 4 1 5 62 0.81 7.25
8 77 57 20 12 4 1 1 2 7 39 0.51 4.56
9 56 45 11 7 2 1 1 0 4 18 0.33 2.95
10 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
11 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.43 3.86
12 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
13 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.60 5.40
+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+
683 489 194 105 49 22 13 5 8 351 0.52 4.64
It’s pretty clear that the worst innings for the Yankees, this season to date, in terms of allowing runs are the 7th, 5th, and 4th innings.
If you look at Brian Bruney 2007 Pitching Splits you’ll see that he’s pitched in the 7th inning 18 times for the Yankees so far this year - and allowed batters to reach base 37% of the time. Scott Proctor? 23 times and 37.2%. Mike Myers? 18 times and 38.2%. Kyle Farnsworth almost never pitches the 7th - so, he’s out of this one. (Maybe the numbers would be worse in the 7th for New York if Farnsie did throw more in that frame?) Luis Vizcaino? 14 times and 40%.
As you can see, it’s been a team effort in terms of getting torched in the 7th for New York this season: Proctor, Myers, Vizcaino, and Bruney have all chipped in.
Since Yankees starters (read: Mussina, Clemens and Igawa) rarely make it through seven, the Yankees need to find someone to cover that frame for them - if they’re going to start winning ballgames.
Maybe Edwar Ramirez is the answer?