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Former Yankee and current National Chien-Ming Wang is fresh off of his best major league start since July of 2009.
Wang went 6 innings against the Cubs, giving up just 1 hit, 2 walks, and 0 runs while striking out 1.
So far on the season Wang has faced 64 batters. Of those he has generated 32 ground balls while walking 4 batters and striking out 3.
Wang's ability to get ground balls looks to be intact. Wang induced grounders about 60% of the time before his injury (closer to 55% of the time his last few seasons). Thus far 32 of the 53 (60%) balls hit off of Wang have been of the worm burner variety.
He's not striking anyone out though. For his career Wang had been striking out about 10% of batters and that number was steadily increasing. This season he's only struck out 5% of the batters that he's faced. His fastball velocity is down a full mile per hour since 2009, and 2 MsPH since 2006.
Only 5 pitchers this season have K% lower than 10% (minimum 50 IP): Sean O'Sullivan, Aaron Cook, Brad Penny, Joel Pinero and Carl Pavano. O'Sullivan's in the lowest at 7.2%. It'll be difficult for Wang to survive with such a low K-rate. Even if they are mostly ground balls, too many balls in play will lead to too many hits which will lead to too many runs.
On July 6th, the Giants Nate Schierholtz hit a 4th inning 2 run homer. In the 14th inning of that game, he hit a solo homerun to win it.
What also distinguished that second home run was that it was the first in a series which has now reached 18 consecutive solo home runs for the Giants over their last 30 games. Two of those have been against the Pirates tonight and one of which was the first career homer for catcher Chris Stewart.
Buster Posey's replacements aren't making anyone forget about Buster. Ely Whiteside has been the primary receiver and is batting .210 .290 .357 .646. Stewart is the backup and he has contributed a .222 .300 .278 .578 line.
Of course last week against the Phillies, Whiteside did show some promise as a football player.
Turns out that the Giants 18 solo homer streak is but one away from the all time record, set by Philadelphia in 1914. Just two more bases empty bombs and we have new champs.
This would be wildly inaccurate, but is there a way to project what a teams W/L may have been, if we isolate their pitching stats only? Or apply an average offensive production rate to them? Just curious as I feel that the WhiteSox have had some very solid pitching all year, but it clearly doesn't show in the standings.
Last edited by Orangeish; 08-10-2011 at 11:26 AM..
This would be wildly inaccurate, but is there a way to project what a teams W/L may have been, if we isolate their pitching stats only? Or apply an average offensive production rate to them? Just curious as I feel that the WhiteSox have had some very solid pitching all year, but it clearly doesn't show in the standings.
Easiest way is to use pythagorian record.
The White Sox have allowed 471 runs this year while scoring 457 runs.
The average AL team is scoring 4.35 runs per game.
4.35 * 113 games played for the White Sox is 492 runs scored.
Using a Pythag Record Calculator like this one: RLYW Calculators
tells us that the White Sox should expect a .489 winning percentage
(24 wins in the 49 remaining games)
Kyle Kendrick comes in to pitch the 5th and the Phillies trailing 6-5. He gives up a run and is pinch-hit for in the top of the 6th. The Phillies score 4 runs in the top of the 6th to take a lead they'd never give up. The winning pitcher, for giving up a run in his only inning of work? Kyle Kendrick.
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