Cubs OPS by inning

[JGalt73]

Per David Pinto's Baseball Musings:

 

Inning OBA SPct

1st .318 .464

2nd .362 .462

3rd .370 .456

4th .377 .481

5th .374 .458

6th .371 .480

7th .380 .478

8th .379 .388

9th .302 .373

 

They remind me of the 1998 Yankees. That team outscored their opponents by an average of 1.91 runs per game. The Cubs are at 1.88 per game. I remember that Yankees team hammering middle relief, but that's where memory is never as good as data. The splits show the 1998 Yankees hammered starters from the third inning on. This Cubs teams is feasting on poor pitchers in the sixth and the seventh.

 

The Yankees of 1998 drew a ton of walks, as the Cubs do now. The pushes pitch counts up, forcing opponents into their bullpens sooner. The average NL start this season is 5.7 innings, the average start against the Cubs is 5.6 innings. (In 1998, the average start against the Yankees was 5.7 innings, the average AL start 6.0 innings.)

 

The Cubs 1.88 run difference per game would rank 10th since 1901, just ahead of the 2001 Mariners. All but one team in the top 15 won 100 games, and four of those teams won 110 games. This is certainly looking like the year of the Cubs.

[UMFan83]

That's very interesting. When you see the Cubs being measured in that regard, thats certainly something to smile about!

[TheDude]

It's pretty simple and a reasonable bottom line. The Cubs are getting to the starter the second and third time through the line-up, particularly when the starter hits the 60-90 pitch count range. And given the number of walks, or even 3-2 counts that result in ball in play, the opposing starters are hitting higher pitch counts against the Cubs than their average.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

This team has a different feel to it. I'm glad to see the statistical measures back that up as well.

[Post Count Padder]

Well it looks like we go up there hacking in the first inning and lie down and die in the 9th inning.

[bukie]

Well it looks like we go up there hacking in the first inning and lie down and die in the 9th inning.

 

Well, the Cubs don't bat a lot of ninth innings at home.

[Amazing_Grace]

Well it looks like we go up there hacking in the first inning and lie down and die in the 9th inning.

 

Well, the Cubs don't bat a lot of ninth innings at home.

 

How many times has there been a bottom 9th at Wrigley, the 8 losses plus however many 9th inning comebacks and extra inning games there have been.

[Roast]

Well it looks like we go up there hacking in the first inning and lie down and die in the 9th inning.

 

Well, the Cubs don't bat a lot of ninth innings at home.

 

How many times has there been a bottom 9th at Wrigley, the 8 losses plus however many 9th inning comebacks and extra inning games there have been.

Yeah, not a whole lot. We've played a ton of 8 and a halves there.

[wrigley23]

a very low obp in the first inning. The team is having success due Fuko's heavy on base % & overall patience as well as the bottom of the order getting on base & showing patience. The emergence of Soto as well.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Well it looks like we go up there hacking in the first inning and lie down and die in the 9th inning.

 

I'm not so sure that's a fair assessment.

 

03/31 - 06/14       PA  P/PA
1st inning         293  3.99
2nd inning         313  3.50
3rd inning         312  3.82
4th inning         320  3.78
5th inning         313  3.78
6th inning         313  3.85
7th inning         324  3.96
8th inning         325  4.09
9th inning         172  4.18
10th inning         36  3.56
11th inning         26  3.92
12th inning         14  5.14
13th inning          9  4.44
14th inning          8  3.75
15th inning          7  2.86

All innings       2786  3.87

[TruffleShuffle]

where's the patience in the 15th inning? losers.

[Fred Hornkohl]

where's the patience in the 15th inning? losers.

 

CUBS are 1-0 in 15 inning games. :wink:

[Roast]

wow, 4 p/pa in the 9th. That's impressive. It's also awesome how few PA's we have in the 9th due to all the 8.5 inning games we've been playing

[Guest]

I've seen that comparison to the late 90's yankees in watching games. The cubs get a lot of "garbage" runs - ie runs on lucky hits, errors, weird plays. This isn't just luck - its a function of having lots of runners on base. How many PA's do the cubs have with bases loaded this year compared to other years?