9/1 Cubs (Lester) at Pirates (Kuhl) 6:05 CT Marquee

[soccer10k]

W!

[UMFan83]

*starlinphew.gif*

[abuck1220]

atta boy jeffress. only 11 pitches in 1 2/3 ip...prob ok to go tomorrow.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I never had any doubt we’d win this one. The first page of this thread does not count.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Jeffress was in attack mode tonight, not horsefeathering around

[Cubswin11]

Wins a win

 

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Thank God

[We Got The Whole 9]

Jeffress got his K9 up to 6!

 

Honestly to my eyes his stuff is nasty but hitters haven't had much problem putting the bat on the ball and his chase rate is way low as well.

[squally1313]

I swear we make the worst 2-0, 2-1, 3-1 contact

Yeah I have to believe this is true. 3-1 in particular, we usually take. But when we swing we hit a ton of lazy pops.

 

Because I'm bored...

 

2-0 count: 13/31, 3 doubles, 4 HRs, .419/.438/.903, 221 total PAs

2-1 count: 17/51, 5 doubles, 2 HRs, .333/.321/.549, 309 total PAs

3-1 count: 9/32, 2 doubles, 2 HRs, .281/.680/.531, 144 total PAs

 

Don't think there's a way to compare all the teams in these, but picking the Dodgers to compare (Cardinals have too few games, rest of the division sucks at hitting):

 

2-0 count: 8/38, 1 double, 1 HR, .216/.211/.324, 222 total PAs

2-1 count: 26/74, 6 doubles, 2 triples, 6 HRs, .351/.368/.730, 307 total PAs

3-1 count: 17/63, 4 doubles, 4 HRs, .346/.753/.654, 135 total PAs

 

Based on this very small sample, yeah, take a lot in these counts, and the quality of contact for 2-1 and 3-1 is much worse (2-0 is weirdly much better).

[UMFan83]

Surely there is some Dodgers fan out there bitching about how bad the Dodgers suck at hitting with a 2-0 out.

[We Got The Whole 9]

I swear we make the worst 2-0, 2-1, 3-1 contact

Yeah I have to believe this is true. 3-1 in particular, we usually take. But when we swing we hit a ton of lazy pops.

 

Because I'm bored...

 

2-0 count: 13/31, 3 doubles, 4 HRs, .419/.438/.903, 221 total PAs

2-1 count: 17/51, 5 doubles, 2 HRs, .333/.321/.549, 309 total PAs

3-1 count: 9/32, 2 doubles, 2 HRs, .281/.680/.531, 144 total PAs

 

Don't think there's a way to compare all the teams in these, but picking the Dodgers to compare (Cardinals have too few games, rest of the division sucks at hitting):

 

2-0 count: 8/38, 1 double, 1 HR, .216/.211/.324, 222 total PAs

2-1 count: 26/74, 6 doubles, 2 triples, 6 HRs, .351/.368/.730, 307 total PAs

3-1 count: 17/63, 4 doubles, 4 HRs, .346/.753/.654, 135 total PAs

 

Based on this very small sample, yeah, take a lot in these counts, and the quality of contact for 2-1 and 3-1 is much worse (2-0 is weirdly much better).

 

Thanks for doing that