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Just some stats this year for consideration for some Cub hitters: SP (Scoring Position) (First Averages and OBP are the splits with nobody on) Name Average OBP Avg/SP OBP/SP Avg/SP/2Out OBP/SP/2Out Pierre .236 .282 .154 .233 .074 .167 Womack .297 .350 .273 .400 .167 .375 Walker .310 .380 .293 .407 .125 .263 Barrett .301 .350 .214 .340 .150 .261 Ramirez .250 .287 .230 .342 .190 .370 Jones .273 .321 .326 .348 .227 .261 Murton .328 .386 .222 .321 .217 .308 Cedeno .287 .303 .241 .300 .190 .292 Here are our regular starters most of the year. As you can see, the team hits pretty well with nobody on-not great, but pretty decently. With runners in scoring position, the OBP fluctuates (most likely due to the pitcher not caring as much about walks in this situation)...but the average is down among everybody but Jones. With scoring position and 2 outs, the results are incredible-only 2 people in the starting lineup hitting over .200, and only 3 OBP's over .300..and one of those is Womack, and another one is Ramirez who they are walking to get out of the inning. I know clutch hitting isn't thought much of on this board-but how are these huge drops explained? This team simply does not execute when they have a chance to in the clutch, and that causes the lack of runs that lose ballgames. Edit: If anyone could help me clean up the lining up of the numbers for easier reading, feel free. I'm sorry-I'm having trouble making it incredibly readable.

I saw a lot of complaints about taking pitches in the game thread today. We did hit miserably..ok even worse than that, but I'm wondering where this is coming from today? Some people even asked how many players had hit the first pitch at them..well, not really that many today. 1st pitches today 11 strikes looking 13 balls 1 hit 3 outs 2 strikes swinging (Marshall 6th, Ramirez 9th) 2 fouls (Jones 8th, Barrett 9th) So that's 32 first pitches...and only 8 swung at. In fact, out of the 24 people left, only 7 took a swing at the 2nd pitch. So that means 17 of the 32 batters on the Cubs side took the first 2 pitches in the at bat....as opposed to only 13 out of 29 Astros who did the same. I don't think the problem was that we weren't patient in this game..I think the problem is that we got into hitters counts, got pitches over the heart of the plate, and could still only hit weak ground balls...which is sad, but doesn't show a lack of patience.