They’ve got 4 players with an OPS over .700.
Contreras is at .950 but is out for 6-8 weeks.
Matt Carpenter is at .757 but he’s at 20 PAs for the year.
Arenado and Ivan Herrera are at .703.
Their team OPS before today was .633, ahead of only the Marlins and White Sox.
That clears it up. I just wasn’t sure if that was a new provision of the different format next year where the league just gets an extra spot if they win it. But it makes more sense that it’s only for the two confederations that get the extra spot like you explained.
Four games away.
At Bochum (14th) on May 12
vs Augsburg (9th) on May 18
vs Atalanta in Dublin on May 22
vs Kaiserslautern (14th in the second division) on May 25 in the German Cup final.
Can’t blame them for wanting to keep the streak going. For one, now they have the record. Secondly, they’re so close to an undefeated season. Someone wins the league every year. Someone wins the Europa every year. Teams have won trebles before. But going undefeated all season while playing in a Big 5 league and in Europe is legendary.
That must be a new rule for next year’s expanded format because Liverpool finished 5th last year and was in the Europa.
Does that apply to any team that wins it or just if the team that wins it gets the 5th spot like Dortmund? So if Real wins does 5th place in La Liga go to next years UCL also?
https://www.mlb.com/cubs/video/michael-busch-homers-7-on-a-fly-ball-to-right-center-field?t=walk-offs
LOL Coomer. Says that Busch was "sitting on a breaking ball and whacks it". Uh Ron, it was a 94 mph fastball buddy.
I have no idea how that ball got out. With him reaching for it and the ball being low, I would have thought that was more likely to be a bloop over the SS head than a homer.
If you take out Hendricks's 5 starts, our starting pitchers have a 1.92 ERA this year. Hendricks has accounted for 28 of the 61 ER allowed by our starters.
In 2013 and 2018, Toronto was down 3-1 to Boston, came back to force a Game 7 and lost. They also lost a Game 7 to Boston in 2019. All of those games, like this one, were in Boston.
So either Boston is the first team in NHL, NBA or MLB history to blow a 3-1 series lead in back to back seasons or Toronto will lose their 6th straight Game 7.
Batting average his H/AB.
OBP is (H+BB+HBP) / (AB+BB+HBP+SF)
PCA has no walks or HBP this year but has a SF, so the formulas simplify for him to BA = H/AB and OBP = H/(AB+SF). In his case, AB+SF > AB and the numerator is the same in both formulas.