vs. METS, 8/19

[scOtt]

I love getting off work and reading these game threads.. A bi polar bunch we have!

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Me too after work! Watch highlights and read the game thread!

[NashLumber]

The Mets have two players whose last name starts with a lower case letter, Jacob deGrom and Travis d'Arnaud.

I wonder how hard it would be to look up or track if this is the only battery in MLB history with lower case letters in their last name?

[scOtt]

I repped him for it. He's always doing that type of heavy lifting.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Urrutia is getting the ball back from his first homer. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/orioles?src=hash">#orioles</a></p>? Brittany Ghiroli (@Britt_Ghiroli) <a href="

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Wow, he's getting a lot tonight! I just finished before I read all this.

[scOtt]

Yes no doubt but some of it has to be because he's not stuck in Cuba anymore.

His physique has improved 100%. He was thin as a rail at first. Good food and nutrition have bulked him up a lot.

[scOtt]

I wonder how hard it would be to look up or track if this is the only battery in MLB history with lower case letters in their last name?

If you posted this in one of Roch's blogs he might notice. Use Elias...

[NashLumber]

If you posted this in one of Roch's blogs he might notice. Use Elias...

Good tip, thanks!

[O's84]

I just ran the numbers for 2015 for the Orioles (if someone wants to run it for other teams, feel free). Thus far, the Orioles have scored in 279 innings in which the opposing team had an at-bat in the next subsequent half inning. Of those, the Orioles have allowed the opposing team to score in the next subsequent half inning 78 times, or 27.96%. In 51 games, the Orioles scored in such an inning at least once and never allowed the opposing team to score in the next subsequent half inning. (In another 9 games, the Orioles never scored in a half-inning in which the opposing team had a subsequent at-bat.)

Given that the odds of a MLB team scoring in any given inning is about 27.5% (based on dated data: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/brooks/public_html/feda/datasets/expectedruns.html), that seems like about what you would expect. I would think the team is probably around league average in "give back" innings.

Great work there! Perhaps it seems like more than it is because they have been such crucial runs in the ball games ? (given how much bad luck we've had this year)

[Can_of_corn]

This post deserves a lot of greenies.

Bit arrogant to say your post, consisting mostly of quoting other posters, deserves "a lot of greenies".

As for Schittenden's post, yea, I repped it last night. Always try and reward folks that do the work.