Sentences with phrase «runs per game»

However, Stuckey, an analyst at Sports Action, noted in the Action Network Slack channel that in the previous 38 World Series Game 7s the average runs per game were almost a full run less than in Games 1 - 6.

Offensively, the game matches up Oakland Athletics No. 6 ranked offense (5.47 runs per game) against a Boston Red Sox defense and pitching staff that sits at No. 2 at 2.78 runs allowed per game.

The difference between the wind blowing in and blowing out on the north side is worth about three runs per game.

So what's going on?The Bronx Bombers are living up to their nicknames and scoring over 5 runs per game.

Using the historical database used to power our Bet Labs software, we were able to quickly determine the average total and runs per game since 2005.

Our first step in proving this theory was to compare the average runs per game and the average total (over / under) across baseball.

Now many people may be wondering how there could ever be value betting the under when the average runs per game has been higher than the average total in each of the past ten seasons.

That should help an offense that was second in the league in team average -LRB-.261) and runs per game (4.4).

Although one game went well under and one game went well over, ultimately there were 25 total runs scored in the two games which results in an average runs per game of 12.5 and an average total of 7.5.

2017 has been the year of the home run, with the 2.54 home runs per game even topping the 2000 season's 2.34 HR / game.

Houston led the major leagues with 5.53 runs per game in the regular season, and they slugged.478 as a team, the highest mark since the 2003 Boston Red Sox.

The team's offensive boom — since the start of the streak the A's have averaged a league - high 6.5 runs per game — coincided with the installation of the lefthanded - hitting Chavez as its cleanup man.

The runs scored per game over the last 5 seasons has remained relatively consistent, fluctuating between 4.2 and 4.3 runs per game per team.

This squad is averaging 14.3 Runs Per Game.

They are 4th in the League in Runs Per Game and are 3rd in Runs Against.

They have been murdering the ball, averaging 12.5 runs per game.

Minnesota (3 - 3) arrived to play California (5 - 1) last week with a five - game winning streak, a two - game division lead, a.286 team batting average and a scoring output of almost six runs per game.

The table below, which utilizes closing totals from Pinnacle, displays the average runs per game, total and over record for every season in our historical database.

Like Washington, Los Angeles has an excellent pitching staff led by Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke and a strong offense that averages over 4.2 runs per game.

Many readers may be wondering how there could ever be value betting the under when the average runs per game have been higher than the average total in each of the past 12 seasons, but there's a finite number of runs by which the game can go under, while there is no limit to how many runs can be scored in a game.

The only team with a better offense than the Cubs is the Boston Red Sox, who are averaging 5.97 runs per game.

Kansas City's relentless offense leads all teams this postseason in batting average -LRB-.271) and runs per game (5.73), and was able to defeat David Price twice to fuel the Royals» series win over Toronto.

But on offense, the Mets rank 28th in the majors, averaging a paltry 3.68 runs per game.

On average, the teams have totaled 6.9 runs per game.

Los Angeles has the best team ERA in the league by a comfortable margin at 3.07, and the offense ranks fifth in the majors, averaging 5.13 runs per game.

CC Sabathia goes for the Yankees against Seattle and New York has backed him with 6.8 runs per game so far.

Toronto finished ninth in the majors in runs per game in 2016, after leading the league last year.

NL Rank (out of 15) Runs per game: 8th Runs scored: 9th Batting average: 9th On - base percentage: 11th Slugging percentage: 9th Adjusted OPS: 10th

At the moment, the 2.52 home runs per game are even more than the 2.34 per game at the height of the steroid era in the 2000 season.

So far this season, MLB teams are scoring 4.66 runs per game compared to 4.48 last year.

Double the difference and you get 0.36 runs per game — a pretty substantial number that should certainly result in increased totals for some games.

I chose NL teams because of the lack of DH, and I chose teams with around 5 runs per game because I wanted to compare teams with comparable run scoring rates to the Cubs (exactly 5 runs per game thus far before today).

As a team, the Astros lead baseball in both slugging percentage -LRB-.479) and runs per game (5.47).

But we have been the most variant team among those scoring around 5 runs per game so far this year.

Last year Hamilton was supported by an average of 3.61 runs per game while he was on the mound; in the NL only the Dodgers» Tom Candiotti (3.45) got less help.

Cabrera has averaged.6497 runs per game over the past eight seasons — one of the highest rates in baseball.

I looked at NL teams averaging roughly 5 runs per game (our current average coming into today) to see the mean and SD of runs for them to see how we compare.

Detroit has hit the ball well at home with six runs per game this year, and Simon has been strong through two starts with a 2 - 0 record and a 2.03 ERA.

Texas has overcome injuries to its pitching staff with one of the majors» best offenses, averaging 4.92 runs per game through the first 90 games of the year.

Tigers offense Despite an ERA.62 worse than last year through its first 25 games, Detroit was 13 - 12 thanks to the highest - scoring offense (5.7 runs per game) in the AL..

Boston's 5.89 runs per game of offensive production is half of a run higher than the second - place Cubs» 5.40 runs per game.

Washington looks poised to be a threat with the second best offense in the league, averaging 5.52 runs per game and the third best ERA among starters at 3.71, but will need to use the trade market to shore up a disastrous bullpen that owns an MLB - worst 5.20 ERA.

Arizona's pitching staff, which had given up 7.5 runs per game over a 1 - 5 run right before this one, allowed just 2.29 runs per game last week.

The offense for Boston has found its legs during the stretch run, averaging 5.24 runs per game since the beginning of August, after 4.66 runs per game during the first four months of the season.

They have been getting it done at the plate as they are still averaging over 10 Runs per Game as a Team.

In this 32 - game stretch, Milwaukee has outscored its opponents by more than two runs per game.

New York's 21 - 12 record ranks as the best in the American League, and the Yankees» offense continues to roll with an average of 4.85 runs per game.

They're scoring five - and - a-half runs per game, whereas no other team in the AL is over five.

They finished with a league - worst 5.37 ERA.One especially telling statistic: Texas scored almost six runs per game at homeand still had a losing record there.

The Indians seem like they'll cruise past 84 wins if the statistical projections are right, but the lineup is about one injury away from looking like it'll score.009 runs per game, and they're counting on players who haven't had a great track record of health recently.