Listen up, nerds.
Are you looking for all the analytics behind the NLCS? Do you crave cold, hard numbers as opposed to cuddly platitudes and disproven hogwash like ‘momentum’?
Our friends over at numberFire have you covered. Head over to their site and check out the entire preview and you’ll see stuff like this:
In the regular season, the Cardinals hit 105 home runs in 6,086 plate appearances, a 57.96 plate-appearance-per-home-run rate. In the Divisional Series, the Cards bombed seven homers in 138 plate appearances, a rate of 19.71 plate-appearances-per-home-run.
Or this:
Tim Hudson allowed 15 earned runs in his 20.2 innings he has thrown in the 6th this year for an ERA of 6.53. Vogelsong has a 7.40 ERA in the same number of innings. Peavy has a 3.21 ERA in the 6th, but that follows a 5th inning in which he has a 5.17 ERA and precedes the 7th where his ERA spikes to 7.62.
You get it. The stuff we’re way too lazy to figure out for ourselves.
I won’t spoil the ending.
Photo: Jack Malcolm
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