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Fun with Numbers: Yankees vs. Indians

Cleveland Indians' Grady Sizemore is congratulated by third base coach Joel Skinner after hitting a home run against the New York Yankees in the second inning during a Major League Baseball game Saturday, April 18, 2009 at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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9 months ago: Cleveland Indians' Grady Sizemore is congratulated by third base coach Joel Skinner after hitting a home run against the New York Yankees in the second inning during a Major League Baseball game Saturday, April 18, 2009 at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

I can only imagine the NY Post headline tomorrow morning (something about Getting Wang Chunged or needing to cut off their Wang, no doubt).  Rest assured it won't be pretty after the Yanks were destroyed 22-4 by the Tribe. 

Here are some tasty statistical nuggets from the game and the series thus far -

- The Indians scored 14 runs in the 2nd inning (BTW, ESPN must have decided it took too much work to provide the play by play for the Top of the 2nd because they didn't include it)

- Chien-Ming Wang gave up 8 runs in 1.1 innings.  On the good side, he didn't walk anyone:)  His ERA after 3 starts is 34.50.  His WHIP is 4.83.  In 6 innings pitched (3 start mind you) he's given up 23 hits, 23 runs, 1 wild pitch and 6 walks

- Yankees pitchers combined for 236 pitches.  The Tribe's pitchers . . . 142.

- Poor Anthony Claggett made his major league debut following Wang in the 2nd inning.  Here's how his career started: Double, Double, Walk, Single, K, HR, HR, K.

- 17 HR in the first 3 games of New Yankee Stadium.  Yikes.

- Cleveland's WORST fantasy performance by a starting player was Ryan Garko who only went 2-6 with an RBI and run scored.  Yup, that was the worst.

- Asdrubal Cabrera had 2 RBI in his first 10 games this year and 5 today

- The Indians had 31 base runners today. 

- From the 2nd inning to the 5th inning the Indians scored 20 unanswered runs.

Tomorrow's matchup:  Carl Pavano vs. AJ Burnett.  Act accordingly.

Be sure to check out Fake Teams sister station Pinstripe Alley's comment section time line from today's game is something to behold.

 

Poll
Assuming he's not hurt where does Chien-Ming Wang's 2009 ERA end up at the end of the year?
3.00 - 3.50
0 votes
3.50 - 4.00
2 votes
4.00 - 4.50
12 votes
4.50 - 5.00
22 votes
5.00 - 15.00
33 votes

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Looks like for Chien-Ming Wang to get his ERA to 3.00 he would need to pitch 63 consecutive innings without giving up an earned run. For his WHIP to get to a respectable 1.20 he would need to throw back to back no hit, no walk games. It would be interesting what BABIP has to say. It looks like on the good side he “only” has six walks through six innings and only two homers allowed.

Here are some other stats of note-

Total pitches thrown through six innings of work- 186
Strikes- 108
HBP- 1
Batters faced- 45
GB/FB- 7/6
Hits- 23
Doubles given up- 9
Triples given up- 0
Homeruns- 2
Earned Runs- 23
Attempted stolen bases- 6
Caught stealing/Picked Off- 2
Wild Pitches- 1
Unearned Runs- 0
Strikeouts- 2
Total innings thrown- 6
Scoreless Innings thrown- 3

18 outs were recorded via-
Pop Out- 2
Fly Out- 2
Sac Fly- 1
Ground Out/FC- 7
Foul Out- 1
Strikeout-2
CS/PO- 2
Out advancing a base- 1

by acr on Apr 19, 2009 1:17 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

BABIP

Wang’s BABIP is .636. I’m sure he will improve off that. His OBA and SLG Allowed makes Barry Bonds jealous – .667 and 1.027 respectively.

by faketeams on Apr 19, 2009 8:11 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

BABIP

I’m sure his BABIP will come down but when you’re tossing batting practice as Wang has, it may not regress to the assumed .300 mean.

by RJK on Apr 19, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Elias boy

From Timmy K on SC:

Most runs scored by 1 team in 2nd inning in MLB history

Tied for most runs scored in an inning by Indians in team history

14 runs and 13 hits are most allowed in an inning by Yankees in team history

Top half of 2nd inning lasted 37 minutes

by RJK on Apr 19, 2009 2:26 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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