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Post by chiyankee on Jun 3, 2018 12:44:05 GMT -5
ESPN is screwing us further by switching our game against the Blue Jays in Toronto on July 8th from an afternoon game to a night game right before the doubleheader in Baltimore on July 9th:
This is an example where MLB and the player's union should step in not allow this to happen. They're supposed to protect the players from crap like this. |
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Post by kaybli on Jun 3, 2018 12:48:27 GMT -5
ESPN is screwing us further by switching our game against the Blue Jays in Toronto on July 8th from an afternoon game to a night game right before the doubleheader in Baltimore on July 9th:
This is an example where MLB and the player's union should step in not allow this to happen. They're supposed to protect the players from crap like this. Exactly. It better be changed back. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jun 3, 2018 12:50:19 GMT -5
This is an example where MLB and the player's union should step in not allow this to happen. They're supposed to protect the players from crap like this. Exactly. It better be changed back. And since when does ESPN start showing Blue Jays game on prime time? When was the last time they were on Sunday Night Baseball? |
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Post by inger on Jun 3, 2018 14:46:33 GMT -5
Easy solution to having so many double-headers...Sweep 'em... (:
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Post by sierchio on Jun 3, 2018 21:16:00 GMT -5
Earlier today I tried googling but couldn't get any results. What MLB team suffered the most rain outs in a single season? And also what MLB season suffered the most rain outs?
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Post by inger on Jun 4, 2018 0:25:14 GMT -5
I know that the Phillies had 10 consecutive rain outs in August of 1909...which is the record for consecutive rain outs...
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Post by sierchio on Jun 5, 2018 0:33:31 GMT -5
Today I was curious as to the percentage of double headers that ended in a split vs a sweep. The article I found was like 3 years old... It was from a Mets blog believe it or not.. I'll look for link later if anybody is curious but the results were going into a double header.. teams had about a 50/50 chance for a split. I honestly thought it would have been a higher chance to split then a sweep
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Post by sierchio on Jun 5, 2018 0:45:43 GMT -5
www.sportingcharts.com/articles/mlb/analyzing-mlb-doubleheaders.aspxAs it can be seen from the table, a total of 113 of these doubleheaders have ended in a sweep (51.83%), so it is far from a rare occurrence after all. Home teams have had the edge with 66 of these sweeps (58.41%), which is a bit higher than the overall winning percentage for home teams. Stats from 2005-2014
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Post by inger on Jun 5, 2018 8:35:46 GMT -5
Good research sierchio. I had always heard splits were more common than sweeps...
Some reasons: Teams will often use a substitute starting pitcher in one game.
Catchers seldom play both ends, resulting in back up catchers in line ups.
Aging veterans will often only play one half of the double header.
The "real" odds are that each team will win one out of two anyway.
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