Here comes more pain for the the Cubs

Bottom of the 6th — Andrew Miller warming up in the bullpen for the Indians. If he performs as well in this game as he did in the regular season this is going to be a tough end of the game.

Amazing Performance By Miller Under Intense Pressure

Miller enters the game with a 3 run lead gets and himself into and out of a bind. This is the first graph where we surface pressure v. execution.

Game 2 — Who Will Show Up?

tldr; Game 1 was awesome. Game 2 could be head to head lock if both pitchers bring their “A” games, if Bauer gets rattled the Cubs may tie this up.

Game 1 was a pitching masterpiece for the Indians, Kluber and Miller were both stellar in terms of location…

Post-Season Drill Down Kluber vs. Lester

Here is a break down of each at-bat for Kluber and Lester from the post season. You can really see just how good both of these guys are at controlling count.

Impact of Runner on 1st for Lester

Lindor gets single with two outs in the 1st. We had a hunch that he would take advantage of Lester’s refusal to check him. Lindor steals second.

We then looked at Lester’s Vaughn score with runner on first and no runners. He score is nearly…

Perez Tees Off On Hanging Slider

During the regular season Perez saw a 2–2 count 81 times, netting 2 hits. He is aggressive at swinging on 2–2 coming in at .037 (closer to zero is more aggressive) — And he had 0 home runs on a 2–2 count, but that has now changed.