Note: special thanks to co-author Steve Sandmeyer aka Sandy
Corey Kluber was not Klu-botic tonight.
Zero strike outs. Zero natural ground outs. Behind in the count. Less junk pitches. Less strikes on first pitch. Abandoned his curve ball. Hit a batter. Did not locate his two-seam fastball, providing the Cubs a…
In the World Series Champan has faced 23 batters, allowing… 2 hits and 1 run. Chapman is just flat out intimidating. And his confidence level is off the charts. Last night when he gave up a hit to Ramirez in the 8th, you could see the look on his face deeply processing the “mistake” even though he…
To complement my colleague Eric’s World Series analysis, I’ve been streaming all tweets with the following terms for the first hour of game 7:
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As I talked about in the pre-game, mistakes will hurt you game 7.
Here is Fowler’s hitting hot zone for fastballs. Kluber on a 2–1 (behind in the count) pitch threw a 2 seam fastball in the middle of the zone (0,0).
Hi folks. Harry Doyle here — with my pre-game analysis for the final match up the 2016 MLB World Series. Lots of graphs and maths. A bit long, but so is the season.
Hi folks.
Harry Doyle here, back in Cleveland for the 2016 Word Series to break down game 6, as the tribe tries to go on an award tour.
No graphs for the pre-game, just good old fashioned SQL.
First time through the line up Bauer was wicked with his breaking ball, striking out 5 Cubs with 4 looking. However, 2nd time through Bauer threw fastballs earlier in the count and the Cubs were ready to attack.
tldr: Cubs need to keep hit their differential close to zero and need to target 9 hits to win Game 5.
Hi folks — Harry Doyle here with a look at game 5.
