Of course there are meaningless runs. SIGH, SIGH, SIGH.
If your pitching holds a team to 1 run, you can win with 2. Is that a hard concept to understand. If they score more, they do not matter.
The game winning RBI (that is a real stat) was the 2nd RBI.
I understand people argue for sport. But man get in the ballgame.
But this can only ever be an ex post facto evaluation. When the game is over, it’s easy to say, “Well, we only needed 2 runs because they only scored 1.” But until the losing team makes its 27th out, you never know whether than 1 run is going to be enough.
Here’s a question for you:
Would you prefer to go into that seventh inning with a 2-1 lead, or a 5-1 lead? And if your answer is the latter, how can you argue that those extra 3 runs are meaningless?
P.S. Typing “SIGH” multiple times in capitals doesn’t make your bad arguments any more compelling. Just in case you want to save some time in future.
No, it’s not. MLB dumped GWRBI 23 years ago because they realized it’s a really dumb stat.
Wow, there was actually once a stat called GWRBI?
I assumed gonzo was pulling it out of his ass. As someone who first watched baseball while living in Canada in the early 1990s, and who only really became a full-on fan after moving to the US in 2000, i’d never heard of it, not even in all the baseball books i’ve read since then. Or, if it did appear in those books, i failed to notice.
Now, having done a search, i found this article from the Los Angeles Times, about the demise of the GWRBI stat:
I think it’s hilarious that the thing was ever an official stat in the first place.
Boy you guys have no problem not knowing what you are talking about.
At the top of the page that you link to, there is a link that says “Learn more about the statistic here.”
When you click on that link, it takes you to this page, where it says:
Emphasis mine. You’re welcome.
Agreed on all counts. I was just trying to help add some actual, ya know, facts to gonzo’s discussion.
As to the Cards, I’m not even remotely ready to start thinking about the World Series. Maybe 30 minutes into the post-game celebration.
With good reason.
The Brewers won an astounding 70.4% of their home games this year, which works out to a 49.5% chance of winning the next two games.
Comedy gold!
Simple truth. getting 10 runs when you give up 1 is not a ode to the offense. two would do. i am sorry you guys don’t understand baseball any better than that.
Two homeruns by the Tigers so far. Two to zip. Cabrera and Peralta.
You don’t know how many runs you need to win until the game is over. There are actually sites now that track a team’s probably of winning as a game goes on. I hope I don’t need to explain why your odds of winning are better at 10-1 than at 2-1.
Ah, but the Cardinals won 55.6% of their away games this year (same record as at home), which works out to a 19.8% chance the Brewers win the next two games. 
Perhaps more relevantly, each team has a narrow 5-4 margin over the other during the regular season when they played at home, assuming I’m remembering correctly. And if it means anything, the Cards’ successes against the Brewers in Milwaukee came late in the season.
But, these are two evenly-matched teams, and anything could yet happen.
I think the only thing that could happen in the NLCS that would surprise me is if the Brewers don’t make any more errors.
As far as 3rd innings go, this might be my favorite.
Maybe they shouldn’t have stopped at two runs.
That’s our boys!!
Go rest, Young man!
One helluva good night’s work.
ETA: Keerap Nelson!
Is bringing in Brad Penny the same as conceding?
So are the Tigers going to win the series because of their pitching or their home runs?
Texas outpitches Detroit 15-5.