Watching the worlds series with Mrs. Plant who hails from New York.
What does that mean?
This is the 40th time the Yankees have been in the World series. Apparently never before have they failed to score at least one run in the first game of the series.
It is fairly impressive(but not astonishing-level) that they havn’t been shut out in 39 previous first games.
And, they still haven’t. 
What it means, basically, is that baseball statisticians have way too much time on their hands, and way to much data to mine through for every possible scrap of a crumb of a factoid they can.
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I do find it kinda interesting when they dig up all those weird stats, but they usually don’t mean a damn thing. When the hitter steps to the plate, he’s not thinking that he’s 2-14 on the road vs. this pitcher while he’s 8-12 at home vs. the same pitcher. They’re just filling time.
I was watching a game on TV earlier this year when it was mentioned that the current batter(don’t remember who) leads the majors in career 3-2 counts.
Probably Todd Helton. Stats are cool.
Well the Phillies Christened the World Series at a New Yankee stadium with a win. That’s something that can’t be taken away. Now they can lose the series knowing they got something. 
Did you know that Chase Utley is the second left-hander to hit two homers against a left-handed pitcher in a World Series game?
That’s what Joe Buck told me tonight.
There aren’t enough :rolleyes:'s in the world for stats like this.
He also said the first was Babe Ruth. That would have been enough but he had to add that Ruth played for the Yankees and felt we had to know that Utley does not.
THIS…
…is why I don’t watch baseball.
It’s waaaay to slow and boring. Although I believe I will have to hear about the victory from my neighbor, who hails from Philly.
I believe she might have a stroke this Sunday. We can only hope.
The one has nothing to do with the other.
If you don’t like baseball, and find it slow and boring, fine. I’m a firm believer that people should only undertake leisure activities that they find enjoyable.
But announcers trotting out stupid and lame “stats” has no direct relationship to the game itself. It’s perfectly possible to announce a game of baseball without descending to this sort of crap.
I already bought my broom. It’s red and white. 
Either way, October 28th, 2009, the red hot Yankees were humbled.
If ever a game needed a shot clock, this is it.
I’d say it depends.
This is actually a very cool stat. Tells you a lot about the batter.
This isn’t and doesn’t.
The best statistic they showed all night was the very first one as Jimmy Rollins took the plate:
My friend and I were quipping with the bartender last night about how ridiculous some of the stats they mention are, right before they showed that gem.
My favorite stat was on Sportscenter this morning. No one has ever struck out 10 people and not walked anyone in Game 1 of a World Series since the original World Series Game 1 back in 1903. Deacon Phillippe of the Pirates beat Cy Young and the Boston Americans 7-3…but not to worry Yankee fans, Boston won that series.
…and pitched a complete game with no earned runs. That was the important part. But it’s still meaningless - is it more impressive just because Larson *only *struck out 7 in his perfect game? Or that Gibson walked one batter in his 17 strikeout shutout in '68?
Actually, in listening to a recent interview with Bob Gibson, I was astounded by the encylopedic knowledge he still had, after so many years, of his specific opponents, the pitch counts he had against them, the types of balls they hit off of him, and the particulars of their swings.
So actually, I bet in the back of their mind, some of those hitters are thinking exactly that…
Anytime they they start adding qualifiers to their stats, like “In game 1 of a world series” it dramatically diminishes the intrigue of the stat. There’s only been around 100 Game 1’s, a sample size of about 2/3 of a single season. As for the OPs stat, I think its pretty common for good offensive teams to only get shutout once or twice in a season, and certainly common to go stretches of 40 games without getting shut out.