The Phillies didn’t have their World Series invitation in hand last October, but they had reason to believe it was at least out for delivery. Their hitters were raking, their pitchers were dominating and they needed just one win in two games at home, where they’d been practically invincible to dismiss the Diamondbacks in the NLCS and capture the National League pennant for the second year in a row.
In those final two games, the Phillies were a combined 11-for-63 . They scored a total of three runs. And, significantly, they got just one homer, a solo shot from Alec Bohm in the final game. That from a team which, to that point, had blasted 17 homers in 11 games while averaging 5.6 runs per game. It’s a statistical jungle out there. It can be difficult to hack through all the undergrowth and figure out what really matters. But here are some number that seem interesting. With almost a third of the season completed, the Phils are first in all of baseball with 256 runs scored. . .and 35.5 percent of them have come on homers.‘Best rotation I've ever been a part of': Nola highlights teammates after outing vs.
There are a lot of different ways to win. But one takeaway from all of the above could be this: Over the course of a long season, the percentage of runs that come from the long ball doesn’t matter nearly as much because a team has weeks or even months to get hot again.Dave Smith, founder of retrosheet.org, put together a chart that showed the disconnect. In 2023, runs-on-homers ranged from 51.7 percent to 29.0 percent . The MLB average was 41.04 percent.
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