Since We Last Spoke

Published by on April 22, 2009 | 3 Responses

The Giants haven’t scored many runs, but their pitching has looked quite good at times. Excluding last night’s 8-run outburst, since April 16th the Giants have scored a total of 7 runs — or 1.4 runs per game. The Giants have the 2nd lowest team wOBA in the baseball at the moment. Their score of .293 — league average wOBA tends to be around .330 — is superior to only the Oakland Athletics and their wOBA of .281.

The low scoring trend continued today when the Giants defeated the San Diego Padres 1-0. Zito hurled 7 innings of shutout baseball while striking out 5 and walking none. Very nice to see from Zito, but if you watched today’s game, my favorite moment was in the 8th inning when the Padres had a runner on third base with 1 out and the Giants brought in Jeremey Affeldt to face the Padres top hitters — Brian Giles and Adrian Gonzalez.

This happened:

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(The 2 sliders are most likely curveballs. Affeldt doesn’t throw a slider to my knowledge.)

.2 IP, 2 SO.

And then, in the 10th inning with Molina at the plate, this happened:

molinaoutcome

Molina whacked a low changeup off the left-center warning track for a game-winning walk-off ground rule double. An all around solid game from Zito, the bullpen, and a few Giants’ hitters.

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MarkOC
MarkOC

OK, I getcha. I was imagining the plot from the pitcher's POV, not the batter's. If I picture Bengie standing on the left (negative numbers) side and facing "into the page" I see it! Thanks. I really like what you do with these plots--I keep telling myself that one of these days I'll start monkeying around with the pitchf/x data. Then I visit your site and get a healthy dose of it and think "ah, maybe later!" :-)

Chris
Chris

Mark, What do you mean by mirror-images? I just want to make sure I understand the Q before I answer it. On the graphs, the vantage point is from behind homeplate. Negative numbers = the area where RHB's stand. Postive numbers = the area where LHB's stand.

MarkOC
MarkOC

These are groovy, Chris. But I have to ask a dumb question--they are a mirror-images, right? I mean, Molina's ball was outside to him, +1 being AWAY from a RH batter, no?