February 22, 2007
Long Battles
Nice research over at the Detroit Tigers Weblog on long battles between batters and pitchers after the count reaches two strikes. Long battles improve the chance of the batter reaching base. Of course, there could be selection bias here. Batters who can foul off or take pitches with two strikes are just better hitters.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Those are really interesting numbers. One thing they imply is that when pitchers gets 2 strikes, "wasting" pitches really is wasting pitches as each wasted pitch drops the odds of a K and an out.
