Wowsers - Stat of the Day

[Willets Point]

Baseball Reference's Stat of the Day Blog wows me again by compiling Team W/L in games with 5 or fewer hits in 2007. Second place over all with 7 wins in games where the team had 5 or fewer hits are your New York Mets. And the team with the fewest loses when they had 5 or fewer hits? Once again, your New York Mets with 7 losses.

So the Mets are 7-7 when they have five or fewer hits which is pretty Amazin'.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Starting pitching, keeping them in the game.

[metirish]

Pretty cool stat,last night during the game Gary mentioned a stat that shows the Mets have the best record in the NL when they get a quality start..I forget the number of wins but I think it was 59,anyone else hear this.Darling went onto credit the pen with keeping the quality start in tact.


This jumped out at me while reading the link Willets provided.

] # The Mets� performance is truly impressive. Not only do they have 7 wins with 5 or fewer hits (tied for 2nd-best), but they have only 7 losses (best). # Compare that to Arizona, who has a similar number of such wins (5) but many more such losses (25.)

[Valadius]

It's called us being awesome.

Seriously, though, that's pretty impressive.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The low number of losses simply means that it's been very difficult to limit the Mets to 5 or fewer hits.

With the lineup they have, that's not at all surprising.

[Willets Point]

Pitchers who got screwed, including Masato Yoshii. Twice. Jerry Koosman got screwed as a Met.

[Guest attgig]

Willets Point wrote: Pitchers who got screwed, including Masato Yoshii. Twice. Jerry Koosman got screwed as a Met.

yoshii's getting screwed wasn't with the mets.

but his era getting screwed 4.11 and 5.86 ??? 5.86 was top 100?!?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jerry Koosman got screwed for much of his career. He was probably a better pitcher than Catfish Hunter, and he got into the Hall.

[Willets Point]

attgig wrote: yoshii's getting screwed wasn't with the mets. but his era getting screwed 4.11 and 5.86 ??? 5.86 was top 100?!?

Hence the "as a Met" phrase being attached to Jerry Koosman, not Yoshii.