Over the first 44 games of the season (before the west coast trip on May 19) the Red Sox record was 24-20.
They scored 248 runs and allowed 232 in those games.
Runs scored per game: 5.63. Runs allowed per game: 5.27.
Good offense, really bad pitching.
Good news everyone!
In the 23 games played since the start of the trip, the Red Sox pitching has greatly improved, as they have allowed 95 runs, and average of 4.13 per game, over a full run less than before! (And that's total runs, not earned runs, so the bad defense is included.)
Bad news, everyone!
In the last 23 games since May 19, the offense has scored 78 runs, plummeting to an abysmal 3.39 runs per game over that stretch.
Run differential on the season has gone from +16 to -1 in those 23 games, despite the pitching significantly improving over that stretch.
The W-L since then is 9-14.
(This post involved some basic arithmetic, so I probably got some numbers wrong. Apologies if so.)
The losses are piling up, and the Red Sox are now tied for 6th in the Wild Card race, 4.5 games out. Baseball Reference has us with a 5.5% chance of making the postseason. (Yikes!)
I'm sure everyone is full of theories and opinions about what happened and why and whether the offense will improve much or not.
But the idea that this team has a good offense and lousy pitching hasn't been true for almost a month now, it's actually been the complete opposite.
They scored 248 runs and allowed 232 in those games.
Runs scored per game: 5.63. Runs allowed per game: 5.27.
Good offense, really bad pitching.
Good news everyone!
In the 23 games played since the start of the trip, the Red Sox pitching has greatly improved, as they have allowed 95 runs, and average of 4.13 per game, over a full run less than before! (And that's total runs, not earned runs, so the bad defense is included.)
Bad news, everyone!
In the last 23 games since May 19, the offense has scored 78 runs, plummeting to an abysmal 3.39 runs per game over that stretch.
Run differential on the season has gone from +16 to -1 in those 23 games, despite the pitching significantly improving over that stretch.
The W-L since then is 9-14.
(This post involved some basic arithmetic, so I probably got some numbers wrong. Apologies if so.)
The losses are piling up, and the Red Sox are now tied for 6th in the Wild Card race, 4.5 games out. Baseball Reference has us with a 5.5% chance of making the postseason. (Yikes!)
I'm sure everyone is full of theories and opinions about what happened and why and whether the offense will improve much or not.
But the idea that this team has a good offense and lousy pitching hasn't been true for almost a month now, it's actually been the complete opposite.
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