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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
Bases loaded, no one out, bottom of the 8th, down 4 runs.............. we get shit.
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That's the regression to the mean WRT RISP.
Freese hit that bell well, so I'm not going to crucify him; Trumbo just made a great defensive play. There's no way Pujols gets to that.
Adams' at bat was truly pathetic. I know that Downs is hell on LHB, but he couldn't pick the ball up out of his hands at all and was fanning on sinkers that were low and significantly inside.
This is why power is important. We are near the bottom of the league in HRs, and thus need to string together multiple hits to score. When the team hits .330 w/ RISP it's easy to do, but once they start heading back to Earth in that dept runs will need to come from another source, and the power outage from Freese, Holliday, and Craig (although he's heated up lately) has really hurt us there.