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World Series Dodgers Lack of Run Support is Wild
300 sats \ 4 comments \ @kepford 2h Stacker_Sports
I've been thinking about this the whole series. The World Series champion Dodgers didn't have any big innings.
Out of 74 innings across the series consider these facts.
  • The Dodgers never scored more than 3 runs in an inning.
  • Only scored more than 2 runs in one inning.
  • Only scored more than 1 run in 5 innings
  • Jays scored more runs
  • Jays had more multi-run games
  • Jays had 4 innings with 3 or more runs.
Its really wild how pitching won this series.

Dodgers

GameInnings2 or more run inning3 run inningTotal runsWinner
Game 19104Jays
Game 29205Dodgers
Game 318106Dodgers
Game 49002Jays
Game 59001Jays
Game 69113Dodgers
Game 711005Dodgers
totals745127Dodgers
Here is the same info for the losing team.

Blue Jays

GameInnings2 or more run inning3 or more run inningTotal runsWinner
Game 182111Jays
Game 29001Dodgers
Game 318115Dodgers
Game 49216Jays
Game 59206Jays
Game 69001Dodgers
Game 711114Dodgers
Totals738434Dodgers
I don't know where this falls historically but it has to be an outlier.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 2h
All in all Jays broke Canadian piper's dream!
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105 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 2h
One pitcher, timely home runs and Jays lack of execution in key moments won the series. That's baseball.
Only 14 out of 121 world series winners have been outscored by their opponent.
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62 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 2h
This would be only the third time in history a team scores 7 or more fewer runs than their opponent and won the World Series. Typically if you score one run less per game you don't win more games than your opponent. 3/121= 2.47%
I don't want to cry that the Jays were unlucky though because they had way too many chances where "just bad luck" wasn't the reason for lack of results. Sure there were a few of those but a lot where is was poor decision making or execution.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 2h
As a Dodger fan I fully admit it could have easily went the other way. So many chances. That's baseball, as you said.
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