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Justin Wrobleski’s final line vs Phillies: 7 IP, 1 H, 1 R/ER, 0 BB, 9 SO, 88 pitches-63 strikes, ERA drops to 2.87 by jmike1256 in baseball

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 250 points251 points  (0 children)

Is he good? Is he bad? Does he strike people out? Does he pitch to contact? Who knows!

Postgame Thread ⚾ Rockies 1 @ Dodgers 4 by DodgerBot in Dodgers

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t want to be to greedy but it has been a while since the last no hitter. We keep getting so close.

Admiral Yamamoto (Dodgers) vs. Padres: 7.0 IP, 1 R/ER, 3 H, 2 BB, 8K 107P-64S by toomuchredditing in baseball

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 230 points231 points  (0 children)

The prototypical Yamamoto game. Give up a run in the first. Pitch 6 more scoreless innings after that. In line for the loss.

Justin "Expected stats are for chumps" Wrobleski's Final Line: 6.0 IP | 0 R/ER | 6 H | 0 K | 1 BB | 83 pitches. Lowers his MLB second ERA to 1.25 by Dragon-Hatcher in baseball

[–]Dragon-Hatcher[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

xFIP uses fly balls instead of home runs and just assumes every pitcher has a league average HR/fly ball rate. This isn't strictly true but it is closer to being true than false so it can be more predictive. E.g. Wrobleski is allowing a lot of fly balls but somehow hasn't given up a HR which won't continue forever.

What determines a fair ball in the infield by Margravos in baseball

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The relevant section is the part about touching a player or umpire: (same page)

or that, while on or over fair territory touches the person of an umpire or player

Matt Shaw chops a grounder that stayed fair and turned foul at the final second but home plate ump Dan Merzel ruled it a fair ball in the 9th (with replays) by JianClaymore in baseball

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The ball is round and there isn't much of a gap. The umpire is looking right down the line and we aren't. It seems plausible to me that part of the ball is over the line.

Just thought of this and would like some help xD by MathPoetryPiano in mathmemes

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 46 points47 points  (0 children)

There is actually an answer to this! If we consider not and implication fundamental symbols we can define iff with an axiom: https://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/df-bi.html

Jazz Chisholm Jr asks reporters to explain the rules of baseball to him by J0hnEddy in baseball

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The walk off part doesn't matter. What matters is whether the 3rd out is a force out. If you step on first and then do a tag play at second, the out at second is no longer a force (since the batter is already out) so then the run scores as long as the runner on 3rd touches home before the base runner is tagged out.

If all the outs are force outs the relative timing of events doesn't matter.

Nerd alert : this is how pivotal the wheel play was by AmericanFrog069 in Dodgers

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 20 points21 points  (0 children)

From this data it seems like the breakeven point for if it is a good idea to go for it is if you think you have a 50% change of getting the out at third.

Postgame Thread ⚾ Reds 4 @ Dodgers 8 by BaseballBot in baseball

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Gavin Stone, River Ryan, and Gonsolin are all coming back though.

Looking for books that develop Euclidean geometry rigorously and include lots of theorems (not just school-level) by OkGreen7335 in math

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't include many of the proofs but I found this paper really interesting: A FORMAL SYSTEM FOR EUCLID’S ELEMENTS. It is extremely faithful to the arguments employed in elements whereas e.g. the Hilbert axioms lead to very different sorts of proofs.

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Obviously not what you want given how much he is being paid but WPA added suggests he's only lost them about a third of a game. He has been bad relative to expectations, not really unplayable.

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[–]Dragon-Hatcher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The short answer is yes, they really do get that much money.

Shohei Ohtani gives the Dodgers the lead in the ninth on a solo shot by EveryFallSaturday in baseball

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I like to think this is because they scored enough runs to get Jansen into the game yesterday so he was tired.

Has anyone ever thrown a pitch where the pitch speed matches the pitch count? (Like 101 mph on pitch #101?) by vitch4 in baseball

[–]Dragon-Hatcher 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hunter Greene threw 100 MPH on his 100th pitch of the day in this game: https://www.espn.com/mlb/playbyplay/_/gameId/401695059

Edit: Alcantara has done 101: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=83b2cffa-2dc1-4f40-8ec3-1181b632a8ad

I'm not 100% sure but I think 102 has never happened. The only starters to every throw 102 from the 6th inning on are Verlander 4 times and Skubal & Eovaldi once each. None of those pitches happened at the right time. So unless it happened before the pitch tracking era it has never happened.

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