In modern baseball analysis, one of the most important principles is that batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is roughly a constant. In the majors, BABIP — in other words, batting average on everything other than strikeouts or home … Continue reading
Last night, we faced off again with 78 Lieber, or at least mostly 78 Lieber — they required a last-second infusion of a couple of friends and family members to field a nine-player lineup. But all was good by 6 … Continue reading
I didn’t forget the recap of last night’s game, which was a wild one: Eleven batters into the rubber match of our three-game regular-season series vs. SFX Mezzo-Lui, the game seemed to be over before it had started: The Mets … Continue reading
Today’s game vs. the SFX Mezzo-Lui Mets wasn’t a lot like anything familiar at all. The weirdness started in the top of the first, when Jordan N led off by drawing a walk, moved to second on a botched force … Continue reading
Friday’s game vs. Holy Name Meehan was like a lot of our recent games: We hit the ball well, pitched okay, and made errors (7) and gave up unearned runs (also 7) in bunches. Highlights included Dylan striking out three … Continue reading
The Green Blueberries went into the finale of our marathon run of seven games in eight days with a late opponent switch: 78 Shiffman’s team canceled because of a lack of available players, so we scheduled a last-minute rainout makeup … Continue reading
There will not be a complete recap of tonight’s game, except to say that we still made too many defensive errors (not as many as yesterday, but still too many), and that we had one runner thrown out foolishly trying … Continue reading
First the good news: We have another (provisional) team name! We are, for the moment, the Green Blueberries, by the acclaim of at least more players and coaches than have agreed on anything else to date. And now, to the … Continue reading
Two outs into the third inning of game one of today’s doubleheader against the winless 78 Lieber, things couldn’t have been going much worse for the Green Sox. Starting pitcher Isaac had been yanked after just one inning, as he’d … Continue reading
For most of yesterday, it wasn’t clear whether we’d play last night’s game vs 78 Steckel or not: At mid-afternoon, the Prospect Park fields were still covered in puddles, and the park groundskeeper just shook his head and said “I … Continue reading