They are by far the best team. They have many fans and in a big city. I know its afternoon and its hot. But for comparison weather this never stops NFL teams from having full attendances!
In a lot of other countries and sports, career stats include finals appearances and regular season appearances. Finals records exist too but the overall leader in any statistical category will inevitably have some of it accumulated in finals.
Genuinely curious why American sports don't seem to do this? I would think you would celebrate for example the all time home run leader regular season only, finals only and combined.
So I know that we're in the playoffs, but with how close we are at approaching the offseason, I have a few questions regarding the FO.
I wanna preface this by saying that I'm a hockey fan, so I'll be using a lot of hockey references here.
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Why is there a day off between ALDS games 1 and 2 but not in the NLDS?
Or if we want to put it in high school geometry terms, how come pitches that caught a linear edge of the strike zone are said to have caught a vertex (aka corner)?
Maybe there's an interesting etymological origin?
I keep seeing pitchers pitching well for five or six innings, but at something like two on - two out they'll get subbed off?
I'm a baseball noob but I'd imagine that it must be a bit of a knock to the confidence of the pitcher. Like the coach doesn't trust them any more.
I've heard it's to pad stats but, man, don't these pitchers want to get their team out of that hole?