Tigers’ record by runs allowed
posted in 2008 season |Last week, I looked at the Tigers record by runs allowed. At that point, and in the four games since, they are yet to win a game when they’ve scored four runs or less. They picked up two more losses to bring their record to 0-19 (in 38 games) when scoring 4 runs or less. For an offense that was supposed to be all-powerful, well, it’s been anything but. So a Tigers’ pitching staff that has the fewest quality starts in baseball has been pitching under quite a bit of stress this year. But let’s see how they’ve done. (Numbers researched at Baseball Prospectus)
0 runs — 0-0 (no shutouts!!)
1 run — 1-0
2 runs — 6-0
3 runs — 0-1
4 runs — 4-4
5 runs — 2-7
6 runs — 1-2
7 runs — 0-2
8 runs — 0-1
9 runs — 2-0
11 runs — 0-3
12 runs — 0-1
13 runs — 0-1
So while the median runs score for the Tigers is 4.5 runs, the median for runs allowed is 5 runs. Well, this sub-.500 record thing makes sense at least. The picture I get when you put the runs scored and runs allowed together is very few times have the Tigers batters lifted the pitchers up when they stumbled (the two wins with nine runs allowed show the bats helping). And never are the pitchers helping the Tigers when they don’t score. It’s interesting that the Tigers are 7-0 when allowing two runs or less but 0-6 when scoring either three or four runs. They’re just not battling out the close ones like that. The two sets of figures aren’t aligned at all.
Next up a look at Tigers’ record by run differential, hopefully tomorrow.
Sphere It
Eureka! We just need to give up exactly 9 runs each game!