yankees.lhblogs.com - 6/10/2008
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You hear it all the time. Why aren’t closers used more often when the score is tied? Maybe this is why. Check out the strange splits of Mariano Rivera this season:
Save situations (16 games): 17 innings, 6 hits, 0 runs, 1 walk, 17 strikeouts, 0.00 ERA
Getting some work in (6 lopsided games): 6 innings, 3 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks, 4 strikeouts, 0.00 ERA
With the score tied (5 games): ...
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Baseball Today: Tuesday, June 10
Projo Sox Blog —
... (Daily News) -- 9-for-16, 4 homers, 11 RBI -- and Rivera's inexplicable struggles in tie games this season, as related by Peter Abraham on the LoHud Yankees Blog. The good news for the Yanks was ...
Closers In Tie Games
New York Yankees —
... in non save situations. Specifically, he said that closers are such creatures of habit that they will falter in non save situations, being that such appearances are dissimilar from their typical workload. At first I thought that this might be a fluke that one bad week seemed to highlight. Looking at it objectively, you would think that tie games are just as important, if not more so, than save situations, being that one run is likely to lead directly to a loss. However, Peter penned a follow-up post with the statistics that support his theory. ...
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