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Relentless Cubs
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8 June 2008: Kerry Wood & Geovany Soto of the Chicago Cubs celebrate win against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles,CA.
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When I've read Cubs boxscores lately, I've been impressed at how well the offense holds up through the entire game. This team just never lets up. Here are their OBA and slugging percentage by inning this season:Inning OBA SPct 1st .318 .464 2nd .362 .462 3rd .370 .456 4th .377 .481 5th .374 .458 6th .371 .480 7th .380 .478 8th .379 .388 9th .302 .373
The remind me of the 1998 Yankees. That team outscored their opponents by an average of 1.91 runs per game. The Cubs are at 1.88 per game. I remember that Yankees team hammering middle relief, but that's where memory is never as good as data. The splits show the 1998 Yankees hammered starters from the third inning on. This Cubs teams is feasting on poor pitchers in the sixth and the seventh.
The Yankees of 1998 drew a ton of walks, as the Cubs do now. The pushes pitch counts up, forcing opponents into their bullpens sooner. The average NL start this season is 5.7 innings, the average start against the Cubs is 5.6 innings. (In 1998, the average start against the Yankees was 5.7 innings, the average AL start 6.0 innings.)
The Cubs 1.88 run difference per game would rank 10th since 1901, just ahead of the 2001 Mariners. All but one team in the top 15 won 100 games, and four of those teams won 110 games. This is certainly looking like the year of the Cubs.
Topics: Baseball , Offense , National League , Mariners , Yankees , Cubs , Division Races
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