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1950-2021
Our Seventy-first Year
The Oldest Continuously Active Contest in Sport
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Bob Gibson is
watching
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In Year of the
Pitcher, Met's deGrom
dominates the dominant:
On Sat he shuts out hot
Padres, 4-0, lowers ERA
to 0.62 and strikes out
11; of 85 pitches, 60
were strikes, 33 over
100mph. In Game's
Eternal War, batters
uppercut in bid for
homers, pitchers counter
with high strikes; mlb
average lowest since
1968. But line drives
appear to be coming
back. The 300 Club's
lowest winning average
was .301 in 1968; will
this year's winner break
.300?
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The Mets' RHP Jacob deGrom fires a missle.
DeGrom's numbers this year rival those of
the great Bob Gibson in 1968, EXCEPT, it
must be noted, in endurance.Gibson pitched
304 innings, won 22 games, faced 1,161
batters, and pitched 28 complete games. In
the era of coddle-the-pitcher, deGrom won't
come close to that. But de Grom has a .57
WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) vs.
Gibson's .85,14.9 Ks per 9 innings vs 7.9,
and 1.2 walks per 9 innings vs 1.8. The MLB
community is awash with talking heads
bemoaning the poor hitters as MLB averages
are the lowest this year since 1968 --so in
'69, MLB lowered the mound from 15 inches to
10. But making major changes is hogwash.
Just let the hitters whiff until they
abandon uppercuts and start hitting line
drives again -- and there are signs, notably
with Aaron Judge, that's starting to occur.
(Photo: Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal
Constitution) |
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2021 Weekly Contest
Winners
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Week Ending |
Member |
Average |
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06/06 |
Joel Parkinson |
320 |
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05/30 |
Fritz Wiltman |
292 |
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05/23 |
Sidney Smith |
300 |
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05/16 |
Robert Wiltman |
327 |
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