So I'm sitting here watching the Dodgers lose yet another game and something started to bother me. Rafael Furcal has just recently come back after an extended stay on the disabled list and it seems like he has made contact in every at bat I can remember. I just can't remember him getting on base like he historically does. It really felt like everything he hit was right at someone or well played by the defense. I pulled up Furcal's season stats and added tonight's results so far. Run the numbers and it shows that his BAbip (batting average on balls in play) was .150 coming into the game and is now .182 (2-4 tonight). With a career BAbip of .315 one can assume the baseball gods just aren't smiling on our hard-luck shortstop.
What other sport do you get a hunch about something while watching, look up the stats, do some math and then come to a conclusion about what is really happening? I'm a stats nerd (pretty common with baseball fans I have heard) but it is just another reason to follow the game when your team is doing as bad as mine is. Then again with the averaging of Furcal's BAbip he should heat up pretty soon. If Kemp and Ethier can manage to hit at the same time this team just might have a chance.
We're going to need the bullpen to show up though.
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