Day/Night splits Telling

by jomfa on Apr 17, 2007 8:16 AM EDT

Just out of curiosity, I checked the day/night splits for the Cardinals offense so far this season. While only 12 games (and 2/3 of them night games) have been played, thought I still might find something. Perhaps???

In 8 night games, the offense is batting a miserable .208. What's worse is the typical starting 8 for those games comprised an even worse .186 batting average. Additionally, look at the frequency in which they strike out - 17% of the AB's!!! Even Hombre has 5 K's to 4 BB's during night games.

In the 4 day games, the offense is batting a nice .317. Gets even better when looking at the typical starting 8 for those games - .333 batting average. Looking at the strikeouts, well... there are only 2 for the entire offense and they belong to Eckstein and Kennedy respectively. This goes along with the 16 walks generated.

With 5 of the next 6 games scheduled for mid-day, perhaps we'll see plenty of offense generated, but since we're looking at a small sample size, perhaps it will continue to be coincidence???

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Cold Weather?

This split is consistent with the excuse that the cold weather is depressing the offense. Not saying that I buy that, it's just consistent.

So says, The Dude

by Titus Pullo on Apr 17, 2007 12:18 PM EDT reply actions

Cold weather,

shmold weather. That never stopped the jamican bobsled team!

Feel the rythym... Feel the rhyme!

Cheers

by Alxfritz on Apr 17, 2007 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Could it be the lighting?

I remember an article about lighting at the stadium affecting fielders - perhaps affecting the ability of hitters to see the ball as well?

by jomfa on Apr 17, 2007 12:28 PM EDT reply actions

IIRC..

... this flies directly in the face of the past few seasons, in which teh Cards weren't as good during the day as they were at night. i'm too lazy to dig up the figures, but i think that's right.

by kindred on Apr 17, 2007 5:50 PM EDT reply actions