
themanthemyth
Mar 15, 2008 Dec 02, 2008 1 263
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HBP followed by HR
I was sitting in the Denver Airport last night watching the game on gameday. When Ankiel was hit by a pitch and Yadi came up I turned to the guy next to me and called the shot. Of course, I can't say it was anymore than a hunch but it worked out.
My question for the statheads out there is this:
Are home run rates in ABs when the previous batter was HBP any higher than the home run rate across all at bats? Is this even a statistically valid question? Logically it might follow that after hitting a batter the pitcher might just try to get a couple over the plate or he could just continue to miss spots.
I tried to look at baseball reference to see if i could run this query but I have no idea what I'm doing.
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