Odd Sox Tendencies

[stretchstretch]

Seems there are certain inexplicable tendencies with this team that drive me up a wall, things I recall from at least the last three seasons...

 

1) Win the first of a 3 game set, get my hopes up and roll over the next two, while conversely losing the first game and miraculously pulling out the next two. The frequency of LLW/WWL seems to outnumber LWL/WLW 2:1

 

2) While hovering around .500 the past few years, their win % when on WGN and I get to actually watch a game has to be about 25%

 

I'm sure others have certain pet peaves they've picked up on ?

[Wanne]

Scoring 3+ runs in the first and not scoring s*** the rest of the game.

 

Letting Peavy go back out to the mound in the 6th in a close game.

 

NEVER ever swinging at any 3-0 pitch.

 

Taking the first 2 games of a series and having sunday be the throw away game.

 

Scoring 10 runs in a game and come back the next day and get shut out (or close to it).

 

Ruining somewhat decent prospects at the plate.

[southsider2k5]

Scoring 3+ runs in the first and not scoring s*** the rest of the game.

 

Letting Peavy go back out to the mound in the 6th in a close game.

 

NEVER ever swinging at any 3-0 pitch.

 

Taking the first 2 games of a series and having sunday be the throw away game.

 

Scoring 10 runs in a game and come back the next day and get shut out (or close to it).

 

Ruining somewhat decent prospects at the plate.

 

You ought to be be pretty happy about this one then, because it hasn't happened in 2011. Not even close.

 

The Sox have scored 10 or more 4 times this year. The next games they have scored 8, 5, and 7 respectively. I'll tell you Tuesday whether the trend holds up or not for the 4th time.

 

Even the three times we have scored 9 in a game resulted in 3, 8, and 5 the next games respectively.

 

This teams problems is stacking bad games together where we go games long stretches with 1 or 0 runs. In the games where we got shutout, we manged to score 1, 0, 2, 2, 4, 8, 1, and 7 in the next games respectively. If we scored one run, our next games looked like 6, 6, 3, 8, 3, 1, 0, 6, 2, 1, 5, 3, 5, and 2 respectively.

 

So on average if we score 10 in a game, the next time out we have averaged just under 7 runs. If we get shutout, the next time out we average just over 3. If we score 1 run, the next time out we average about 3 and a half runs.