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Stupid Humbug Stat Tricks - 'The 39 Missed Steps' Edition
2007-10-02 18:02
by dianagramr

You may remember my post a few weeks ago detailing the Orioles 16-game death march of pitching.

Well, they decided that 16 games of self-flagellation wasn't enough, and continued the downward spiral through season's end, to the tune of 308 runs surrendered over their last 39 games:

W L CG SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR ERA BA OBP SLG OPS
11 28 1 1 6 349 452 308 295 204 244 91 6 49 7.61 .314 .402 .488 .890

You have to go back to the 1996 Detroit Tigers (the 53-109, 6.38 season ERA guys) to find the last time a team relinquished that many runs in a 39-game span.

In their last 39 games. the O's surrendered ten or more runs 11 times. (There were 8 teams that had fewer than 11 such games all season.)

The 11-28 finish has become commonplace for the Orioles, as they've managed to hang around the vicinity of .500 for anywhere from two to four months before crashing and burning in the past few years:

  Collapse Before After
Year Date W L Pct. W L Pct.
2007 7/28/2007 49 54 .476 20 39 .339
2006 7/17/2006 44 51 .463 26 41 .388
2005 6/22/2005 42 28 .600 29 58 .333
2004 6/1/2004 24 23 .511 54 61 .470
2003 6/2/2003 28 27 .509 43 64 .402
2002 8/24/2002 63 63 .500 4 32 .111
2001 5/28/2001 24 24 .500 39 74 .345
  totals 274 270 .504 215 369 .368

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