HR's Down Nationally 35% First Three Games of Season

[SFL]

James Madison scored 91 runs and hit 23 homers while sweeping Bucknell this weekend. That sort of production is not typical so that affected the overall numbers a bit.

That's an amazing number....Bucknell pitching must really serve it up.

Billybob, I was ready to call BS; however your post is legit. :shock:

Check link below and click on February 18th... all 4 games scores are shown. Yikes!

Game 1 = 37-7

http://www.bucknellbison.com/scoreboard/?sport=m-basebl

[Shocker85]

James Madison scored 91 runs and hit 23 homers while sweeping Bucknell this weekend. That sort of production is not typical so that affected the overall numbers a bit.

That's an amazing number....Bucknell pitching must really serve it up.

James Madison's pitching wasn't very good either. They gave up 34 runs in 4 games themselves.

Tha park must be a bandbox.

--'85.

[XManCometh]

I'll be very surprised if any Shockers hit 10+ HRs this season. Heck, we'll probably be lucky if anyone hits 7 in our monstrous park.

[shock10]

After 60 games this year the Shockers hit 39 home runs. Last year after 60 games the Shockers hit 64 home runs. The bats I guess.

[1979Shocker]

There's not much difference between last year and this year besides the HRs, which is probably part of the reason for less run production.

year  avg gp-gs  ab   r   h   2b 3b hr rbi  tb slg%  bb hbp  so gdp  ob% sf sh sb-att  po   a   e fld%
2010 .296 60-60 2066 441 611 134 17 64 403 971 .470 255  72 428  32 .387 28 23 97-120 1573 640 90 .961
2011 .284 60-60 2109 380 600 114 16 39 353 863 .409 270  58 417  43 .378 20 34 98-121 1631 666 93 .961

And here's how our opponents did.

year  avg gp-gs  ab   r   h   2b 3b hr rbi  tb slg%  bb hbp  so gdp  ob% sf sh sb-att  po   a   e fld%
2010 .277 60-60 2035 312 564  96 14 34 273 790 .388 196  66 438  43 .357 17 38 72-102 1530 574 74 .966
2011 .251 60-60 2031 263 509  89 10 25 227 693 .341 223  42 456  50 .334 20 55 60-85  1608 633 76 .967

Pitching the last 2 years.

year  ERA  W-L  APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV  IP    H   R   ER  BB  SO  2B 3B HR  AB  B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA
2010 4.45 41-19  60 60  7   6/4   12 524.1 564 312 259 196 438  96 14 34 2035  .277 53  66  5  17  38
2011 3.38 36-24  60 60  7   9/6    9 543.2 509 263 204 223 456  89 10 25 2031  .251 45  42  5  20  55

And our opponents pitching.

year  ERA  W-L  APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV  IP    H   R   ER  BB  SO  2B 3B HR  AB  B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA
2010 7.02 19-41  60 60  5   3/3    3 510.0 611 441 398 255 428 134 17 64 2066  .296 68  72  7  28  23
2011 5.73 24-36  60-60  1   1/1   12 536.0 600 380 341 270 417 114 16 39 2109  .284 41  58  9  20  34

[Snapshot9]

Well, they knew when they changed the bats it was going to change the game, and I don't think for the better. It has taken some excitement out of the game (and offense).

[tru2thaduce]

Well, they knew when they changed the bats it was going to change the game, and I don't think for the better. It has taken some excitement out of the game (and offense).

A poll on this topic from fan's around the nation would be interesting.