2009 Red Sox Week 1 Stats Recap

Ok, so week 1 is in the books and not a moment too soon. The Season is not off to the best of starts but hey, what are you going to do jump off a bridge? A long season has just started and we are only 4% through the season, plenty of time to make up lost ground.

As usual all statistics were found at the day by day database at Baseball Musings and at Baseball Reference.

Batting Stats

	AB	Hits	2b	3b	HR	RBI	BB	K	GDP	BA	OBA	Slug%
Opp	198	54	13	1	9	27	26	42	7	.273	.362	.485
AL	2954	760	164	14	98	398	314	602	71	.257	.334	.422
Red Sox	198	48	10	1	8	20	24	36	7	.242	.329	.424

Not very good splits for the Sox. Those opposing numbers means that the Sox Pitchers have not been doing their job either. The problem for the Sox is the batting average. They just need to get more hits (doh!). Surprisingly, it was the Angels that really kills the pitchers. .289 / .375 / .485 against the Angels this past weekend and that included two Quality Starts by Wakefield and Penny.

As bad as the Sox were though, it was even worse when they had runners in scoring position - 8/46 with a .174 / .304 / .261 in that situation. Opponents were 20/66 with .303 / .392 / .409. No wonder they went 2-4 for the week.

Pitching Stats -

	GS	CG	W	L	W Pct	SV	SHo	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HBP	BK	WP	ERA
OPP	6	0	4	2	.667	4	0	53	48	22	19	8	24	36	2	0	1	3.23
Red Sox	6	0	2	4	.333	2	0	52	54	29	29	9	26	42	3	1	1	5.02

That is UGLY - a week to forget!!!

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