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A statistical comparison of the two teams fully explains why the two teams have surged away from the rest of the league and are engaging in a close race to finish first. Third place Oakland trails Kansas City by a whopping eleven games.
There is little difference between the two teams but they are very different teams, The stats say that the two teams pitching staffs are basically even.
Kansas City has more power than Los Angeles.
Butch Duncan 10, Jake Lafata 10, Scoops Hastings 11, and George Worrell are some of the Kansas City hitters who have gone deep 87 times this season to 67 for the Dodgers.
The biggest difference between the two teams is in speed and base running. The Dodgers have pilfered 129 bases and have nine players in the top sixteen in the American League.
First baseman Ed Fryman leads the league in homeruns and stolen bases. Left fielder Joe Raymond has 12 homeruns and is 5th in stolen bases. Jim Onslow has hit 8 home runs and stolen 18 bases and Bobby Knoop has six homerun and 14 stolen bases.
The Dodgers are 4-1 on a lengthy nine game road trip. The took two of three from the Americans in Kansas City and now have taken the first two games in Oakland with one game to go and three more on the trip in Toronto.
Game one in Oakland was a very good pitching duel between the Dodgers Willie Maloney and Oakland's Tom Yewcic.
The game was scoreless going into the ninth inning. The Dodgers scored five runs on five hits in the inning that began with Yewcic walking the lead off batter, pinch hitter Don Gleason. Another pinch hitter Lou Covington doubled to left field driving in Gleason from first base.
That was all for Yewcic. Ernie Long replaced him.
Long gave up a single to Bobby Knoop that scored Covington. Fryman walked putting two runners on with no outs.
Garrido struck out. Onslow made the second out grounding to shortstop. Claude McAvoy made it a big inning by socking a three run homer.
George Vaughn, the third pitcher used in the inning came in and Paul Rivera double off him. Vaughn finally put an end to the inning by fanning the ninth batter in the inning, pitcher Willie Maloney.
Maloney went the eight and two thirds innings for the win and he is 7-1. He got last out help from closer Ron Blaszkowski who saved his 20th game this season.
Game two was a 4-1 Dodger victory thanks to a two run homerun by joe Raymond in the 5th inning. Sam Mattias walked Claude McAvoy in front of Raymond who drilled his 12th of the season.
pinch hitter Lou Covington singled to center field off Matthais who was replaced by Ernie Long. Long's second appearance in the series wasn't much better than his first. Jim Onslow singled sending Covington to third base. Onslow was caught stealing by catcher Ernie Hoover. But a wild pitch by Long scored Covington giving Los Angeles a 4-1 lead.
Ron Blaszkiowski made it a little interesting by giving up a two out double to Damon Einerton and walking Wally Parker before nailing down his 21st save.
A comparison of the Dodgers and Americans
August 01, 2017 at 08:46PM View BBCode
The Darrell Johnson League pennant race has narrowed itself down to just two teams; the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Kansas City Americans. The Dodgers at 47-20 are two games in front of the 45-22 Americans.A statistical comparison of the two teams fully explains why the two teams have surged away from the rest of the league and are engaging in a close race to finish first. Third place Oakland trails Kansas City by a whopping eleven games.
There is little difference between the two teams but they are very different teams, The stats say that the two teams pitching staffs are basically even.
Kansas City has more power than Los Angeles.
Butch Duncan 10, Jake Lafata 10, Scoops Hastings 11, and George Worrell are some of the Kansas City hitters who have gone deep 87 times this season to 67 for the Dodgers.
The biggest difference between the two teams is in speed and base running. The Dodgers have pilfered 129 bases and have nine players in the top sixteen in the American League.
First baseman Ed Fryman leads the league in homeruns and stolen bases. Left fielder Joe Raymond has 12 homeruns and is 5th in stolen bases. Jim Onslow has hit 8 home runs and stolen 18 bases and Bobby Knoop has six homerun and 14 stolen bases.
The Dodgers are 4-1 on a lengthy nine game road trip. The took two of three from the Americans in Kansas City and now have taken the first two games in Oakland with one game to go and three more on the trip in Toronto.
Game one in Oakland was a very good pitching duel between the Dodgers Willie Maloney and Oakland's Tom Yewcic.
The game was scoreless going into the ninth inning. The Dodgers scored five runs on five hits in the inning that began with Yewcic walking the lead off batter, pinch hitter Don Gleason. Another pinch hitter Lou Covington doubled to left field driving in Gleason from first base.
That was all for Yewcic. Ernie Long replaced him.
Long gave up a single to Bobby Knoop that scored Covington. Fryman walked putting two runners on with no outs.
Garrido struck out. Onslow made the second out grounding to shortstop. Claude McAvoy made it a big inning by socking a three run homer.
George Vaughn, the third pitcher used in the inning came in and Paul Rivera double off him. Vaughn finally put an end to the inning by fanning the ninth batter in the inning, pitcher Willie Maloney.
Maloney went the eight and two thirds innings for the win and he is 7-1. He got last out help from closer Ron Blaszkowski who saved his 20th game this season.
Game two was a 4-1 Dodger victory thanks to a two run homerun by joe Raymond in the 5th inning. Sam Mattias walked Claude McAvoy in front of Raymond who drilled his 12th of the season.
pinch hitter Lou Covington singled to center field off Matthais who was replaced by Ernie Long. Long's second appearance in the series wasn't much better than his first. Jim Onslow singled sending Covington to third base. Onslow was caught stealing by catcher Ernie Hoover. But a wild pitch by Long scored Covington giving Los Angeles a 4-1 lead.
Ron Blaszkiowski made it a little interesting by giving up a two out double to Damon Einerton and walking Wally Parker before nailing down his 21st save.
vickiroepke
August 01, 2017 at 10:15PM View BBCode
These are all very fun write-ups. Thanks for doing this! We will see what happens in the postseason!Pages: 1