He has hit an infield fly 17.5 percent of the time which is roughly 1/6th of his at bats. Assuming he finishes with 600 at bats that's 100 infield flies. Its actually the same rate he hit them last year although he has nearly doubled his fly ball rate. He is tied for ML lead with Jose Bautista and right behind him is Ichiro.Originally Posted by bravesnumberone
The only chance of that is if the Mets win, not happening.
And down to 5 heading to this weekend.
At best, the Phillies win one, it would still be at 1 heading into DC either way hypothetically.
He's given up 3 hits, all homers, go figure.
That's why I said if we play like we're supposed to (we should sweep), and the Phillies are useful. I think we'll wrap it up in DC or Chicago next weekend.
Actually, that's 17.5% of his fly balls that are infield fly balls. His fly ball rate is 37.8%, so his overall % in terms of ABs is 6.6%. So given 600 ABs, he'd hit about 39-40 pop ups.
I refuse to believe that. He has to have popped up in the infield/shallow outfield way more than 40 times?
I wonder what standard they use for an infield fly. Is it the actual infield or Sam Holbrook's idea of am infield fly. But it has to be more than 40 if they just go by popups caught ny infielders.
Nats pulling away from the worthless, pathetic Mets. So looks like the magic number will remain at 6.
Yea, thanks for nothing Mets. No clinching at home for us, but if we sweep at home we'll just need one in DC to clinch (so long as Philly wins at least one game vs Nats this weekend). Best case is magic number is no worse than two headed to D.C.
Its really just a formality at this point. We would have to go 5-11 and the nats go 16-0 to win the division.
I don't think anyone in their right mind could be concerned about blowing it this late with our lead. But I can understand concern with wanting to clinch either at home or in D.C. rather than in Chicago.
Last edited by Braves1976; 09-12-2013 at 04:08 PM.
My concern is I don't want a red-hot Nats team in the postseason. Not worried about the division.
If we can't clinch at home, the next best thing would be to clinch in Washington in front of that team and their fans. You know, I'd almost prefer it.
Same here, Freeman also seems to agree according a message he posted on twitter.
That would be OUTSTANDING.
Can Harper heal up and play in those games?
San Diego swept us once this season.
We're awful on the road in places not Washington or Miami.
Forever Fredi
So is Garcia our #1 in the playoffs?
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