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Willets Point Sep 13 2007 08:35 AM

Baseball Reference's Stat of the Day Blog wows me again by compiling Team W/L in games with 5 or fewer hits in 2007. Second place over all with 7 wins in games where the team had 5 or fewer hits are your New York Mets. And the team with the fewest loses when they had 5 or fewer hits? Once again, your New York Mets with 7 losses. So the Mets are 7-7 when they have five or fewer hits which is pretty Amazin'.

Edgy DC Sep 13 2007 08:41 AM

Starting pitching, keeping them in the game.

metirish Sep 13 2007 09:06 AM

Pretty cool stat,last night during the game Gary mentioned a stat that shows the Mets have the best record in the NL when they get a quality start..I forget the number of wins but I think it was 59,anyone else hear this.Darling went onto credit the pen with keeping the quality start in tact. This jumped out at me while reading the link Willets provided. ] # The Mets’ performance is truly impressive. Not only do they have 7 wins with 5 or fewer hits (tied for 2nd-best), but they have only 7 losses (best). # Compare that to Arizona, who has a similar number of such wins (5) but many more such losses (25.)

Valadius Sep 13 2007 09:10 AM

It's called us being awesome. Seriously, though, that's pretty impressive.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 13 2007 09:32 AM

The low number of losses simply means that it's been very difficult to limit the Mets to 5 or fewer hits. With the lineup they have, that's not at all surprising.

Willets Point Sep 21 2007 09:26 AM

Pitchers who got screwed, including Masato Yoshii. Twice. Jerry Koosman got screwed as a Met.

attgig Sep 21 2007 09:29 AM

Willets Point wrote: Pitchers who got screwed, including Masato Yoshii. Twice. Jerry Koosman got screwed as a Met. yoshii's getting screwed wasn't with the mets. but his era getting screwed 4.11 and 5.86 ??? 5.86 was top 100?!?

Edgy DC Sep 21 2007 09:38 AM

Jerry Koosman got screwed for much of his career. He was probably a better pitcher than Catfish Hunter, and he got into the Hall.

Willets Point Sep 21 2007 09:40 AM

attgig wrote: yoshii's getting screwed wasn't with the mets. but his era getting screwed 4.11 and 5.86 ??? 5.86 was top 100?!? Hence the "as a Met" phrase being attached to Jerry Koosman, not Yoshii.