After yesterday’s joyous moment, maybe the most memorable Padres moment since 1998, and certainly the most unique thing to ever take place at Petco (that was the first player—not pitcher, player—to have his first major league hit be a grand slam since 1898), I don’t really feel like writing about what I was going to write about.
Thus, I leave it for you in straight data form, pulled in all its lack of brown-and-gold glory straight from Fangraphs. Do with chart #3 what you will: fret, shake it off and move on, cry in the dark depths of your office basement into a swingin’ friar branded beach towel. To help swallow chart #3 I have created three other charts as a sort of sandwich. For what it’s worth I think chart #3 is the result of the non-really-cheating kind of banned substance and I think they’ll figure it out. And they’ll need to, to make chart #4 true. But with magical nights like last night and all the bats firing at once (please, hitting gods, let us be free of slumps), maybe it won’t always matter how the pitching performs.
Team ERA since the day the MLB started checking for banned substances:
Chug: