Arizona reached 1,400 strikeouts in the sixth inning of Tuesday's game against Colorado when Adam LaRoche swung through strike three against Rockies left-hander Jorge De La Rosa. Milwaukee set the previous record of 1,399 in 2001.
If you do the math, the D-Backs are on pace to finish with over 1,500 this season. They have averaged almost 10 K's per game! That is over 1 strikeout every single inning. That leaves 2/3's of the outs playable. No wonder they have lost 91 games ( to only 60 wins) and have the third worst record in baseball.
Third baseman Mark Reynolds has been Arizona's most frequent whiffer this season with 201, 22 short of the record he set last year. If he is lucky, he will not surpass that record.
As far as attendance goes, Chase Field has a listed capacity of 48,500. They have sold out one game, the night Louis Gonzales had his number retired. The average has only been 24,718 and the season low (also franchise low) is 15,509. This ranks 21st out of 30 in the league. The best? The Yankees of course, at 46,354. The worst? The Cleveland Indians at 17,418.
Now you know how bad they really are...not the worst, but bad!
3 comments:
The poor Indians. They can't even catch a break when we're ragging on another team.
As for "whiffer", that certainly isn't a name I'd like to have no matter what it means.
Okay, that's how I know I'm a true fan. Because I'm not a fair-weather fan, cheering the teams with the best players or the most wins. I'll stick to the stinkers to the end if I really love them. For baseball, that's the D-backs. For college football, that's BYU and BSU. Unless they play each other (and they have when they were in the same league), then it's BYU. Now you know where I stand. Or sink, as it may be!
At least they are still winning some games. Git er done, right? Whatever works...
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