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Wednesday, July 21, 2004

UM ...
(FYI, I am operating under the assumption that the last two games never happened.)

Richard and Halofan are in a contretemps about Jeff DaVanon. Halofan is the playa-hata (DaVanon's the playa in this scenario, by the way), and Richard takes up the defense.

DaVanon is a good player, natch, and I think Halofan's off-the-mark when he claims, "We have 48 wins. In how many of those wins was he a productive hitter when the game was within a two run margin?" Actually, what's the good of just thinking he's off-the-mark? Let's look it up ...

The Angels have won 18 games this year by two or less runs. DaVanon has appeared in 15 those, though in two he was a defensive replacement. That leaves 13 games.

The Angels won those 13 games by a total of 16 runs. In those games, DaVanon has gone 13-41 (a .317 average), scoring six runs and knocking in six runs. In five of the thirteen games, the number of runs DaVanon knocked in was equal to the margin of victory, and in four games the number of runs he scored was equal to the margin of victory. He hit a game-winning sacrifice fly in the ninth inning of one of the games.

Now, I wasn't keeping track of walks and evertyhing, nor was I looking up when most of these runs happened, but all that seems pretty good to me.

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We have a lot of Texas in our future. The next few games against them can't make our season, but they can break it if we get our asses smacked. It's time to step up.

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