[Ghoulish Delight]

While watching yesterday's Dodger game, even though they won and put up a lot of runs, I couldn't help but notice that, yet again, they followed up an inning in which they scored runs by immediately giving runs back in the very next half inning. I didn't have any proof, but I felt like the if anything summed up their season it was the frequency with which it seemed that was happening.

So being an entirely normal, not a all obsessive an geeky individual - I wrote a program to mine game results from mlb.com and see if my impression was right.

The Dodgers have scored in 83 innings this season. 25 times, their opponent scored in the very next half inning. That's 30.12 percent of the time, and they "lead" the National League. A close second is Arizona at 30% even (90 innings scored, 27 following innings scored against). Third place is the Cardinals at 26.67%. The NL average is 23.11%.

The Phillies, who have the best record in the NL, also have the 2nd lowest percentage at 18.82%. The clear winners in this category are the Giants at an impressive 13.33%.

So now that I have a database of teams' runs scored by inning for every game (at least in the NL, need to do the same for AL), anyone want to know anything?