Stat Boy Breaks Down Today's Doubleheader, And the Overall Tourny

The West Potomac Wolverines continued to evidence their newly found dislike for round yellow objects thrown by girls wearing different colors than they are by continuing to crush said aforementioned round yellow objects with thick rounded metal sticks.  Nearly every time a Wolverine crushed a yellow object (referred to by locals as “softballs” thrown by a “pitcher”), one of their teammates was soon scampering across a five sided white plate anchored in the ground.

Doing this 11 times Saturday against Robinson apparently wasn’t enough, as West Potomac had to double it in the first game Monday, crossing the five sided plate (referred to often as “home”) 22 times, to Annandale’s zero times.  Then, in the second game of the final tournament day, West Potomac did it another 10 times, while Osbourn could only manage scoring a run twice.

Because I like math and you do not, I’m making your life easier.  In the last three games of the Spring Break Tournament, West Potomac outscored its three foes by a 43-2 score, or, as they say on ESPN, “a lot to a little.”  If you look at all five games, West Potomac went 4-1 by a combined score of 49-14, including three shutout wins.  (Remember, the Spring Break Tournament includes the 2-0 win against Edison a week ago Saturday.)

It’s time for Johnny Sportswriter to take a break, and give up the stage to Stat Boy.  So, if you don’t like easily understandable baseball stats that make the team look good, scroll down to the narrative story on the doubleheader.  But, if you do like stats (and, come on, who amongst us doesn’t?), settle in for some Stat Boy fun.   First, for today's doubleheader:

∙ The Wolverines pounded out 31 hits in the two games – 19 singles and twelve doubles.
∙ They went 31 for 61 on the day – an impressive .508 batting average.
∙ They earned 15 walks.
∙ Two reached by taking one for the team (HBP), and three reached on errors.
∙ Of the 32 runs scored today, 30 came via RBI, while two came on errors.
∙ The pitching duo of Jayne Orleans and Christina Dillard only struck out two against Annandale, but bit the      heads off the bats of 11 Osbourn players (for those who don’t get the reference, the link is here).
∙ The pitchers only walked three hitters all day, and gave up just five hits.
∙ The first seven Osbourn Eagles to make outs against Jayne went down on strikeouts – two swinging, and       five looking.
∙ The Wolverines flashed leather all day, committing just two errors – neither of which cost runs.  Both             were just one base errors.

And now for the tournament:

∙ The Wolverines had 34 singles and 19 doubles in the five games, for 53 hits.
∙ For the five tournament games, they hit .482
∙ They earned 18 free passes, and got aboard via being hit three times.
∙ Six reached on errors.
∙ Of the 49 Wolverine runs scored in the five games, 44 came via RBI.
∙ West Potomac pitchers allowed just a .194 batting average by opposing hitters.
∙ The West Po pitchers whiffed 27 batters across the five games.
∙ They scattered just 21 hits across 28 innings.
∙ West Potomac pitchers recorded nine 1-2-3 innings, while Wolverine hitters were retired in order just           six times.

Let's hope the Wolverine offense, which has finally awoken from its slumber, can continue to pound the ball.