Pregame Baseball Nuggets: Hitting Streaks, Cashner vs Porcello & More
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Jonathan Lucroy has a 9-game hitting streak (career-high: 11, 2x) and a 5-game RBI streak (career-high: 5, 3x including current streak).
Nomar Mazara has a career-high-tying 10-game hitting streak, during which he is hitting .368 (14-38) w/ 9 XBH, 10 RBI, 5 BB, 6 K.
Mike Napoli:
April: .146/.224/.281/.505; 3 HR, 9 RBI, 6 BB (24G)
May: .246/.311/.600/.911; 7 HR, 14 RBI, 7 BB (18G)
Joey Gallo is 3-for-his-last-29 (.103) with 7 walks and 12 strikeouts over his last 10 games. Gallo currently has a .184 BA with a .807 OPS. No one with 300+ AB in a season has ever finished the year with a sub-.200 BA with a .800+ OPS.
Cashner has not allowed a single line drive vs. his changeup this year (0/25). He's thrown that pitch around 17% of the time this year.
Cashner's only getting swings-and-misses 11.6% of the time w/ 2 strikes this season, 166th/170. League average: 20.6%. Has 19K/40.1 IP
Opponents are 2-for-27 w/ RISP vs. Cashner this year. That .074 BA is second best among 135 SPs. Darvish's .065 is first.
Porcello has had a really interesting 2017 in comparison to his Cy Young-winning 2016. His swings-and-misses are up by 5.4% and he's striking out 1.8 more batters/9 innings than last year. Yet, he's allowing 2.94 more hits/9 innings this year than last. Seems like you can get him on the first pitch. He's surrendered an MLB-high 42.4% line drive rate on the first pitch this year, which has resulted in a .485 BA and 1.394 OPS against (both in top-10 against w/ 20 AB min.). The 33 first-pitch balls-in-play vs. Porcello ranks 3rd highest in AL.
Porcello has 6+ K in a career-high five straight starts. Sale's 11 straight such games is the longest active streak in MLB.
Watch out for Hanley Ramirez on the first pitch. Since the 2016 All-Star Break, he's slugging 1.452 on the first pitch, best among 183 full-time hitters.
The Red Sox A.L. offensive ranks
BA: 2nd (.267)
OBP: 2nd (.337)
SLG: 9th (.408)
OPS: 6th (.745)