Over the two weeks since this group became a family, the Maddux Bunch has recorded 148 strikeouts in 14 August games.
It sounds like a lot because it is. According to Baseball-Reference, it is the highest single-season 14-game stretch in team history.
Perhaps more importantly, the nexus between strikeouts and walks continues to widen. It is 5.69 strikeouts per walk in August. Free bases had been a particularly troubling development during July. In July, on the way to the sixth-worst ERA in baseball , the rotation had the worst strikeout-to-walk rate in the majors. Spotting the difference is easy.
“I’m seeing a lot of strikes,” Bochy said. “We’re staying away from the walks. If you look at July we walked a lot more batters. We’re attacking the zone a lot better. They’re pitching with a lot of confidence. When you get Max Scherzer on your staff, that’s going to make you better. But each guy we’ve thrown out there, we’ve seen the competitiveness. They are going to give us a chance to win.”
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