Adam Jones had three hits for the Orioles. "We wanted to give Kevin some breathing room," Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. "We saw a lot of groundballs. We knew (Graveman) was on top of his pitching, and he was." Oakland scored three runs total while getting swept in a th...
For today’s purposes, a makeable ball is one that the player managed to return or one that turned into an unforced error. With ball-tracking data, we could be more precise, but for now we need to accept this level of imprecision. Of the 450,000 makeable backhand-corner balls, ...