With the increased use of analytics and sabermetrics, numerous new baseball statistics seem to appear daily. One of which you may have heard is QAB. A large number of fans have been following baseball for years and have no clue what it means. What exactly does QAB mean in baseball? QAB ...
5. Getting an RBI RBI is short for “run batted in”and refers to a batter’s action resulting in one or more runs to score. An example would be hitting the ball to the right field with a runner on third base. Just like a sacrifice fly, an RBI increases the chances of a third b...
6. What does BB mean in baseball? 4 1 +3 Bases on ballsA baseball stat that refers to the amount of walks a player has accrued; must be achieved through 4 balls during an at bat and not by being hit by a pitch; does not count as an at bat....
Yasiel Puig stole Boston’s hope with a two-out RBI single off Nathan Eovaldi in the bottom of the frame. In the 15th, everyone in Dodger Stadium thought Max Muncy hit the walk-off blast but it was foul. Muncy got his second chance, sending the baseball just over...
I have had DMB for about 15 years so I am happy to tell you about it. This is a “text baseball game” not a “shooter”. What do I mean by a “shooter”? Maybe the word “arcade” game is more descriptive. There are no animation of pitchers firing fastballs and no animation of...
Marcus Semien had two of the Rangers five hits and drove in the lone RBI. "You have to play better baseball than what we did," Texas manager Bruce Bochy said. "We've got to get these bats going. It's pretty simple." McGreevy, promoted from Triple-A Mem...
We will miss the thought process at the plate of Dodgers pitcherJulio Urias, who last year had an RBI in five consecutive starts. One teammate said, "Urias can't run at all. In his first at-bat with no one on base, he will pretend that he can't hit a certain pitch, kind of lie...
In his first game back on Tuesday, Suarez nuked a three-run shot to put the D-backs up for good against the Padres. He's been true to his approach so far. Over four games and eight plate appearances, Suarez has three hits, a double, a homer, three RBI, a walk, and three...
His reaction to the Mets winning his lottery was prudent: "So they'd been the worst team in the history of baseball for four seasons. That could mean that they had to give me a chance quickly."And prescient. A year later, on April 13, 1967, Seaver made his Major League debut at ...
Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is an attempt by the sabermetric baseball community to summarize a player’s total contributions to their team in one statistic.