The Away  versus Home for the Red Sox was dramatic

Team   Away            Home
NYY    283/355/822  284/368/858  +36 OPS
LAA    283/346/780  288/354/804  +24 OPS
LAD    275/355/772  265/336/742  -30 OPS
Philly 253/328/767  263/341/805  +38 OPS

Boston 257/340/753  284/365/862 +109 OPS!
Colorado also had a huge delta +132 OPS

So not having a home field advantage was a big deal.
And the numbers proved it.

The 4 teams playing now were the top 5 teams in Away Records.

The Red Sox were 3 games below 500 on the road in the season.

In the 9 games in the Regular Season, the Angles held the Sox to 734 OPS

So the numbers gave us some insight.

It doesn't mean it was a foregone conclusion... but it wasn't all that 
suprising (numbers wise anyway)



Ray Salemi wrote:
> They are mirror images.
>
> But good pitching will beat good hitting, the opposite is not true.
>
> I think one writer put the breakdown at 50% hitting.  43% pitching, 7% 
> defense.  I forget how he came up with that, but it feels about right.
>
> There is a ton of new data people are crunching now that MLB has the 
> PitchFX system from Gameday.  This includes ball movement, ball 
> placement, velocity, and release point.  I think that it won't be long 
> before someone has an analysis on how often certain pitchers get the 
> fat part of the plate.
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:40 AM, William Marino 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Looks like 9 of their hitters were better than our hitters. 
>
>     For a "numbers only" guy, you seem too willing to look past what a
>     regression analysis might mean for the value of pitching vs. Hitting.
>
>
>
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>     Sent: Mon Oct 12 08:52:07 2009
>     Subject: Pitching
>
>
>     It looks like the series did come down to pitching. Two of their
>     starters beat ours, then their closer beat ours.
>
>     Pitching losses in all aspects of the game.
>
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