Tag: baseball
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/28/17: A Record Setting Week!
Nine more ejections this week. With all but one involving the away team, including multiple ejections for the Pirates, Athletics and Royals, it was a busy week in the away clubhouse. In other news, A NEW LOW ATTENDANCE RECORD FOR THE SEASON. The Rays managed only 9,014 to their Tuesday game against the Angels. That…
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/21/2017: Ejections Aplenty!
With ten ejections last week, we have had our busiest week of the season for the umpires here in Below the Box Score. Capped off with two bench clearing brawls (Dodgers-Marlins and Yankees-Rays) that had three ejections apiece. The AL and NL split the ejections 5-5, keeping the AL in the lead on the…
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/14/2017: First Sub-10k Game of the Year
It finally happened, over a month into the season, but we got our first sub-10,000 attended game of the year. And our second. And our third. THREE games this week were attended by four figure sums of fans as the Tampa Bay Rays hosted the Kansas City Royals in a four game series. Luckily for…
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/7: The Laid Back National League
Not much interesting to note this week, though strangely the American League continues to walk away with the ejections lead. This week four AL players or managers were ejected to the NL’s zero. That’s the second time this year that the NL has gone a week without an ejection. Once again eight teams drew fewer…
Below the Box Score, Week Ending 4/23: The AL Takes the Ejection Lead
The American League went on an absolute rampage this week. With seven ejections to the National League’s zero, the AL has recaptured its lead in the ejections race by a score of nine to four. Meanwhile, data issues continue with our provider, making it look like the Braves had no fans in attendance (they did).…
Below the Box Score, Week of 4/16/17:
The highlights this week in the attendance front are that seven teams drew over 40,000 once this week, while seven have drawn fewer than 20,000 fans to an individual game (Pirates, Reds, Mariners, A’s, Indians, Marlins, Twins and Rockies). The Pirates, A’s and Reds all averaged fewer than 20,000 for the entire week, with the A’s only…
Which MLB Teams Will Fly The Most in 2017?
Baseball season is upon us, having snuck out of nowhere this year. The longest of the professional sporting seasons of the four major sports leagues of the US, the MLB schedule requires significant amounts of travel for every team. In fact, 25 of the 30 teams in 2017 will travel more than the entire circumference…
Sixteen Ejections For Eleven Teams, Only 10k in Oakland – BtBS, Week of 9/26
If you like ump shows, you’re gonna love the way this week looked. Over the course of the week, a season record 11 teams had a player or manager get rung, totaling 16 ejections on the week. The total ejections for the week come in second to the week of the Rangers-Blue Jays brawl, but this…
NL Makes a Run For the Ejections Title, White Sox Can’t Draw 16k — BtBS, Week of 9/19
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For almost the entire season, the AL has had a lead over the NL in ejections. At times, the lead was a big one, as big as 12 in the past week. With only a handful of weeks left in the season, the NL seemingly decided that it was time to turn up the…
Nine Teams Draw Below 20,000, Nine Teams Draw Above 40,000, BtBS: Week of 9/12
It’s a story of the haves and have-nots. Overall, attendance continues to plummet, as NFL season starts and teams get mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Just this week, the Rays, (first place) Indians, Athletics, White Sox, Reds, Mariners, Marlins, (first place) Nationals, and Twins all had fewer than 20,000 come through the gates for one…
Seven Teams Draw Below 20k, Royals Average 3:37 Time of Game – BtBS, Week of 9/5
The story of the week once again is dwindling attendance, even in teams that are in playoff contention. Last week, seven teams had a game with fewer than 20,000 fans, the Indians, Rays, Orioles, Phillies, Mariners, Brewers, and Astros. Of those seven, four (Rays, Phillies, Indians, Brewers) averaged below the 20k mark for the…
Tigers Vault to Third Overall in Ejections, Six Teams Draw Below 20k. BtBS – Week of 8/29
If it weren’t for Bryce Harper, 100% of the ejections this week would’ve been Detroit Tigers. With four in Saturday’s game, the Tigers take the crown for most ejections in one game this season not involving a right hook to Jose Bautista’s jaw. This helped widen the gap between the Junior and Senior Circuit to…