https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-baseball-season-when-strikeouts-overtook-hits-1525098290
Never be#fore had MLB seen a full month with more to#tal strike-outs than hits. There hadn’t even been a month where the gap be#tween the two was less than 100. April 2017 was the clos#est the sport had come to strike#outs over#tak#ing hits, with a dif#fer#ence of 138.
Head#ing into Mon#day’s slate, the fi#nal 11 sched#uled con#tests on the April sched#ule, hit#ters had whiffed 7,163 times. They had col#lected just 6,808 hits. Nearly 35% of all plate ap#pear#ances this sea#son have ended in a walk, strike#out or home run, up from less than 29% 10 years ago.
A little crazy.....
Never be#fore had MLB seen a full month with more to#tal strike-outs than hits. There hadn’t even been a month where the gap be#tween the two was less than 100. April 2017 was the clos#est the sport had come to strike#outs over#tak#ing hits, with a dif#fer#ence of 138.
Head#ing into Mon#day’s slate, the fi#nal 11 sched#uled con#tests on the April sched#ule, hit#ters had whiffed 7,163 times. They had col#lected just 6,808 hits. Nearly 35% of all plate ap#pear#ances this sea#son have ended in a walk, strike#out or home run, up from less than 29% 10 years ago.
A little crazy.....