Is Pitcher BABIP All Luck?

July 14, 2016

For those of you who have been reading baseball content at Check Down Sports semi-regularly, you’ve probably seen one of us talking about players and teams we think are performing at a level far from expected.

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Bumgarner Reminds Us He is Baseball’s Best Player

July 11, 2016

  As soon as I began to write this, Arizona’s Jeremy Lamb laced a single to break up Madison Bumgarner’s no-hitter last night at AT&T Park. This was disappointing, for sure: Bumgarner seems to be the only Giants pitcher who hasn’t thrown a no-no recently (they’ve had four in the past four years).

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