And yesterday is the issue - playing that type of game gets the offensive numbers up so they can look respectable
17 games so far with 2 or less run
8 more games with 3 runs
of those games they have won 3 times.
They have 8 games with 7 or more runs and won all of them
10 games with 5 or more runs - only lost 1 of them
they have given up 6 or more runs 12 times, guess what they have lost all but 2 of those games .
This offense needs to be fixed or this team is not going anyplace
I'll admit to doing this sometimes, and I can see why it would annoy the heck out of anyone who watched each of these games. The Nats scores 13 runs this series, or 4+ a game if you took the mean average. they outscored the Reds 13-10. You can sit back and say they easily could have / should have won one of the 1 run games, that the pitching was fine, but for a couple of balls not dropping they would have won the first game, over the long run breaks even out, etc... We probably remember these games a bit more than the games we could have easily lost but did not. That said, the offense seems to have a cluster of multi-run innings once or twice a week then close to a famine the rest of the time.
What TWvr points out is the mean may be meaningless for this team and the median (mid point in their per game run production) may be what matters. Don't tell me this is a 4+ run a game team. A better description may be that this team scores fewer than 4 runs more than half the time and requires their rotation and bullpen to be nearly untouchable to have a shot most days.
