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Phils Striking Hot in September

Phils Striking Hot in September

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Phils Striking Hot in September

POSTED: Thursday, September 13, 2012, 12:00 AM
Bob Vetrone Jr.

The Phillies pitching staff, which has been striking out opponents at a pretty good pace all year (they are second in the National League to the Brewers), has really upped the ante in September.

Through nine games this month, the Phillies' hurlers as a whole are averaging 9.40 strikeouts per nine innings.

Here is the month-by-month numbers (through Wednesday):

 Month  IP  K  K/9IP  
 April  204.2  167  7.34
 May  262.2  250  8.57
 June  250  241  8.68
 July  208  203  8.78
 August  263  239  8.18
 September        97.2     102     9.40
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:49 PM, 09/13/2012
    As always, Boop has shown us an impressive stat. With the exception of August, they've gotten better with the strikeouts with each passing month. If they get to October playoff baseball, then I wouldn't be surprised if they average 10 Ks a game!
    — Dobie Gillis


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Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

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He has been immersed in sports statistics since the early 70s, when his father (long-time sports writer, broadcaster and the Daily News’ Buck The Bartender), would take him into the Bulletin newsroom overnight in the summer and let him update the Phillies statistics in a little, black spiral notebook. But things have changed tremendously in the decades since … He now uses a big, black spiral notebook. Email him at boopstats@phillynews.com.


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