Sandy Alomar’s walks
Alomar has yet to walk this season in 61 at-bats. It’s no surprise, though. He has been a free swinger his whole career, with only 180 walks in 12-plus seasons.
AVG. OBA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS E
.344 .344 61 7 21 3 1 2 10 0 2 0 0 1
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ON AVERAGE
Jose Valentin’s average
Valentin isn’t off to his best start, but he’s proficient when the situation calls for it. He leads the team with a .478 average with runners in scoring position and has 14 RBIs over his last 14 games.
AVG. OBA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS E
.259 .305 108 15 28 5 2 5 22 6 16 1 02 5
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STRIKING OUT
Frank Thomas’ strikeouts
Thomas never has struck out more than 100 times in a season. His all-time high is 94 strikeouts, in 2000. At his current pace, Thomas would set a personal high with 122.
AVG. OBA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS E
.274 .389 117 22 32 8 1 6 22 22 24 1 0 2
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PITCHING
Damaso Marte’s innings pitched, strikeouts
Marte has begun to come around as the Sox’s top lefty reliever and has as many strikeouts in 12 innings as Jon Garland has in 371/3 innings. Left-handed hitters are batting only .182 off Marte, who was acquired in the spring for minor-leaguer Matt Guerrier.
W L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO
1 0 6.00 14 0 0 12.0 10 8 8 1 6 13
Inside the numbers (statistics through Monday)
