Hats off to Gamesix who noted in the last post’s comments that Travis Ishikawa is sporting unbelievable home/road splits:
Home: .361 / .403 / .492
Away: .077 / .217 / .077
He’s had 61 at-bats at home, 39 on the road (3 for 39 with no extra bases).
Here’s another interesting home/road split: The Giants have hit 12 of their 25 home runs at home. (I love this chart.) Their opponents have also hit 12 home runs at Mays Field this year. On the road, though, the Giants have gone deep 13 times, their opponents 26 times. Much of the disparity took place on the first road trip, when the Giants were outhomered 5–0 in San Diego and 5–2 in Los Angeles.
On the most recent trip south, the Pads hit 3 dings, the Giants 1. That’s 8 homers to 1 at Petco this year, but in the Giants’ two-game sweep at home in late April, San Diego hit zero. Hmm. Makes you wonder if San Diego is using some kind of home-field trickery to glean an advantage. Pitch-tipping? Hidden cameras? Two-day-old unrefrigerated fish tacos in the visiting clubhouse? Probably something to do with the military-industrial complex, secret UCSD biotechnology, and those unmarked bottles in the back of Scott Hairston’s locker. Unspool your wildest-eyed conspiracy theory, and we’ll get everything sorted out before the final series of the year. Or, if you prefer, tell us in 50 words or less how you would solve Ishikawa’s road problems.
