Strikeouts:

[IE]

There has never been a month in baseball history with more strikeouts than hits. With eight days left in March/April 2018:

Strikeouts: 5562
Hits: 5174

--Joe Sheehan

 

[Old School]

"Chicks dig the long ball"

 

[jdg226]

There has never been a month in baseball history with more strikeouts than hits. With eight days left in March/April 2018:

Strikeouts: 5562
Hits: 5174

--Joe Sheehan

Really extraordinary where the sport has gone. From a gambling perspective I know I have seen so many instances where you just need someone to put the bat on the ball to get a run home and it doesn't happen. Will be interesting to see what happens.

 

[Big G21]

Do you think this gap with close in the next 8 days resulting in more hits, runs, f5 and game overs? Ha! I hope so!

 

[Old School]

https://sports.yahoo.com/baseball-strikeout-era-better-worse-050031337.html

Baseball is in the Strikeout Era, for better or worse

any baseball fan should read this entire article...

It is no surprise, with MLB?s laissez-faire approach to strikeouts, that the sport-wide batting average has cratered to .241. The only two worse seasons in the game?s history were 1908, in the heart of the Dead Ball Era, and 1968, a year so disquieting it prompted the league to lower the mound from 15 inches to 10. Certainly this could be mildly anomalous, a function of the horrid weather, but over the last decade, the most a batting average has risen from April over the rest of the year was 8 points and the most a strikeout rate has dipped was .40 percent. April is no perfect indicator, but it does forecast trends quite well.