Mark Phillips, Lake Elsinore Storm Home/Road Splits

by Geoff Young on Aug 22, 2001

Mark Phillips watch: Phillips went 6-4-1-1-2-7 last night at home against San Jose. It’s only three starts, but that .145 OppBA sure is nice. Actually, over 68.1 IP across three levels this season, opponents are batting just .178 against Phillips.

I gave some bad numbers last week for Storm home/road pitching splits. For some reason I calculated ERA as R*9/IP rather than ER*9/IP. The correct numbers for April are below, along with stats for May.

April 2001
  IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
home 102.0 95 46 37 39 117 7 3.26
away 112.2 82 31 22 34 140 2 1.70
total 214.2 177 77 59 73 257 9 2.43
May 2001
  IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
home 144.0 93 41 32 50 153 4 2.00
away 121.1 119 74 61 44 126 14 4.52
total 265.1 212 115 93 94 279 18 3.15
Apr – May 2001
  IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
home 246.0 188 87 69 89 270 11 2.52
away 238.1 204 105 83 78 268 16 3.14
total 484.1 392 192 152 167 538 27 2.83

What a difference a month makes. In April, the Storm’s home ERA was 30% higher than their overall ERA, while their road ERA was 35% lower. In May, the numbers were 37% lower and 43% higher, respectively. So not only was there a reversal, but the divergence was even greater in May than in April.

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