Braves Championship Season: By the Numbers

Thanks to season stats provided by ace statistician Rick Rojahn, here is a look at the Braves' championship season by the numbers:
**The Braves finished with a record of 18-3, including 4-1 in the playoffs. That included winning streaks of 12 games and 5 games. The team never lost more than one game in a row.
**Braves scored 240 runs, far beyond the next closest team (the Rays, who played one more game than we did, with 188). No other team was even close. Our team averaged 11.4 runs per game. But the Braves could also win close games when they needed to, winning back-to-back playoff games by one run each (6-5 and 3-2 (in extra innings)).
**Despite the yammering others did about their teams' pitching and defense, ours was pretty good, too. The Braves allowed only 111 runs, tied for third with the Rays. Our average margin of victory was more than 6 runs per game.
**An example of the Braves scoring prowess: Nick (36) and Connor (34) combined to score 70 runs, only slightly less than two of the younger teams in the league. Every player on our team scored more than 10 runs, and 5 players scored 20 or more runs.
**Our team batting average was .451, meaning slightly less than half of the time a Brave stepped to the plate, he got a hit. The Braves hit 190 singles, 52 doubles, 24 homers(!) and 6 triples.
**The Braves drew 88 walks and were hit by pitches 10 times. Braves batters struck out 140 times: 88 swinging, 52 called strike threes.
**The Braves drove in 203 runs. Nine boys were in double digits in RBIs.
**The Braves stole 34 bases. (Note: I think Coach Rick was fairly strict in that data -- real stolen bases, as opposed to bases grabbed on indifference or through a horrible wild pitch.)
**Despite the inevitable schedule conflicts that summer brings, three boys were able to play in all 21 games: Anthony, Connor and Nick. Alec, Evan & Tyler played in 20 of the games.
Stay tuned throughout the coming week as time and flood cleanup permit for more season wrapup coverage of the Braves.