Amazing Baseball Facts

In Thursday night's Rivercats game the club took back their honor from Wednesday's sloppy play.  They beat Salt Lake - 7-1.  In the last two innings the Bees seemed just ready to get on the plane for their next series.  But as often happens in baseball there were some lulls.   Baseball fans seem to love statistics.  So I started to construct some facts which could help the novice understand the game.  I then asked my friends at the game to add a couple more.  Finally, when I was at the gym yesterday I got some more suggestions. But here are five -

1) In games where the Rivercats score first, and maintain the lead, they win.
2) If the a team scores more errors than runs, they lose a vast majority of the time.
3) In games where the opposing pitcher hits a batter with a pitch and then throws 12 straight balls, the Cats will score a run.  (Note there are numerous other combinations where this might happen, for example if we get a hit and then the pitcher throws 12 straight balls, we score a run.)
4) Hits longer than 403 feet, which are within the foul lines, are bound to score at least one run.
5) A pitcher who throws 9 strikes in a row, and allows no fouls, will always be able to rest for a half an inning after that.

What amused me about this exercise, is that a lot of baseball fans who are interested in trivia seem to construct similar (albeit a bit more substantive) rules of the game.