![]() 199/.241/.324 against Greinke this season, while righties clubbed. But when you look at his 2021 splits, it’s no wonder why Albies decided to hit righty. Opposing left-handed hitters actually have an OPS of roughly 30 points higher than righties. What’s interesting is that for his career - which is now a very long 18 years - Greinke’s splits are almost identical. He ended up going 0-2 against Greinke, so I guess it technically didn’t work, but the numbers certainly say it was the right call. For Albies’ career, he’s only had 10 right-on-right plate appearances, so to try it out on the biggest stage in baseball was pretty gutsy. Switch hitter Ozzie Albies opted to hit from the right side, despite Astros’ starter Zack Greinke also being right handed. But there were lots of smaller fun things that I wanted to run through first. Last night’s game was relatively quiet until the Braves hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh to tie and then take the lead. Now if the Braves end up winning the whole shabang tonight, I’m probably going to have to scrap this whole article and start again Monday morning so… let’s go Astros? As I’m writing this on Sunday afternoon, the Atlanta Braves are one win away from winning the World Series after beating the Astros in Game 4 to take a 3-1 lead heading into tonight’s fifth and potentially final game. ![]()
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