Interesting take on baseball losses this year

Breaking down some things I came to this.

When we play our usual good defense, we are extremely tough to beat. We've lost 7 games this year, 3 of those we have completely given away (and all recently). So only 4 games we have gotten outplayed in and subsequently lost. 4 out of 50 games.

Flat out lost
BYU game 2 - lost 9-4
MSU game 3 - lost 10-2
Ark game 2 - lost 8-3
USCe game 3 - lost 4-0

Gave away due to poor fielding leading to difference making unearned runs
Bama game 3 - lost 4-3, 3 errors led to 3 unearned runs
USCe game 2 - lost 4-2, 2 errors led to 3 unearned runs
aTm game 1 - lost 2-1, 2 errors led to 1 unearned run


So almost half our losses came because we simply didnt show up in the field (And to a degree, at the plate). Not a big deal when you're talking 3 out of 50 games, which are certainly anomalies, not trends. There's other teams out there who are in the double digits in this, as opposed to us sitting at just 3 games out of 50.

In conclusion, it's baseball, even the best sometimes dont show up every game and it can bite you at the worst times, such as in those above games. We've given up just 20 unearned runs this year, 20 in 50 games (a phenomenal stat). 7 of those 20 unearned runs came in those 3 losses listed above under games we gave away due to poor fielding. Basically, the baseball gods sometimes align with the other team, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Definitely be happy this has only happened to us 3 times this year out of a possible 50. There's likely 290 other teams out there (maybe more) who would like to say the same or better.