Gone East

Hitter's count

As a lover of the rich history, and great traditions, of baseball, I feel like I ought to be suspicious of this stuff. But I'm not. It fascinates me. Boston Globe:

For every pitch in every game of every season -- there were 702,293 thrown in the majors in 2003 -- batteries of computer inputters log every aspect of the action, from the ball's path toward the plate to its eventual landing spot, with spectacular precision...