ARLINGTON, Texas – The Diamondbacks did something somewhat familiar on Wednesday night. They blew through an opposing pitching staff, ripping apart the Texas Rangers 19-4 at Globe Life Park, completing a two-game sweep in which they outscored their opponents 28-6.
It was a good two days for the purposes of padding their run differential – and, in a way, giving themselves more reason to believe they are better than their mediocre record would suggest.
Nearly 40 years ago, analyst Bill James devised what he called baseball’s Pythagorean Theory, a simple formula that uses a team’s total runs scored and runs allowed to project an expected win-loss record.