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Baseball and the number 9...

by Paul David Lujan on Monday, September 20, 2010 at 12:18pm

as most people know, baseball is a numbers game. a game for guys like me that like to crunch numbers and see if anything can be found in them.

so i have been thinking about how i love the game, and not only because of the numbers, but baseball has a tons of traditions and rules, some written and some just unspoken, and they are just kind of fun.

anyhow, lately i have just been thinking that odd numbers seem to have some importance to baseball and the way its played.

in baseball you need 3 outs per inning, 27 total to win a game. (3 outs over 9 innings)

so...

27 = 2 + 7 = 9

or

27 x 2 = 54 -- 5 + 4 = 9 (both teams)

the bases are spread 90 feet apart, giving the bases a parameter of 360 feet.

3 + 6 + 0 (parameter) = 9

and the actual "area" of the bases equals out to be...

1166400 square inches, or 8100 square feet.

1 + 1 + 6 + 6 + 4 + 0 + 0 = 18

and

1 + 8 = 9 (even to odd)

or

8 + 1 + 0 + 0 (square feet) = 9

also...

there are 162 games in a season.

1 + 6 + 2 = 9

whoever thought up baseball had numbers on the brain.