Hey everyone, so I was messing around with some baseball stats today, specifically looking at the New York Yankees’ performance in Game 5. The title of my little project was “how many errors in game 5.” Sounds simple enough, right? Well, it turned into a bit of a rabbit hole.
I started by digging into the regular season stats. I found out that the Yankees were ranked 25th in the majors in fielding percentage, which was .984. Not great. They made 113 errors during the regular season, which was the seventh most in baseball. I thought to myself, “Okay, this is a good starting point, but I need to focus on Game 5.”
Then I zeroed in on that specific game. I stumbled upon some info that the Yankees made three defensive errors in the fifth inning alone. Three errors in one inning! I double-checked this a few times because it seemed wild. I was like, “No way, this has to be a big part of the story.”
I kept digging and found out that these errors were a major turning point in the game. The Yankees were leading 5-0, and their ace, Gerrit Cole, was pitching a no-hitter. It was all looking good until that fifth inning. I read somewhere that Cole even mentioned something about it after the game, which must have been rough. And I learned that those errors turned the whole game upside down.
As I was doing all this, I also got a bit sidetracked with some coding stuff. You know how it is when you’re trying to extract data and organize it. I ran into a couple of errors in my own code. At first, I encountered a `KeyError` in Python. It popped up when I was trying to access a key in a dictionary that didn’t exist. It’s a common mistake, I guess. I fixed it by making sure all my keys were correct and actually in the dictionary.
Later, I switched to TypeScript, and then I hit a `TS1005` error. This one was about syntax, something about missing tokens in my type annotations. I spent some time cleaning up my code, making sure everything was in the right place, and finally got it to work. TypeScript can be picky sometimes, but I managed to figure it out.
So, after all that, here’s the gist: The Yankees had a rough time in Game 5, mainly because of those three errors in the fifth inning. It shows how crucial defense is in baseball. I also learned a bit more about handling errors in my own code, which was a nice bonus. It was a productive day of exploring data and fixing code. Hope you guys find this interesting!
- Game 5 focus: Yankees made three errors in the fifth inning.
- KeyError: Fixed by ensuring the key exists in the dictionary.
- TS1005: Resolved by correcting the syntax in type annotations.
That’s all from me today. It was a fun little deep dive into baseball stats and coding errors. I enjoy sharing these experiences, and I hope it helps someone out there. Catch you in the next one!