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Originally Posted by fuzzy_patters
The first inning is the only inning where the best hitters are always due up. The bottom third of the order sometimes bats in 2-9.
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I seem to remember in a very old Baseball Abstract (1987/88?) that Bill James' research showed that although the number of first inning RS was above average it was more than offset by the low number scored in the second when the bottom of the order was most likely to hit....so the average of innings one and two was actually lower than any subsequent innings.