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The 1967 American League Pennant Race
The 1914 National League Pennant Race - the Miracle Braves
Visualization of when the 2007 Red Sox hit safely in a game. Red="Hit Safely" Light Blue = "Hitless" Purple="Did not play" The rows of purple or near-purple are pitchers and other occasional subs. Josh Beckett, on the second row, had two hits. Down around the 20th row are Lowell and Lugo on consecutive rows. Manny can be picked out by the gap of DNP's late in the season. Youkilis is on the last row.
All of Barry Bonds' home runs are available on Retrosheet. Here is how they are extracted and the pitchers who allowed at least five home runs are identified.

This image summarizes the frequency of most scores in major league history. Scores are taken from Retrosheet Game logs from 1871-2008, 193,865 games. Red dots in the lower right indicate that a score hasn't occurred. Scores with a winning number of runs greater than 25 are shown below.

Frequency of scores with winning number of runs > 25

Percentage of "blowouts" - games decided by more than 10 runs, by decade.

Question: Do higher rates of "blowouts" stem from higher run production or less parity?

Red Sox winning percentage vs. Yankees, by park

Note: The 8 games played at Braves Field (Red Sox 1-7) do not appear well.