Home Run Derby Visits a Pitcher’s Park
DOWNTOWN — One of the kaleidoscope of statistics kept throughout the year in baseball are “Park Factors”, a comparative way to judge how hitter-friendly or pitcher-supportive a ballpark is from year to year. The stat is based on comparing how different the hitting, the slugging and the pitching is for teams at said ballpark compared to how those teams fair on the road.
The ratio reveals the ballpark’s characteristics.
Busch Stadium III, while not the national park…

