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Announcers Say The Darndest Things

In the bottom of the first inning of last night's game, NESN's Steve Lyons said:

If you get 10 hits, you should win a ball game.

This struck me as very silly, since the object of a team is to get runs, not hits. I understand, of course, that if a team gets 10+ hits in a game, it likely means they have scored at least a handful of runs, possibly (or probably) enough to win the game. But it's still an odd thing to say.

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