{"id":51412,"date":"2026-07-28T21:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51412"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:47:35","slug":"hear-me-out-how-to-beat-the-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51412","title":{"rendered":"Hear me out: how to beat the Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The other day, I saw a clip of some K-pop baddie throwing out a first pitch<\/a> at Citi Field in New York.\u00a0 Jang Won-Young of some group called IVE, that I\u2019ve never heard of did you see what I did there lol.\u00a0 Tall, thin, obviously had the requisite work done in order to someone in Korean media, wearing a comically cropped Mets jersey.\u00a0 Threw the pitch pretty straight but still bounced it, and the Mets scrub who got to receive the pitch couldn\u2019t be any happier getting to stand next to a Korean baddie<\/a> for a photo that will probably be in the highlight reel of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought to myself, lol should\u2019ve been a game against the dodgers, they always collapse when Korean baddies throw out the first pitch<\/em>.\u00a0 It turns out that this game was<\/em> against the Dodgers, and the juggernaut Dodgers actually did collapse, getting blown out by the lowly Mets by a score of 8-3.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, this got the gears grinding in my brain, becoming curious of what the Win-Loss correlation between when cute Korean idols throw out the first pitch in games where the Dodgers are playing.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t dive too deep, and there are some notable gaps between some instances, but here\u2019s the breakdown of what I was able to give a cursory dig into:<\/span><\/p>\n