I just used a bunch of game finder searches to discover what fraction of team wins come with a small number of hits. As one might expect, the fraction is lower in years when there is more offense.

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So this shows the fraction of all victories each year achieved using at most the given number of hits. The "5 hits" line includes all victories with 5 or fewer hits.

We see that low-hit victories peaked in 1968 (at least in the period 1956-2008) when offense was at a premium and Bob Gibson racked up a 1.12 ERA over 34 starts.

These graphs aren't all that surprising and are basically the opposite of offensive graphs.

We'll look at some more stuff like this in the coming days.

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