The Electric Meter: Righties and lefties

In yesterday's Electric Meter, I set out to find the root of Charlie Morton's struggles over the last month. As it turned out, though, there wasn't much to see. Morton's pitches look the same, his peripherals look better, and the only thing that's different over the last month is the opponent's batting average on balls in play, which is something that's generally hard for a pitcher to control. I concluded with a guess that maybe the slew of lefties that Morton's faced of late (he's generally seeing in the ballpark of five or six lefties every night in the last month) is affecting his BABIP, because that's the only variable that I didn't really account for yesterday. So let's try to account for it. On the season, righties are hitting just .264 against Morton on balls in play, but lefties are hitting a ridiculous .403. Is this Morton specific, or is this a trend? Let's look at the rest of the staff: Jeff Karstens: .211 BABIP vs. rig...