Tweets are the No. 1 baseball stat on MLB.com

More important than RBI (runs batted in) are the number of Twitter posts streaming in

For a game that's driven by statistics and puts stats on a pedestal, it's quite peculiar that Tweets per game has become Major League Baseball's statistic of choice.

Is what the crowd saying more important than the actual statistics of baseball players?

Apparently, it is.

On MLB.com, during the 2010 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers, the number of Tweets each team received had a far more prominent placement than RBIs (runs batted in), ABs (at bats), runs, hits, and strike outs.

Now conversations, and where they are going, are more important than the number of hits a player gets.

We know that in the sixth inning, the chatter spiked in equal velocity for both the Rangers and Giants. What happened during that inning?

Whatever it was, it's one for news organizations to write about.