Statistics, hell, you couldn't even play a baseball game without statistics.

Every decision a manager makes is based on statistics.

And every real fan can recite all the statistics of his favorite player(s).

The best announcer I've heard at weaving statistics into a game broadcast is Vin Scully. He is so artful at introducing minutia that you think he's reciting the Iliad. And he makes the interminable tedium between pitches actually seem exciting.