Thursday, April 07, 2005
162-0
No longer in reach.
It's tempting to say that last night's loss could be pegged on the shallowed depth of the bullpen, as Bret Prinz drew the loss, but remember it was Brendan Donnelly that gave up the big hit in the eighth. (We should also recognize that Esteban Yan's Halo debut was shockingly suck-free. But, hey, even John Wells wrote a good episode of The West Wing last night, so maybe the planets were perfectly aligned.)
And the offense was stale, too, hitting into three double plays, including a bizarre one in the third where The Legs hit a line drive and Darin Erstad, of all people, got double off second base. Ersty's normally a fine baserunner, so I was surprised by his apparent wrong break on the ball, and with Vlad looming in the on-deck circle, getting doubled off second was particularly harmful.
Also destructive was The Indispensable Josh Paul's pathetic sacrifice attempt in extra innings. Egad. Though it was nice to have him running in the ninth, that's the kind of play your third catcher has to execute more often than not.
Somethine else fun happened last night: Father Time, Steve Finley, batted seventh against a lefty. Finley has a career 285/347/471 line against right-handers, but only a 254/311/400 against southpaws. So that's an exciting thing to have from a purported middle-of-the-lineup hitter. Even Garret hangs in against lefties for a career 291/307/447 line.
So Finley has limited range afield and can't hit lefties. *Sigh* ...
No longer in reach.
It's tempting to say that last night's loss could be pegged on the shallowed depth of the bullpen, as Bret Prinz drew the loss, but remember it was Brendan Donnelly that gave up the big hit in the eighth. (We should also recognize that Esteban Yan's Halo debut was shockingly suck-free. But, hey, even John Wells wrote a good episode of The West Wing last night, so maybe the planets were perfectly aligned.)
And the offense was stale, too, hitting into three double plays, including a bizarre one in the third where The Legs hit a line drive and Darin Erstad, of all people, got double off second base. Ersty's normally a fine baserunner, so I was surprised by his apparent wrong break on the ball, and with Vlad looming in the on-deck circle, getting doubled off second was particularly harmful.
Also destructive was The Indispensable Josh Paul's pathetic sacrifice attempt in extra innings. Egad. Though it was nice to have him running in the ninth, that's the kind of play your third catcher has to execute more often than not.
Somethine else fun happened last night: Father Time, Steve Finley, batted seventh against a lefty. Finley has a career 285/347/471 line against right-handers, but only a 254/311/400 against southpaws. So that's an exciting thing to have from a purported middle-of-the-lineup hitter. Even Garret hangs in against lefties for a career 291/307/447 line.
So Finley has limited range afield and can't hit lefties. *Sigh* ...
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