Did anyone notice

[donobr]

That Langsford (Boise) has walked more in 2 games(8) than some Cubs all year? Hire his dad as hitting coach for the Cubs.

[donobr]

In the last 4 games he has walked 10 times.

[CuseCubFan69]

I hope the Cubs send Clines down to fix that problem.

[donobr]

I fear they will.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

From reading Quakers' report of the Boise game yesterday, it sounds like Salem was pitching around him a lot for 4 of those walks.

[CubinNY]

From reading Quakers' report of the Boise game yesterday, it sounds like Salem was pitching around him a lot for 4 of those walks.

 

Do they have the DH? If not and he was batting in the 8 slot, that would make sense. If not, I have no idea why they'd ptich around him.

[Quakers]

From reading Quakers' report of the Boise game yesterday, it sounds like Salem was pitching around him a lot for 4 of those walks.

 

Do they have the DH? If not and he was batting in the 8 slot, that would make sense. If not, I have no idea why they'd ptich around him.

 

I have no idea why they would pitch around him too, but it sure looked like it. Tonight they were in the zone and Lansford was 1-5. A single and 4 ground outs.

[grrrrlacher]

The Cubs roving hitting instructor must have had a talk with him.

 

"Son, your not going to walk yourself to the majors. Start hitting!"

[Quakers]

The Cubs roving hitting instructor must have had a talk with him.

 

"Son, your not going to walk yourself to the majors. Start hitting!"

 

Lol..I had the same thought.

 

More likely is that SK decided that Lansford was never going to fall for their strategy and they have adjusted the way they pitch to him.

[Quakers]

Lansford din't walk again tonight. He did manage a single and was hit by a pitch. Now I wouldn't say that Josh used the time honored technique of turning into the pitch, but ...

 

SK is obviously pitching him differently now. They must have had an erroneous scouting report on him earlier that said he would fall for a certain pitch sequence and he didn't.