Thanks Len. The only down thing about today was not being able to hear Bob and you give the final call. Tim McCarver is just awful. This. Agreed. No Len after September = no good. Thanks for all the great calls this year, Len. Hope to hear many more.
Might be hurt. Won't be playing tonight and stopped practicing today to get his hand checked out as a precaution. Said he hurt it before he hit the HR last night, just to reaffirm his studliness. As per the Score about 30 minutes ago.
Basically. And he arguably got the job done by getting the batter to hit into a perfect DP ball that would have ended the inning that DeRosa completely screwed up. As Kasper and Brenley have pointed out, he needs to work on his secondary pitches. The reason I think he is in trouble is that he can't throw strikes until he's in a hitter's count and then the batter knows a fastball is coming. Lou is very intolerant of pitchers who walk people and fall behind on every batter. Which he actually wasn't doing yesterday. He wasn't throwing 1st-pitch strikes, but he was then consistently getting to 1-2 counts or 2-2 counts.
Basically. And he arguably got the job done by getting the batter to hit into a perfect DP ball that would have ended the inning that DeRosa completely screwed up.
I'd be curious to see how the other playoff teams offenses look compared to the other months. Not that the Cubs aren't showing a serious swoon, but I wonder how much of it is just the grind of the season.