Addy needs to pick it up at the plate. He's always had an abnormally high soft contact rate in his career, but it seems worse than ever this year (which im sure the stats im too lazy to look up will disprove and make me look like a moron). Just gotta keep remembering he's only 23 and at times has looked really good. This current stretch he's in has been particularly difficult to watch though.
I believe this will be the 3rd time in the last 6 games that Schwarber is not in the lineup...all against lefties. Is he becoming a platoon guy or is Maddon just temporarily keeping him from facing lefties until he gets going?
The last 3 times Lester has started against the Giants: 9 IP, 1 ER 8 IP, 0 ER* 9 IP, 1 ER *horsefeathering playoff game and Lester threw less than 90 pitches and could have easily pitched the CG
I read somewhere that everyone got a perfect score on their last dance, and in the first dance Ross had by far the lowest score of the 3 finalists. Apparently he's barely kept his head above water, but Cubs fans keep voting him forward. Would be funny if he won it tonight.
someone the other day posted the White Sox rotation ERAs in 2005 and 2006 and all 5 of their starters had an ERA at least 1 run higher in 06. Feels like that's happening here although Hendricks and Lester have been fine for the most part. Edit: ok not every pitcher had his ERA raised by a run but everyone got worse for whatever reason
Some notes: -Pierce Johnson and LaStella were expected to go down in roster moves for Floro and Heyward -Heyward was in today's lineup playing RF -Happ was in today's lineup -Schwarber was in the lineup but not leading off, Zobrist was instead Some of this might have already been posted
This was the most pointless pre-Finals playoffs ever. Just let the Spurs and Celtics forefit and give the Cavs and Warriors a week to rest up for the first real basketball played this year
good one. he doesn't know how to do that Well at least he's throwing more strikes this year so instead of watching the Brewers walk all game we'll just see them knock the ball around the park. More entertaining that way.