I hate when Z teases me with a few good innings early and then turns into a WHIP machine later in the game. At least he still has the stuff to get out of these jams unless he loses his cool.
Yeah the inning would have ended much quicker that way. Well obviously with the way we are with RISP we would have had a better chance of a bad throw home. True, but I think Cameron has a pretty good arm. Conventional baseball logic suggests that if there is still only 1 out and your leadoff hitter is up you should hold the runner. But then when you realize that Soriano is up, and the Cubs suck at situational hitting this year I can see your point.
At this point its gone beyond a slump. It might just be a super long confidence draining slump that might take an offseason of recovery to get over. He might snap out of it tomorrow. Who knows. I don't think it's eroding skills though unless he's 3+ years older than he says he is.
That works, nice work Z. It's pretty sad how the Cubs offense has conditioned my emotions. I was already getting worked up about not scoring this inning after there was only 1 out.
There you go Font. Too bad we have Hill, Z, and Soriano coming up, and Z hasn't been hitting well lately, nor does he seem like a great situational hitter.