I agree. And as I type this, Soriano takes a walk, to make it all 29 games now that he's reached base in. Did he reach base on April 10th? I see no BBs or hits. He got hit by a pitch. Link
Am I the only one that thought Murton might have been safe? I couldn't tell in real time or from the crappy replay angle they showed, but I thought he might've gotten to the plate. Didn't matter though, since the umpire was in terrible position.
Is Lou intentionally trying to keep Wuertz from pitching in important portions of the ballgame? I swear, if it's high leverage in the 8th, he uses Howry even if Wuertz is available. Now in the 7th, he'll just use Howry as a 4 out set up man/human napalm.
Wow, that's some awful defense on that play. Lee might've been able to get a glove on it. I can only assume Murton overthrew the cutoff man since Izturis had to run into the middle infield to get it, and then he threw to Barrett 8 feet in the air.
Rollins and Victorino are switch hitters, and Utley and Howard come up 3/4 in the lineup and they're both lefty Except it's Rowand/Utley, not Utley/Howard.
Haha, awesome. Ilgauskas is jogging towards the post before an offensive set, Collins throws a shoulder into his chest, Ilgauskas called for an illegal screen, then gets a technical when he claimed otherwise. New Jersey is shooting very well from the perimeter.
We gave up 2 more runs, then DeRosa singled, Izturis doubled, Murton PH HR, Soriano singled, Lee singled, Ramirez singled, now Barrett is up with Lee at 3B and Ramirez at 1B
don't look at hour by hour forecasts for short-term weather... they're just out of some database that was produced hours ago. Use the radar. the radar looks worse. theres a lot of storm development going one just west of philly. It seemed to look like most of it was going to push south of Philly though.
But why would they need an excuse to do that? All four are better players than Encarnacion. Encarnacion hit .276/.359/.473/.832 last year as a 23 year old. He's a much better option than Freel, who will put up a .360-.370 OBP and about a .375 SLG.
Strong outing for Veal. And I've been on the Fontenot bandwagon for quite a while. It's really a mystery that he's never been given even as much as a September callup.