CaliforniaRaisin

Daytona holds on and wins 5-4.

Daytona leads it 5-3 in the 9th. Matt Avery in to try to save it after Grant Johnson loaded up the bases and walked in a run. Mitch Atkins: 5.2 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 6 K/2 BB.

I don't like Pie leading off because he *isn't* a leadoff hitter and isn't the best option at the top of this lineup.

In terms of service time, they gained a year. Yea, great timing.

Probable Starters: Iowa: LHP Ryan O’Malley (0-1, 2.08 ERA, 8.2 IP) Tennessee: RHP Mark Holliman (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 6 IP) Daytona: RHP Mitch Atkins (1-1, 2.61 ERA, 10.1 IP) Peoria: RHP Billy Muldowney (1-1, 4.09 ERA, 11 IP) O’Malley: 8.2 IP, 5 K/3 BB, .294 BAA Holliman: 6 IP, 7 K/1 BB, .190 BAA Atkins: 10.1 IP, 8 K/2 BB, .162 BAA Muldowney: 11 IP, 17 K/2 BB, .289 BAA

TV: WGN Radio: WGN 720 RHP Wade Miller (0-1, 13.50 ERA) vs. RHP Greg Maddux (1-1, 3.18 ERA) Game-time temperature: 60°F Feels like: 59°F Mostly cloudy, 10% chance of precipitation. Winds blowing out to CF at about 10 mph.

Tennessee is scoreless after one. Joel Santo is getting the start for Daytona today. Daytona is up 2-1 after one.

Trust in Wilken. :)

Great...one of my guys taking out another. :(

Clocked in the low 90s after labrum surgery...not bad. :)

I could see this being a problem if this was a morning game. But since it's an afternoon/night game it won't end until around 7 PT. And couldn't you just delete the first thread anyway if somebody started it in your place? Yeah, I could but wouldn't. Not gonna stop people if they want to get started early talking about the game.

Thanks, I wasn't sure what would happen to Tennessee's rotation wtih allt he rainouts. Also, I might have heard from somewhere that Santo (and not Atkins) will throw for Daytona.

Score one for VVMattVV.

Des Moines Register write-up on the I-Cubs game

Probable Starters: Iowa: RHP Randy Wells (1-1, 10.00 ERA, 9 IP) vs. RHP Fernando Nieve (0-0, 2.25 ERA) Tennessee: RHP Mark Holliman (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 6 IP) Daytona: RHP Mitch Atkins (1-1, 2.61 ERA, 10.1 IP) Peoria: RHP Al Alburquerque (0-1, 9.00 ERA, 3 IP) vs. RHP PJ Walters (0-0, 3.38 ERA) Wells: 9 IP, 6 K/6 BB, .297 BAA Holliman: 6 IP, 7 K/1 BB, .190 BAA Atkins: 10.1 IP, 8 K/2 BB, .162 BAA Alburquerque: 3 IP, 2 K/1 BB, .385 BAA

Wowowow, I'm 2-0!

Someone pick for the 9ers so we can keep going.

No, you should beable to do it. 10 pm is not too late. Midnight Central right? I'm in no hurry to talk about the cubs. Can we all agree to wait for Cali to post the next thread? Get the team to agree to it by winning. :)

I liked the poster UK more than PingHitter.

Daytona ended up putting up a 5-spot in the 8th inning for a come-from-behind 7-6 win. Billy Petrick in relief: 3 IP, 1 ER, 2 H, 3 K/0 BB, 1 HBP.

I think you're reaching here. As Colt Pacer pointed out, Cedeno is, for whatever reason, helpless against lefties. He has also proven time and again that he is not, by any stretch of the imagination, even remotely adequate when it comes to OBP. So you're agrument that Cedeno is "the OBP" is somewhat of a joke. I know you are comparing him to Jones v lefties, which is perhaps the biggest mismatch since Dave Parker circa 1990 v a chocolate eclair, but we're splitting hairs here. As for everyone's questions about Cedeno's minor league stats, he was a completely inept offensive player for most of his career, until he somehow figured things out in'05, the year he was called up, and the basis for his worthiness to be comsidered a major leaguer at this point. To his credit, he pounded the PCL for 230 ABs in '05. Before that however.... Here are his OBPs in the minors: '01 Rookie league .398 (with a .355 BA) '01 Lansing .237 '02 Boise .275 '02 Lansing .269 '03 Daytona .257 '04 West tenn .328 In the majors, in 626 ABs he has a career OBP of .278. Ronny has proven he is NOT any kind of OBP threat. On the contrary, you'd be hard pressed to find a guy with a worse record in the majors right now when it comes to OBP. As we said earlier, for whatever reason, he is even worse against lefties, if that's possible. He might be the only guy in the major leagues right now who I would actually prefer Jones to when facing a lefty. You missed his 2005 where he had a .403 OBP (.048 IsoD). ETA: I had initially said Ronny had a .48 IsoD. :shock:

Yeah, that's the one I was referring to.