Carlos Lee came to bat with 2 men on base TWICE and didn’t do a darn thing. Pence went 2 fer 4 with 2 singles and a reached on E6 that let a run score. CJ went ofer again. Jason Michaels, playing left went ofer. And really, you have little chance to win when the middle of the lineup doesn’t do diddly. And I’m forgetting the 3 double plays, too.
grrrrrrrrrrr
I don’t wanna hear one more *(%&#!%^&$#!ing word about how great Clank is doing now that he’s playing first so much. OPS for Sept is 707 – 20 hits, 2 doubles, 4 homers and only NINE runs batted in – and that is over 21 games. And his ONLY virtue is driving in runs and he ain’t doing that whether or not he plays first of left.
grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Figgy did fine, except for a solo homer – actually, he did great for the first 5 innings. But he got left in too long, as usual, and got hammered in the 6th. I’m not sure why Arnesberg/Mills are so insistant on leaving pitchers in after they have obviously lost their stuff but what can I say? I mean, from the beginning of the inning, it sure looked to me like Figgy needed to come out. Every pitch to the first hitter was high (don’t ask me howon earth he got a called strike on any of those pitches) and he threw exactly 1 strike of 6 pitches to the next hitter. HELLO!!!! 2 pitches waaaay out of the zone to the next hitter, then a nice fat one that got sent to the warning track in deep center.
Figgy is just not more than a 5 inning guy. I mean, there really ARE times to pull a pitcher and the reason the bullpen is all tahrd out is because of the insistance of using multiple pitchers in one inning to get out crappy hitters.
You don’t wanna hear how the relievers did neither.
And we’re off to Pittsburgh, who just swept the DBax and took 2 of 3 from the Cards. We’ll face righty James McDonald, who the Dodgers threw away this July for no good reason I can think of except that he had trouble over the 7.2 innings he pitched for them this year. He’s done decently since starting full time for the Bucs – 4.97 ERA over 29 IP in August and 1.80 ERA over 25 IP in Sept.
HOPEFULLY, we won’t hafta see Clank tomorrow – just Bogusevic in left and Wallace at first seeing as how we’re facing a righty and we just MUST have as close to an all lefty lineup as possible, right Millsy???
grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Tags: Houston Astros, MLB, Washington Nationals
I know he’s not an Astro, but right now I’m living vicariously through him.
Have you seen Roy-O’s WHIP and H/9?? I can’t believe that the man who we all thought was screwed because under the Timmy P regime they wanted him to “pitch to contact” and all that is about to, in the year of the pitcher, lead the NL in WHIP, plus be second or third in H/9.
Lisa, how should I feel about these Phillies. I mean, I will watch every Roy-O playoff start with nearly as much attention as I did when he was a Stro, and I think I’m gonna have to root for them the whole way. He deserves a ring.
daniel,
seeing as how the phils are full of ex-stros, i’m gonna root for them. and the rays. just like in 08
and i will also root for lance even though i HATE his team. it’s really painful to watch him fade away like this – must be how fans felt watching willie mays try to play in 73 (and yes i know berkman isn’t one of the 5 best position players ever)
I do also feel so bad for Lance. The Yankees fans’ probably all think he’s some slob overrated NL player, not one of the 10 best hitters of the 2000s (I’m guessing he’s close to that).
It is weird to see Roy-O and Lance go in totally opposite directions after being traded. I mean, Roy-O’s really been the Phillies best pitcher since he showed up. If they play each other again in teh WS it will be like when Indians fans had to watch Lee and Sabathia go against each other in Game 1 last year.
IF the phils win the WS then maybe, just maybe roy will FINALLY get some media cred for who he is and who he has been. if he had come to philly from the AL he would be the subject of cy young talk like randy johnson was for us in 98