Re: Atlanta Braves
Posted: 01/08/2010, 14:45
Melky da denuncia!!!! :lol2:
Aggiungo solo una cosa: se degli otto hitters nel lineup, cinque sono al massimo replacement/platoon players non c'è da sorprendersi se in attacco si fa fatica; sperando che la dirigenza non creda di aver risolto i problemi con le aggiunte di Gonzo e Ankiel.Does anything show up the ridiculousness of pitcher “wins” more than what happened to Tommy Hanson (now 8-8 on the season) today? He was outstanding, striking out five and walking just one in 7 1/3, throwing 66 strikes in 92 pitches. But in the fifth inning, he allowed a one-out single, followed by a two-out “triple” that was a soft fly ball down the line to right. Heyward screwed up on the play, trying to make a diving catch that he couldn’t, misplaying a double that probably would not have scored a run (with a catcher running, even with two out) into the triple. Then Alex Gonzalez, defensive shortstop, misplayed an absolutely routine ball allowing a second run to score.
Ballgame, because of the Braves’ terrible work with runners on base. They had only one hit with runners in scoring position, that an infield single by Omar in the first that only moved Conrad to third base with one out. McCann popped up to blow that chance. Their only run came on a solo homer by Gonzalez in the second. After the fourth inning, the third time in the game that the Braves stranded two men, I wrote, “We’re going to lose”. And we did.
The Braves had only four hits, but drew seven walks and had a HBP. Eleven men were stranded, five times two in one inning. Heyward doubled with two out in the ninth, and was, of course, stranded. It’s going to happen with a high-walk, low-power offense sometimes, but you have to execute better than this. Hanson has pitched brilliantly in each of his last two starts, but the defense and offense have let him down both times and he’s 0-2. He just doesn’t know how to get the other guys to be competent win.
Peccato, mi spiace molto per Medlen.Medlen has a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his rt elbow. Plan of action will be determined over the next couple of weeks.
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Mike Minor will start for us on Monday (MLB debut). He will pitch two innings tonight in Gwinnett.
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Kawakami is being optioned to Gwinnett to build up his strength with hopes he will re-join the rotation later and add depth to staff.
Peccato davvero, spero ritorni presto.
Salvo ripensamenti direi proprio di sì: motivi familiari.johnOJ wrote: Wagner nel nono mi ha fatto davvero impressionema davvero si ritira a fine stagione?
LINKA pathetic act of baseball vandalism. Mike Minor pitched pretty well, but the defense was atrocious, and his luck wasn’t much better. He, at least, got a no-decision. The team wasn’t that lucky. If this game was a player, it would be Jeff Francoeur.
Minor breezed through the first three innings, and had a 2-0 lead entering the fourth after Gonzalez doubled in Ankiel with two out in the first (Minor should have scored Gonzalez with a single in his first major league PA, but was thrown out by the right fielder when the first baseman stood on top of the plate) and a homer, his first in forever, by Heyward.
The fourth was one of those innings that shows why BABIP is important and why strikeouts are the best kind of out. The Astros had four hits, three of them doubles, to score three runs, and none of the balls was hit really hard; the first two RBI came on a pop fly behind first base that a non-paraplegic first baseman (that is, not Troy Glaus) might have had, and a flare to center that went, maybe, 80 feet. It was sad.
Chipper and McCann put the Braves back in front in the sixth, Chipper doubling to lead off and Brian following with a long homer that did not move the leadoff man to third base with one out. That’s just not sound fundamental baseball. After that, virtually nothing went right.
In the bottom of the inning, the leadoff man reached on Minor’s only walk, then stole second (a good throw would have had him) and went to third on a weak grounder. Bobby brought the infield in, which I hate, but it worked, the ball being a soft grounder right to AAG, who booted it. Run scores.
Minor was out of the game in the seventh for a pinch-hitter; Chipper’s broken-bat fly ball with two out and two on was a little too hard to fall. And in the bottom of the inning, the Astros scored six runs after Bobby made the mistake — AGAIN — of bringing in Kyle Farnsworth. Farnsworth shouldn’t even be allowed in the state of Texas. By the time he was out of the game, a run was in, only one out had been recorded, Farnsworth had been charged with a throwing error on a routine soft throw that wasn’t even really a pickoff play that Glaus completely botched, and the bases were still loaded.
Peter Moylan didn’t retire anyone either. By the time he was out of the game, five runs had scored, three of them charged to Farnsworth, and the Astros had cleared the bases on a single to left field when McCann caught Hinske’s sad attempt at a play at the plate and threw it into the left field corner. The only thing that inning was good for was to burn calories for Hinske. The game went on for a few innings after that but there was no real reason for it.