Thursday, June 09, 2005
Can't Win 'Em All
But I'll take two of three any day of the week.
What can you do when Wells was pitching like that? Nothing but tip your cap. He shut the Cardinals down, allowing only four hits with no walks. Bernie is not feeling gracious. The boys were a tad impatient, but what are they supposed to do? Stand there and take three strikes then sit down? Boomer only threw 20 out of the zone in 94 pitches. The hits just didn't fall in. Mueller made some great plays. Foulke made the ninth inning fun, but was able to get out of it. Carp just hit a wall in the 6th (does that seem familiar to anyone else?). Plus, he's had some issues with left handed batters this year
.317/.387/.497 with four home runs, 17 walks, and 33 strike outs in 164 plate appearances
~versus~
.215/.246/.301 with two home runs, seven walks, and 42 strike outs in 174 plate appearances for right handers
before tonight, which certainly didn't help the numbers. The Sox had four left handers and three switch hitters in the starting lineup (including Wells). Although, Damon was held in check, which is something.
In other silver lining news, Thompson was lovely (he did forget that he can't go to his mouth on the mound, silly rookie). King also looked good, aside from the home run to TSSWMNBN; I'm going to convince myself that was a gift (Matthew Leach offers some insight into Ray's recent troubles). And the guys didn't go quietly. Oh, yeah, Skip made his ML debut. Welcome to the show, kid.
By the way, Pujols had as many hits as TSSWMNBN in this series; both got their second hit in the ninth inning.
What can you do when Wells was pitching like that? Nothing but tip your cap. He shut the Cardinals down, allowing only four hits with no walks. Bernie is not feeling gracious. The boys were a tad impatient, but what are they supposed to do? Stand there and take three strikes then sit down? Boomer only threw 20 out of the zone in 94 pitches. The hits just didn't fall in. Mueller made some great plays. Foulke made the ninth inning fun, but was able to get out of it. Carp just hit a wall in the 6th (does that seem familiar to anyone else?). Plus, he's had some issues with left handed batters this year
.317/.387/.497 with four home runs, 17 walks, and 33 strike outs in 164 plate appearances
~versus~
.215/.246/.301 with two home runs, seven walks, and 42 strike outs in 174 plate appearances for right handers
before tonight, which certainly didn't help the numbers. The Sox had four left handers and three switch hitters in the starting lineup (including Wells). Although, Damon was held in check, which is something.
In other silver lining news, Thompson was lovely (he did forget that he can't go to his mouth on the mound, silly rookie). King also looked good, aside from the home run to TSSWMNBN; I'm going to convince myself that was a gift (Matthew Leach offers some insight into Ray's recent troubles). And the guys didn't go quietly. Oh, yeah, Skip made his ML debut. Welcome to the show, kid.
By the way, Pujols had as many hits as TSSWMNBN in this series; both got their second hit in the ninth inning.
