Jake Peavy: This game reminded me why I don’t like American League baseball. 12-6 is just not a good outcome for a baseball game, no matter who wins. Nevertheless, a win is a win so we’ll take it. Jake pitched very well, much better than his line would indicate and his line was pretty good: 6 IP, 7K, 2 BB, 6 H, 2 ER. Actually only one of those should have been earned and even that was kind of flukish, the Orioles never really hit the ball hard off Jake.
I haven’t looked at Jake’s pitch data from tonight but his slider seems to be improving and the 7 strikeouts seem to back that up. He only worked 6 innings due to throwing more than 30 pitches in the 6th, most of that due to some flukey hits and a terrible miscue by Chase Headley that led directly to two runs scoring.
Justin Hampson: Pepe Negro must have been feeling pretty comfortable about this one, he brought in both Human Victory Cigars, Hampson and Cameron. Unfortunately Hampson was more of a cheap stogie than a fine Cuban cigar, giving up 3 runs while only recording one out.
Cla Meredith: It was nice to see Cla have an effective outing again, he’s really been struggling lately. Analyzing Cla is easy, all you have to look for is whether he keeps the ball down. Take a look at tonight’s pitch location:
For most other pitchers I’d say that’s great but for Cla I don’t think it’s quite where he needs to be. Some of those pitches in the middle of the plate are a little too hittable. Fortunately the Orioles haven’t seen much of Cla and he was able to dominate them easily.
Kevin Cameron: The box score shows 2 hits in 1 IP but K Cam was better than that. Corey Patterson beat out a routine ground ball to second when Marcus Giles took a little too much time. The second hit was on a grounder to third that was a makeable play but Branyan had trouble making the throw. Cameron has a nasty slider, I’d really like to see him get some more work in higher leverage situations. He has trouble with his command but I could see him being really effective against a team full of free swingers.
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1 Didi // Jun 20, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Thanks, Anthony.
Nice to see Jake gets more than 4 runs support and Cla getting back into the groove.
Was Hampson pitching badly? Or the Orioles got lucky as well?
Kevin Cameron’s command looks to be improving. Can you tell if that is so, Anthony? I looked up his stats and he gave up 10 walks in games between Apr 24 and May 11 but few hits. Since then, he’s only given up one walk but more hits. I hope he gets better with a bit more appearances.
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