Friar Watch

It’s gotten so bad that I didn’t even watch the game. Wells got rocked again, illustrating just how important location is to the aging pitcher. He just can’t afford to make mistakes. Boomer needs to figure it out and get back to his normal self and give the team 5 or 6 […]

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I didn’t see much of the game and for some reason there’s no Enhanced Gameday data so I’m just going to make some general observations here.
Justin Germano: Germano had a rough first inning, it sounds like he was just getting too much of the plate. That’s something he can’t afford to do, he must […]

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David Wells: Boomer looked great for 6 innings. You know where this is headed: Black ran him out there in the 7th and it cost them the game. In the bottom of the 5th the Padres had two men on and I think one out and I told Geoff at the time that […]

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David Wells: Boomer pitched well in a game that really shouldn’t have been played at all. There was a steady rain throughout the game but the umpires were determined to get the game in to avoid scheduling problems. The field was a mess and the players had a hard time holding onto the […]

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Justin Germano Germano pitched well once again and once again did it through location and changing speeds. 6 hits in 6 IP is a little higher than Germano’s average thus far but he was scoreless through 5 before faltering in the 6th and giving up a home run. Only one strikeout against zero […]

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I don’t have much to say about these games, they’re on the east coast so I haven’t been able to watch the game. On top of that there’s no Enhanced Gameday data so nothing to analyze.
5/29
David Wells was fine, 2 earned runs in 5 IP.
Meredith gave up a rare home run in one […]

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Justin Germano: Yet another good outing for Germano. 5 IP, 5 H, 0 BB and a season high 4 K. 2 of those hits were home runs but they came with no one on so the damage was minimal.
This one is a little cluttered but includes all pitches, as well as […]

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Greg Maddux: Maddux bounced back from a poor outing with 5 very strong innings. Unfortunately he faltered in the 5th and didn’t make it out of the inning. The Padres jumped out to a big lead in the bottom of the fifth and watching the game I thought that Maddux may have decided […]

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Jake Peavy: Jake had a rough time in the first, giving up a run but more importantly throwing 30 pitches. The high pitch count limited Jake to 6 innings. I like that Bud Black took Peavy out after 98 pitches, it would have been real easy to leave him in for another inning […]

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Chris Young: CY bounced back nicely from a shakey outing with a strong 6.3 IP performance. I thought Bud Black did a good job in removing Young with two on and two out in the 7th when Ichiro came to the plate. Rather than let Ichiro take another hack at a guy he […]

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