Friar Watch

Once again the Padres and Petco team up to help get a lousy visiting pitcher on track, wasting another good outing from Peavy.
Jake Peavy: 7 IP, 5 H, 10 K and 2 BB, 1 HBP. Jake had a real bonehead moment in the 4th. He hit Ryan Church with a pitch and inexplicably […]

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David Wells: Another tough outing for Boomer. He didn’t walk anyone but he left too many pitches in the heart of the plate. One benefit of having a veteran like Wells as your fifth starter is he’s able to hang in there when he doesn’t have his best stuff. Unfortunately that’s a […]

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Clay Hensley: Clay continues to improve after a terrible start. He’s still not where he needs to be but was very effective in spots. His command was off, leading to 4 walks, but he probably had the best movement all year. It was nice to see him throw curveballs for strikeouts rather […]

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David Wells: Not a good outing for Boomer. He had trouble with his command and when that happens he can be very hittable. He still managed to keep it from getting totally out of hand, 5 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 2 BB and 3 K. After pitching so well last game […]

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Oops, I forgot to post this when I wrote it on Saturday.
Clay Hensley: Darren Ballsley’s prediction was spot on. Clay looked much better tonight. He threw with authority and his delivery was more consistent. To me he started to look tired when he came out for the 5th. He was no […]

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The game wasn’t televised and there’s no enhanced Gameday data so no real insights here.
Jake Peavy: Jake was lights out to start the game, allowing only 3 baserunners in the first 4 innings. He suddenly became very hittable in the 5th, speculation amongst the commenters at Ducksnorts was that he was tired or amped […]

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Greg Maddux: Started off strong with the usual good movement and location but the Cubs caught up to him in the 5th and Bud Black opted to go with Cla Meredith to start the 6th. 3 runs in 5 innings should have been enough for the W given the bullpen performance and number of […]

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Clay Hensley: Another rough outing for Clay. He gave up two runs in the first and was lucky that it wasn’t worse, a line shot to Marcus Giles led to a double play to end the inning. He settled down a little after that but his pitches never really looked good. […]

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Not much to say about this one.

That covers Wells and Thompson. Cameron got off to a rough start but came back to get Furcal and Pierre to get out of the jam. Bell looked fine, he reminds me a little of Scott Linebrink.

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I was at the game so my observations aren’t as detailed for this game.
I missed the first two innings thanks to a freight train (if you decide to park at the convention center make sure you get there early) so I didn’t see that debacle but I thought the game was lost in the 5th […]

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