Friar Watch

Well that was an ugly loss. Chris Young has not regained his form after his injury. He’s not locating his pitches and his velocity seems to be down. Hopefully it’s just rust and the injury isn’t still bothering him.
This team’s record in the first half was due largely to the superhuman efforts […]

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Chris Young: Another ridiculous outing from CY. Lately it seems like he comes out of the gate throwing a no hitter for 3 or 4 innings. Take a look at CY’s numbers for the first three innings over the last 5 games:
15 IP, 5 H, 3 BB, 17 K
The only thing that even […]

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Sorry about the continued lack of updates. Baseball blogging in the summer is not easy.
I only caught the first couple of innings of Monday night’s game so I missed David Wells breaking out the knuckleball against Paul LoDuca:
“It’s the first time I’d done it in, like, (11 years),” said Wells, who’d last thrown a […]

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Yeah, I know I’m slacking. The biggest series of the year and not only am I late, I have all three games in one post. I’ll try to make this quick so I can get caught up.
Game 1
Greg Maddux: The Professor pitched a great game considering the opposition. He really deserved a […]

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Chris Young: Young looked great in the early going. He was working very quickly and was obviously in a groove; he looked like he had the stuff to take another no hit bid into the late innings. Unfortunately a high fastball got away from him and hit Derek Lee, igniting an brawl that […]

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Chris Young: 7 IP, 3 H, 4 BB, 5 K, 0 ER. Despite the 4 walks I thought CY had very good control with his fastball. He had trouble controlling the curveball but it was mostly missing out of the zone, he didn’t hang any where it could hurt him.
CY was able […]

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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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Chris Young: Very strong outing for Chris, 7 IP, 10K, 3 H, 2 BB, 1 ER. Chris got away with at least one mistake, Cliff Floyd tomahawked a high fastball that would have gone out in most parks. Fortunately, Petco is not most parks and Mike Cameron hauled it in at the fence.
One […]

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David Wells: Boomer’s second strong outing in a row. 8 days off between starts may have had something to do with it, or perhaps he’s feeling pressure to stay in the rotation. Whatever the cause, the result was 7 IP, 1 ER. David walked two, both in the 7th when he seemed […]

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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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