Friar Watch

Sorry, I just had to use that lame headline. Jake did a heck of a job hanging around for 6 scoreless innings in the brutal heat and humidity. The bullpen did their part as well, Heath Bell was flat out filthy at times. It would be nice if the offense would stop making […]

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Hey, the Pads finally got on track, won 4 in a row, swept the hated Gigantes, had some clutch hits, the new guys are looking good. Who’s pitching today? Ah crap. David Wells is starting to remind me of that lame SNL character Debbie Downer.

In his last 4 starts Boomer has given […]

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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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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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David Wells was ejected from Saturday’s game for arguing balls and strikes. Did he have a case?
Green = called balls
Red = called strikes
Yellow = the only called ball to Francoeur when he hit the home run

It looks fine to me. The one ball to Francoeur in particular wasn’t even close. I bet […]

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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.
David Wells: Actually pitched better than I thought but there was still no reason to let him come out for the 7th. When Boomer goes past 5 or 6 […]

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David Wells: This is starting to sound like a broken record. 5 good innings, too bad he pitched a 6th. Two homer runs in the 6th, including Ahole Sorriano’s showboating tape measure job.
Cla Meredith: I didn’t see Cla’s appearance but at least he didn’t give up a home run.
Kevin Cameron: […]

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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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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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