Friar Watch

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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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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Maddux, Bell and Linebrink all pitched well tonight but the big story is Trevor Hoffman’s 500th career save. In honor of Trevor’s milestone let’s take a look at how he did it.
Leading off the inning: Nomar Garciaparra

Green dot = first pitch
Trevor usually likes to throw a first pitch fastball for a strike but Nomar […]

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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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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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Greg Maddux: Maddux just wasn’t able to locate and when he can’t locate it’s like batting practice for the opposition. The first two innings were especially bad, pitches that normally catch the outer edge of the plate were drifting into the heart of the plate and not sinking, pretty much the worst possible place. […]

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Didi mentioned in the comments that there was some discussion of who was getting the calls last night. Let’s look at the charts for both starters.
Green = Balls
Red = Called Strikes
Greg Maddux:

Wow, what a mess. Balls were called strikes, strikes were called balls. What gives? Well we’ve seen before […]

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Greg Maddux: Game of the year so far. A 96 pitch complete game, 1 run, 5 hits, 5 Ks, no walks. Only one three ball count all night long and that was to the last hitter. A no hitter through 5 innings. Tied a Padre record with 3 sacrifice bunts in […]

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Greg Maddux: Another good outing by Maddux but in what’s becoming a trend the Padre offense failed to capitalize, putting undue pressure on the bullpen.
Maddux got into it with the umpire a little bit in the 5th inning. The 0-1 pitch was called a ball and Maddux wasn’t happy about it, especially when the […]

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What an odd series. Odd start times, no HD feed, no Matt and Mud, no crowds at the park. The whole series seemed like some kind of minor league affair. Only 15,310 fans were in attendance Sunday afternoon when Jake Peavy shut down the Marlins and the crowd looked even smaller on […]

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