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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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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This is how it’s supposed to work. Peavy dominates, the new guys swing the bat, Khalil hits a homer (just as I predicted) and everyone got into the act. Well, everyone except Marcus Giles who went 0 for 4 and was the only starter without a hit or a walk.
Jake Peavy was […]

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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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Jake Peavy: Another matchup of aces as Peavy faced Brad Penny. This time nothing weird happened and Jake was back to normal.
Back on 6/07 I wrote that I was concerned because Jake didn’t seem to have his usual good stuff. He went through a series of 3 or 4 starts where […]

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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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Jake Peavy: This game reminded me why I don’t like American League baseball. 12-6 is just not a good outcome for a baseball game, no matter who wins. Nevertheless, a win is a win so we’ll take it. Jake pitched very well, much better than his line would indicate and his line […]

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Jake Peavy: Jake didn’t have his best stuff tonight, it seemed like he had trouble locating his slider and it didn’t have the usual bite. He had trouble with his slider in his last start as well, I mentioned in the Game Notes that I suspect arm problems and tonight did nothing to dispel […]

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Jake Peavy: No TV and no Enhanced Gameday mean yet another game without much to say. Most pitchers would be happy with 3 ER in 7 IP but that’s a bad outing for Jake. Ted Leitner mentioned that Peavy threw very few sliders, relying instead on fastballs and change ups. To […]

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Jake Peavy: Just another ho hum outing from Jake, 7 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 1 BB, 8 K. Rather than break this one down into individual outcomes let’s just take a look at all pitches:
Green = pitches to lefties
Red = pitches to right handers
White = release point

The most obvious thing is the three […]

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