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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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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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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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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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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That called strike three to Marcus Giles to end the game on Sunday was every bit as bad as we thought it was:

Of course it wouldn’t have been strike three if Marcus hadn’t swung at the second pitch, which was well off the plate. It’s inexcusable for an umpire to call that pitch 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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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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