Saturday, April 08, 2006
Schill is looking good
But now that its the 7th and lead man on, I'm wondering if we are already seeing the downstream effects of our supposedly stonger bullpen. Is Tito thinking I need to get Schill through 7 and have Papelbon and Timlin each throw an inning? And he does not trust Riske, Seanez, Dinardo and Foulke in a one run game? Hurry back Julian.....
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What was that 7th inning for Schilling? 30 pitches? God I hope Tito/Nipper/etc know what they're doing.
ReplyDeletePapelbon with the save. That guy is awesome.
Tigers v. Rangers: Chris Shelton (he of 5 HR) has 2 triples today.
ReplyDeleteYeah I saw shelton with the two 3B - I wonder the last time that has happened? I seem to remember Carl Crawford doing it once a year or two ago. But Shelton is not really a fast guy.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes Papelbon is awesome.
Another guy I know mentioned Schilling's last start as an area of concer and that he had thrown 117 or 119 pitches. And again he threw like 115. But to me this is not really a concern for Schill. High pitch counts are more of a detriment to a pitchers long term health (based on BP's pitcher abuse points). For a 40 y/o it does not really matter as much. Plus the REAL damage is done when a pitcher gets over 120 pitches. Of course this is different than the empirical data on individual pitchers (Pedro) regarding results after, say 100 pitches. I have not seen this data on Schill and his last couple pitches were really dialed up (94 and I think I saw 95).
Oh yeah and one small bit of trivia (slightly specific to the Bay Area), Wiillie McCovey hit two triples in his major league debut. I doubt that has been topped or even equaled - although I wouldn't rule out something from like 1902.
ReplyDeleteHobarth "Mountain Goat" Honeycutt hit 3 triples in his major league debut with the Sheboygan Greensleeves in 1877.
ReplyDeleteCrap - I was off by 25 years.
ReplyDeleteMaking up old-time baseball records is really easy.
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