So that loss sucked, but whaddya gonna do - two evenly matched teams, with the benches and bullpens depleted - 50% chance of losing, basically. I personally would've liked to see Wake pitch a couple, but whatever. Seanez actually didn't suck - at least, his pitching was not the worst of the night.But the real unsung hero for the Red Sox was My Favorite Player, Julian Tavarez. He pitched 4 shutout innings, and let only two guys on base - one walk, and the other a hit which Trot really should've caught. Needless to say, his ERA dropped tremendously, from 4.98 to 4.56. Tavarez-hatahs: please note that his ERA is now equal to the AL average. Yes, in terms of runs given up, he's an average pitcher. Awesome!
Also: since June 19, the day he became My Favorite Player, he's pitched 16 innings, giving up 3 runs on 11 hits, for an ERA of 1.69 and a BAA of .187. In those 3 weeks, his ERA has dropped almost one and a half points.
Goooooo Julian!!!!
Also, he made two awesome defensive plays. The first was...uh, a slow roller to first, I guess. The second a "hurts-to-watch" split in an attempt to complete a double play.
ReplyDeleteEven Seanez lasted a couple of innings. Do we think this is a sign that our bullpen will improve in the second half?
ReplyDeleteI think the pen is going to be pretty good in the second half. I, too, noticed Tavarez's recent strengthening.
ReplyDeleteSeanez did suck. He was helped out tremendously by a few good plays (Cora's double play was just ridiculous). His location is terrible, and he allows too many baserunners. I think that Theo should explore a trade (Seanez for a bag of batting practice balls for)...Nixon and Tek who combined for 0 hits in 17 at-bats.
Earl - a quote from Ozzie:
ReplyDelete``In the 15th I told the umpires we should have a Home Run Derby to win this," Guillen said. ``I saw that Italy won the World Cup [on penalty kicks] and I thought we should do the same thing."
I'm not sure, there has to be a joke there somewhere that is relevant to your last post.