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The combination of Greinke, who's quick to the plate, and Castillo behind the plate is very difficult to steal on. The only thing that made the play close was a high throw by Castillo. Good try though, have to try and make things happen.

Greinke can go about 20 innings at this pace.

6 pitch inning for Greinke there.

QUOTE(3E8 @ May 5, 2005 -> 06:10 PM) I'd pitch Sweeny inside fastballs. Looks like he swings a 50 ounce bat. That's what makes him such a tough out. He's been ripping inside pitches in this series.

I'm pretty sure we'll get two lefties in the Toronto series with Lilly and Chacin. I'm also surprised A.J. is playing today....but I'm sure he'd tell Ozzie if he wanted the day off.

Amazing defense that inning to make sure Sweeney didn't bat!!!

Konerko's swinging at balls, and taking strikes. Thing is, we have no one on the bench to give him a rest. Blown opportunity there for another insurance run.

DJ "And that's going to be drilled"! Lots of unintentional comedy with DJ tonight.

This year, Marrero has a .165 OPS vs rph and a 1.028 OPS against lhp! That's insane. Last year, he had a .720 OPS vs rph and a 1.131 OPS vs lhp. If Ozzie left Marte in there, he should have been fired.

I wanted Politte to start this inning....but we all know how scared Ozzie is of Matt Stairs.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 5, 2005 -> 02:17 AM) Gawd, this is our 4th f***in reliever used this inning. Shingo will probably come in next inning, meaning we've used everyone but Luis this game, you'd think ozzie would have learned from that Cleveland game. This is completely unneccesary to take Damaso out here, completely unnceccesary. Look up Marrero's numbers against lhp last year and this year......it's the right move.

Good call by Ozzie here. Marrero is great against lefties.

Pall's making some very good points now, it's just his voice isn't great for the gig. DJ is also doing much better in the lead role than I would have imagined though. All of Hawk's s*** breaks are paying off.

Great job by Politte there!

The thing is, eveyone in baseball knows Gotay has problems with offspeed pitches. Thus, instead of bringing in a relatively fastball only pitcher in Cotts, why not bring in the slider specialist Vizcaino (who's better vs lefties than righties). Just a thought.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ May 5, 2005 -> 01:57 AM) And who exactly would our long man be if Wunsch was in our bullpen rather than Cotts? Ozzie isn't even using Cotts as a long man. He just used Cotts in a one batter situation there. Our best long reliever is in the minors right now (Adkins).

Not even close. Poorly played by Ozzie there. Good call Rowand44

Until Cotts can get some control, he can't be used in crucial situations. The shame is that the good looking lefty, K. Wunsch, looks solid for the Dodgers so far.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 5, 2005 -> 01:52 AM) I wish he would have let Freddy finish the inning but Neal will get the job done. I agree, I like our chances more of Garcia vs Gotay than Cotts vs Graffy or Marrero (destroys lefties).

QUOTE(qwerty @ May 5, 2005 -> 01:51 AM) Cotts in for garcia to face long. Bad idea. Long's not up. DJ messed up. It's Gotay and then Sweeney.

Interesting call to Cotts here. Graffy will probably ph.

That's the first poor defensive play I've seen from Iguchi yet, and he still got the guy out.

What in the world was Garcia doing there? That ball was going to go foul almost definitely. Big batter here now.

12,712 tonight at the park.

Put me on the bandwagon for DJ's homer call.