fathom

Now Marte is warming up, as they have a handful of righties coming up. I have absolutely no clue what game Ozzie is watching tonight now

Seriously, why did Ozzie let Sweeney hurt us like that? It's like he fears Stairs more than anyone in the majors. If you remember, Stairs was the batter in the season opener last year that made Ozzie make a pitching change so Stairs didn't bat.

MLB debut for this guy here. We need Pods to get on and steal a few bases.

QUOTE(Traveler1776 @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 01:51 AM) Keep the faith. First time in awhile we've been burned by another team's goodluck. Both of those hits were softly hit. Stairs' hit would have been an easy out if Gooch wasn't positioned for the pull. Viz is still looking sharp. We created their luck that inning. T. Long is 0-11 for lhp this season, and batted .72 pts higher against rhp last season.

Vizcaino is hanging his slider badly right now. If you're not going to throw fastballs, they're just going to sit on it.

Funny thing is that no one else is warming up right now. Someone might want to wake up our manager.

So we dont let our best lefty reliever face a lefty hitter, and we let KC's best hitter beat us? I haven't been impressed by Vizcaino at all this season. His fastball is 3 mph slower than it was last year, and it's not like he's been a very consistent reliever in the past. His ERA was astronomical 2 seasons ago.

f*** you Ozzie! Terrible managing letting their only good hitter hurt you in that situation.

Think we should walk Sweeney here to face Stairs? With Vizcaino being better against lefties than righties, I think it would be a smart decision.

With Long coming in for DeJesus, why not bring in Marte to face him? Doubtful KC would have ph for him. If we're going to use Marte as a lefty specialist, might as well use it in big situations.

Wouldn't mind seeing Hermanson in to start this inning. I wonder if Marte will come in for DeJesus?

Rowand has absolutely no flexibility at the plate right now. Every swing is the same no matter where the pitch is, and he's not bending his back at all.

Have a feeling Rowand will chase anything on the 3-2 here.

What pisses me off is that the 0-2 pitch by Contreras to DeJesus that was called for a ball was much, much closer to the plate than the pitch that Dye was just called out on. I heard the Crede called 3rd was poor as well.

Rowand should PH for Gload here.

Cubs lost him as a Rule V draftee.

Nice to see that the Cubs didn't keep Sisco. He sure looks to have some dynamite stuff.

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 01:25 AM) Keep the faith... If KC had 4 lefties coming up in a row, I would have had no problem with Cotts staying in there. However, Ozzie played right into Pena's lineup by leaving a lefty in to face 5 straight righties. Lets just hope Vizcaino can get out of this inning without allowing the run to score!

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) He's throwing the ball very well... If you have a one run lead going into the 7th inning, you should be able to go to your core relievers to try and win the game. Cotts looked good in the 6th inning, but he's still way too much of a risk with his control to be pitching late in the game. And with that, he walks a batter

Why is Cotts still in? KC has a lot of righties coming up to bat. I'm very confused now.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 01:16 AM) That's the reason it didn't go right? Who didn't know he was going to bunt? Greinke was able to start running forward while the pitch was still on the way to Iguchi because he shortened up like a pitcher does to bunt. Iguchi was very likely bunting in that situation, but there's no reason to make it as easy as he did for the opposition. Doesn't matter though, our 3-4-5 forgot how to try and hit for a single.

Iguchi gave the bunt away way too early. Cost us a big run likely.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 01:06 AM) Isn't that what you're supposed to do? Get the other guy out? Okay, just making sure... All I said was that it was a bad at-bat by Sweeney, as he swung at a pitch that went about 58 feet. Sweeney's usually a better hitter than that.

Gload didn't look exactly comfortable on that flyball there. Cotts looked real good that inning honestly. He showed good control.

Cotts basically got Sweeney to strike himself out there, but I'll take it.