I just received two letters from Braves fans that are upset that they can’t see as many games and can’t hear Skip and Pete. The first is from Sally Moss:
I’ve been watching the Braves on TBS and kept wondering why nobody said anything about Skip and Pete. I didn’t know where they were. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:42 pm | Fan Rant | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Ouch!
After getting off to a great start, the Royals Mike MacDougal has now blown two saves in a row. He hit two batters and threw a wild pitch tonight. And he threw away some great pitching out of jams in the eariler innings.
Posted by David Pinto at 10:29 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Lesser Angels
The bottom of the Angels order had a big night in Anaheim’s 6-2 win over Cleveland. Fullmer, Bengie Molina and Eric Owens each had two hits, and the three combined for five rbi.
Posted by David Pinto at 10:12 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Unit Repair
It looks like Randy Johnson’s knee did not heal in the time on the DL. He’ll undergo arthroscopic surgery to have the knee repaired. Mark Grace had the quote of the night:
“Really?” Arizona first baseman Mark Grace said about the news. “That’s really bad.”
Not much seems to be going right for the DBacks [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:05 pm | Injuries | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Jones Apologizes
Well, sort of:
Colorado Rockies pitcher Todd Jones apologized to the organization and his teammates Wednesday for his recent anti-gay remarks, but he didn’t back off what he said.
“I think my only mistake was that I made my views public,” said Jones, who was teary-eyed at times during his brief statement. “And for that, I apologize [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:00 pm | Baseball Jerks | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Beat the Mets
Through 2 1/2 innings tonight, the Cardinals lead the Mets 7-0. They’ve outscored the Mets 20-3 between last night and today. Pedro Astacio has been hammered tonight, and you can’t blame errors for this. All 7 runs are earned. He even gave up a double to opposing pitcher Woody Williams. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:21 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Loaded and Left
Down 2-1, the Red Sox loaded the bases with one out in both the sixth and the seventh innings. In each case, the Royals pitched out of the jams; two Ks in the 6th, and force out and a pop out in the 7th. That’s 0 for 4 with the bases loaded and [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:10 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Top In Texas
Just looking at the Texas-Toronto box score. Through 6 innings tonight, the top of the Texas order has the following stats:
Batter
OBA
Slug
Everett
.409
.756
Blalock
.440
.639
A. Rodriguez
.443
.676
Looks more like the heart of the order than the top. Palmeiro and Gonzalez should have a ton of RBI this year.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:58 pm | Offense | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
In Play
Jarrod Washburn has pitched six innings without a strikeout. He’s only given up three hits and has a shutout going. Starters who have gone six innings or more without striking out a batter have a 3-1 record this year with four no-decisions.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:44 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Red Sox Game Last Night
It’s taking me longer than I thought to get some pictures up, and I’d rather blog about games. But here is one to start you off:
Yawkey way is now a plaza, and you need your ticket to get in. These two performers on stilts were playing with the little children.
Posted by David Pinto at 7:59 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Rockies and Todd Jones
I just updated this post. There was a typo in the original press release.
Update: I called the Rockies and left a message with Jay Alves, their PR director. My question to him was, “Does this mean that the Rockies management would welcome an openly gay player on the team?” I was very impressed [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 2:14 pm | Management | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Game of the Day
Baltimore at Detroit. Nate Cornejo is the best starter the Tigers have. His great strenght is that he doesn’t walk many (6 in 20 1/3 innings). He’s trying to become the first Tiger pitcher this year to win two games.
The Orioles have a very good Beane Count, due to their pitches not giving [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:54 am | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Royals-Red Sox
I had a great time at the game last night. My wife and daughter saw me in the stands on TV, had a great view of Wakefield’s knuckler, and Chris George looks like he’s 14 years old. I’ll write a complete summary with picture tonight after work.
One thing, however; having been [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:45 am | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 30, 2003
Rockies Response To Todd Jones
A number of readers have pointed out to me that the Rockies press release regarding Todd Jones’ remarks against gay ballplayers on the team did not explicitly state sexual orientation when listing things against which the organization does not discriminate. Yes, I did realize that but,
They do list “sex.”
Given the context, it’s pretty clear [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:31 am | Management | Permalink | No Comments
April 29, 2003
Royals for Real?
Since I’m going to see the Royals on the road twice this week, I thought I’d take a close look at the team. One way to get a good handle on a team is to look at their road statistics.
Royals 2003
Home
Road
Record
10-0
7-5
ERA
2.25
4.57
Runs/Game
5.1
5.67
HR Hit
9
20
HR Allowed
4
12
It looks to me that the Royals are a little better than [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 2:27 pm | Team Evaluation | Permalink | No Comments
April 29, 2003
Attendance Down
ESPN finally picks up on this story.
The biggest fall has been in Cleveland, where that amazing Jacobs Field sellout streak is a distant memory. The Indians are down 30.7 percent this season, just ahead of the Milwaukee Brewers, where attendance is down 30.5 percent in Miller Park’s third year.
Leanne and Marc Schneider brought their three [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 2:03 pm | Attendance | Permalink | No Comments
April 29, 2003
Games of the Day
The Mariners at the Yankees offers a good pitching matchup between first place teams with Meche going against Clemens. Both pitchers have good control and are striking out a ton of batters. Meche, however, has given up five home runs already this year, while Clemens has given up only 1. With the [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 12:10 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 29, 2003
Fenway Bound
I just bought a ticket to tonight’s KC-Red Sox game. I’ll be in box 43, row D if any of you are there and want to say hello. From talking to the ticket agent, good seats are available!
Posted by David Pinto at 11:52 am | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 29, 2003
Baseball Cover
I just recieved the New Yorker in the mail, and there’s a baseball cover this week. Looks to me like an Animee rendering of a ballplayer. The title of the cover is “The New Left Fielder.”
When I first got the New Yorker, the magazine would come in a plain, brown wrapper. This [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:50 am | Other | Permalink | No Comments
April 29, 2003
Detective Work
I received an interesting E-mail from Darren Viola today.
Hey David.. Maybe you can come across the Todd Jones article (being somewhat of a loose cannon, I can only imagine what Jones wrote about ) that the Rockies have seemingly squashed in the Denver Post. I was trying to post it over here at Baseball Primer.
Here [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:06 am | Management | Permalink | 2 Comments
April 28, 2003
Wayne’s World
Justin Wayne has a heavy burden tonight. After yesterday’s 20 inning marathon, Wayne has to go deep into the game to give the Marlins bullpen a rest. So far, however, he’s averaging 20 pitches an inning, and he’s not throwing a high percentage of strikes. At this rate, they may have to [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:23 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
Out Foxed
Craig Damon writes with this interesting observation:
Just a quick observation. Grady Little needs to not pitch Chad Fox following Pedro. Its not the Chad Fox is bad, his stuff just looks too hittable when batters have been trying to adjust to Pedro all day.
Consider the following appearances:
G IP ER W+H [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:16 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
Looking for Signs
Jon Weisman doesn’t use permalinks in his blog, Dodger Thoughts, but go there and scroll to the post titled Sign Waves. He has an excellent observation:
It seems to me that you’ve truly turned the corner when you’re no longer looking for a sign that you’ve turned the corner. After all, are the Yankees or [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:41 am | Team Evaluation | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
Cubs and Third Base
The Cub Reporter has a couple of post on Mark Bellhorn and what the Cubs should do about his poor hitting.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:34 am | Team Evaluation | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
Padres Review
Duck Snorts has a good review of the Padres series with the Reds.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:30 am | Team Evaluation | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
Aaron Upset
Aaron Gleeman is upset that A.J. Burnett may be out for the season. And it seems he predicted it a year ago. (The permalink doesn’t work, so scroll down to the post titled Okay, now I’m pissed.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:19 am | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
No-Hit Blogger
Mike’s Baseball Rants was at the no-hitter yesterday. I’m jealous. I’ve always wanted to see a no-hitter live.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:15 am | Blogs | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
More on Pitch Counts
Jay Jaffee at Futility Infielder has an excellent post on pitch counts.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:12 am | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
Games of the Day
Well, there are only two today, and they are both late starts. The best is the Phillies at the Dodgers. Both teams have played 25 games, but the Phillies have scored almost 50 more runs (that’s 2 more per game) than the Dodgers. Why? Neither team has hit many HR. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:06 am | Games | Permalink | No Comments
April 28, 2003
Morning Mail
I received two interesting links to stories in this morning’s mail. Aaron sent me a link to a Juan Williams interview of Walter Iooss Jr. Iooss has a new book out that is a collection of his baseball photographs over the years. The interview is nearly 30 minutes, so be prepared to spend [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:26 am | Other | Permalink | No Comments
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