Weekend in review
Two blowouts followed by a real stomach punch of a game on Sunday. Jorge Sosa pitched beautifully, even if it was against a depleted Cardinals lineup. He may have won himself a rotation spot for the rest of the season -- I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Hampton will be given the Schilling/Kerry Wood treatment, and encouraged to pitch out of the bullpen "to save his arm". Sosa's just too freaking good right now.
Also in the good column is Jeff Francoeur, who keeps on swingin' and grinnin', and Andruw, who steps it up every single time Chipper goes down. It's uncanny, really. And a nicely pitched game by Hudson, too. If he's actually rediscovered his splitter, watch out down the stretch. We may finally be getting what we paid for.
Kyle Farnsworth is intent on proving the physics axiom that an object travelling very fast can be made to go very fast in the opposite direction, and Reitsma had one of his patented blowups. Expect to see the Eckstein HR repeatedly if we meet the Cards in the NLCS.
Also in the good column is Jeff Francoeur, who keeps on swingin' and grinnin', and Andruw, who steps it up every single time Chipper goes down. It's uncanny, really. And a nicely pitched game by Hudson, too. If he's actually rediscovered his splitter, watch out down the stretch. We may finally be getting what we paid for.
Kyle Farnsworth is intent on proving the physics axiom that an object travelling very fast can be made to go very fast in the opposite direction, and Reitsma had one of his patented blowups. Expect to see the Eckstein HR repeatedly if we meet the Cards in the NLCS.
posted by Sam Bass | 10:21 AM
3 Comments:
Reitsma is already being over used by Cox. Very interesting thought about use of Hampton in the bullpen. I like it as his sinker is likely to get ground balls AND you would not have to pinch-hit for him. Moving Sosa back to the bullpen would yield results like those of earlier this year
Those are excellent points, too. You know, I'm liking this idea more and more....
Man...its a good thing there is no crying in baseball. Sunday was brutal and I didn't like Friday much better. Smoltzie has been rock solid for 2 months and he has pitched a helluva alot of innings. I pray to the elbow gods that he can maintain. On another note, it will interesting to see how this team bounces back from that gut wrenching loss. My money says they POUND the National League Worst for 2 weeks.
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