for anybody wondering, we won 17-5.

Some dream, huh?

Any chance the Rox will use Willy (Mays Hays) Taveras as trade bait given our glut of CFs? There appear to be a couple of teams looking for lead-off/outfield help. I would think he would have the most trade value and would hurt the Rox the least.

3 groundball outs to start the game. Good to see from the kid.

but when he does…

GG Holliday.

runner on third one out….It’d be nice to get more than one run…I’ll take it though

and 6 ground ball outs on 21 pitches (15 strikes). I like this U-Ball.

U-Ball at the plate with runners on? This can’t possibly end well.

and we managed to get one run home. To be fair, we did have one of the worst hitting pitchers up in a key situation and were lucky to only have one out recorded. Willy just didn’t get it done there, and the argument could be made the neither did Baker, despite bringing one in. I won’t complain, though.

that wasn’t a groundball. I believe the GB:FB is now 8:1. I’ll take that.

Was that really strike 3? Gameday has it a little wide.

Iannetta really is kind of dreamy looking, isn’t he? As a guy, I’ve never taken the time to notice it before, but he has that look about him.

That was an unfortunate ending to a once-promising half-inning. Todd gets called out on strikes, Spilly draws a walk, and then Iannetta jumps aboard the failboat.

Here’s to hopin’ U-Ball keeps ‘em runnin’ low.

and I’ll change my stance from last night. Hard for the pitching to perfect all the time when the offense is so drastically underperforming.

Also, did they tell Ubaldo to stop trying to strike guys out and just pitch to contact in order keep his pitch counts down? He has 10-2 GO/FO ratio and zero Ks.

followed by a FB out to center. All in all, an 8-pitch inning. If you’re going to pitch to contact, I suppose this is the way to do it. Wasn’t Cook supposed to do this last night?

4 straight K outs for Sanchez.

and I realize it’s a little early to be talking about it, but has there ever been a starting pitcher go hitless in a season? I’m also just making the mistake of assuming we’ll have U-Ball in the rotation and getting ABs every 5 days.

Sanchez is pitching like Ubaldo and Ubaldo is pitching like Cook….crazy

a slider on 2-2 was cool, but 3-2 I don’t like it. Hindsight, I suppose.

I do like this. Strikeouts are for boxscores. I’m much more interested in my pitcher (Yes, I have adopted U-Ball as mine) pitching efficiently and not wasting pitching trying to strike guys out. Ground balls are the way to go. Keep it up, kid.

from Iannetta here. Even one run would be great.

is killing me softly

(Work gets in the way sometimes.)

Good grief. 8 hits, 2 walks and an E in 5 innings and only 2 runs scored, 1 on an infield grounder and another on a sac fly. I think that means avg. with RISP is zero for the day.

Thank goodness Cy Young is pitching for us.

and 81 pitches. Hopefully asking him to remain solid for one more won’t be pushing our luck. Of course, if Baker gets into scoring position there might be a PH here, so it’d be a moot point.

During Willy T’s last AB, Gamecast showed his overall season average at .236, but his average against left-handed pitchers to be .087 … before he grounded out.

Which means his average against right-handed pitchers must be very good. Maybe he should sit vs. lefties, play v. righties—opposite to “conventional wisdom.”

Who would have thought U-Ball’s first K of the game would come at the top of the 7th?

with his first K of the day….quite odd

97 pitches, 7 innings, no runs…great performance. Plus Bucky and Fuentes didn’t pitch yesterday.

I like seeing splits for each batter on Gamecast.
Atkins v. lefties: .519.
Thus, pitching change. Bochy’s not dumb.

Rox Girl mentioned earlier that Spilly was seemingly the only one capable of getting a two-out hit. Let’s put the theory to test, eh?

and O’Dowd might consider bringing up some offense from AAA. I hear we have some guys swing ing the sticks down there.

there by Bucky. Who would have thought he would have turned into the real prize of that deal? Kind of like Fuentes in the Cirillo trade.