Roy Oswalt Beats The Giants In San Francisco
Roy Oswalt was nails. He looked like the old Roy - he had the FB snapping and the slider sliding and the change changing up and the slow curve working fine.
He ended up giving up 3 runs - a bunt single (should have been E5, as Wiggy bobbled the ball), a sac-bunt, a double down the LF line, then a double to center that Cruz missed that Bourn would have gotten (remember, SAVING runs has value, you know…) He also gave up a pop-fly homer down the RF line that would have been out in the Box. But after that, 15 batters didn’t reach base and he struck out 6 of em and didn’t walk anyone. In fact, he looked better every inning, and if he hadn’t needed so many pitches in the first 2 innings, he could have finished the game.
But is looks as if Roy is finally ROY. I hope. I hope.
And, by the way, Barry Zito actually pitched pretty well. 6 IP, 7 H, 1 BB, 2 K, 3 ER. He did give up a 420′ homer to Lance, but hey, getting that boy out these days is a tough job. But, you know, you show Lance what you got a few too many times and he gonna make you pay.
And the Astros won with weak hitters Cruz - who managed to get his BA over MY weight with 2 hits today - and Ausmus, and Wiggy in the lineup. And The Giants manager made a pitching change to pitch to Brad Ausmus!!! Reminds me of the other day when they made a pitching change to pitch to the pitcher. And I mean, we don’t exactly have a Micah Owings on our staff.
And we scored 2 runs in the 8th when, with bases loaded, the new pitcher, not even standing on the rubber, decided to throw somewhere in the vicinity of first, startling the heck out of the 1B, then the second baseman pitcked up the ball near the visitors dugout and threw it way away from the catcher and before you knew it, 2 runs scored and Cruz was on third.
Coop seems to be calling for the hit and run every time there is a man on first, 0 or 1 out and the count is 3-1. It was successful 2 of 3 times today, but if he is gonna do that as a routine, the opposing managers are gonna call pitchouts and pick off the runner.
Well, I think I just might could start to think about starting to BEE-LEEEVE. I mean, sweeping at LA??? Roy winning at Phone Park? Goodness gracious.
And tonight it is Backe vs Cain
Backe is 1-0 in 3 GS (with his CG SO that was the ESPN Wed night game) in 13 IP with a 2.03 ERA.
Cain is a darn good RHP whose W/L record is really bad because the poor guy gets terrible run support. His career line, over 78 GS and 483 IP: 3.80 ERA, 1.25 WHIP and a .223 BAA.
His numbers aren’t near as good this year: 1-3 in 8 GS over 43 IP - 4.50 ERA, 1.46 WHIP and a .246 BAA
He’s started 1 game against the Astros and relieved in 1, giving up 3 ER over 7 IP. But most of the players are new to him, so we’ll just have to see.
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5 Responses to “Roy Oswalt Beats The Giants In San Francisco”
May 13th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Another great game to watch, as long as you start after the fourth inning. Those defensive screwups cost Roy two runs. And that blown hit and run was a HORRIBLE call by Cooper. Why?
t’s 3-1 on Lance with Miggy on first and Lee on deck. By starting Miggy, you’re putting “swing” in Lance’s head. Good god, they guy is hitting over .600 in the last ten games and you’re messing with him?? What are you thinking?
So Miggy breaks for second, Zito throws ball 4, but Lance swings to protect Miggy. Lance misses the ball, a ball he never would have swung at, and Miggy is dead meat at second. Lance is discombobulated and takes a called third strike later.
This is called OVERMANAGING.
Instead of no outs with guys on first and second and Lee up, we have two outs and no one on. Cooper just needs to let Lance do his thing. Lance is ripping everything he sees as long as he doesn’t get distracted by the manager getting too cute.
Anyway, regarding that wacky play where we had the bases loaded and Yabu-san, the rookie pitcher, attempts to pick off Cruz at first — if you watch carefully, before the throw, Yabu had motioned his glove and communicated his intent to Bowker at first base. But Bowker’s a rook also, and he totally missed the sign and wasn’t there to catch the throw. And then Velez, the rookie at 2b, ran to pick up the overthrow and air mailed one to the wall or he’d have nailed Wiggy at the plate.
Oh well, good for us that they made all those rookie mistakes because our veterans messed up and gave them two in the third.
Let’s keep the streak going tomorrow!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:41 am
yeh, i can’t understand putting on the HnR with lance and miggy. i mean, cmon, you do that with wiggy n cruz.
and no, lance would never have swung at that pitch and strike 3 was most DEFINITELY ball 4
but checking through gameday, seems the ump had an inconsistent strike zone
interesting, the giants braodcast on mlb.tv showed the glove move of yabu. but if the players really haven’t played with each other much, easy to miss the signal.
and it was a stupid play anyhow - you miss even a little and loretta is home. even if you GET the runner, there’s a good probability loretta comes home.
anyhow,
defense doesn’t matter. unless it is an error. which doesn’t matter unless you batting average is too low.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:38 am
It was good to see the Wizard continue to look better, Roy will be crucial if this team wants to contend down the stretch in september. Gotta have that ace to win the big game (See Glavine and the Mets, end of last season)
What more will it take to get Berkman the proper respect nationaly? You can spit some crazy stat… but its hard to be any crazier than what he has already done.
As for the over-managing… its one of the few mistakes I’ve personally seen Coop make, and when you run like the Stros run sometimes its hard to control that trigger finger… If thats one of the worst mistakes the Skip makes then I will be more than content.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:56 am
for berkman to get any respect from the redsox/yanks/mets network?
dude please
he’d have to announce that he wants a trade to NY/boston so he can play for a “winner” and then he’d have to actually, you know, MOVE up there.
now if he does something like say publically that he is a christian, well THAT might could get some pub Up There. maybe he could blog, like schilling, so buzz bissinger can denounce him as a *($^&#%$! who runs around his mother’s basement in his underwear.
THAT might could work
but besides that, fuggetaboutit…
coop does the overmanaging thing with the pitching, usually. he’s pretty good with the hitting/fielding strategies
May 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I try mightily to not care about the perpetual disrespect the national sports media pays to Houston sports teams, but I fail more often than I succeed.
The lack of attention Lance Berkman is getting just flat-out pisses me off. What he’s doing now is beyond words, and ESPN’s silence proves it.
I caught the highlights of last night’s game on First Take earlier this morning. It went something like this: “Back to baseball…Astros Giants in San Francisco, Barry Zito on the mound, Giants leading 3-1. (cut to video of Lance’s bomb). Aaaaaand that’s a home run. Tough break for Barry Zito, Astros go on to win 7-3.”
Not only did Jay Crawford neglect to mention the Puma’s 3-4 night or the mind-boggling tear he’s on, HE DIDN’T EVEN MENTION HIS NAME!!! He gave an aww shucks for Zito without bothering to tell the viewer who the batter was who hit the bomb.
ESPN is a joke.
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