Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 05, 2004
Game of the Day

Probably the best pitching matchup of the day is happening north of the border. Lefty Joe Kennedy of the Colorado Rockies takes his amazing 2.67 ERA into Olympic Stadium to face Zach Day and the Montreal Expos. This will be Kennedy's first start of the year on three days rest as the Rockies move to a four-man rotation. Kennedy has pitched all but 6 of his 30 1/3 innings at Colorado, making his ERA even more impressive. He's only walked 8 batters in those 30+ innings, a big reason for his success.

Day has been very good with men on base, allowing only a .200 batting average (9 for 45), and only 1 of his four HR allowed have come with men on base. His 3.31 ERA makes him deserving of a better record than .500. You can see just how bad the Expos offense has been in these sets of graphs, especially the OBP vs. Slugging graph.

Enjoy!


Posted by David Pinto at 05:38 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)