Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 17, 2005
Games of the Day

C.C. Sabathia steps off the DL into a Cleveland rotation that has the 2nd highest ERA in the AL. He'll try to turn the team around vs. Joe Mays and the Minnesota Twins. Cleveland is off to a poor start in their quest for the AL Central crown, going 2-6 vs. Chicago and Minnesota to start the season.

Brad Halsey tries to solve the Nationals offense for the Diamondbacks this afternoon. The Nationals have six players making contributions with their bats; Wilkerson, Johnson, Castilla, Guillen, Vidro, and Sledge. Loaiza takes the Hill for the Nationals and he hasn't allowed a home run this season.

The Blue Jays have the best ERA among AL starting pitchers this season, and they send one of their bright spots against Texas today. Josh Towers has struck out 12 and walked only 1 in 12 2/3 innings. The Rangers counter with Chris Young, who's at the opposite end of the ERA specturm. Chris has allowed 14 hits and five walks in just 7 1/3 innings this season.

The best pitching matchup of the night will be in Philadelphia as Brett Myers hosts Mike Hampton and the Braves. Myers and Hampton are ranked 4 and 6 in the NL in ERA. Myers is striking out a ton of batters, over 10 per nine. Batters are putting the ball in play and reaching base against Hampton, but he's been lucky with men in scoring position, having his opponents hit only .100 in that situation (1 for 10).

Enjoy!


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