Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 20, 2005
Dominant or Not?

Ben Sheets had a game tonight that's been all too typical this season. Sheets went six innings, struck out seven and walked only one. He threw 109 pitches, 74 for strikes. Given that information, one might assume he had a pretty dominant game. Instead, he gave up six runs, four earned, including two home runs.

We saw this with Schilling on Monday and Randy Johnson last night. Lots of strikeouts, few walks, and no domination of the opponent. I'm going to look at this tomorrow to see if it happens more often than I think.

Meanwhile, Oswalt struck out eight and walked none, and wsa perfectly dominating, pitching a complete game and using only 96 pitches to finish the four hitter.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:57 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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One thing that I seem to be noticing is that alot of pitchers are getting ahead with two strikes, but then unable to finish the hitter off. I'm not referencing the games that you've mentioned, it's just something that I've noticed fairly regularly this year. Of course I could be way off also seeing as I'm working just on perception without any sort of data. It just seems that in the games I'm watching I'm surprised how often a big hit seems to come after the pitcher was up 0-2 or 1-2.

Posted by: billfer at April 21, 2005 07:16 AM

Not that Sheets needs defending, but....

He's been rather sick with a virus that's been running rampant through the Brewer's clubhouse. Up until the sixth inning he'd only given up 3 runs. I think he simply ran out of gas.

FWIW, in his 3 losses, the Brewers have scored 1 run.

Posted by: Dave at April 21, 2005 04:56 PM

sheets was fine through 5. after that, he lost command. i just do NOT understand why yost sent him back out there for the 7th - he barely got thru the 6th...

Posted by: lisa gray at April 21, 2005 06:46 PM
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