Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 29, 2005
Games of the Day

It's going to be a good night to watch baseball in Atlanta. First, Cox and La Russa become the first 2000 win managers to face each other since 1950. Second, old friends and teammates Mark Mulder and Tim Hudson battle against each other for the first time.

Mulder is coming off an impressive 10 inning shutout of the Houston Astros. He only threw 101 pitches in that outing, and is averaging 13.2 pitches per inning this season. Mulder has greatly cut down on his home runs allowed so far this year, giving up just 1 in 29 innings. Last year, he allowed 1 every 9 innings. Hudson is second in the NL in ERA at 0.96. He has not allowed more than 1 run in any of his four starts for the Braves.

Former Cy Young award winners face off in two games tonight. Roger Clemens host Greg Maddux in a battle of the two best pitchers of the 1990's. Clemens is still pitching that way, but Maddux has lost something. He used to be very good at keeping the ball in the park but has given up 39 homers in 236 2/3 innings dating back to the start of 2004.

Roy Halladay visits New York to face the Big Unit, Randy Johnson in the other battle of CYs. It should be an interesting weekend in the Big Apple, as I believe it's the first time a Wang has followed a Johnson in any rotation. That's a duo Bobby Cox should be managing. Rumors that the Yankees are thinking of hiring Dick Pole as a pitching coach are totally unfounded.

Enjoy!


Posted by David Pinto at 11:37 AM | Matchups | TrackBack (1)
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It's also worth noting that tomorrow's pitching match up is WANG vs BUSH. I kid you not.

Posted by: phil at April 29, 2005 01:28 PM

Unrelated, but I wanted to follow up on my earlier comments wrt the value of OBP vs. SLG. Instead of taking over the comment page, I posted a discussion here:

">http://people.csail.mit.edu/~jrennie/baseball/

Posted by: Jason at April 29, 2005 02:00 PM

Nice use of literary prowess, er, prose.

Posted by: Zach at April 29, 2005 07:08 PM
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