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Baseball Musings
July 30, 2005
Chacon Goes Six

Shawn Chacon gives the Yankees six good innings today. He gave up four hits and three walks, but none of the hits were for extra bases. He allowed just 1 run, none earned, and threw 104 pitches, 56 for strikes. It was an okay start. I would suspect other teams with better offenses than the Angels will score more runs with that kind of strike percentage.

Update: Chacon's luck does not rub off on the bullpen. Rodriguez, Embree and Gordon give up a walk, a hit and an error on a sac attempt and a two run single to give the Angels a 4-3 lead. I'm sure conspiracy theorists will see Embree allowing a single then making a throwing error as a Boston plant. :-)

Gordon committed a balk that eventually led to a run. It's 5-3 LAnaheim.

Update: The Angels bullpen does no better than the Yankees, giving up five runs in the 8th and the 9th to give New York an 8-7 victory. Both pens waste fine outings by their starters. Rivera gets the win in relief, K-Rod takes the loss and blows his fourth save.


Posted by David Pinto at 03:37 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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I always liked Embree, though he was frustrating to watch this year and I'm glad he's not the Sox's problem anymore.

I have to say that watching his first appearance with the Yankees was incredibly satisfying.

Posted by: David Dean at July 30, 2005 04:00 PM

Were they so desperate that they needed to bring Embree into today's game? Embree hadn't pitched in what, 12 days? No bullpen session? No minor league innings?

So they fly him out from Oregon after resting for 12 days on a red eye flight and expect him to give them good innings?

Who does that?

Posted by: Will at July 30, 2005 04:28 PM

Embree didn't pitch bad, just gave up a bloop hit and a bunt. He did make a bad throw into the stand.

Posted by: rbj at July 30, 2005 05:00 PM

He was pitching the same way he pitched for the Red Sox much of the season. Arrow-straight fastballs in the low 90s. Granted, Kennedy's hit was a bloop, and the throw on the bunt should have been picked, but Embree showed again his inability to put guys away.

Posted by: David Dean at July 30, 2005 05:04 PM

...and, of course, K-Rod can't find the plate in the 9th, pitching for the third day in a row (and trying to go multiple innings as well). Walks in A-Rod, gives up the game-winning double to Matsui.

Oh well.

Posted by: David Dean at July 30, 2005 05:27 PM
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