Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 23, 2005
Western Roundup

Noah Lowry was just 1 out away from his first complete game of the year, but he still picked up the win as the Giants defeated the Phillies 5-0. Lowry is putting up a good bid for pitcher of the month. He's 4-0 in August with a 0.57 ERA. He hasn't allowed a home run this month after giving up 17 in the first four months of the season.

The loss knocks the Phillies out of the top wild card spot as Houston hands San Diego a 6-2 defeat. Lance Berkman was the star as he punched out two doubles and a homer. Berkman's been in a bit of a slump. He's hitting just .235 in August, and the Astros fortunes have risen and fallen with Lance's bat.

The Mets picked up 1/2 game in the wild card race as well with a 4-1 win over the Diamondbacks. Tom Glavine pitched eight fine innings, allowing five hits and striking out five.

It's anybody's wild card race in both leagues now. There's a three way tie in the AL, and five teams are within 2 1/2 games of first in the NL. I'm hoping for a three-way tie this year and two days of playoffs to decide the winner. I'm seen late season comebacks, home run records broken, pitchers win 300 games, a team come back from 0-4, but I haven't seen a three-way playoff. Maybe this is the year.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:21 AM | Games | TrackBack (1)
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Berkman hasn't been hitting particularly well lately, and his hacks from the right side have been even weaker than usual all year long (a .792 OPS season-to-date).

So it was nice to see him jack one out of PETCO, which is a pretty amazing feat. What an absurd pitcher's park. With Davidson's mile-wide strike zone, I was amazed to see eight runs scored. But neither Oswalt nor Williams were sharp at all.

The real offensive savior for the Astros lately has been Jason Lane. He's hitting a ridiculous .353/.393/.627 since the All-Star break. Incredibly, Garner was sitting him down a lot to get Mike Lamb's "bat" into the lineup.

But even Garner seems to have come to his senses. He's playing Lane every day now.

Posted by: Casey Abell at August 23, 2005 09:40 AM

In August, Lowry has given up 2 runs, and has 2 RBIs. ALso has given up only 1 extra base hit ( a double), and has a double himself.

Lowry in August so far:

PITCHING
31.1 IP / 17 H / 2 ER / 8 BB / 27 K / 0.57 ERA

HITTING
9 ABs / 3 H / 1 2B / 2 SAC / 1 SF / 2 RBI

Posted by: Vish at August 23, 2005 11:42 AM
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