Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 26, 2007
Games of the Day

Shawn Hill takes on Cole Hamels this afternoon in Philadelphia. Hill holds the best ERA among the Nationals starters at the moment. He averaging six innings a start and only allowed one home run so far. He's two days short of his 26th birthday, so a win today would be an early present. Hamels comes off the first complete game of his career. Note that this season, Cole's pitch counts are 110, 97, 110 and 115. There doesn't appear to be a 100 pitch limit with Cole as there are with so many young pitchers. Whether this turns out well is yet to be determined. I hope it does, because I'd like to see starters stay in games longer, especially when they are pitching well.

Boston finishes its series with Baltimore as Josh Beckett faces Adam Loewen. Both pitchers are undefeated. With Beckett on the mound, the Red Sox outscored their opponents 32-8. It helps that Josh holds opponents to a .267 OBA. Loewen holds a good ERA despite walking a ton of batters, almost one per inning. The Red Sox are the kind of team that can take advantage of his wildness.

Philip Hughes makes his debut for the Yankees against A.J. Burnett of the Blue Jays. With the rainout last night, the Yankees didn't want to push him back a day to start his career against the Red Sox, so Pettitte goes tomorrow. Burnett is uncharacteristically wild so far this season. He has, however, been very good against left-handed batters, which is important whenever a team faces the Yankees.

Enjoy!


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