Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 01, 2007
Games of the Day

Ryan Langerhans debuts for the Oakland Athletics in Boston tonight as Joe Blanton faces Curt Schilling. It's an even matchup as Blanton dialed up his strikeout rate this season. Coming into 2007, Blanton struck batters out at a rate of 5.1 per 9 innings. So far in 2007, that's up to 7.4 K per 9. Schilling's performances stretch to extremes. He's put up three starts where he allowed 1 or fewer runs, and two in which he's been tagged for five.

The Phillies wasted a good performance by Jon Lieber last night in their quest to catch the NL East leaders. Cole Hamels might have an easier time tonight as he challenges Mark Redman. Hamels is doing everything right, except balls are falling for hits against him. The Phillies have a low .663 DER behind Cole. Redman's ground ball percentage is way down from previous seasons, which may be a reason he's getting hit so often.

Carlos Gomez breaks down the changes in Phil Hughes' delivery at the Hardball Times. With Hughes and the Yankees facing Kameron Loe in Texas, this could be the slugfest of the day. Lefties give Loe trouble, and the Yankees have plenty of those.

Colon versus Greinke rounds out the evening. Bartolo's showing great control since his return from the DL, striking out twelve and walking just one in 14 innings. Grienke gets out lefties much better than righties. Given the number of switch hitters on the Angels, that might work to Zack's advantage.

Enjoy!


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