Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 04, 2007
Games of the Day

Two of my favorite pitchers face off in Florida tonight as Greg Maddux visits Dontrelle Willis. The opposition is loading up on righties against Dontrelle and they're hitting him hard this year, posting a .354 BA and a .569 slugging percentage. The move to southern California appears to have cured Maddux of the home run woes that plagued him the last few seasons. He's only allowed one so far.

Atlanta and Los Angeles are both in first place, and they lock horns in Atlanta as Brett Tomko takes on John Smoltz. Tomko's ERA seems a bit low for the quality of his pitching. He's giving up a high batting average with men on base, but little power. Smoltz hasn't done that good a job of putting away hitters with two strikes on them. Opponents are batting .235 against John in that situation. The Braves staff as a whole, .178.

The Twins are losing ground to the hot Indians and Tigers. They'll host the Red Sox tonight as they send Carlos Silva vs. Tim Wakefield. The knuckle ball is keeping opponents off balance, as they've managed a mere .210 batting average against Tim. Silva is both striking out a few more and walking a few more than last year, and it seems to be paying off in a better ERA. His walks were so low last season that he can afford to bring them up a bit and still be good, especially if it gets batters to swing at pitches out of the strike zone.

Enjoy!


Posted by David Pinto at 12:47 PM | Matchups | TrackBack (0)
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Interesting roundup story on baseball in April from AP:

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/05/04/ap/sports/baseball/d8ortago0.txt

The big drop in offense is getting through to the media, though we'll see if the cold-weather explanation holds up. One encouraging note is the increase in attendance. Maybe some of those snowed-out dates actually helped the average attendance figures. it's hard to imagine that those freezer games would have sold a lot of tickets.

Posted by: Casey Abell at May 4, 2007 02:30 PM
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