Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 09, 2007
Nine Innings

James Shields finishes nine shutout innings for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, but doesn't have a win yet. At 107 pitches thrown, he'll need the Rays to score in the top of the tenth to have a shot at the W. Erik Bedard threw seven very strong innings, allowing just three hits and striking out ten. Shields allowed three hits also, and walked one instead of Bedard's three. James brings his ERA down to 3.10.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:35 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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The game ended up as one of the two 1-0 contests last night. Aubrey Huff homered in the tenth for the only run.

Yesterday MLB averaged a mighty seven runs per game, which would have been business as usual in 1908 or 1968. The cold weather explanation for this year's big drop in offense is looking less and less tenable. I think something's been done to the ball to lower home run totals.

Offense isn't terrible this yeat. Runs per game are actually running pretty close to historical averages. Offense just looks low compared to the 1993-2006 era.

Posted by: Casey Abell at May 10, 2007 07:57 AM
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