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Baseball Musings
June 06, 2007
Walks and Double Plays

Former Red Sox pitcher Lenny DiNardo shut down his former team for six innings Tuesday night, despite issuing six walks:

But DiNardo did something against the Sox that he was never able to do for them in seven career starts. The 27-year-old lefthander held them scoreless, and when four Oakland relievers did the same, he conquered Matsuzaka and the Red Sox, 2-0, before a crowd of 31,127 in McAfee Coliseum.

The Sox hit into more double plays (5) than they had hits (3), which offset the six walks DiNardo issued in six innings. All three Sox hits were singles, by Julio Lugo in the first, David Ortiz in the sixth, and Mike Lowell (off reliever Kiki Calero) in the seventh.

The last double play was the weirdest, rookie Dustin Pedroia, who had been hit by a pitch, dropping to the ground to avoid a hunk of Ortiz's bat that went airborne when the Sox DH lined softly to third baseman Eric Chavez in the eighth. Pedroia was still prone when Chavez flipped to first baseman Nick Swisher to double him up.

It was a good pitching night in general, with ten teams holding their opponents to two runs or less. Three of those team lost, however as there were three shutouts!


Posted by David Pinto at 08:24 AM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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What ever happened to Dice K's 93-94 fastball we heard about?He seems to top out at 90 with most of his fastballs in the upper 80s.He gets 2 strikes on batters,then repeatedly throws pitches outside the strike zone.Mlb hitters do not go after bad pitches that often.Maybe in Japan the hitters are less dissaplined.He needs to challenge the hitters more.He throws too many pitches.

Posted by: fred holder at June 6, 2007 05:38 PM

What ever happened to Dice K's 93-94 fastball we heard about?He seems to top out at 90 with most of his fastballs in the upper 80s.He gets 2 strikes on batters,then repeatedly throws pitches outside the strike zone.Mlb hitters do not go after bad pitches that often.Maybe in Japan the hitters are less dissaplined.He needs to challenge the hitters more.He throws too many pitches.

Posted by: fred holder at June 6, 2007 05:39 PM

What ever happened to Dice K's 93-94 fastball we heard about?He seems to top out at 90 with most of his fastballs in the upper 80s.He gets 2 strikes on batters,then repeatedly throws pitches outside the strike zone.Mlb hitters do not go after bad pitches that often.Maybe in Japan the hitters are less dissaplined.He needs to challenge the hitters more.He throws too many pitches.

Posted by: fred holder at June 6, 2007 05:40 PM
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