June 28, 2007
Nice Throws
Wednesday's 2-0 Diamondbacks win over the Dodgers was a poorly pitched shutout. Webb allowed seven hits and walked five in his seven innings of work, and the bullpen gave up two hits and a walk as well. But the defense helped out a lot:
Defensively, there was Tracy's nifty double play in the fifth. There was Byrnes' recovery play in right field, when he misplayed a line drive but threw out Luis Gonzalez trying to turn it into a double. And there was Snyder's throw to third to cut down the lead runner on a Juan Pierre bunt in the seventh, a play Melvin called "enormous."
The Dodgers, too, showed some leather, nipping Drew at third base as he went for a triple on a Pierre to Furcal to Garciappara relay. However, the Dodgers were 0 for 13 with runners in scoring position, which doomed them to a shutout. Two hits in those situations and they probably win the game.
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Yeah, the Dodgers have been leaving a ton of men on base lately. In St. Petersburg they left 15 men on in one game. At what point does batting average become more important than OBA? If there's a man on second, then a walk puts another man on base, but it doesn't move the runner over and it sets up a double play. There has to be some point where you'd rather have a .290 hitter who rarely walks over a .380 OBA guy with a low BA.