Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 14, 2007
Blowout Afternoon

The three Fox games are all being decided by lopsided scores. The Cubs picked up their first home run of July as Alfonso Soriano took deep in the sixth for three runs. It was all a part of nine runs scored by Chicago in the middle innings as the Cubs take a 9-1 lead to the bottom of the eighth. Despite the lack of power, they came into the game with a 6-3 July record. Ted Lilly just finished his eighth inning of work, lowering his ERA to 3.51.

The Phillies hit three home runs so far today, including the twenty second by Ryan Howard and they lead the Cardinals 10-4 in the seventh. Burrell has three hits and four RBI and a .392 OBA. Hamels only struck out two over six innings, but that puts him into the NL lead, but only one ahead of Jake Peavy.

Lowe and Morris matched shutouts for four innings, then the Dodgers scored six runs in the top of the fifth, four of the runs coming on home runs by Betemit and Kent. The Dodgers lead 7-2 in the bottom of the eighth. Barry Bonds is 0 for 4 so far. The Dodgers have committed three errors to the Giants one, but the Giants only managed one unearned run.

Update: The Giants came back with four runs in the bottom of the eighth to cut the lead to one run, 7-6 LA. Bonds is scheduled to lead off the ninth. The four runs came on a Winn grand slam.

Update: Bonds walks and comes around to score on a two out single by Pedro Feliz. That ties the score at seven. A very bad afternoon by the Dodger bullpen. It should be noted that Lowe was pulled after six innings with just 91 pitches thrown.


Posted by David Pinto at 06:11 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Heh... so much for the Giants performing well this weekend.

Posted by: Adam Villani at July 14, 2007 06:33 PM

Tie game...

Posted by: Jeff B. at July 14, 2007 06:56 PM

i guess they pulled lowe because he was leading 7-2 and grady little figured better too early than too late

Posted by: lisa gray at July 14, 2007 10:38 PM

I noticed something odd in the box score for the Dodgers/Giants game. The game turned into something of a slugfest, yet at the end of the game 14 pitchers had been used by the two teams, and only two of those pitchers had ERAs above 4.00, with the highest only being 4.38. That high mark was for Chin-Hui Tsao, *after* giving up four runs in just 2/3 of an inning in the game.

I guess my point is that with these 14 pitchers, you wouldn't expect 15 runs to score in the game.

Posted by: Adam Villani at July 15, 2007 07:13 AM
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