Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 30, 2007
Games of the Day

There's a nice matchup of lefties in Chicago tonight as two eleven game winners face off at Wrigley. Cole Hamels takes the mound for Philadelphia against Ted Lilly. Hamels is having his best month of the season, posting a 2.67 ERA in four starts. He's only walked four in 27 innings. Lilly's done a good job cutting down on his home runs allowed this season. Through 2006 he allowed 1.38 per nine. In 2007, it's down to 0.95. This game has important wild card considerations as well. The Phillies are just 1/2 game behind the Cubs and 1 1/2 games behind the leading Diamondbacks.

Trailing the Angels by four games in the AL West, Seattle host LAnaheim in a three game series. It's Kelvim Escobar vs. Miguel Batista in game one. Batista is pretty much given the Mariners what they expected as his ERA is just .02 runs above his career numbers. Escobar is 5-1 on the road despite an ERA that's double his mark at home. The Angels have scored 41 runs in his eight road starts, more than enough for Kelvim's 4.22 away ERA.

Enjoy!


Posted by David Pinto at 02:55 PM | Matchups | TrackBack (0)
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And on a fun level, it's the return of Gooch, as Tadahito Iguchi has been gone from Chicago a whole two days.

Posted by: Joseph J. Finn at July 30, 2007 04:13 PM
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