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Baseball Musings
August 30, 2007
Mets Comeback

The Mets score five runs in the eighth inning to take a 10-8 lead over the Phillies. New York draws five walks in the inning, and when you put that many men on base, they're bound to score. Pat Burrell hits his second home run of the game in the bottom of the inning to make the score 10-9 as they play the ninth inning.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:48 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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re: Pat Burrell

Pat Burrell has quietly put together a nice second half after struggling a bit in the first half.

he now has 24 homers, is approaching 100 rbis and 100 walks for the year, and his adjusted OPS over league is at 138, very close to Utley's and Howard's numbers.

He also doesn't hit into many double plays, less than ten on the year, since he usually hits either fly balls, homers, strikes out or walks. He doesn't hit ground balls very much. So his out costs are low.

This is eight years in a row that he's hit twenty homers or more.

In the end, he 's proven to be a better and more consistent player in certain respects than JD Drew, whom the Phillies were supposed to draft, but dealt away and received the pick they used to get Burrell with instead.

To paraphrase Frank Herbert of Dune, it would seem that Pat Burrell has faced his fear, and let it passed through him. Whereas last year he let the fans get on him, this year he has embraced philly and its fans and accepts the challenge of producing on a winning ballclub and is enjoying playing the game.

--art kyriazis, philly

Posted by: art kyriazis at September 1, 2007 01:08 PM

re: Pat Burrell

Pat Burrell has quietly put together a nice second half after struggling a bit in the first half.

he now has 24 homers, is approaching 100 rbis and 100 walks for the year, and his adjusted OPS over league is at 138, very close to Utley's and Howard's numbers.

He also doesn't hit into many double plays, less than ten on the year, since he usually hits either fly balls, homers, strikes out or walks. He doesn't hit ground balls very much. So his out costs are low.

This is eight years in a row that he's hit twenty homers or more.

In the end, he 's proven to be a better and more consistent player in certain respects than JD Drew, whom the Phillies were supposed to draft, but dealt away and received the pick they used to get Burrell with instead.

To paraphrase Frank Herbert of Dune, it would seem that Pat Burrell has faced his fear, and let it passed through him. Whereas last year he let the fans get on him, this year he has embraced philly and its fans and accepts the challenge of producing on a winning ballclub and is enjoying playing the game.

--art kyriazis, philly

Posted by: art kyriazis at September 1, 2007 01:19 PM
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