Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 03, 2007
Power to the Shields

6-4-2 Speculate on why Mike Scioscia allowed Scot Shields to lose the game to the Rangers Sunday night:

But that still isn't satisfying, because Shields did get himself into another jam and just couldn't pull himself out of it. He couldn't throw his breaking stuff for strikes, leaving him terribly vulnerable to hitters who were then able to sit dead red. Why would Scioscia leave him in there so long? Part of it, of course, was the fact that he had pieced together three straight good outings, but given how badly he pitched in August, that wasn't very comforting. About the only reason I can figure is that same thing that caused him to leave Ervin Santana in the rotation until his godawful July 17 outing in Tampa Bay: the Angels need him to be good and Scioscia will give him every opportunity within reason to be good.

Luckily for LAnaheim, a big lead allows them to give Shields time to get good.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:10 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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