Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 25, 2007
Playoffs Today

The Red Sox try to build on their blow out win tonight while the Rockies look for a way to stop the Red Sox hitters. Ubaldo Jimenez and Curt Schilling take the mound tonight in game 2 of the World Series. Once again, Schilling is matched with a hard throwing youngster. The Red Sox split his appearances in the ALCS against Fausto Carmona. Jimenez does a better job striking out batters than Carmona does, but he also walks more. And as we saw in game one, the Red Sox are more than willing to wait out a wild pitcher.

Ubaldo got away with walks in the first two rounds (8 in 11 1/3 innings) because he's kept his hits allowed with men in scoring position low (1 for 10). A big reason for that low number is six of his eleven post-season strikeouts came in those ten at bats. The Red Sox as a team don't strike out very much, making that strategy a bit more difficult. He's put plenty of men on base and when you do that they eventually come around to score.

Schilling's song for the playoffs so far is "Two out of Three Ain't Bad." Five of the seven runs he allowed came in game two of the ALCS. In his other fourteen innings, he's allowed just two runs and six hits. And he keeps extra runners off base by limiting the number of walks he allows, just one this post season. He may not have the stuff of Jimenez anymore, but he knows how to control it.

Enjoy!


Posted by David Pinto at 02:42 PM | World Series | TrackBack (0)
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I was soooooooooooo wrong about game 1. I read on cnnsi that the Red Sox had a 4 hour meeting monday night with their coaches and advance scouts. How was I to know that? Heh. Anyway, I'm going to stick with my "Rockies in 6"....but I'm going to say they'll win tonight. If they don't, I highly doubt this will go more than 5 games.

Posted by: Devon Young at October 25, 2007 04:15 PM
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