Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 27, 2007
Playoffs Today

The Red Sox get high tonight as they play game 3 in the Mile High City. Daisuke Matsuzaka takes on Josh Fogg. Fogg's nickname, Dragon Slayer, may not fit tonight as Matsuzaka is hardly the Red Sox ace. Dice-K pitched well for two months this year, but has been less than outstanding the rest of the time. His strikeout rate was good all season, but that didn't translate into a low BA allowed, and many of the hits he gave up were for extra bases. That kind of pitching won't go over well at Coors.

Fogg's had a great post season so far, allowing one run over eight innings on a solo home run. Fogg might have made the decision to start David Ortiz at first difficult, since Fogg is a rare reverse righty. Right-handed batters hit for a better average and get on base more than lefties (30 points better), although lefties hit for more power. Fogg did pitch five okay inning against Boston earlier this season, allowing two runs. That was good enough for the win. In fact, against the Red Sox and the Yankees Fogg was a combined 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA.

Enjoy!


Posted by David Pinto at 02:35 PM | World Series | TrackBack (0)
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We need some one on here commenting on the abomination that is Joe Buck and Tim McCarver...

Let's hear what the ump has to say about the call on Manny Ramirez...

Ump: 'If Manny had touched the plate he would have been safe'
McCarver: 'and as we saw Manny touched the plate, but the glove got his hip'
Buck: 'So great call there by the Ump'

Posted by: Neil at October 27, 2007 10:01 PM

I agree, the announcing and analysis is beyond terrible. They also beat an issue to death- how many conversations did they have regarding Ortiz playing first? I only wish someone would've led off an inning with a solo homer, because McCarver would again remind us how surprising he finds it that more multiple-run innings start with a solo homer and not a walk. They never even second-guessed or analyzed the move to bring in Javy Lopez, which I thought was a mistake.

And how many times do we need to see the Sox bullpen screwing around during a rally?

Posted by: JeremyM at October 28, 2007 12:51 AM
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