Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 06, 2008
On the Eveland of Destruction

Dana Eveland pitched like the ace Saturday as he and the Oakland Athletics defeated the Indians 6-1. Dana does what he does best, strike out batters as he sent down seven innings via the K in seven innings, allowing just one run. More performances like that will make the Dan Haren trade look good.

Sabathia had his second rough outing, allowing four runs in 5 1/3 innings. More worrisome were his four walks in the game, bringing his total to seven in 10 2/3 innings. Sabathia walked 37 in all of 2007.

Sabathia said control was his problem. He couldn't put the ball on the right part of the plate.

"I got behind and eventually the walks killed me," said Sabathia.

After he was taken out of the game, Sabathia watched his performance on tape.

"Unbelievable," said Sabathia. "Like I said, the command wasn't there."

Now that he saw his mistakes, can he correct them for the next start?


Posted by David Pinto at 08:45 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Sabathia pitched too many innings in 2007, he averaged less then 200 from 2003-2006, then he threw 250+. He ran out of gas in the post season, and now he is still tired. see 2005 white sox rotation for examples of this.

Posted by: jason at April 6, 2008 09:21 AM
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