April 08, 2008
Games of the Day
The Red Sox return hope from their epic journey to face the Detroit Tigers today. The Tigers get to see the hoopla surrounding a World Series win, something that looks tougher for Detroit this year given their winless start. Kenny Rogers faces Daisuke Matsuzaka. Rogers pitched well in his first start, but the two runs he allowed were too much for the weak Tigers offense. Matsuzaka found his control last time out, and now is up to 15 strikeouts in 11 2/3 innings of work.
Johnny Cueto makes his second start of the season, this time against the division leading Brewers. It's an early season chance for Cincinnati to take the lead in the NL Central. Cueto impressed in his first major league start, striking out ten and walking none. The Brewers batters strike out about seven times per game, so we could be looking at another big day for the rookie.
Jeff Suppan takes the mound for the Brewers. Jeff allowed two solo home runs in his first outing, the only runs the Cubs generated against him. Chicago was just one for six with men on base in that game.
Brian Bannister
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There's a nice matchup in Kansas City with two favorites of the blogosphere. Phil Hughes maintains his own web site. There was some concern about Hughes velocity this week, but if he keeps pitching as he did in his first start of the season, that shouldn't be a big problem. Brian Bannister takes the hill for the Royals. The sabermetric savvy pitcher turned in seven shutout innings against the Tigers. He'll try to do the same against another projected high scoring offense.
Finally, we get to see if Bruce Bochy's decision to bring Tim Lincecum back after a long rain delay hurt the young pitcher. He host the Padres and Randy Wolf in San Francisco. Wolf faced nothing but right-handed batters against Houston last week, and held them to a .190 BA.
Enjoy!
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