Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 05, 2008
Second Duel

The Angels and Royals are locked in a scoreless tie. Ervin Santana just finished the eighth inning. He's allowed just three hits and struck out eight. Tomko lasted seven innings, giving up two hits, two walks and striking out seven. Aybar just led off the top of the ninth with a triple.

Update: Guerrero grounds out hard to third base, Aybar holds. Hillman brings in Gobble to face Kotchman.

Update: Kotchman singles on the first pitch to plate the first run of the game.

Update: Peralta comes on to pitch and gives up a two-run homer to Anderson and a solo shot to Wood. Hillman's choices of relief pitchers in this inning looks really bad right now.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:13 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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I expected Santana to pitch great and the Angels to win, but I just can't believe Tomko threw 7 K's in 7 shutout innings and only allowed 4 base runners.

Posted by: D at May 6, 2008 02:05 AM

The well-compensated batsmen of the junior circuit have been reeking worse than our Labrador Retriever's flatulence lately. So any AL pitcher can look like Cy Young.

Last night the AL "hitters" labored mightily to produce 5.4 runs per game. That's both teams combined. So far this season the AL is averaging 8.80 runs per game, the sixth-lowest number in the last thirty years.

Meanwhile the DH-less NL is averaging 9.26 runs per game. Have all the AL "hitters" been injected with anti-steroids?

Posted by: Casey Abell at May 6, 2008 08:06 AM
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