Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 11, 2008
The Return of Roy

Roy Oswalt easily pitched his best game of the year Tuesday night, allowing just one run over seven innings as the Astros defeated the Brewers 6-1. While he did allow another home run, leaving him one short of his career high, Oswalt showed great control, walking none and striking out ten. It was the Oswalt of old:

Oswalt did amazing things, winning 19 games his second season and 20 in back-to-back years. The Astros fretted the righthander was throwing too many pitches, trying to strike out too many hitters.

They wanted him to pitch to contact, to get deeper into games. They took something that wasn't broken and tried to fix it anyway.

In these last few weeks, as he struggled like never before, Oswalt made up his mind to go back to the future.

He was going to forget pitching to contact. He was going back to power, back to what he knew best.

"It's better to put up six zeros," he said after throwing seven innings in a 6-1 victory over Milwaukee on Tuesday night, "than last seven innings and give up four or five runs."

It's tough to score runs if the opposition can't make contact.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:29 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Pitching to contact is especially stupid for someone that has Ty Wigginton, Miguel Tejada and Carlos Lee behind them. Although, the homeruns can't be blamed on them.

Posted by: MH at June 11, 2008 11:36 AM
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