June 14, 2008
Dad's Night Out
Randy Sabia organized our annual outing to New Britain last night to see the Rock Cats, the Twins AA affiliate. They lost to the Binghamton Mets 3-2, but mostly we were four guys talking baseball and baseball history.
Meanwhile, the second round of interleague play started in the majors, although the first game I noticed was the 20-2 drubbing the Phillies laid on the Cardinals. When I saw the heart of the Philadelphia order hit four home runs, I assumed they were big ones. Only six of the twenty runs, however came on those four shots. If people were looking for the Cardinals to fall apart after all the injuries, that game pretty much says it all. Wellemeyer, one of their starters surprising people, was knocked around, as was most of the bullpen. The offense wasn't too bad, but couldn't turn ten hits into more than two runs. The Yankees won 2-1 on a Jeter homer in the eighth.
The other thing that caught my eye were a couple of high walk yet well pitched games. Joba Chamberlain and Shawn Chacon both walked four in about six innings, yet each allowed just one run. Worse was Zack Greinke, who walked seven in seven innings, but shutout the Diamondbacks during that time. Arizona took the game 1-0 in extra innings on a Chad Tracy homer.
Overall, the AL took 9 of the 14 games played against the NL last night.
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Joba walked two intentionally, so 2 unintentional walks really.