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Baseball Musings
June 17, 2008
Spare the Rodney

Fernando Rodney had a rough return to the majors Monday night. He allowed a three-run homer to blow the lead and two more runs that proved to be the difference as the Tigers fell to the Giants 8-6. He threw strikes, 13 of 19 pitches, but they were hit hard. It's a tough loss for the Tigers as Verland out-pitched Tim Lincecum, and the Giants scored 19 runs in their previous six games (10 of those in their only win in the six).


Posted by David Pinto at 08:32 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Here's the problem with the Tigres - now Verlander is out for this turn thru the rotation without a win - he pitched OK but only went 6 innings - now thru the rest of the rotation they need 3 good starts and need a couple of them to go deep in the game. And they're going to need it like that pretty much every turn thru the rotation.

Rodney has only had 1 full season with an ERA under 3 and they are still weak defensively everywhere in the IF except 2B. The only chance i see for them is that they improve enough to win somewhere around 88 games and that's good enough in the division.

Posted by: Bandit at June 17, 2008 12:53 PM
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