Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 12, 2008
Strength and Weaknesses

Rich Harden demonstrated both his strength and his weakness for the Cubs today. He threw 96 pitches in 5 1/3 innings, allowing no runs while striking out ten. Despite the Giants putting on eight batters via a hit or walk, the strikeouts do a great job of preventing those runners from advancing.

The weakness, of course, is that Harden only lasted 5 1/3 innings. That puts pressure on the bullpen, and Carlos Marmol allows five runs in the ninth to allow the Giants to tie the game at seven. The fewer innings a starter pitchers, the more likely a reliever having a bad day will come in to give away a victory.


Posted by David Pinto at 06:01 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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