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Baseball Musings
July 25, 2008
Raise Your Hands

Joba Chamberlain comes out of the game against the Red Sox after seven shutout innings. He out-pitched Beckett, allowing just three hits and one walk while striking out nine. Beckett allowed nine hits and one walk over his seven innings, but just one run. In other words, given a 1-0 lead, Joba protected it for five innings.

Does anyone still think that Joba is more valuable as a reliever? I'm guessing most other pitchers the Yankees might start would be losing this game. The offense, as typical in a Chamberlain start is not working, but kudos to Jason Giambi. With a man on third and the shift on, he intentionally grounded a ball to the abandoned shortstop spot for a hit and an RBI.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:41 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Wow, the gameday shot of the Lowell called 3rd strike was way inside.

Link here:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2008_07_25_nyamlb_bosmlb_1

What a Godawful call -- it wasn't even close.

Posted by: Sal Paradise at July 25, 2008 10:16 PM

2 strikes you have to swing. Stop belly aching ur sox got beat by the better pitcher.

Posted by: Yardisiak at July 25, 2008 10:42 PM

That was a really bad call, but now look at the rest of the at-bat: Lowell should have been called out pitch 6. And there were literally dozens of other bad calls in this game. The whole umpire crew should be fined.

To answer David's question: yes, some people do think Joba should be the set-up man. Goose Gossage does. :-)
How ironic would it have been if Kyle Farnsworth had blown that game, though?

Posted by: RIYank at July 25, 2008 10:53 PM

With two strikes, swinging at a pitch 1.5 feet inside from the center of the plate is a horrible idea. Absolutely awful. That call was just embarrassing, regardless of what team you're a fan of. I don't mind poor calls within reason, but a blown call of that magnitude is just absurd.

Posted by: Sal Paradise at July 25, 2008 11:31 PM

I listened to some of the game on XM (Boston guys) and they went on about how Giambi's RBI was on out without the shift - they didn't seem to consider that he hit it there on purpose.

Posted by: Phil at July 26, 2008 01:15 AM

"2 strikes you have to swing. Stop belly aching ur sox got beat by the better pitcher."

That is the single most stupid and ignorant comment I have ever read on this site. That's how you get struck out, not how you put together a good at-bat.

Posted by: Hazey at July 26, 2008 06:30 AM

It was a poorly called game for both sides. Kudos to both starters and Rivera for exploiting the ridiculous strike zone.

Posted by: Ben at July 26, 2008 11:32 AM

That pitch was way inside but MLB umpires love to call guys out on strikes. Nothing is more aggravating than umps who want to show up players by hotdogging on called strike 3's.

Posted by: Bandit at July 28, 2008 07:57 AM
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