Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 05, 2008
Games of the Day

The Phillies travel to New York, three games behind the Mets to start a three-game series at Shea. It's the last series between these two teams in the regular season, it would behoove Philadelphia to sweep this weekend. It's a nice matchup this evening as Brett Myers takes on Mike Pelfrey. Myers keeps getting outs, now posting a 1.78 ERA since returning from the minors. He has not allowed a home run in his last three starts. Pelfrey faced Philadelphia twice in April, before he hit his stride. He allowed six runs in 10 innings of work.

CC Sabathia goes for his 10th win in 12 tries since joining the Brewers as he faces San Diego and Josh Geer. More importantly, Sabathia tries to halt the Brewers four game losing streak. Milliliter's opponents have accumulated a .541 OPS against the big lefty since the trade,with both his OBA and slugging percentage allowed well under .300. Geer made his first ML start against the Rockies, and held the lefties he faced to an 0 for 4.

Josh Beckett gets to test his numb hand in Texas. Yankees fans will tell their Red Sox counter parts that Texas is a place to suffer injuries, not recover from them. He'll face Kevin Millwood, coming off a 3-1 August in which he posted a 2.76 ERA. He walked just two batters in 29 1/3 innings.

A possible playoff preview takes place in Chicago where the the White Sox host the Angels. It's not much of a pitching matchup with Mosely facing Buehrle, but Vlad/Teixeira vs. Thome/Quentin makes for the possibility of a nice slugfest.

Finally, the Diamondbacks arrive in Los Angeles with a 1 1/2 game lead over the Dodgers. The big three of the Diamondbacks rotation try to put the division away, starting with Dan Haren against Derek Lowe tonight. Haren suffered through a rough August, as he allowed six home runs in the month, two of those off the bats of the Dodgers. Lowe's ERA at Dodger Stadium is half that of his road ERA. In his two starts against the Diamondbacks at home, he's allowed 3 runs in 11 1/3 innings. In his one start against them on the road, 4 runs in 5 1/3 innings.

Enjoy!

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Posted by David Pinto at 02:51 PM | Matchups | TrackBack (0)
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