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[FYI: I'll be at Wednesday's game and possibly Thursday's (Dice-K/Greinke just sounds too good to miss, doesn't it?) and if I remember the camera I'll have (crappy) pictures up.]
Pics would be great for those of us who follow from overseas. Your rundown doesn't make it seem to bad. But only 2xbh and 10 strikeouts isn't pretty. Also, Schill gave up 8 hits and the pen surrendered 4 more along with 2 runs. Were the Royals hitting the ball hard? I know Tek has been streaky, but his bat looked pedestrian at spring training, I reckon he'll be lucky to hit a buck ninety-five.
It seemed like there were several of very hard hits from KC, but usually on the ground. A lot of hard-hit grounders that found their way to the outfield. Pena had two great shots for his triples, and Buck of course got a hold of his HR.
BTW: Red Sox fans and Royals fan would probably be interested in Schilling's blog post about this game. While reading it, I thought to myself, 'This is the coolest thing I've ever seen on a blog.' I really hope he keeps it up throughout the season.
Schilling's blog will be far better this year if he is washed up. It would be fascinating to see the process through which a pitcher comes to accept that, although perhaps that would take longer than one season.
That was an awesome entry today, very honest.
He used to do those recaps on SoSH. He did it for every game and had no problem beating himself up when he sucked.
My memory of 2005 was that Schilling actually had a reasonable level of fastball command, but could not throw his breaking or offspeed stuff to save his life. And once the hitters figured that out, even a pretty good fastball stops being that difficult to hit. From his recap, it sounds like Schilling threw a lot of hanging splits and some bad sliders, which is scary, but also that he wasn't even commanding the fastball. On some level, maybe that means it's more likely a fluke - just everything was wrong. I dunno.
I didn't see the game, but when Crisp came back last year I was very much unimpressed. Most batters in MLB will step toward the pitcher when they swing; a few will step toward first, and a few looking to pull the ball to left will step toward third. Crisp's feet didn't move. Consequently, he had a lot of weak swings producing weak infield grounders.
I don't know how he was in Cleveland, but he wasn't swinging with any level of authority last year. Was that what you saw, Darren? Did anyone else see it?
I sure did. And the worst part is his offense isn't the worst part of his game. His defense in center is. Did you see what he did on Pena's triple? Typical Crisp. First, he thinks he can catch everything and tries to catch an uncatchable ball, getting too close to the wall when it ricochets off and he has to play goaltender to keep it from getting by him. So he falls down saving it but the that extra second or two it takes him to recover and make the throw to the infield allows Pena to snatch another base.
He just shows very poor judgment for a centerfielder.
He gave up a blast on the first pitch of his MLB career to a guy with a lifetime .400 SLG. He made Pena look silly on a strikeout, but DeJesus hit it pretty deep, only to get caught by Crisp.
Overall, I can't think of a game going any better for KC. They played well and got lucky and maybe Boston is just a team that doesn't get out of the chute well. I certainly don't think its indicative of either team's talent, but for one day, for this Royals fan, it sure was fun.
And I agree about Schilling's blog. Should be fun to read.
all in all, okajima is one of those pitchers that needs to hit his spots to make you miss (but isn't that all pitchers? =P). he's got some good movement on his breaking balls (as advertised) but he's not very overpowering (fastball topped out at 87 or 88).
the first thing that jumped out at me was that he has a really deceptive delivery. he makes it looks like he's going to launch the ball at 90-100 mph. i wouldn't say it's a violent delivery, but it looks like an overpowering one. definitely not a "finesse/fluid" delivery like other japanese pitchers (nomo, irabu, matsuzaka, etc).
I'd rather see us get the best of both worlds. This year, he's excellent and we get to read about a guy on the top of his game leading his team to a World Series. Then next year, if he signs elsewhere, we can read about what it's like for a pitcher to lose it.
I think that sounds fair.
That said, Happy Baseball 2007, Sox Therapudians.
So I take it you'll find the season more interesting if Mussina puts up a 5.50 ERA?
I think that book would be much better either of them had some conflict beyond the starting nine in the opposing dugout.
Anyhow, my real first concern from the opening day game was the awful performance of lead-off man Julio Lugo. With Youk and Papi both getting two hits in their first 3 at bats, the team should have been able to do more damage than one run scored except "good hit - no field" Lugo struck out three straight times to start the season . . . against Gil Meche!!!!
I hope Lugo picks it up (along with Coco), and I hope the baserunning (Pedroia and Youkilis esp.) improves. But I have some concerns. Knowing how everyone always points to the defense up the middle as critical to any championship team, Lugo is far from the defensive elite, and with 5 SS and 6 2B since the start of 2004, the Red Sox sure don't show any signs of stability up the middle. I'd also still much rather see Crisp and Lugo in the 7 and 8 slots in the line-up with Pedroia #9, Drew #1 and Youk #2. That seems much more likely to put guys on base in fron of Papi and Manny on a consistent basis. . . . So, Please Tito!
I'm liking his blog, but my god some of the comments are downright embarassing.
Yeah. I didn't think Shaughnessy's column on that was funny, but it wasn't really off the mark. A lot of the response posts are sort of an object lesson on American celebrity culture.
Schilling's blog will be far better this year if he is washed up. It would be fascinating to see the process through which a pitcher comes to accept that, although perhaps that would take longer than one season.
I think, in general, that analysis of defeat and failure tends to produce better sportswriting than does the celebration of success. Rehashing "how we won" is usually only interesting to fans of the team in question. Case in point, since Mahnken posted this, I wanted to say that I think a lot of the best on-line stuff I have read about the Yankees was immediately after the 2004 ALCS, and since. Reading about why Schilling thinks he pitched poorly was interesting. I will be interested to see if I also find it interesting to read about games where he does really well and explains that from his perspective.
Also...Dayton Moore 1, Rob Neyer 0. I thought we'd have a Rob/Rany link up after I read the Boston/KC box score. I am sure neyer hopes he is dead wrong about Meche, and Moore has it right.
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