Gameday Thread: Rays at O's, 08/09
by Scott Christ on Aug 9, 2005 2:56 PM EDT
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Scott Kazmir, LH Erik Bedard, LH
(6-7, 4.22) (5-4, 2.96)
Played golf today. Shot a something or other. Front nine was good, back nine was a different story, which is how the end result is "something or other." Long story short, I ended up stranded far from home and walking miles of lakeside hills in non-walking shoes, carrying golf clubs. I think I might take a thirty-year nap.
Anyway...
Game time is 7:05 on CSN.
Since returning from the DL, Bedard's ERA has gone from 2.08 to 2.96 over four starts. The first two were solid, but the last two have seen him struggle some with his control, and last time out he was positively hammered by the Angels, but I guess that'll happen.
The thing about it is, Bedard had been positively on fire from April 23, after the Tigers beat him up on April 18. So his slip back to being a human being is only natural. Really, Bedard has only had the two bad starts, and other than that has been sensational.
For a 21-year old, Kazmir is having quite a season. His control isn't what it could be, but that will come with time as he learns to pitch, which he is still doing. He handled the O's when Tampa Bay swept at home.
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Surhoff and Ponson to DL; Option Ray
Freire, however, is a move I don't understand. He's 31, and basically a career minor leaguer (signed as a minor league free agent in the offseason). His numbers are comparable (even if a little better) than Walter Young's, and yet young (who is 25 years old) stayed down. I really would have thought that with all these roster moves we would have taken the opportunity to try one of our young 1B prospects out in the big leagues, but we seemed to have passed up that opportunity. What is even weirder is that Freire is in the lineup as the DH tonight... he isn't even playing first base. Perhaps there is some higher logic to this, but as of now I've been unable to decifer it.
eh
The problem is we don't really have any first base prospects. Young is a marginal prospect and I think qualifies as a DH and little else at this point; Freire is just the easiest to plug in for the time being.
31 is still young enough to have a couple good years and if a guy is capable of that, why not? Not that I'm saying he will or that it's likely or anything, but giving a guy his first crack at the bigs in August when the team is done isn't that big of a deal. I wish Young had gotten the shot, too; maybe they don't trust him defensively (or trust Gibbons enough, or want Gomez playing first base).
AARON RAKERS FREED
by Scott Christ on Aug 9, 2005 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions
it's not
First ML AB
What happened with Crowley??
Byrnes shot to left....hasta la vista pelota!
Two bad calls in the game....
- Sammy called out looking on a pitch that nearly hit him;
- Roberts ruled to have made a catch (which replays showed he did), then overruled by an ump who had no view of the play.
Only two?
His ERA is back under 3.0
by drj on Aug 9, 2005 9:14 PM EDT up reply actions
well I'll be
This game was actually fun to watch...
The bullpen was dominating, the boys played good defense, and the Byrnes-mobile just kept rollin' along..10 straight games as an O and he's hit in all ten.
So we played small ball for the most part and hit a ton of singles..but we still won!
Now, let's get em again tonite and win a series for a change.
I still hold out hope for hitting .500 this year.
A win streak!!
by darthpemo on Aug 9, 2005 10:22 PM EDT reply actions
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