Wow where did all of this pitch recognition and plate discipline come from all of a sudden, change in batting instructions?
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Arroyo has given up a boatload of seeing eye singles today.
Bronson gets a big K of the [sarcasm] dangerous [/sarcasm] Burriss for the second out. Following is Velez, the Gehrig to Burriss' Babe!
Velez flies out. 5-2 Reds after 5.5.
Nice job by Arroyo. The Giants had runners on first and third with only out but Bronson got a big strikeout and then a fly out to escape the jam.
5-2 Reds after six. That should be it for Bronson.
I guess you get what you pay for.
Alex Gonzalez SS 2008: $4,625,000
Career .248 .295 .399 .695
FPCT .969 RF 4.49 ZR .843
Jeff Keppinger SS 2008: $402,500
Career .288 .341 .395 .736
FPCT .986 RF 4.06 ZR .807
3yr
Total .319 .385 .462 .847
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/player...&type=batting3
Don't look know, but with that scorless inning, Arroyo has his ERA down to 4.97.
Who would have thought he could ever have done that.
It was a 6.52 on June 24.
Since that time he has been (assumimg win today), 9-3 with a 3.28 ERA in 12 starts, averaging about 6 2/3rds inning per start, and includes 9 quality starts.
Of course, that's always true. When you go to the Big Lots to get a bargain, you usually get something that breaks after two uses. That's a lesson that most of our recent GM's didn't understand because we have a team full of Keppingers, Freels, Hoppers, Bakos, and Pattersons with a Cabrerra, Hariston, and a Andy Phillips thrown in on occasion.
Sometimes these acquitions work out for a brief time and sometimes they do not. That's the gamble.
I know he should have never traded Dunn and Griffey for a relief pitcher and some minor league fodder, this team needs offense. ;) :D He paid to get rid of them too.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/player...playerId=28505
Votto going yard here would be "cool."
Would anybody be opposed to nicknaming Patterson "In play: Out(s)"?
In play: Out(s) up to bat. In play out(s) with a nice catch in center. In play: Out(s) is married to Dusty's daughter. In play: Out(s) should be riding the bench.
I like it. :thumbup:
Votto!
That was some bad defense for the Giants there.