first pitch: 7:05 p.m., PT
television: Channel 4
matchup: Pedro Astacio (2-9, 5.84 ERA) vs Aaron Harang (6-9, 3.97 ERA)
previews: ESPN | Padres.com
Padres have fallen below .500 for the first time since May 3, when they were 13-14. Thanks to their NL West cohorts in suckitude, San Diego still leads the division and has a 63% chance of reaching the playoffs.
Once again, I’ve run out of things to say about this [expletive deleted] team. Talk amongst yourselves, I’m going to the movies.
9-1 Reds.
Harang’s pretty good, actually.
Yeah, the old Bucs coach. “We didn’t tackle, but we made up for it by not blocking.”
5th HR for the Reds in two games.
So, can we get an apology from Ray Kroc? This is some dreadful baseball. How come other teams’ players can hit homers at Petco?
Rich, shouldn’t we start Fick over any of these guys?
Yeah, the Reds make this park look small.
If you believe Clay Davenport’s metrics (and I tend to), Fick costs the team .23 runs compared to an average fielding catcher every game he catches.
Good news, Geoff. Eric Milton and his 7+ ERA go tomorrow.
Hernandez this season was only costing the team .03 runs per game compared to an average catcher.
Nevin in his extremely limited sample was .01 better than average.
Ojeda had cost the team .14 per game.
In what I’m fairly certain is a sample size fluke, Dave Ross had been worth .24 per game above average with Pittsburgh.
Olivo had been .05 below with the Mariners.
I’ll try to crunch the numbers on offense tonight or tomorrow morning.
I see. So who is going to watch Coleman tomorrow? Will they televise his part of things?
Do you think Eric Milton can continue to give up home runs even at PetCo which last season was good for cutting home runs by something like 35-40%?
If it’s on, I’ll be watching.
In 2004, Olivo approached being a league average hitter.
Thanks, Brian. I’d feel better about Milton if we’d been able to do anything against Luke Hudson and his 8.83 ERA.
I knew you’d catch the sarcasm.
Speaking of Hudson, what happened to him between this year and last? He was excellent last season.
I prediict that milton will give up no more than 1 run tomorrow. and zero homers..
in fact, it is just my natural optimism that makes me think we will score even one run..
I fear hank is right.
The Padres received $6 million from the Texas Rangers in the trade that got them RHP Chan Ho Park for slugger Phil Nevin. … Park will join the Padres in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
But most importantly, how many double switches will we pull off?
The over/under on double switches by Bochy in a game is probably 1.5, right?
yeah, i think so. definitely, double switches.