Comments on: IGD: Padres @ Diamondbacks (14 Jul 07)

By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:26:52 +0000

#125: I couldn’t agree more…

http://ducksnorts.com/blog/200.....eb-07.html

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By: jay

jay — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:01:14 +0000

I think others have noted it, but KK’s last name is not Russian but “Macedonian”. So the Crushin’ Russian is out. So how about the Mashin’ Macedonian, or MM for short?

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By: jay

jay — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:58:23 +0000

That sucked. I am sorry, but Bell was pitching just fine. 95+ heater in good location normally gets lots of outs. They just put good swings on good pitches. Normally, pitchers win that, but tonight they were shots.

The lines for the two teams:

SD: 200/294/500/794
AZ: 323/323/452/774

We out hit the, slightly. But as Ben B. in points out in #117, this feels more like they are getting lucky not just in clustering their hits, but in getting their balls for hits when ours find gloves. AGon drilled two balls and got nothing for it, while Hudson hits a squirt and gets a double and scores the winning run.

Luck of the draw, I guess, but man I am starting to really hate the DBacks. They always seem to give us trouble.

Decent night by the ump, a few here and there, but the final AB to KK? The guy had a date he had to get to? WTF? KK still almost gave us a shot, but, predictably, it found a glove.

KK is sure looking solid. His AB vs. Cruz actually impressed me the most. It was a 2-2 pitch and Cruz throws a nasty slider. Looked like a strike, but seemed to break 2/3 of the way, but KK somehow held up. That really impressed me, and that, coupled with his power, makes me hopeful about us finally getting some production out of 3B.

OPS:

KK 720
JB 620

Looking good so far.

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:15:22 +0000

121, 122: That’s what I want to know. CY is cruising for 6 innings, and is at 96 pitches after 6 full. I know a three run lead with our bullpen is often safe, and I know that guys like Bell and Linebrink haven’t pitched in a week, but I would like to think that Young was good to start the 7th. Surely he could toss 14 more pitches or so. It seems that Pepe Negro was guilty of the exact opposite of what he does with Wells and Maddux. Instead of the slow hook, we got the quick atta’ boy hook tonight.

Now we are in serious danger of getting swept since we have to go up against noted Padres’ nemesis Brandon Webb. I certainly don’t have much confidence in Germano tomorrow since it really looks like the clock is approaching midnight with him.

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By: JP

JP — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:12:30 +0000

Since when does your all-star ace starting pitcher with a 2.00 ERA come out after the 6th inning ?

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By: JP

JP — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:11:46 +0000

Even in this era of bullpen over-specialization, does CY have to come out after the 6th ? Why ? Is he ailing or had he thrown a lot of pitches ?

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By: Phantom

Phantom — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:55:17 +0000

119: I just would like to see some of these one-run games start coming our way. This can's possibly continue all year, right?

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By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:47:09 +0000

118: Oh yeah, I would say it’s actually been even worse than that, since the Dodgers series had two close games that we won and blowout that we lost. I’d say the last good series we had was against Chicago when CY had the fight with Lee.

But I don’t really believe in momentum or anything like that since it’s not possible to predict when one streak is going to end and the next is going to start, so I think the year as a whole gives us a better idea of how the team is going to play from here on out than the last two weeks do. And based on that, the Padres are probably the best team in the National League. This loss sucks, but there are plenty more games to go, and hopefully we’ll be the recipient of some lucky wins in the future.

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By: Phantom

Phantom — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:42:06 +0000

I know I'm being very fatalist and reactionary right now, but we haven't played well lately. Going back before the break, our last quality series was against the Dodgers in LA. Since then, it's been pretty ugly.

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By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:38:15 +0000

Continuing with my blame everything on bad luck analysis, the Padres have a .196 BABIP in this series. The D-Backs have a .375 BABIP. Tonight the Padres were 3-23 on balls in play. The D-Backs were 9-27.

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