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4.09.2003
A few words on tonight's action... Kyle Lohse's first start of the season was excellent (eight innings of shutout ball, two hits, five strikeouts), but it came against the Tigers. I haven't been able to watch any of tonight's game yet (I've missed two live Yankee games thus far this season due to blackout, and they've been the two Mussina starts), but I've been keeping an eye on it. I was particularly curious to see how Lohse would fare against a real lineup...and it looks like he did well tonight, allowing two runs (both earned, they were solo homers to Posada and Mondesi) on three hits, walking one and striking out five over seven innings. Fortunately, Mussina's been better and Juan Acevedo appears ready to slam the door. It'll be interesting to see how Lohse progresses though, he's certainly off to a good start. I really hope we don't continue to get flooded with Angels games all season on ESPN national telecasts as we have this first week and a half, though I fear it might well happen. Their game with the Mariners is coming up in half an hour, which at least features Joel Pineiro, who is a lot of fun to watch, vs. Kevin Appier for Anaheim. I don't know how many of you saw the highlights, but last night's marathon Rockies-Cards game at Coors Field featured a pretty bizarre home run to provide the final margin of victory (which was 15-12 Cards). With two men on in the top of the 13th, Mike Matheny (he of the .330 career slugging percentage) hit a ball to deep left field, which was coming down just in front of the wall. Rockie leftfielder Gabe Kapler played the ball just about perfectly, moving back towards the fence, timing his jump as needed and actually catching the ball. However, his leap carried him into the fence and, unable to get a tight enough grip on the ball or get his outstretched arm down, the ball was jolted out of his glove and over the wall for a home run. - |