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4.24.2003
Notes... I'm still getting reacquainted with the baseball world after having left it for a week, so I took a bit of the time I had today to watch pieces of a few games (Red Sox-Rangers, Cardinals-Braves, and now Yankees-Angels). A look around today's action as I get back to normalcy: - As most of you know at this point, the Royals are still undefeated (10-0) at home. As much as I generally shun the "save" indicator/stat, Mike MacDougal now has nine saves, which is pretty impressive with a week yet to play in April. Naturally, there's a tendency to write off the Royals' start (they're 16-3 now) as a bit flukey, but MacDougal's in a great position to continue to pile up saves for the rest of the year, even if the team comes back to Earth a bit (which they almost certainly will). - There'd been some noise that Padres' figurative flamethrower Oliver Perez was headed to AAA, but it looks like that's not going to happen, at least based on today's results...he pitched six strong scoreless innings at Wrigley, but his ERA is still an evil 6.66. - I only caught the end of the game, but from the eighth inning on, the Cardinals-Braves game tonight in Atlanta was played in pouring rain. I honestly can't recall seeing guys with uniforms that looked as saturated as those of the Cardinal players tonight towards the end of the game. - Pedro Astacio pitched pretty well in his return to the Mets' rotation, allowing 2 runs (both earned) on 4 hits while striking out 4 and walking one over six innings. There are a whole bunch of questions about Astacio's health, but it's pretty clear that if he can provide the Mets with six decent innings every five days for a decent chunk of the season, it improves that questionable staff quite a bit. - Finally, as I want to end on a happy note, I had the pleasure of watching the Rangers tattoo Derek Lowe to the tune of 7 runs (all earned) on six hits with three walks over 2 innings. Steve Woodard and new arrival Kevin Tolar got clobbered after Lowe's early exit, and the Rangers massacred the Red Sox by the score of 16-5. I don't mean to jump on him now that he's having a rough go of it, but Lowe's really not looking at all like the pitcher he was for most of last year...I'd be a bit worried if I were a Red Sox fan and certainly wary about counting on him to duplicate his success of 2002. - |