Sunday, May 22, 2005
What now?
Jon, thanks for pointing out my curse. Now if anyone sees me at the park, I'll quickly be run out or heckled to no end. Either way, I am running an 0-5 record and its becoming a bigger heartbreaker everytime.
But in all fairness, I about crap myself when we put up 5 runs with the line up we had going today (especially against Santana and the Twins' bullpen). About the only thing that could have handicapped our offense more would have been putting J.J. Hardy at short. Then again, Chad Moeller must be taking notes from Gary Bennett about how to suck the most in every possible situation. Sitting in the stands, I was completely dumbfounded when Moeller walked up to the plate in the 10th; but now that I know Miller has a sore right bicep, I guess I can't be too upset with Ned cause his hands were tied.
I feel bad for Matt Wise. We did the right thing by walking Stewart to load the bases, but I wasn't sure why we didn't have Hall and Spivey at double play depth. In hind sight, that ground ball hit to Spivey was probably too soft to pull a DP, but I think you have to play for it up the middle.
Santana had me scared when he came out and put his first pitch about 5 ft over Moeller's head then came back with some chin music. But he settled down and worked out of it, but I would have liked to see him go two innings. Turnbow was in there a bit long for my taste (obviously) but there isn't much you can do when he already got the first two outs of the inning - you have to give him the chance to close it up.
All in all, the road trip is one to be forgotten. Colorado is in town so hopefully we'll get to turn the fortunes around. Also, I won't be at the park for this series so there is a weight off the fans' shoulders. However, next time I'm there, I'm voting a million times for Chad Moeller to represent us in Detroit.
But in all fairness, I about crap myself when we put up 5 runs with the line up we had going today (especially against Santana and the Twins' bullpen). About the only thing that could have handicapped our offense more would have been putting J.J. Hardy at short. Then again, Chad Moeller must be taking notes from Gary Bennett about how to suck the most in every possible situation. Sitting in the stands, I was completely dumbfounded when Moeller walked up to the plate in the 10th; but now that I know Miller has a sore right bicep, I guess I can't be too upset with Ned cause his hands were tied.
I feel bad for Matt Wise. We did the right thing by walking Stewart to load the bases, but I wasn't sure why we didn't have Hall and Spivey at double play depth. In hind sight, that ground ball hit to Spivey was probably too soft to pull a DP, but I think you have to play for it up the middle.
Santana had me scared when he came out and put his first pitch about 5 ft over Moeller's head then came back with some chin music. But he settled down and worked out of it, but I would have liked to see him go two innings. Turnbow was in there a bit long for my taste (obviously) but there isn't much you can do when he already got the first two outs of the inning - you have to give him the chance to close it up.
All in all, the road trip is one to be forgotten. Colorado is in town so hopefully we'll get to turn the fortunes around. Also, I won't be at the park for this series so there is a weight off the fans' shoulders. However, next time I'm there, I'm voting a million times for Chad Moeller to represent us in Detroit.
