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Ron Washington named his starting rotation for the beginning of the 2012 season on Thursday. It pretty much isn’t a big surprise, although there was one minor surprise to me. Here’s the five:
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Remarks: I liked Hawpe. As I said before, he’s helped me out in fantasy leagues in the past. However, that’s the past, and the “now” version of Brad isn’t that old one anymore. He’s coming off surgery, has issues throwing, and hasn’t hit a ton. Shame, as I would have liked to have had him stick around, but he’s not exactly going to make the club like that. Read something about him possibly coming back on a minor league deal too if he doesn’t find any takers.
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Matt Harrison started this game, and pitched quite well. Six innings, six hits, one run, one walk, struck out seven. 91 pitches, so he had a good outing.
Problem is Matt Cain and the Giants were a bit better. Cain’s line was seven innings, just three hits and two earned runs, struck out six. However, two of the three hits were back to back solo home runs by Mitch Moreland & Mike Napoli in the second inning. That was it other than a double by Josh Hamilton which didn’t amount to anything. We did get a few more hits off of their bullpen guys, but no more runs.
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Skipping commentary on this one, although I will say that Derek Holland didn’t have a very good outing.
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When the game winning play is a walk off wild pitch, you know it’s some kind of game. :)
The Rangers scored in six of the nine innings played, and the Padres in four, but they had one larger crooked number than we did. Was definitely an all over the place game. As I’ve said numerous times, when you have a game with 19 runs and 14 hits, there’s not a lot of great pitching to be found.
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Monday night, the offense broke out in a big away against the Reds. We did it in a compressed amount of innings, as we scored all our runs in the second (5), third (3), and fourth (4). Didn’t score anything else after the fourth inning. Oddly enough, eleven of the twelve runs all game against the starter, Jeff Francis, who certainly didn’t help himself with an outing like THAT this late in the spring. It was a pretty horrible line for him..
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I’ll make this short, because walkoff losses annoy me. My daughter was annoyed at this loss. She was bummed out. My daughter is starting to get old enough to be bummed when her team loses. I’m raising a baseball fan, I think. :)
Robert Ross looked great! He’s doing quite well this spring, and my gut says he’s a realistic shot to make the team. Two innings, one hit, one walk, struck out two. Kept Pujols at bay. I really liked him.
THe rest of the game, especially Michael Kirkman – not so much.
Grumble Grumble.
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There’s a lot of stuff I could write about this game, but the only thing I really WANT to say is this.
Joe Nathan better get better in a bloody hurry. He’ starting to legitimately scare me. When latter Darren O’Day gives me more confidence, that’s not a good thing.
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This was a game that I got to watch on TV. I sat down with my iPad to score the game, grabbed a beer, I was ready to enjoy this. And then I fell asleep on the sofa. I was wiped for some reason. It wasn’t super late, started at 8PM, but due to family concerns, I had to wait till around 10PM to start it, so I couldn’t make it through the whole game. What I did see though was a great pitching matchup.
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Another game I didn’t see, but again, another loss. Too many this spring. This one came to the Reds (who used to be in Florida during March until recently). Odd thing about this game is that there was really only one part of it I’d call “awful”.