Gotta love that Citizens Bank Park. Reyes (2), Diaz (2), Wright (1 but it plated 4), Piazza, and even Douggie Fresh helped themselves to the buffet of hittable pitches served up by Vicente Padilla and Gavin Floyd.
Young Diaz is going to make it hard to say goodbye. After last night's performance, he is now sporting a vicious .343/.452/.686 line. It's only 35 AB, but he's already taken more walks (7) than he did in his 51 AB last year (1). So promising, but doomed to be just that for a little while longer as long as Mike Cameron is making that money and practicing his craft in right field.
Victor Zambrano, for his part, was good enough, lowering his ERA despite allowing 8 hits and 3 walks over 6 innings (thank God for the unearned run), and striking out 5. At this point I should point out before Stumped1 does that VZ has a substantially lower ERA than Randy Johnson.
And who was that young man who pitched the ninth inning? Could it be? It was! (How heavily sedated does he look in that picture?) Ask and ye shall receive.
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From the Post: Carlos Beltran, who only has one steal in 14 games, says there's a reason he hasn't been running much lately.
"No opportunities. If I see the pitcher's doing 1.1 or 1.2," Beltran said, referring to the amount of time to get the ball to home plate, "I don't want to try and steal a base and run into an out."
I love this guy.
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I'm more a rooter of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox than of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets -- though a few of my uncles' recreational tendencies have historically run more toward the Straw/Dykstra/Mex sphere -- but I just wanted to ask when Dennis Martinez is going to take his first regular turn in the bullpen rotation. I believe he is the same age as John Franco, and what with Pedro three or four months aways -- max -- from Central American adult cable access show (you'd be surprised how much backlighting can do to hair like that, and how nimble he is), it might be time to consider bringing El Presidente back for a few tosses.
You will perish in flames, subcreature.
Jim O'Sullivan, ladies and gentlemen!
Besides being my cousin, Jim works as the News Editor for the Dorchester Reporter, a local Boston newspaper.
Feel free to check out http://www.dotnews.com and send him harassing emails about how Mayor Menino's hair would look on the set of an adult cable access channel.
Isn't Dennis Martinez still doing the Forrest Gump thing to get away from George Scott? And the references Anonymous makes to his uncle's recreational tendencies are not at all clear. These innuendos make me want to cream someone.
BTW, if this blog is devolving into a referral service for employment in the adult cable industry, I will be glad to PM you my creds.
Tippy Martinez...not Dennis. Must've been tipsy.
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