July 21, 200520 yr Freddy Garcia offered this explanation for a rare rough start during the day: ``It seemed like a night game with the lights on and the storm coming. Maybe that was it.'' yahoo sports
July 21, 200520 yr QUOTE(thelatinoheat_30 @ Jul 20, 2005 -> 08:59 PM) yahoo sports Did you see how upset he was getting about his strike calls!
July 21, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(forrestg @ Jul 20, 2005 -> 08:29 PM) Did you see how upset he was getting about his strike calls! yea, but i thought most were balls
July 21, 200520 yr funny reply by freddy but from my tv it just looked like fromt he begginning his good stuff wasnt there today
July 21, 200520 yr i dont know why he pitched that 9th innning because that was the 4th time the Tigers had seen him. I think maybe Cotts should have been in earlier, but its hard to say what would have happened. And it sounds bad to bash Ozzies decsions because of the outcome but, in my opinion i think Freddy was tired. Go Chi-Sox Edited July 21, 200520 yr by wilmot825
July 21, 200520 yr Hawk commented on something that I speculated for a month or so now. Freddy doesn't seem to take his bullpen and mound warm ups very seriously. Just plays catch with the catcher between innings instead of getting a feel for the conditions and finding his release point. I think the team as a whole played like a bunch of dummies today.
July 21, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(wilmot825 @ Jul 20, 2005 -> 09:00 PM) i dont know why he pitched that 9th innning because that was the 4th time the Tigers had seen him. I think maybe Cotts should have been in earlier, but its hard to say what would have happened. And it sounds bad to bash Ozzies decsions because of the outcome but, in my opinion i think Freddy was tired. Go Chi-Sox your right on target, i'll take it one step further: ozzie cost em the game today. freddy shoulda never been in there, esp. after the rain delay, in the 9th. politte shoulda started from the beginning. after the runs we scored in the 9th, we woulda won if those guys freddy let on base hadn't scored.
July 21, 200520 yr QUOTE(Brian @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 03:42 AM) Hawk commented on something that I speculated for a month or so now. Freddy doesn't seem to take his bullpen and mound warm ups very seriously. Just plays catch with the catcher between innings instead of getting a feel for the conditions and finding his release point. I think the team as a whole played like a bunch of dummies today. Garcia has never been known as a fierce competitor.
July 21, 200520 yr That rain delay came at a horrible time. Freddy was doing his normal, let up runs in the first, get hit a bit in the 2nd but don't let anything up and then all the sudden he's ready to go, he was starting to find a groove and then POOF, rain. He comes back out after the delay and it's like another first inning for him. Then ozzie left him out there a bit to long as well, s*** happens unfortunately.
July 21, 200520 yr If Hermanson is going to be questionable for a few more days, we need to call up another reliever. We can't keep using Politte or Cotts every game, even if we're losing. The timing wasn't great to finally get rid of Shingo.
July 21, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Jul 20, 2005 -> 09:59 PM) There has got to be something done during pregame warmups. Coop needs to get Garcia on a different routine, because everyone is getting sick of the same old 2 runs in the 1st inning almost every game. It has really become just a normal thing. It needs to be addressed, fast. i concur
July 21, 200520 yr QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 03:46 AM) Garcia has never been known as a fierce competitor. Never heard this before. Just wish he would be more prepared so we don't have to play from behind in the 1st inning.
July 21, 200520 yr QUOTE(Brian @ Jul 20, 2005 -> 10:42 PM) Hawk commented on something that I speculated for a month or so now. Freddy doesn't seem to take his bullpen and mound warm ups very seriously. Just plays catch with the catcher between innings instead of getting a feel for the conditions and finding his release point. I think the team as a whole played like a bunch of dummies today. I have no doubts that they were looking forward to the Boston series, putting it on cruise control against the Tigers.
July 21, 200520 yr There is no reason why Freddy doesnt take his warm-ups seriously. He'd be more dominant if he erased all those first inning runs against. What was it... 16 runs in 20 first innings. Edited July 21, 200520 yr by Ozzie Montana
July 21, 200520 yr QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 08:25 AM) I have no doubts that they were looking forward to the Boston series, putting it on cruise control against the Tigers. agree... the "lookahead" disease can be very costly...
July 21, 200520 yr QUOTE(sec159row2 @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 10:37 AM) agree... the "lookahead" disease can be very costly... remember when we had COLON and in a game when there was a rain delay. After the rain delay he had his worst outing
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