I wouldn't really call it crappy. He didn't strike out, and he was credited with a single and an RBI. But he didn't really capitalize either.

 

They changed it to a single? MLB GameDay still has it as a FC and no RBI...

Oh, nevermind, Gameday just changed it. Nice!

They changed it to a single? MLB GameDay still has it as a FC and no RBI...

 

gameday has it as an rbi single

Craig Biggio - one hbp per 43.8 plate apperances, career

Carlos Quentin - one hbp per 22.7 plate apperances, mlb career. Plus he led the minors in hbp for two years in a row.

 

I'm sure his stance (elbow close to the plate, gigantic back turned towards pitcher) has NOTHING to do with it.

I wouldn't really call it crappy. He didn't strike out, and he was credited with a single and an RBI. But he didn't really capitalize either.

 

0-4 and 6 LOB is crap day for me...

Craig Biggio - one hbp per 43.8 plate apperances, career

Carlos Quentin - one hbp per 22.7 plate apperances, mlb career. Plus he led the minors in hbp for two years in a row.

 

I'm sure his stance (elbow close to the plate, gigantic back turned towards pitcher) has NOTHING to do with it.

 

tonight, it didn't. are you watching the game? it has more to do with his decision to not drop to the ground or try to avoid a ball sailing towards him than anything to do with his stance or his back turned towards the pitcher.

Edited April 27, 200817 yr by joesaiditstrue

0-4 and 6 LOB is crap day for me...

1-4 and an RBI. But this is nitpicking.

Edited April 27, 200817 yr by lostfan

tonight, it didn't. are you watching the game? it has more to do with his decision to not drop to the ground or try to avoid a ball sailing towards him than anything to do with his stance or his back turned towards the pitcher.

I'm not saying that ALL his hbps have to do with his stance. Everyone gets hit once in a while. I'm saying the fact that he's going to lead the league in HBPs DOES have to do with his stance.

0-4 and 6 LOB is crap day for me...

Some people will never be happy unless the whole line up goes 4 for 4.

I'm not saying that ALL his hbps have to do with his stance. Everyone gets hit once in a while. I'm saying the fact that he's going to lead the league in HBPs DOES have to do with his stance.

 

i was only talking about today and yesterday's games, those balls sailed right into him wildly

 

i'll agree that his stance has to do with it partially, as well as his decision to take a HBP to get on base vs diving out of the way

Oh god.. Dotel in..

first pitch fly out to swisher, it was a slider that didn't move hardly at all, it was just flat

1 out

Oh god.. Dotel in..

Because with a five run lead, this is obviously a much better time for Bobby Jenks than to let a struggling pitcher work on his stuff.

nice throw by OC, he had as much mustard on that throw as he's had all year on anything that I've seen

Nice play by OC....and a White Sox winner!!

O's announcers: "And that's why they got him. A couple of Gold Gloves at shortstop, nice plays like that."

 

Actually no, that's not why we got him, we already had a SS that could do that, and better to boot. The problem was, that guy couldn't hit over .230 to save his life and was a bad hitter even by SS standards.

I'm not saying that ALL his hbps have to do with his stance. Everyone gets hit once in a while. I'm saying the fact that he's going to lead the league in HBPs DOES have to do with his stance.

It also has alot to do with the fact that he hugs the plate and hits things well out over the plate and has a ton of power to right field. The book on him is to pitch inside and his hole is low inside. If you continue to hammer the inside like that, you will hit a batter eventually.

And Swish really was robbed of a good day today, he hit the ball hard all day and was robbed at the wall and at 1B

How'd Dotel look?

How'd Dotel look?

 

slider wasn't moving much, but he got a flyout (first pitch swinging), and a strike out with primarily fastballs with late movement on them, he looked pretty good