Yet another CG for Doc (although only 8 IP’s) and he has now lost 2 of the 3 CG’s he has thrown. I’m a little surprised he came out for the 8th but he had thrown less than 100 pitches to that point even though he was coming off back-to-back CG’s he did have 5 days off and will have 5 days off before his next start. Don’t really know what happened in the 6th other than 3 of the 5 hits were just groundballs that found holes. Other than the 6th, Doc only faced 2 over the minimum.
It is too bad only Matt Stairs could provide any offence. They were unable to capitalize on any of the 4 walks issued by Hammel including Hammel walking the 9 hitter to leadoff an inning. They also could not score when Inglett (the 9 hitter) leadoff w/a single in the 5th and even stole 2 bases.
Good to see Gibbons get Diaz in there, better to not wait too long before getting the player in there for his major league debut. It is not too often you see 3 catchers all in the starting lineup. Diaz certainly seems to follow the pattern of many of the players from the Caribbean where you don’t walk your way off the island, you hit as he put the 1st ball in play each of his 1st 2 AB’s.
One thing I can’t stand is managers allowing a pitcher to go out and warmup at the start of the inning and then pull him before the 1st batter, allowing extra time for the reliever to warm up in the bullpen. For all the efforts by MLB to speed up the game they have yet to address this situation.
Now for the stats:
Adv+: Bartlett
P-Adv+: Halladay (1)
NAdv: Eckstein (1)
P-NAdv: Hammel
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