Gameday Thread, #56: 6/3 vs Braves

by npineda on Jun 4, 2006 4:37 AM EDT in Events

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Miguel Batista, RHP (5-2, 4.12)

Jorge Sosa, RHP (1-6, 4.68)

Hey all, sorry for the lack of anaylsis ... I know we got plenty to talk about with the Enrique move, but I blame that on the Gameday Posters ... You never name a new puppy! All that happens is it get's taken away!

So i'm posting the game day thread early ... I've got a family gathering in the morning and i'm off to hit some sleep before that ... might be around for some posts on the game day, but this East Coast trip doesn't work well for a guy that get's off work at Midnight.

Sosa again plays into mediocore challanges for the D-backs from the much vaunted ATL pitching. He's 0-1 in 3 starts, and a ERA of 3.46. Of the 5 earned runs he's given up, 3 of them are homeruns, and a average of 4.1 innings per apperance against the D-Backs.

Batista is coming off 2 straight wins, and the complete game gem that if he can produce again, we are looking in good shape to sweep the Braves. Miggy has posted mostly poor numbers life time vs. Hot-Lanta, but gave a QS last time out during the 'Interleague Weekend' (i'm still humored by that).

My thanks in advance to the East Coast friends who get to enjoy the game and post, and thank you all for being so tolerant of my total abuse of the (American) English. I'm going to write a brief series wrap up after I get back Sunday, and will hand this big kabob back over to Jim who's still Enjoying that beautiful California smog (hehe, can't resist).

Get Em, D-Backs.

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For the record

Kevin Jarvis - Still yet to throw a pitch in 14 days since being called up.

Enrique Gonzalez - K:BB ratio of 6:1, K:IP ratio of 1:1, WHIP of 0.75 in 2 quality starts, both of which the team wins on the road.

Terry Mullholland - ERA is now 9. RHB's hitting .833 off him. Has allowed a run in 3 of his 5 appearances.

Scott Hairston - Is now hitting .325 with 13 homers, 40 RBI, and sports an OPS of 1.006 in Tucson. Maybe time to swap him up and Andy Green down?

by nihil67 on Jun 4, 2006 1:00 PM EDT 0 recs

DaVanon leads off with homer

1-0 D'Backs. It will be a long day for Sosa if he keeps throwing 3-2 fastballs down the middle of the plate

by William K on Jun 4, 2006 1:13 PM EDT 0 recs

Doug Eddings

Controversy follows the home plate unpire everywhere he goes. Already had a run in with DaVanon. - Wouldn't let him leave the batters box to get more rosin. And he has a long history with Estrada. Could be interesting...

"If my mind and my heart were done, it would be easier." -Troy Percival

by LTUPHLO on Jun 4, 2006 1:18 PM EDT 0 recs

Tony Clark homers to lead off the 2nd

2-0 D'Backs. Clark's 5-5 against Sosa

by William K on Jun 4, 2006 1:29 PM EDT 0 recs

DaVanon adds to the lead

2-run single makes it 4-0. He has 3 RBIs in the first 3 innings.

by William K on Jun 4, 2006 1:38 PM EDT 0 recs

Just the 2nd inning

D'Backs up 4-0 after 1 1/2.

by William K on Jun 4, 2006 1:39 PM EDT up 0 recs

Swept!

For the first time since 1995 in a four game series on the Braves home turf!

"If my mind and my heart were done, it would be easier." -Troy Percival

by LTUPHLO on Jun 4, 2006 3:55 PM EDT 0 recs

Oh My God we Swept the Braves????!!!!!

I've been focusing on the Suns the last few days...so this is a little bit of a surprise. I did not catch the game today.

7-3 for the road trip.

Batista working 6 2/3 innings and is 6-2. We put together a 4 run ninth inning. That's what I'm talking about.

D-Back pitching is actually deep. So deep we can send a man down to Tucson after getting 8 strikeouts and a win. Ortiz actually did halfway decent in his rehab in Tucson. (I still want Dontrelle!!!)

Easley. DaVanon. Even Clark hitting hot right now.

Thank god we swept this team because I think the Braves may still be playoff caliber if they can straighten it out.

We could have swept the whole darn thing if we had swept Cincy and got that "heartbreak hotel" extra innings game in New York.

Maybe I'll catch the game at the ol' BOB after work. I will try to put up with the Annoying Blonde. The D-Backs are gettin' it together. My dream of a NL West pennant this year, which many of you say should be seen by fans as a rebuilding year only...may come true - especially with the sudden demise (or return to usual losing form) of the Rockies.

I don't even know who the closer is anymore. Jarvis pitched the 9th? I thought they were going to send him down.

Lets get these teams while they're NOT hot!!!

by micmac99 on Jun 4, 2006 7:46 PM EDT up 0 recs

Don't celebrate sending Gonzalez down

That was a stupid, stupid thing to do. It wasn't because the team is deep--it's because they insisted on bringing the utterly useless Terry Mulholland off the DL. He immediately gave up a homerun. We don't need a LHP who sucks. Good RHPs are getting the job done. Sending Kiki down was just another in a long line of stupid moves by D'back management that stretch back a while.

And Ortiz needs to be dropped. Eat his contract if they have to. They're actually winning while this pitching blackhole has been "injured". He's going to take a roster spot from a pitcher who might actually help the team. Better to lose the cash and keep the roster spot.

by azshadowwalker on Jun 4, 2006 11:21 PM EDT up 0 recs

Someone needs to back down from the ledge.

New management hasn't been perfect, but can you name one management team that is? I think a "long line of stupid moves" is hyperbolic at best. Even the Easley signings and others are somewhat justifiable if you believe that Byrnes saw a division ripe for the taking and didn't want to completely give the roster over to the young guys, but incorporate them in gradually and allow them to come up to play on a team with expectations of success.

by dahlian on Jun 5, 2006 1:12 AM EDT up 0 recs

I'm talking D'back History...

which adds this: Dessens, Estes, Glaus, Sexson (which "rid" us of six players, including Capuano &, for a while, Counsell--all for a grand total of, what, 20 games? Great move!), Mondesi, the lengthy refusal to move Johnson. Do I need to go on? The history of this team's management has been laughable. That's not hyperbolic in the least. That's just realistic.

by azshadowwalker on Jun 5, 2006 6:20 PM EDT up 0 recs

woot

sorry i wasnt on to comment... felt ill.

"They call me the princess of third base" -- Chad Tracy

by Mr. Philosophical on Jun 4, 2006 4:00 PM EDT 0 recs

Good news...

PHI 6
LAD 3
Bot 9th

If they lose i think we go 2.0 ahead.

"They call me the princess of third base" -- Chad Tracy

by Mr. Philosophical on Jun 4, 2006 6:51 PM EDT 0 recs

Even better

With the Dodger's loss, we're up 2.5 games over LA.

by kishi on Jun 4, 2006 8:24 PM EDT up 0 recs

Interesting.

A six-run win today despite 0-for-5 days from both Tracy and Gonzalez. Last season, I don't know if the rest of the lineup could have stepped in so admirably in that kind of situation.

In my nightmares, I see Brian Bruney...make it stop...

by Azreous on Jun 4, 2006 10:16 PM EDT 0 recs