VERY cautiously. ;-) As you say, I’ve sat through too many false dawns before, where the team has seemed on the verge of a breakthrough, only to turn around the next day and deliver a stinker of a performance. However, in the past 14 games, they’ve scored 60 runs – compared to only 42 in the previous fourteen, and 50 in the fourteen before that. In addition, they’ve reached ten hits or more more often than not over that time.

Maybe it’s just wishful thinking on my part, but the quality of the at-bats seems to be getting a bit better too. I still think the outfield lineup – outside of the valiantly substituting Jackson – is very weak offensively, and I look forward to seeing Snyder back behind the plate [with an extended cup, I believe!] soon too: Hammock is about as good at the plate as Burke. However, the worst may be over?

But I won’t start to really believe that until we have put together a winning streak of at least three games – we haven’t done that since May 16. Still, with consecutive games featuring starts from our ace Webb, tomorrow in Philadelphia and then next Friday against the Dodgers [and that’s going to be a very crucial series], now is as good a time as any to start!

Welcome to the ‘Pit, too!

the offense never would have scored 5 and 10 in the next two games. A blessing in disguise.

AZ last 10 games: 5-5, 3.9 R/G, .672 OPS

When they avg 4.5 R/G or .750 OPS over a 10 game period then they’ve turned it around

then come the hits, then come the runs, then come the wins.

We’ve got #1 and #2 improving significantly lately, and #3 is just barely starting to pick up.

C’mon, #4!!