One of the beauties of baseball lies in the pitching rotation. With five starters, it is almost like you get to “start over” every 6 games. Not happy with how some of your guys did the last week? No problem, consider it all forgotten as your Ace takes the mound. Wish you had someone stable in your rotation that you can rely on? Just wait, it’ll come. That is, unless you don’t have anybody in your rotation that can be considered stable.
Fortunately for us, we do. Strangely for us, we don’t have to wait another start to get our Ace up, with the off day the powers that be decided to skip a starter and head back to the beginning. While many (all?) would like to have our 5th guy out there today, knowing that Pomeranz has the type of stuff we really need right now, nobody will be complaining when Jeremy Guthrie takes the mound today against The Giants.
The Giants will have their Ace on the mound as well, with Tim Lincecum coming off a terrible outing with a line after five and a 1/3 innings he gave up six hits, five earned and all of that helps him start the season with a nice little 8.44 ERA (oh, and the loss).
Guthrie, on the other hand, went seven innings only surrendering three runs on four hits giving him a 3.86 ERA to start the season.
Throw into the mix the fact that Timmy doesn’t like to pitch at Coors (and really doesn’t like the “juiced balls”) and we got ourselves a potential fun game tonight!
LOL gameday still stuck on Hernandez’s AB.
Here’s how gameday scored the play
R Hernandez singled to center, T Helton scored, M Cuddyer to second, M Cuddyer to third, R Hernandez to second on error by first baseman B Pill.M Cuddyer scored, R Hernandez to third on error by first baseman B Pill.
A bitter Pill for the Giants.
Thanks. Yes, so fast Gmeday couldn’t keep up. Too cool! Go Rox!
“I don’t foresee a 3-2 or 4-3 game here. One team’s winning this thing by 4 or 5 runs. Who will it be?”
Good call Prog!!!
I didn’t expect 3 of those games in 1 night. 😀
Poor Affeldt having to come back out.
Chacin’s ERA is 9.00.
Tim Lincecum’s is 12.91.
Wish they left Belisle in 1 more inning since he was warm and had such an easy 6th. Agree with George and Drew here. Need Chatwood to finish the game. Not a good beginning.
Rox need to do some work tomorrow. Too many times last year we score ten runs and the next day we look listless at the plate and get lucky to have even five hits.
Esp day after night. I may go.
Would I be a total idiot to suggest sitting some regulars going into the bottom of the 7th as the batting order dictates, give some guys AB’s and some playing time? Seems like the air has somewhat come out of the bats (it’s only natural), and there is no reason to get anybody hurt. Jonny Herrera, anyone? Giambino anyone? Colvin anyone? Willin anyone? (let Pacheco sit just in case) It’s only a 9 run lead after all, and if (oops,… Read more »
I don’t think 8 runs is enough in this game.
If it’s not, then we have some really big problems in Lodo.
Just finished watching the game (i’m downtown Manila flying out in the morning and had to MLBtv it – yes, Love MLBtv for this very reason)…and that was my thought…instead of having a bunch of bench guys start a game (usually on Sundays), find a time exactly like the 8th tonight that you could bring them in to get work and rest your starters…that is when it should take place – on a blowout… The only thing I love about… Read more »
Chatwood reminds me of somewhere between Lindstrom and Street. Delivery starts slow then snaps into action.
Schierholtz has gone all James Loney on the Rockies at Coors. They really need to rethink how the approach him at the plate.
Give Ubaldo a call tonight, and follow his advice tomorrow! (kidding!)
Getting Loney should be our back-up 1B plan.
Nobody likes a guy who jumps in with the “I told you so,” but I can’t resist: has anyone noticed that Dex is 3 for 5 with 2 doubles tonite? Here’s what I wrote on the sabermetrics thread this afternoon when some folks wondered whether it might be time to sit perennial slow-starter Fowler: “So it is theoretically possible that there is such a thing as a true “second half player,” and it’s theoretically possible that Dex is one of… Read more »
Well, don’t jump to conclusions. A single game does not make a season. However since I am a Dex fan, I hope Dex keeps hitting.
EVERYBODY hit today. Nice to see that. Strange stuff. Staying up just long enough to listen to the press conference. Catch yall tomorrow.
Welcome back Jared, a nice pleasant surprise when you landed in the U.S. and checked the score on the smartphone yes? :=)
Actually i’m not home yet – i posted the pre-game last night (my time) and went to bed and when I woke up I had to drive several hours to Manila where i’m staying the night before tomorrow’s flight…i JUST finished the game (didn’t have a chance to watch it earlier) and will do the pre-game for tomorrow (and a post Marc sent over) and off to bed before my flight…i have a lay-over in Detroit where i’ll be watching… Read more »
Jaredean,welcome home.The way your last couple of weeks have gone I hope the weather[the first in 2 months]didn’t cause flight problems.Maybe u being in country/colorado was the good luck and positive energy “the boys” needed!
It was nice to see the boys scrath out a run and make the Beard throw 24 pitches. Good finish.
I hope they don’t go out and get shutout today
Some thoughts about last night: Offensively: BRILLIANT! Defensively: GOOD! Pitching: NEED IMPROVEMENT! Everyone was on fire: Almost every hitter in the starting lineup got a 2-hit game. The exception was Guthrie (obviously) and Scutaro who only hit safely 1 time but managed to score 3 runs. I hope to repeat this season infinitely that Scutaro is a great addition to this squad. He walked in his first AB after being 0-2, got a hit and later got first base in… Read more »
Wonderful, I didn’t want to jinx last night in my first night back and chatting. Well done on the site Jaredean. Very happy that you have done this. Also good to see all of you still around. Nice work by the team bouncing back in the YeaR of the Fan. Tracy scolded me on Twitter last night for saying I was overreacting to the 7 run 4th inning and the season so far was equivalent to one half of one… Read more »
Cesar, I like that Venezuelan perspective. I agree that Scutaro was an excellent addition. I think he’s had a couple rough patches adjusting to 2B and timing with Tulo, but he’s an excellent natural fielder so I’m not concerned at all about that. Can’t believe the Red Sox let him go for essentially nothing.
I’ve notices Scutaro’s angles throwing to first have been a little head scratching at times. Todd shouldn’t need to stretch toward the pitchers mound to backhand a throw from a 2B.
Well, I think Scutaro won’t take long to adjust to 2nd base. Just because he is a natural 2nd baseman, and a couple of years ago he adjusted to play at SS. In 2006, he won a title with the Leones del Caracas in the Venezuelan Winter League and then the “Serie del Caribe” playing 2nd base. Three years later, he started to play as a regular SS in the MLB for the Bluejays, before, he played in 2B, 3B… Read more »
he is very smooth..don’t think it would matter where he played..certainly has the arm strengh and smooth. Similar defensively (very good) as Ellis was with us last year but Scut a much better bat.
great sign for Rox
Go Rox
Wow what a great night, so the big difference I saw last night was the team kept the pedal to the floor. That team last year would of folded after falling behind 6-7. Way to go Rockies and keep the pedal to the floor today!!! My question is will it be the “B” squad today to rest the starters, as it is a day game following a night game? Hope not.
ROOT had a quick interview with Jim Tracy after the Rox reclaimed the lead, and they made the exact same comment to Jim Tracy, and he agreed with them. I thought that was an eye opener.
I’m referring to the pedal to the floor last night part, not the B squad part.
Earlier I compared Nate Schierholtz to James Loney as a Rockie killer.
Nate Schierholtz
20 career HR, 7 HR vs the Rockies, 7 in Coors Field.
James Loney
67 career HR, 15 HV vs Rockies, 9 in Coors Field.
Hey all, so glad this game ended up the way it did – i was very excited to run Timmy (my least favorite NL player by far) off the mound as quickly as we did, but when I saw Guts get send out right after that I was hoping it didn’t turn into 2011 Rox…and, alas, it didn’t! Score one for the good guys! Can someone pick up the slack while i’m heading home…all you have to do is post… Read more »
JD-hope its not a sign-first game I haven’t logged on to RWO during the game (busy with the little guy) and look at the result! Have fun enjoying the family man, that’s more important than RWO!
Let’s do it again boys!
Certainly one of the most entertaining games I have been to in a long time. Seeing “the freak” get shelled was nice. JT had a good comment after that as long as the team laid off the balls out of the zone and made him throw strikes, he felt they could hit. They didn’t chase many bad pitches. Another really good thing to see was their approach to hitting. Didn’t see hardly anyone uppercutting …mostly driving the ball into gaps,… Read more »