No offense at all this week against chicago, sure we scored 4 runs tonight, but Contreras' earlier control problems should have led to more. It was nice to see Sizemore go yard, and hafner finally hit the ball hard at the end of the game, but what was Victor Martinez doing swining at the first pitch, after he just saw Hafner work the count and get a ptich he can take left-center to right center? Lets hope Martiniez is still just anxious from the new season.
I liked what I saw from Lee pitching wise, but his throw to first base tonight resembled little-league. We would have saved a run if he just would have ate it and held onto the ball.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
First Week Finished
My observations from the Indians first week of baseball:
1.) Kevin Millwood certainly seems to be worth every penny we spent on him so far this season. If the Tribe could simply just score around three runs for him while he starts he probably be alot happier right now. Also, Westbrook had a great start and a horriffic start, so its too soon to see what kind of season he will have. Finally, Jason Davis had a great start tieing hs career high in K's with 7, while Cliff Lee bombed like he did during the 2nd half of last season.
2.) I am one of the many who expects the Indians offense to regress a little this year, but not this much. They have had some big innings, but there has already been a couple of games where the offense has been anemic (like Chicago's and yesterdays home openers), as well as the 11-2 routing we had as well.
3.) Finally, the bullpen has been great other than Wickman's explosion the 2nd game of the yr., and the bad game against Detroit. Betancourt, Rhodes, and Riske have been great.
So if the Indians can bump up their run scoring up a about 2-3 runs, and they get similar pitching they could atleast be 4-3 this week.
1.) Kevin Millwood certainly seems to be worth every penny we spent on him so far this season. If the Tribe could simply just score around three runs for him while he starts he probably be alot happier right now. Also, Westbrook had a great start and a horriffic start, so its too soon to see what kind of season he will have. Finally, Jason Davis had a great start tieing hs career high in K's with 7, while Cliff Lee bombed like he did during the 2nd half of last season.
2.) I am one of the many who expects the Indians offense to regress a little this year, but not this much. They have had some big innings, but there has already been a couple of games where the offense has been anemic (like Chicago's and yesterdays home openers), as well as the 11-2 routing we had as well.
3.) Finally, the bullpen has been great other than Wickman's explosion the 2nd game of the yr., and the bad game against Detroit. Betancourt, Rhodes, and Riske have been great.
So if the Indians can bump up their run scoring up a about 2-3 runs, and they get similar pitching they could atleast be 4-3 this week.
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