Thursday, April 12, 2007

Someday....

Maybe someday a manager will come along who, having spent the vast majority of his (or her - hey, it's the future we're talking about) life in baseball, can recognize when a pitcher clearly doesn't have major league quality stuff/control, and is man (or woman) enough to realize his (or her) mistake after one hitter.

Maybe when that day comes, we'll be spared the atrocity that was the bottom of the eighth inning of today's game, where Scot Shields couldn't find the strike zone until he was facing Travis Hafner with two runners (whom he had walked) on base. One swing, and a one run lead was a two run deficit. But hey, at least he finally threw a strike.

2 comments:

THN said...

The only problem I see is that who else was warming up in the bullpen? This pen is going to be spent. They are going to need to roll with an extra pitcher soon.

Seitz said...

Well, ideally, he wouldn't have removed Speier in the first place.