Wait, wait, wait. We won a game where J Weav didn't start? Get out of here. That didn't happen. Yeah, it did. Thank you to AM 830 for providing the lunch time coverage for me yesterday, and thank you to the St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach for teaching Joel that cutter. Piñeiro had the best outing of any starting pitcher in this young season, powering through 7 large innings of 1 run ball, allowing just 5 mesely hits and striking out 7.
Nick Johnson: 1 for 4 with 2 Ks
Mark Teixeira: 0 for 4 with 1 K
Alex Rodriguez: 0 for 3 with 3 Ks
Curtis Granderson: 0 for 4
This was the start of a pitcher trying to be the hero. Agent Stopper. After the Halos have been getting banged around, JAP (the newest addition to the rotation) was the guy to slam the door. Mike Scioscia had a closed door meeting before the game to try and get our boys pumped up, and it worked. Now, with Joel stepping it up, will the longer tenured Angels be able to follow suit and step it up on the mound?
Scott Kazmir will be making his first start of the year, after missing start #1 due to rehabing his aching hammy. The Kazmanian Devil knows the Yanks pretty well, coming from the AL East not too long ago. Add to that the lifetime numbers of various pinstripped losers against Kaz:
Derek Jeter: .111
Robinson Cano: .154
Alex Rodriguez: .125.
Jeter is worse against Kazmir than any other MLB pitcher. Can we swipe a series win from NYY, get our first winning streak, and start fostering a litte winning attitude around here? I'm going to go with yes, because I like Kaz, and I think Phil Hughes is a bitch.
P.S. Props to Fernando Rodney for his solid save against the Yanks yesterday to fill in for Tito Fuentes, who will briefly be doing some DL time.
P.P.S. We need to explore Scot Shield a little bit in the near future (0 innings of 2 run ball yesterday, and he just couldn't get his groove at all). Poor Scottie.
-- Sent from my Palm Prē
0 comments:
Post a Comment