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Thursday, April 15, 2004
They say bad calls even out...
...well, right now we're down one. And it was a big one.
Suzuki led off the 6th with a grounder to Figgins, who airmailed the throw to Erstad at first. Erstad made an incredible play by jumping at least four feet off the ground to catch the throw, then made an even more amazing play to get the tag on Suzuki. The call: safe. The M's go on to score 5 in the inning (with the help of a comedy of errors from the Halos) and chase John Lackey from the game.
This is my biggest beef with officials in every sport- calling plays based on what they assume must have happened. Just because a play looked impossible to make doesn't mean it didn't get made, and just because a shooter looks like he could have been fouled doesn't mean he was fouled. What ever happened to calling them as you see them?
Lackey had descent control tonight, but had a hell of a time putting hitters away. Zero strikeouts in 5 1/3 is just not going to cut it in the bigs (especially when you have so many hitters down 0-2). It was an encouraging performance as far as his mechanics are concerned, as he seemed to be in control of himself up until the 6th. Now if he could just find the stuff he had his rookie year we might have a pitcher on our hands.
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