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Saturday, May 01, 2004You make the callA pitcher goes 5 innings. He allows no runs and just two hits. He's thrown just 61 pitches. What do you do? If your Mike Scioscia you take him out of the game. I don't think I've ever been angrier with Mike then I am right now. Aaron Sele was in the middle of arguably the best performance by any Angels starter this season. Five innings and 61 pitches? Before the game Scioscia mentioned that he was on a pitch count, and they were going to try to limit him to 75. What the fuck!? Sele's not injured. He's not a middle reliever making a spot start. He's not some rookie fresh out of AAA. He's a goddamn starter, and there's no reason to be counting his pitches. And at the very least you could let him throw the 75 you promised him. Anyway, I think Scioscia is fresh out of excuses to keep Ortiz in the rotation now. I would assume the only that was keeping him in there this long was that Scioscia didn't trust those who might replace him. Well now he has irrefutable evidence that there are better options on this roster. Another note: A Molina brother was thrown out on a failed hit & run attempt for the second time this season. Why would anyone ever try a hit & run with a Molina on first? I'm not seeing a whole lot of reason to keep Mike Scioscia around any longer. UPDATE: Ron Gardenhire just made one of the worst decisions I've ever seen, as he lifted the righty Rincon for left-hander Aaron Fultz to force Chone Figgins to bat from the right side. A quick glance at his splits shows that Figgins is hitting .250 from the left side and .385 from the right this season. Base hit, run scores, game over. |
