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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Angels 2, Rangers 0
Great pitching, limp bats. Sounds familiar, right?
- Lackey's performance tonight was the best of his career- bar none. His curveball was a deadly out-pitch tonight, and mixed in his change-up to great effect. I felt a little sorry for John, as he deserved to finish this one up, but you can understand why Mike Sciosica was so anxious to get to Percy.
It's gone virtually unnoticed, but Lackey has been our best starter over the past two months (when he wasn't on the DL, that is). He's only had one bad start over that span, and his ERA is 3.05 with a 30/8 K/BB ratio.
- Where art thou Vlad? It's pretty amazing that we're still in this thing, what with Vlad only slugging .436 in July.
- Yes, we are right in the thick of things once again. This win puts us just three out of the division, and with the recent resurgence of Colon and Ortiz, and the solid work being put in by Lackey and Escobar, one can't help but feel a sense of momentum building. Sure, the offense has been limp-wristed as of late, but I have no real worries on that front.
- In case you missed it, go check out Chronicles' transcript of the Bill Stoneman interview. BREAKING NEWS: He may or may not try to improve the club in some way! Ok beat writers- run with it!
- I forgot to mention Troy Percival's 300th career save. I gotta say, for awhile there it looked like he was never going to reach this milestone, but he managed to limp his way here. I was fully expecting this post to be tempered by calls to relegate Percy to a smaller role, but he rolled to 300 with two straight fairly dominate performances. He's shown good velocity (94-95 mph) and what can no longer be described as a "developing" curveball in these last two games, and can be effective with those two pitches. My faith in Percy has been restored, for now.
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