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Saturday, August 21, 2004
Angels 6, Yanks 1
In two games started by Ortiz and Sele the Angels have held the Yankee's murderer's row to one run. Who would have taken that bet?
It's clear that Sciosica thinks this is the most important series of the season. He used Shields/Donnelly/Rodriguez for a full six innings today, in a game that was never particularly close. This comes after he used Percival in a non-save situation the night before. It's a good thing in that you don't want to play games with the Yankee's bats, but it does leave us with a severely depleted bullpen for tomorrow's finale (I'm not looking forward to seeing Hensley in a pressure situation in that environment). Perhaps stretching K-Rod for two innings was a bit more than was necessary.
With back-to-back homeruns from Jose Guillen and Maya's guy, the Angels have now hit eight homeruns in their past four games.
I'll give you a second to pick your jaw off the floor...
Ready? Ok...
Yes, we have a miny power serge happening here. Perhaps more amazing is the fact that they've also drawn 14 walks over that span, or 3.5 BB/G. That's almost a full walk better than their season average of 2.69 BB/G (how sad is that?)!
So getting on base on hitting for power is an effective way to score runs. Who knew?
BTW: The game featured a nearly four hour rain-delay and took well over six hours to complete. Why no Elimidate?
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