Thursday, April 26, 2007

Is Today The Day Cole Hamels Strikes Out 27 Batters?

Top of Sixth: I'm bad luck. I'm done with this for today.

Bottom of Fifth:
Here is just a ridiculous set of stats. Below are the OPS for Brian Schneider from 2004-2006 against the teams in the NL East.

Mets: .646 OPS
Braves: .592 OPS
Marlins: .596 OPS
Phils: .891 OPS

250 to 300 points higher against the Phillies? How is that even possible?

Phils offense is putrid right now. They need some baserunners.


Top of Fourth:
Dmitri Young closed his eyes and hit a home run to RF. Hamels with two more strikeouts. Bleh.

Top of Third:
Hamels strikes the leadoff hitter out for the third straight time. He threw maybe six pitches that inning. It is ridiculous how good he is.

Top of Second:
I remember a time earlier this season when Jimmy Rollins would actually take pitches. Apparently they feel as those their best chance to get on base is to swing at anything. It probably won't take too long for other teams to figure this out as well.

Kearns breaks up the perfect game with a weak single up the middle. Hamels got another K and got the other two outs easily. This game is sailing along.

Top of First:
Who put Sarge Matthews in charge of the Keys to the Game? You could get more insight by asking the grass their opinion. Hamels with only one strikeout in the first inning, the other two outs came via foul outs. I really think the Phillies may want to re-think their strategy and let foul balls drop. Sure they would be giving away out, but I feel that opposing teams would be much more intimidated by Hamels if he were allowed to strike them all out.

Pre-Game: Three of the batters, excluding the pitcher, in Washington's lineup have an OBP under .282. That is impressive. What is not impressive is The White Stripes new single, which XM won't stop playing, that basically is a Black Sabbath cover. Only not.

Pre-Game: The Washington Nationals barely have a major league lineup. Cole Hamels is the greatest pitcher since, well ever. I'm expecting at the very least a no-hitter.

I'm going to live blog the game, as long as it is over by the time I want to leave work. This will be an interesting experiment.

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