Okay, so Lowe’s pitched himself out of the playoff rotation in all likelihood. Not only is his sinker not on, his starts usually mean Pokey at 2B and Mientkiewicz-Millar on the right side instead of Millar-Trot. The domestic-violence duo of Lowe and Adams were pretty pathetic, but I think Embree, Astacio, Mendoza, and Foulke acquitted themselves well. Sweet no-hit effort. Mendoza probably is on the playoff roster. As for Scott Williamson, he got some sort of weird luck with all those pop-ups today, which made it really hard to tell whether he’s on or off. I think his breaking ball is screwing up timing nicely, but his fastball still doesn’t seem to have that zing. How did what set up to be a slugfest suddenly become a battle of bullpens anyway?
Nothing to complain about the offense. One thing I love about this team is you just know they can come back. 5-1 down, and I was saying on the Sons of Sam Horn game thread that it was very doable. Nice triple by Damon, who weirdly enough is the team’s third-highest home run hitter. Oh, and I hereby apologise for ragging on Kevin Millar earlier this season.
157 games, 921 runs. Another 41 runs in 5 games and they beat last season’s 961 runs. Considering that that was a team people were saying could be the best offensive team ever, that’s some feat. Time to beat up on the D-Rays and the Orioles.