Friday 6/7 @ Tampa Bay

[Roy Firestone]

Just one more scoreless inning Cole...

[Billy F-Face3]

I can't with this pitcher's name. I'm sitting herr laughing through the whole inning but trying to refrain so I can follow the message board rules and keep it PG.

[Billy F-Face3]

I can't with this pitcher's name. I'm sitting herr laughing through the whole inning but trying to refrain so I can follow the message board rules and keep it PG.

[Malike]

Just now, Roy Firestone said:

Just one more scoreless inning Cole...

I'd go for 3 more scoreless innings out of him, personally.

[Il BuonO]

Just now, Roy Firestone said:

How much longer for Ced?

Today, or in general? I’d say the leash is getting short. Strange, because he was hitting it hard earlier in the week. I was thinking he might break out.

[Gurgi]

I am falling out of love with Mullins.  He is a black hole in our lineup.  

[Jagwar]

2 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

How much longer for Ced?

Really can't be long. 

[Il BuonO]

1 minute ago, Malike said:

I'd go for 3 more scoreless innings out of him, personally.

He’s only at 70 pitches.

[Morgan423]

3 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

Our college coach hated foul ball HRs. He said they often led to strike outs. 

While that's technically correct in non-two-strike counts, it's not like players are hitting them on purpose. 

Edited June 8 by Morgan423

[Jagwar]

Just now, Gurgi said:

I am falling out of love with Mullins.  He is a black hole in our lineup.  

I'm with you, though I'm not sure his roster replacement is guaranteed to be any better. 

[SteveA]

23 minutes ago, oriolediehard said:

When we win games 10-2 and 11-1 it adds up, losing games 3 or more scoring 2 or less is more losses and runs seem higher when we win big in 1 game.

We have very few wins like that.

I think the run scoring environment is down in baseball and people just haven't adjusted for that.   We lead the majors at a bit over 5 runs per game, and there are only 2 or 3 teams that are scoring that much.   Scoring is down.

So a night like tonight, where we have 4 runs in 6 innings, seems like we aren't hitting well.   But it is actually quite good.

Add that to the general game thread mentality that every time we got a couple innings without scoring it's "sleepwalking", and selective memory, and people start to believe our offense isn't very good.

We have 4 runs in 6 innings and the majority of the comments on our offense have been negative.  A guy who started year as our #5 starter and has allowed 2 runs in 5 innings and is still pitching in the 6th .... yet most of the comments here about his pitching are negative.

In a recent game thread someone posted that they could barely stand to watch our games because of our scoring droughts and other perceived flaws,   And I think we had won 7 of 8 games at the time!!!!!   

The gap between perception and reality in the game thread is enormous.

[Il BuonO]

By you.

[Jagwar]

1 minute ago, Il BuonO said:

He’s only at 70 pitches.

He looks solid. Never saw this effectiveness coming. 

[baltfan]

Irvin is confident and pitch efficient. Really valuable 

[Malike]

1 minute ago, Jagwar said:

Really can't be long. 

Who do you replace him with? Cowser has a .580 OPS in May and .330 so far in June. All the bad luck talk is just that, there have been no results for over a month now.