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cknox0723 · 08-13-2006, 09:23 PM

33 year old Mark Redman is 2-0 against us this season in three tries, which begs the unanswerable question, "What kind of playoff team can't beat a left-hander with a record of seven wins and eleven losses against real major league teams?"

On this day Mark Redman shuts us out for eight-and-two-thirds, which is eight-and-two-thirds longer than our man Ryan Franklin, who started off his afternoon by walking the first two batters and then throwing a fat one that first baseman Carlos Pena cracked into left-center for a run-scoring single. There were many more of those to come for the home Kitties, and had Franklin not been removed in the second inning, there may have been thousands. As it was, there were a hand's worth in just an inning and a third, thanks to six (!!!) walks. "DSM-IV Jorge" DePaula (remember him?) would continue the walking and run allowing clearance sale in three-plus innings of long relief; "Wild Thing" Ankiel, strangely enough, did not walk a batter in the three innings he worked. Predictably, the hard-throwing left-hander was brilliant in the time he was in the game, dropping his season earned run average to 3.99 in 29 innings (mostly accumulated in June). It planted the seed in my mind to carry him on the postseason roster should we get there, but that is probably wishful thinking.

It is wishful thinking to make Ankiel a postseason pitcher, but not to think of our club as a postseason ballclub. "How?" you ask. "You just got your rear handed to you by the 75-win Tigers, a club led by SUPERSTARS like Reed Johnson and Jeff Suppan. You just lost to Mark Redman again. How could this club possibly make any postseason?"

Well, whoever you are wondering these things, there is a reason this thread has 800+ posts. And it ain't 'cause of the fancy color scheme.

We may have been bested by some lousy lefty again, but Boston got shutout by C.C. Sabathia (and the Sunshine Band, featuring guest vocalist Scott Eyre, a fellow southpaw), with home Cleveland getting offense from Jody Gerut's fourth-inning home run and some smallball or whatever it is called in the sixth. Our hated division rivals may have gained about fifteen games on us in the past month to go from in the rearview mirror to in the next county, but they've also all but put us in the playoffs. We're two up in the wild card with just four to play.

08-13-2006, 09:23 PM	#832
cknox0723 All Star Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 1,957	9/29/07 33 year old Mark Redman is 2-0 against us this season in three tries, which begs the unanswerable question, "What kind of playoff team can't beat a left-hander with a record of seven wins and eleven losses against real major league teams?" On this day Mark Redman shuts us out for eight-and-two-thirds, which is eight-and-two-thirds longer than our man Ryan Franklin, who started off his afternoon by walking the first two batters and then throwing a fat one that first baseman Carlos Pena cracked into left-center for a run-scoring single. There were many more of those to come for the home Kitties, and had Franklin not been removed in the second inning, there may have been thousands. As it was, there were a hand's worth in just an inning and a third, thanks to six (!!!) walks. "DSM-IV Jorge" DePaula (remember him?) would continue the walking and run allowing clearance sale in three-plus innings of long relief; "Wild Thing" Ankiel, strangely enough, did not walk a batter in the three innings he worked. Predictably, the hard-throwing left-hander was brilliant in the time he was in the game, dropping his season earned run average to 3.99 in 29 innings (mostly accumulated in June). It planted the seed in my mind to carry him on the postseason roster should we get there, but that is probably wishful thinking. It is wishful thinking to make Ankiel a postseason pitcher, but not to think of our club as a postseason ballclub. "How?" you ask. "You just got your rear handed to you by the 75-win Tigers, a club led by SUPERSTARS like Reed Johnson and Jeff Suppan. You just lost to Mark Redman again. How could this club possibly make any postseason?" Well, whoever you are wondering these things, there is a reason this thread has 800+ posts. And it ain't 'cause of the fancy color scheme. We may have been bested by some lousy lefty again, but Boston got shutout by C.C. Sabathia (and the Sunshine Band, featuring guest vocalist Scott Eyre, a fellow southpaw), with home Cleveland getting offense from Jody Gerut's fourth-inning home run and some smallball or whatever it is called in the sixth. Our hated division rivals may have gained about fifteen games on us in the past month to go from in the rearview mirror to in the next county, but they've also all but put us in the playoffs. We're two up in the wild card with just four to play.