July 18, 2008

Game 96: Six Straight Curveballs

By Mike McClary in Featured, Game Recaps | 1 comment

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The Score: Orioles 7 - Tigers 4

The Gist: Armando Galarraga gave up two, two-strike home runs and Bobby Seay refused to throw anything but a breaking ball to Luke Scott and the Tigers fell back to the .500 mark. The Tigers weren’t suffering from a lack of baserunners. In fact, they had bases loaded with one out in the third, among other stranded-runner situations. Speaking of stranded runners, Placido Polanco had five; Magglio Ordonez six. On the plus side, Pudge Rodriguez went 4 for 4 with a two-runner homer. Did we mention Bobby Seay? Oh, Bobby…

The Quote: “What do I have to do to get called up?!” — What I imagine lefty Clay Rapada says every time Seay has an outing like Friday’s.

The Stat: 0. The number of walks allowed by Galarraga. Darned impressive for someone on a staff full of generous pitchers.

Up Next: Tigers @ Orioles

Nate Robertson (6-9, 5.26) vs. Daniel Cabrera (6-5, 4.33)

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1 Comment(s)

  1. Doug | Jul 18, 2008 | Reply

    It’s good to see Bobby Seay’s seven straight scoreless appearance string snapped. Talk about a misleading stat.

    And how about Maggs? Two DPs with the bases juiced? Seems to me those runner’s stranded could/should be a lot higher.

    Here’s the new stat (I’ll see if I can calculate a couple if time allows this weekend): (Runs Scored + RBIs) - LOB = Runs Actually Produced (RAP). It’s the baseball equivalent to hockey’s +/-.

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