Saturday, April 29, 2006
Sox 8, Los Angeles of Anaheim 5
Hooray for Jeff Weaver. After dominating the Sox early in his career (or so it seemed), he's really turned it around and become a reliable victory for the Sox. His control was non-existent, even if he had his strikeout pitch working, and he grooved a number of cookies for Sox hitters to munch on. Only Jermaine Dye homered for the Sox.
The Angels helped out with a number of bad defensive plays. Adam Kennedy couldn't reach Podsednik's weak two-out grounder up the middle of the second, and then Garret Anderson gator-armed Iguchi's long fly (which I thought was an easy home run off the bat) to left. All in all, the five-run second inning was largely a set of Angel gifts.
Oddly enough, the Sox have batted 9 men in an inning several times, but have not sent more than 9 to the plate. This is great for your scoresheet or spreadsheet, but it would be nice to put up a 7 spot or so.
Jim Thome looks like he is heading for a slump to me. He didn't make contact with some juicy pitches last night.
Here is your ERV scoresheet / boxscore:
| Batter | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | B/R | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pods | 0.38 | 1.69 | -0.37 |
|
| -0.24 | 0.31 |
|
| -0.44 | 1.33 |
| Iguchi | -0.35 | 1.91 |
| 0.38 |
| 0.27 | -0.75 |
|
|
| 1.46 |
| Thome | -0.11 | -0.35 |
| -0.35 |
| -0.31 |
| -0.24 |
|
| -1.35 |
| Konerko | 0.38 | 0.38 | 0.63 |
| 0.21 |
| 0.27 |
|
| 1.87 | |
| Dye | 0.57 | 1.62 | -0.69 |
| -0.44 |
| -0.31 |
|
| 0.75 | |
| AJ | -0.56 | 0.38 | -0.49 |
|
| 0.38 | -0.24 |
|
| -0.52 | |
| Crede | 0.61 | -0.35 |
| -0.24 |
| -0.35 |
| -0.24 |
| -0.56 | |
| Uribe | -0.78 | 1.43 |
| -0.17 |
| -0.31 |
| 0.27 | -0.24 | 0.20 | |
| Anderson | 1.00 | -0.61 |
| -0.11 |
| 0.21 |
| -0.31 |
| 0.18 | |
| Total | 3.35 |
| Pitcher | ERV |
|---|---|
| Garcia | 0.10 |
| McCarthy | -0.98 |
| Cotts | 0.42 |
| Jenks | 0.11 |
| Total | -0.35 |
Player of the Game: Paul Konerko
Pitcher of the Game: Neal Cotts
