Sunday, April 23, 2006
Sox 9, Minnesota 2
Our cup overflows. The Sox beat Johan Santana and Brad Radke on consecutive nights, turning the 7-8 Twinkies into the 7-10 Twinkies. Thome continued his run-scoring streak and added a late-inning, victory-topping monster home run. Remember that Black Betsy's mantra is "Minnesota Twins delenda est," so all this is especially sweet. The Twins have very good pitching, but with the rise of the Tigers, they could be a fourth place team this year.
Jermaine Dye had a monster game - he was in +4 ERV territory until his long line out in the 8th inning. He still sets a since-I've-been-tracking Sox ERV record with a +3.93 territory. (By comparison, Alfonso Soriano's 3-homer, 1 double game on Friday was only a +4.20 ERV game).
After four starts this year, it seems pretty clear to me that Freddy Garcia's future is as a junkballer. His fastball never got past 90 mph on the WGN gun (at least that I saw), and he threw curveball after curveball. This is not the Freddy Garcia that the Sox gave a 3-year $27 million deal in 2004. Yet, the Herald stated that:
Sox starter Freddy Garcia (3-1) cruised through the Minnesota lineup much as Mark Buehrle did the night before. Garcia's velocity, which had dipped in previous starts, making the Sox a bit nervous last year's workload and this spring's World Baseball Classic had wore on his arm, was back. He permitted two runs and seven hits over 6 2/3 innings, walking one and striking out three.Wha?? Was he watching the same Freddy Garcia as me? There was nothing about Garcia's "returned velocity" in the Trib or the Sun-Times.
Alright, enough rambling. You are here for the ERV boxscore / scoresheet anyway (note the high negative ERV value of Cintron's 1-2-3 DP in the 7th):
| Batter | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | B/R | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pods | -0.24 | -0.32 |
| 0.13 |
| -0.16 | -0.61 |
|
| -0.24 | -1.43 |
| Iguchi | 0.27 | 0.98 |
|
| -0.24 | -0.61 |
| 0.38 |
|
| 0.78 |
| Thome | -0.31 | -0.35 |
|
| 0.27 | 0.12 |
| 1.62 |
|
| 1.35 |
| Konerko | 0.21 |
| -0.24 |
| 0.37 | -0.49 |
| 0.62 |
|
| 0.46 |
| Dye | 2.66 |
| -0.17 |
| 1.50 |
| 0.38 | -0.45 |
|
| 3.93 |
| AJ | 0.13 |
| 0.24 |
| 0.11 |
| 0.93 | -0.32 |
|
| 1.09 |
| Crede | -0.24 |
| -0.35 |
| 0.08 |
| 0.65 |
|
|
| 0.14 |
| Gload | -0.37 |
|
| -0.37 | |||||||
| Mackowiak | 0.62 |
| -0.24 | -0.61 |
|
|
|
|
| -0.22 | |
| Anderson | 0.84 |
|
|
| 0.84 | ||||||
| Cintron | -0.45 |
| -0.17 |
| 0.38 | -1.70 |
|
| 0.24 | -1.70 | |
| Total | 4.87 |
| Pitcher | ERV |
|---|---|
| Garcia | 1.51 |
| Logan | -0.34 |
| McCarthy | 0.96 |
| Jenks | 0.52 |
| Total | 2.65 |
Player of the Game: Jermaine Dye
Pitcher of the Game: Freddy Garcia
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