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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
Two Games
Imperfect Game: White Sox 9, Angels 0
I stopped listening after the second, to be honest; it was the usual haplessness at the plate, times a rookie implosion on the mound. Oakland beat the Twins 1-0, knocking Francisco Liriano out for the year, and oh, well. Next year.Update: Almost as brutal and gory as this. Here, kitty, kitty!
Not Clogging The Bases: Dodgers 6, Cubs 0
"No. 1, I've let most guys hit 3-0 (in the count). That's one reason," Baker said. "I think walks are overrated unless you can run. If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps, but the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time he's clogging up the bases for somebody who can run."Dusty Baker has garnered all but universal scorn for those comments, but cling to them like a barnacle on a sinking ship he does. It must have relieved him to learn that the Cubs had no base-clogging walks Wednesday, unlike their six in yesterday's 9-8 victory. He's not long for this world, but the problem may well be that, with Jim Hendry still in the saddle, nobody will ever be made accountable at Wrigley for the annual failures.— Dusty Baker, March 10, 2004On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me.— Dusty Baker, August 24, 2006
As for the Dodgers, why, Brad Penny showed up and did wonderful things, Rafael Furcal homered in his second consecutive game, and Grady Little had Takashi Saito pitch in a game where his services were conspicuously unnecessary. I don't bother getting angry.
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