Wednesday, July 04, 2007 |
7 Come 11: Rangers 8, Angels 3
Santana managed to strike out 11 while blowing up for five runs in a ballpark he has never done well in, entering the game with a 9.00 ERA at the Rangers Ballpark at Arlington, and leaving with a 8.62 ERA. He gave up a pair of homers to Brad Wilkerson, who got three on the night, the third off Chris Bootcheck. Bootcheck has stumbled a bit lately, and is working his way back down the bullpen heirarchy; the Angels can't get Justin Speier back fast enough.
As for Santana, he's done better on the road lately, so I'm not as inclined to call for his head, but this kind of nonsense can't continue indefinitely.
The other problems for the Angels were their tepid offense, the 1-4 batters accumulating a paltry 1-for-15 against a starter they punished earlier in the season. Reggie Willits' continued slump might be to partly blame, but he's shown the ability to get out of those before. Welcome to July, everybody.
Labels: angels, rangers, recaps
Ramon Ortiz's comps after his 2nd year in the big leagues (when he was 27) -- Zach Day, John Halama, Ariel Prieto.
Ramon didn't get to 33 victories until his 29th birthday. He only had a K/BB ratio better than 2:1 twice in his career; Ervin has averaged better than that in his career.
Heal, Mike Napoli, heal!
And as for Napoli, I didn't watch the game because of the early start time (most weekday games I can only see if they're in-division), so I can't comment as to the blocking ability, but as with his brother, I expect his mobility behind the plate is deteriorating rapidly. Put him in front of an extreme sinkerballer and he'll have a lot of trouble. It would be interesting to see what Mathis could do with Lackey.
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