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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
Check Your Coffee For Ex-Lax, Mike Everitt: Indians 4, Angels 3
... because that was the worst foul ball call I have ever seen. From where we were, it was fair as the day is long.
That said —
- Justin Speier failed to do his job.
- Vlad Guerrero hit into two more double plays, only one of which will be recorded on Baseball-Reference's AL leaderboard because it was a lineout. Dear God, has he forgotten over the winter that GIDP's are a Bad Thing?
Update: Vlad also leads the majors in GIDPs. Terry Smith last night claimed this was a side effect of encountering a string of groundball pitchers, but let's review this, shall we?
- April 14 vs. Rangers: Vlad hits into two double plays, the first against Kason Gabbard who indeed is an extreme groundball pitcher, with G/F ratios of anywhere from 1.70 to 2.00+. The second was against Kazuo Fukumori, currently the owner of a 20.25 ERA. (I can't find any G/F ratio data on him at his Japanese Baseball page.)
- April 6 vs. Rangers, against Vicente Padilla, a proficient but not extreme groundballer (career G/F of 1.45).
- Not to single him out, but the Angels have the second most GIDPs in the majors after the Twins.
- This offense cannot long survive without Howie Kendrick. Izturis and Aybar in the same lineup is like giving the opposition a half-day off, with the caveat that today Aybar somehow managed to accumulate his thirteenth multi-hit major league game today. Such things are flukes, as his .100 average going into today's game attests.
- Also making whistling noises to the cellar: Casey Kotchman, Maicer Izturis, and Jeff Mathis.
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