When they pitch, they don't hit. When they hit, they don't pitch. When they hit and pitch, they don't play defense. Well, tonight they managed not to pitch, hit, or play defense. And, ironically enough, the only team they can seem to beat, other than the hapless Texas Rangers, is the Boston Red Sox.
Tonight's culprit was clearly Josh Phelps, who is not long for this team, at least not as an everyday fill in for the injured Doug Mientkiewicz. Phelps is so bad that I have to stop referring to Mientkiewicz as Me-I-stink-o-witz. In addition to throwing the ball into centerfield on a potential double play ball, he grounded into two double plays that killed potential rallies. He can't field, period. Even Giambi was better. I really don't understand why Andy Phillips is not on this team - the guy can play first, not as well as Mientkiewicz, but he can hit a little better. If you were willing to live with Mientkiewicz's low batting average for his glove, why not the same with Phillips? The most notable thing that Phelps has done is level Seattle catcher Kenji Johijma for no apparent reason. Well, at least that did lead to four days off for Proctor (who, incidentally, didn't pitch yesterday or today. That must be a record).
Minor point: A-ROD needs to work on the 5-5-3 double play, which he botched tonight as well as last week in Toronto.
24-31. That means they have to go 15-8 just to get to 39-39, which is where they were on July 1st in 2005. The scarier part is that the 2005 team went 56-28 the rest of the way, to finish with 95 wins. Does anyone sense that is going to happen here? Remember also that Shawn Chacon and Aaron Small went a remarkable 17-3 in 2005, and to my knowledge neither one suffered from a fatigued groin.
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