<TABLE class=ticketTable><TBODY><TR><TD class=ticketTableTitle>Wager Type:</TD><TD class=ticketTableCell>Money Line</TD></TR><TR><TD class=ticketTableTitle>Wager Status:</TD><TD class=ticketTableCell>Pending</TD></TR><TR><TD class=ticketTableTitle>Risk / To Win Amount:</TD><TD class=ticketTableCell>21.00 / 20.00 (USD) Accepted 6/7/2005 5:55 AM</TD></TR><TR><TD class=ticketTableTitle></TD></TR></TD></TR><TR><TD>Sport / Period:</TD><TD>MLB Baseball / Game </TD></TR><TR><TD>Line:
</TD><TD>Detroit Tigers 6/7/2005 7:10:01 PM - PST
</TD></TR><TR><TD>Pitchers:</TD><TD>ROBERTSON-L - Must Pitch D THOMPSON-L - Must Pitch</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
</TD><TD>Detroit Tigers 6/7/2005 7:10:01 PM - PST
</TD></TR><TR><TD>Pitchers:</TD><TD>ROBERTSON-L - Must Pitch D THOMPSON-L - Must Pitch</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
2-1 Tigers now as they take their first lead and I skip my first heartbeat.
Don't like what I'm seeing from Thompson. Way too many pitches and terrible control. Hope the Dodgers aren't using this game as an experiment or a taste of the majors for him.
The offense for the Dodgers is atrocious to begin with. Add to that this lineup of replacements (Edwards, Repko, Perez and Saenz in the starting lineup?!) and this really doesn't bode well...
There are better options for enormous bets!
2 walks, five hits and sixty-seven pitches in three-plus innings is a bad line. Dodgers lucky to be down one.
Don't like what I'm seeing from Thompson. Way too many pitches and terrible control. Hope the Dodgers aren't using this game as an experiment or a taste of the majors for him.
The offense for the Dodgers is atrocious to begin with. Add to that this lineup of replacements (Edwards, Repko, Perez and Saenz in the starting lineup?!) and this really doesn't bode well...
There are better options for enormous bets!
2 walks, five hits and sixty-seven pitches in three-plus innings is a bad line. Dodgers lucky to be down one.
And here is why I hate the way MLB managers play ONLY according to a defined set of rules...
After Phillips' homer ties it up, Mike Edwards triples. Derek Thompson, the pitcher, is due.
Derek Thompson is not pitching a good game. 70 pitches, 5 hits, 2 walks, 2 runs...not good. No reason to try to stretch this guy in the game. What's he gonna pitch.. a max of 1 or 2 more innings? And with the same degree of 'effectiveness' that he's pitched up to now, with a WHIP of almost 2?
If this is the 7th or 8th inning, Thompson is pinch hit for. Why is a run worth any less in the 4th than it is in the 7th, 8th or 9th? I could see if you had a Dontrelle Willis type pitcher out there...or the type of offense where you don't think that one-run will necessarily make a difference. But if you know you struggle to score, and your man just tripled to tie the game, why not go for the lead, instead of giving up the opportunity? Just to save a walk-prone, hit-prone, shaky pitcher?
I don't get it. But ever manager...EVERY manager would play it the same way.
And don't give me that 'if you took him out now, you'd tire out your bullpen by mid-season' crap...because every manager would play this situation the same way...whether it's day one of spring training or game 7 of the World Series.
After Phillips' homer ties it up, Mike Edwards triples. Derek Thompson, the pitcher, is due.
Derek Thompson is not pitching a good game. 70 pitches, 5 hits, 2 walks, 2 runs...not good. No reason to try to stretch this guy in the game. What's he gonna pitch.. a max of 1 or 2 more innings? And with the same degree of 'effectiveness' that he's pitched up to now, with a WHIP of almost 2?
If this is the 7th or 8th inning, Thompson is pinch hit for. Why is a run worth any less in the 4th than it is in the 7th, 8th or 9th? I could see if you had a Dontrelle Willis type pitcher out there...or the type of offense where you don't think that one-run will necessarily make a difference. But if you know you struggle to score, and your man just tripled to tie the game, why not go for the lead, instead of giving up the opportunity? Just to save a walk-prone, hit-prone, shaky pitcher?
I don't get it. But ever manager...EVERY manager would play it the same way.
And don't give me that 'if you took him out now, you'd tire out your bullpen by mid-season' crap...because every manager would play this situation the same way...whether it's day one of spring training or game 7 of the World Series.
I dunno. I hear that argument, but given that pennant races are often won by a game or two, if I were a manager, I would do what I could to win every game. If that meant pulling a starter in the first inning, I do it. If it means bringing my closer in to get a critical strikeout in the fifth, I do it. Do what you can to win.
Why every manager plays by the EXACT same book is puzzling. Our most vaunted heroes, in every aspect of life, are always those who go against the grain, not with it.
Why every manager plays by the EXACT same book is puzzling. Our most vaunted heroes, in every aspect of life, are always those who go against the grain, not with it.
