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Finally, we win one! It seems like it has been a week (6 days). I can’t get too excited over this, since the team has largely given up and is beginning to focus on next year. But, a win is a win, and I will take it.
Pitching was better than it has been the past few days. Hampton wasn’t great, but he wasn’t awful, either. It was his longest outing of the season (not hard) and he lowered his ERA. He went five innings, giving up seven hits and four runs. If he could have cut back on the walks, it would have helped. The pen helped tonight. Bennett pitched two solid innings, perfect innings, in fact. Soriano and Gonzo pitched the last two innings, neither game up a run.
The story of the night was the hitting. We pounded out seven runs on fifteen hits. Escobar had two hits, scored and drove one in. Kotsay did the same. Infante is on fire as of late. He had three hits tonight, two RBI and two runs scored. KJ joined the hit parade with two hits and two RBI. Sammons hits and three RBI in his second (?) game.
Brave salvage the series finale, 9 - 4.
Today’s game 7:35 PM. Not nationally televised.
Good showing, indeed, and badly needed after the horrid week this franchise has endured. Good to see Sammons get the chance to play (man, Corky sucks) and make the most of it. Kid needs to start again tonight.
Infante has been blistering since coming off the DL. Dude was a heck of a pickup in the offseason (remember, that’s a trade Wren made at the Winter Meetings, getting Infante AND Ohman for Jose Asciano).
Need to get this one tonight, with CC and Sheets slated to toe the slab for the Brew Crew this weekend.
Bud.
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Comment by Bud — August 1, 2008 @ 8:07 am
It’s fantastic that Hampton and Sammons drove in a bunch of runs, but the face that they scored the majority of them is a little disconcerting.
Comment by BenMurphy — August 1, 2008 @ 1:22 pm