Double Dip
Great baseball day today. I’m fortunate enough to be able to listen to the game from the desk while I’m working, so it’s pretty great to have Braves baseball on for an entire shift. But the beautiful homestead has given way to a very dark start to the road trip.
Today, JJ and Huddy get a chance to shut down a streaking Pirates team we’re 1-5 against so far this year. KJ is sitting again today (he’s been terrible leading off the last two weeks so this is probably a good move) and Infante getting a chance to lead off and play 2nd. I’m predicting a sweep of the double dip. We score a lot of runs today.
Road Woes
This team sucks on the road, and unless they start scoring some important runs in other people’s ballparks, they’re going to win 83 games. At home they’re hitting .316 and slugging .477. On the road, they’re hitting .248 and slugging 80 points lower. They’ve scored 110 runs at home, only 63 on the road. The pitching has been fairly consistent (though the ERA is much higher on the road, the run differential is only +4 at home) so this disparity falls almost entirely on the offense. What is it? I don’t know, but it’s got me really worried.
Here are our biggest offenders with the wimpy road bat: Diaz hitting .192 (with 16 Ks in 52 ABs), KJ hitting .213, and Frenchy leading the lightweights at .224. These guys have got to get themselves together if we’re going to rebalance this Road-Away disaster.
**That Sucked
Game 1 = microcosm of why we now have the diametrically opposite record on the road that we have a home. 4-14. FIFTEEN MEN LEFT ON! Makes you want to skip game 2. Get it together guys!
~BH in LA
2 Comments
May 15, 2008 at 3:43 am
Looks like the team may get it together yet - 2-of-3 from Philly would be a good step in the right direction. Then they can return home, where they play their best baseball.
Catch you later man.
G-Mc
May 17, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I like the new layout. It’s a lot easier to read. Keep it choppin or something like that right?….:o)
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