Monday, July 21, 2008

Series Report: Reno @ St. George (July 17-19, 2008)

The Sox dropped the series 1-2. Pitching still looks to be the issues. None of the starters made it past the third inning and the game #3 starter, Kevin Frederick, who had been pitching great before the All-Star break only made it through two while surrendering six earned runs.

Another odd thing is that it is hard to tell who are the starters anymore. I have heard of teams having a closer by committee but it looks like the Sox are going with a starter by committee. Nathan Ginsberg got a start and (former?) starter Steve Russell came in in relief. Then Ginsberg relieved two nights later. Fields also has been coming on in relief. So other than Jesse Hall and Kevin Frederick, you really have to just show up to know who is going to take the mound to start the game.

Offensively, the Sox are in the bottom 50% of the league in most categories. Team totals are .307 AVG (6 of 8 teams), 62 HRs (#5), 301 RBIs (#6), 76 SB (#2) , and .379 OBP (#6). Hopefully the guys can step that up.

The Sox head home and will be here for 3 days before hitting the road again. So far the second half is shaping up like the first with the canadian teams in front and Reno and Chico in the cellar. Hopefully this changes or we will see an all-canada playoff (not that that is a bad thing) and, more important to Sox fans, the second straight season with the Sox out of the playoffs after winning the GBL championship in their first one.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

SS Fan,

I'm really starting to question the Coaching staff. In our short past the previous staff would have never put up with this type of pitching......The offense can't put up 8-10 runs a game.

S Sox

Anonymous said...

Because of the All Star break the rotation was reset and because of the extra work they used a couple starters in relief to fill in. Russell will go game one and Hall will start game two against Long Beach.

Anonymous said...

The revolving doors continue, 3 new pitchers yersterday..


S Sox

Anonymous said...

You can't really say that they aren't trying to find guys that will get the job done. And in my opinion as of late the pitching staff has been better.

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