Can Two be in a Row?

So San Francisco goes ahead and skates into town and brings us their unsightly foggy, rainy garbage version of weather. Good Lord it really looked like crap out there on Monday night. So of course what do we get? We are treated to a pitchers duel for most of the night. Jake went out strong, started furthering his ”K” collection, while shouting from his dirt soapbox out there in the middle of the pet sponsored park, “I am your Cy Young pitcher”. If not for the performances of the young staff down in Marlinville, Jake might be running away with this thing. Another good night for the kid, 7IP, 6 hits, 1 walk, 1 earned run, 9 K’s. The one run was a mistake to the offspring of a Neikro and was last seen knuckling it’s way into the left field stands. Jake’s running season total:

20.2 IP
16 hits
4 walks
26 strikeouts
.97 WHIP
1.31 ERA

Not too shabby. Let’s hope his arm stays healthy and loose and not sore. We don’t need to see any Dravecky like moments out of this kid.

By the way, Jake is going to make all of $750K this year. Somebody better back up the dump truck full ‘o’ dough, I don’t want this guy making his escape out of here…

Last night saw the resurgence of the bats and the arm of Brian Lawrence. The squad was out in force last night hitting the ball all over the yard. Run production was high, as were the hit totals. Hell, even most of the outs were hit hard. Brian pitched 8 strong, gave up 6 hits and 2 runs both earned. But, I have to rain praise down upon the Lawrence, here he was trudging along generating an ERA that was touching the high points on a 1 to 10 scale and went out last night, ignored all the rumblings and pitched very well. Good pitching is when you let the defense take care of you, he struck out just two, walked none and lowered the ERA from 8.38 to 5.60. Still got some work to do before he gets to where he wants to be I am sure, but another start or two like last night and he is well on his way.

The Bats….

Everyone hit last night. I thinks Giles suffered the only 0’fer of the evening, but every time he was up he was tagging the baseball, it just so happens he was tagging it right to the guys wearing the bad uni’s out there. Loretta was knocking the ball around like Tawny Kitaen’s husband, and so was the newest likeable Padre, Geoff Blum. Ramon continues to beat the ball like a birthday piñata, and really, he has been one of just a couple of guys assaulting the baseball. Fun game to watch last night. Made me reminisce about last year’s team.

Tonight, it’s the Bums again. I do however get to try out my new seats at the Petco for the first time. Gotta go wipe the new off the front row out by third. I think that we can improve on that complete game shutout that Derek Lowe pitched against us this past weekend. We will in fact see…