Here is a one-question IQ test.
Which is better:
1. Running out a ground ball and getting thrown out at first.
2. Getting thrown out at first while diving into the bag thereby tearing a ligament in your thumb and missing six-to-eight weeks.
Sorry Mr. Hamilton: you failed the test. You'll have to return to the disabled list.
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When Paul Goldschmidt took Tim Lincecum yard in a weekend affair, it shocked absolutely no one. The Diamondback slugger has stepped to the plate 24 times against The Freak. He has 13 hits. Seven of them have left the ballpark.
Tim? Does the term "intentional walk" mean anything to you?
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Charlie Blackmon update: When last we visited with the Rockies' lefty-hitting centerfielder, he was crushing the ball. He's cooled way off -- to .488/.500/.707, with just two whiffs in 44 visits to the plate.
He does lead the majors in triples. With one.
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For last Monday's home tilt against the Angels, the then 3-3 Astros, coming off a spanking of the same Anaheim squad the previous day, drew a zero rating on television. According to Neilson, not a soul in the Houston metro area watched a Monday afternoon game featuring, if not anyone of interest on the home side, Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton and CJ Wilson.
That zero is 17,936 less than the number of people who witnessed it live.
It's actually the second zero rating for the American League's worst team. They pulled a zilch in a late September contest against Cleveland last season. But at least that one followed 14 straight losses and had to compete head-on with a Texans game.
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Here's some good Astro news: Hurler Scott Feldman has allowed a run on seven hits -- in three starts. That 0.44 ERA looks really shiny . . . until you discover that he's walked eight fanned seven and hit five batters in 21 innings.
Feldman's ERA (0.44) is among the league's best. His strikeout rate (3.0/game) close to the worst. If one of them doesn't change soon, the other will.
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In 46 plate appearances so far, Phillies second-sacker Chase Utley has gotten aboard safely 26 times and pounded nine extra base hits. That's positively Bondsian . . . except Barry was seven years older and did it over a whole season.
2 comments:
No one has accused baseball players and managers lately of being the next 'Einsteins'.
Is Baseball Intelligence the same as Military Intelligence? Both meaningless in concept.
Maybe the drugs dented Hamilton's brain.
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