Well, that didn’t go as planned! It is opening day, but I don’t think CC broke
91 MPH all game and threw a lot of 90 MPH fastballs. His change had good movement, but when the
fastball isn’t fast, everything else is less effective. He also walked too many guys. The biggest one was the walk to Jackie Bradley
Jr (who also made a nice catch saving at least one run).
I thought Vernon Wells’ line drive down the 3rd base
line was fair; looked like it bounced over the bag.
Ben Francisco as a DH is just awful!
Nix took two called 3rd strikes down the middle
as did Nunez once.
On the triple by Ellsbury to Ichiro, did anyone catch how
smooth, effortless and fast Cano relayed the ball to Nix? Basically flat footed he made an amazing
throw that did in between hop Nix but if Nix could have fielded it, I think
Ellsbury would have been out…either way it was a sick relay.
One thing I wanted to say in yesterday’s blog was that I would
rather have Russell Martin on the team, than Vernon Wells. I don’t understand the penny pinching at the
catcher position yet throwing 6 mil around to our corner OF’s who just are not
that good? The drop to the catchers we
have now is FAR greater than the drop to whatever replacement we would put out
the field. Cervelli and Wells had hits
so I am saying this with them doing a good job in game 1. Also, Cervelli, did make an excellent/quick
tag on the play at home.
I am not sure how they didn’t score Cano’s play an error as
he over ran it and then it ran up his arm…if you wanted to give the batter a
hit, you could have, but there had to be an error to allow the run to score
from 2nd base.
Joba get hit around, but I thought his stuff was good. The ump cost him at least one out and Cano could
have helped him…overall, while his performance was bad, I was encouraged by the
way the ball was coming out of his hands…although the porn moustache wasn’t
that good looking.
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