Thursday, May 6, 2021

Going For The Sweep Today

Very quick post today

Again we were tied at 3 and we pulled it out late

Stanton has been hot and is by far our best hitter this year.  After him dominating the playoffs at a level maybe never seen before, is it time to realize that we have a great hitter on our time?  I have never seen someone hit the ball so hard in my life and while that does not make him the best hitter, what we saw in the playoffs last year was awesome.  He wasn't a bad fielder either and ran pretty well, but this year he looks slower to me.

Wade has not proven to be able to hit at the major league level and I was always more critical of him than others (early on), but he has made a few good plays in the field and last night in the 9th charged a ball and made a nice throw that I don't think DJ could have made (there was a lot of ground to charge) and Odor definitely would not have made it.  His ability to pinch run and the fact many of our players are still not hitting, he may be able to help us if he can just give us a .700 OPS (boy, the bar is low now, but Frazier, Gardner and Hicks have been awful).

Judge had a terrible day going 0-5 with 5 K's.  Anyone know if that has a name?

Montgomery had no command all game as he was centering his pitches; we were fortunate he only allowed 3 runs in 6 innings.  The bullpen was excellent again and Chapman continues to be fun to watch while he dominates hitters.

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