There was an ommission in today’s ESPN pitch-by-pitch Game Log. The 7th inning should read:
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TEXAS 7TH
Gil Meche pitches to Michael Young
Pitch 1: ball 1
Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul caught by D Zumsteg)
Pitch 3: in play
M Young flied out to center.
Gil Meche pitches to Hank Blalock
Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
Pitch 3: in play
H Blalock flied out to center.
Gil Meche pitches to Alex Rodriguez
Pitch 1: in play
A Rodriguez flied out to center.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Texas 2, Seattle 7
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M’s won, I made a nice catch — I’m one happy fan tonight.
A note for those of you in the eastern time zone (or you pacific time zone people who get up way too early on weekends); I’m going to be live on Baseball Prospectus Radio on Saturday at 6:25 a.m. pacific time. We will be taking phone calls, so if you’ve got a prospect or two that you want to talk about, feel free to call in.
Thanks, Arthur
Mariners Notebook: Rhodes admits injury
“It was tough at first to throw; it was hard on the landing,” Rhodes said. “I think now maybe I should have gone on the disabled list. I’ve been pitching on it, and it hasn’t healed.”
I’m not a doctor — nor do I play one on television — but I said at the time he should have gone on the DL to get his ankle healed up. Sure it would have been rough without him for two weeks, but at least we’d have him 100% now. Instead, the only left-hander in the pen won’t be quite right the rest of the season. Injuries like this, which cause a pitcher to change his mechanics or motion to compensate, are the sort of thing which lead to arm injuries.