D’Backs Pound Rox 8-4
Big nights from Stephen Drew (3-run homer; great defense) and Chris Young (3-5 w/ 3 runs scored) helped the D’Backs snap a three-game losing streak. Randy Johnson had trouble with his location, giving up all four of the Rockies runs in 5 innings. (But think of it this way: the bullpen didn’t cave!)
Rockies’ starter Jeff Francis gave up all 8 of the D’Backs runs, along with 13 hits.
Eric Byrnes distinguished himself by being the only starter in the lineup, including Johnson, to not get a hit. He also K’d twice. I had to work yesterday and saw only his last at-bat. He let a fastball down the middle go by and then popped up the second pitch, to the second baseman near the mound, to leave Justin Upton at third. I didn’t bother to check the archives for the others. Byrnesie, do you remember anything at all about pitch selection?
I sold a headline for the first time in 6 weeks today, Byrnesie. My own form of pitch selection had gone awry. Maybe that’s a signal that things will go better for you today. I got used to all those lovely doubles (10) in April. You’re supposed to be good in May.
Remember what Greenberg told Kiner.
Micah Owings goes tonight for the Snakes.
Of the 15 games the D’Backs have lost so far, 10 have come against teams outside their division. A question now arises as to whether the Diamondbacks are the best in the NL West, but little else.
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Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Kellia writes (and does some audio work) about baseball, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks, on her blog, Down The Left Field Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes. (http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com), under the name ByrnesBlogger1. She expects to expand her sports journalism from baseball fandom to stories on social issues in a sports context in a website she is building in the fourth quarter of 2007 to be an annex to the "Byrnesblog".
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I think the most telling sign for me of the struggles that Eric Byrnes is having is the other night when he got a 3-0 count and swung at the next pitch. I appreciate that it might have been a great pitch to hit but when you are in the kind of funk he is in, a green-light on 3-0 probably should be passed up. He went on to swing at the next two pitches one of which was at eye level for a strikeout. That’s the kind of at bat that will stay with you for a long, long time.