five of the first six strikeouts. Wow....pretty impressive! Think Wandy might be a little ticked off about his last outing?
Get Wandy out of there, for crying out loud 4 walks in one inning? (edit) whew Double play, but he is on a short leash next inning. DD
always nice to see some offense even if lane and wilson did virtually nothing once again. tomorrow should be interesting as always when nieve pitches, but maybe we can breakout the bats again.
Man, listen to the Nat's tv commentator during the Berkman HR! http://houston.astros.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=hou Watch the Lance homer at the Stros site.
Haha... that's Bob Carpenter, an ex-St. Louis Cardinals guy, so you know he's watched Lance a ton over the years. Also, Lance's swing has the ability to put a ton of spin on the ball... that has the effect of making it seem to keep rising, when it should be going down. I've actually noticed this more when he bats right-handed (remember his titanic blast at MMP against the Dodgers?, or the 2004 Home Run Derby). I think the swing last night was just the perfect storm: the pitch was fast enough, it got the sweet part of the bat, and Lance's swing did the rest... anybody have the final distance?
Biggio hit his 19th double of the year, on pace to hit 68 doubles for the year Biggio is now just one behind Hank Aaron (9th spot) on the all time doubles list. He should also be top 40 in hits and top 20 in runs by allstar break. He should trade his nickname for "Cooperstown".
Biggio's climb up the all-time doubles chart. 1 Tris Speaker 792 2 Pete Rose 746 3 Stan Musial 725 4 Ty Cobb 724 5 George Brett 665 6 Nap Lajoie 657 7 Carl Yastrzemski 646 8 Honus Wagner 640 9 Hank Aaron 624 10 Craig Biggio 623 11 Paul Waner 605 I think Biggio will end up at #5 on the list when he's done, but he still is playing great so maybe he can take #1.
I think 5 is more reasonable, not sure how much longer he can be a starting position player, certainly right now he is awesome, but at some point his body will start breaking down. DD
I think he'll start breaking down also, but you never know. Changing his swing has really rejuvenated his career and when you look at the players above him on the list they all played more seasons then Biggio. 1 Tris Speaker 22 2 Pete Rose 24 3 Stan Musial 22 4 Ty Cobb 24 5 George Brett 21 6 Nap Lajoie 21 7 Carl Yastrzemski 23 8 Honus Wagner 21 9 Hank Aaron 23 10 Craig Biggio 18 11 Paul Waner 20
I think I heard JD say on the TV broadcast that they don't do official homerun distance measurements at the Nationals ballpark.
