A nice series in Arlington, hopefully we can keep it going against a pretty hot Az club. Pitching Probables: 6-23 -- Villone (0-0, 0.00) vs. Webb (3-2, 2.36) 6-24 -- Redding (4-6, 3.63) vs. Batista (5-3, 2.60) 6-25 -- Miller (5-7, 4.58) vs. Dessens (4-4, 5.38) Fearless Prediction: Carl Spackler will make an appearance at the BOB to clean doody out of the OF pool.
Hmmm, I'll call a split of the first two, and a series win in the last. Kind of what Rice will do....
I love your optimistic outlook, but I also think Batista can be kinda nasty. I'm saying this with a little remorse for not being so sunny, but I think they take two of three: WLW
Argh...I thought we were going to go all the way for the win in the ninth. IT was a good rally...just too short. please beat some good teams...(series)
Tonight is going to be a win. WE need this one badly. Bags has been much better in the last few games, I look for him to have another HR tonight. I wish Jeff Kent would play...
you mean like the cardinals and the cubs? one loss...one night...and the bullpen sucks and the team can't beat other teams who are over .500.
Max. What is our record against the better teams...you saw how the Yankees and Sox beat us up.....and now the Diamond backs are taking it to the stros... We simply are an average team....with the talent on this team, the stros should have a 5 game or more lead in the central. I am not satisfied with hanging around first.... DD
You play those six games again and you could easily have five different outcomes. There was only one game that we shouldn't have won. We have very mediocre (and mediocre is probably too nice a word) starting pitching outside of Miller and Oswalt, both of whom have slumped and/or been DL'd. The Cardinals have a far superior lineup, the Cubs have superior starting pitching, and we have a far superior bullpen, which puts us where we are...about even. There's really no reason to believe we should be anywhere else at this point.
We simply are an average team....with the talent on this team, the stros should have a 5 game or more lead in the central. Wait ... you're talking about a team with rookies on the left side of the infield, a converted, old centerfielder winding down his career, and a right fielder who sucked the last two years and was shot over the winter? The team with two starters that were considered to be decent before the season began, one of them being injured? THAT team should be dominating the central?
i disagree that we're an average team...most teams don't have winning records against other teams with winning records...that's why those teams have winning records to begin with! yes..we lost to the red sox and yankees in respective three games series...but we've fared quite well against the good teams in our own division, which is far more important to me than how we do against AL East clubs.
We may be only an average or slightly above average team, but that may be all it takes to win this division. Who ever wins it will probably only be 10 games over .500 at best.
Last week when the Astros lost 2/3 to the D'backs, Arizona was below .500 so those games don't count as losing to +.500 teams.
