The umps are enjoying the quick pace of the game. They just want to go home. We should ruin their plans in the 9th.
My only guesses are that: A) Cooper is more concerned with Oswalt increasing his confidence than winning this game. or B) Cooper made a bad decision.
Damnit, Lee, Pence and Wigginton show less than an ounce of patience between them. Was that about 5 pitches to get all 3 out? At least we made their closer work for the save. FFS pathetic
That's what was weird to me. I can see the logic in letting him hit and getting two more innings out of him. He was only at 91 pitches at that point after 7. I guess Brocail needed the work in the 8th. Very generous strike zone by the ump for both teams, though I thought some of the calls the Cards pitchers got were especially generous.
7 pitches. We probably could have taken a couple more pitches but Franklin did a good job of not getting shaken by the Berkman HR. He kept throwing mostly strikes.
Especially on Matsui in the 8th . Strike three was way outside , and Wyatt Earp , uh .... Jason Larue had to move out to get it !
