Well, I thought it was trash for trash too but in the last few days he actually looks pretty decent, especially with the play he just made, plus he's 26 Woah, CJ just hit another homerun
I dunno, Wright isn't helping himself either throwing a fastball when I'm assuming they agreed on a breaking ball, or pegging Nady on the back.
Agreed but did you notice that all the chaos started after Keppinger muffed his easiest throw of the season. Instead of 2 outs, no men on... it was runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs. Almost every pitcher in baseball has a tendency to get rattled when he throws a good pitch and does his job and his defense fails him.
Yeah, well nothing goes perfectly, and he needs to show he can't be rattled so easily if he ever expects to make the bigs.
I've seen Roy Halladay and Ubaldo Jimenez get rattled in similar situations. I've seen it happen to Roy Oswalt. Sure, Wright doesn't get off the hook completely but Keppinger completely changed the course of that inning. It went from a no pressure situation to a very high pressure situation. 7-6 now. Wright was bad. Keppinger was bad.
Keppinger blew the easiest throw of the season after Wright induced a perfect DP ground ball. Instead of 2 outs, no men on... it was no outs, men on 2nd and 3rd. Then, Wright collapsed. Basically, Keppinger triggered the problems and Wright crumbled under the pressure. It's on both of them.
I figured no lead was safe tonight, but little did I expect it to be because of the defense. Kepp isn't a good defensive player, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised when he makes the occasional mistake.
Damn I replayed it and it was the exact same play cubs didn't make, and now a balk for moving his hand!?! Good thing we still have the lead and our bullpen is better than the Cubs bullpen
I missed the first inning and a half but caught a replay of Theriot's error. I think Keppinger's was even a bit worse because he had more time. I may be wrong. Either way, I'm not trying to defend Wright. I don't have high expectations from him and I'm not surprised to see him crumble like that. When you have a lesser pitcher on the mound who isn't even a proven starter, the last thing you need is Keppinger muffing a routine throw. There is a huge difference between what the game situation would've been with and without that error. Once you have men on 2nd and 3rd with no outs, the odds are that the team at bat is going to score at least 2 runs that inning no matter who is on the mound. Every pitch became high pressure after that mistake.
