does bad hitting beat bad pitching? I've used the new Gameday pitch break and pitch f/x to look at what some of our pitchers have done this season; tonight I want to use it to look at what our hitters have done. In the top of the second Jason Giambi took a pitch the other way (woot!) and out of the yard against Jose Contreras. It was the fourth pitch Jason saw from Jose (in the game and in the AB), and the third fastball. After a first pitch ball (89 mph fastball, 5" break) low and away, Giambi fouled off an inside fast... lire la suite
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Good hitting beats good pitching. Bad hitting beat bad pitching.
Most of all, though, the Diamondbacks have suffered from an offense that just flat out isn't very good. Of all the aspects I find surprising about the DBacks this year, their offense's inability to score enough runs to support that pitching staff is probably the biggest surprise of all. Arizona preaches aggressiveness. From the bottom level of their farm system on up, the DBacks push their players to constantly be aggressive. They attack pitches early in the count, without trying to work a walk or simply to work a pitcher much at all. The Diamondbacks have emphasized athleticism and trained their players to be super aggressive; what they have now is a team full of athletes who are all intensely vulnerable to intelligent pitching. Their hitters simply do not do a good job of getting good pitches to hit; rather, they hack early in the count and get themselves out on pitchers' pitches.
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As we well know, former NBC president Kevin Reilly was thrust aside in a bloody coup in May of 2007, with original programming gangsta Ben Silverman installed in his place, crown cocked B-boy style to one side of his head and tossing Benjamins at assistants' desks as he strutted towards his corner office to the beat of Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ten Crack Commandments." Reilly would quickly land back on his feet, however, appointed FOX's president of entertainment. Buoyed by a little something he likes to call "American Fuck Idol You Money," he's been playing around with the dusty concepts of a rigid development season, telling reporters at TCA that the network plans on dividing theirs in two. What's more, with finding the next hit comedy a top priority, Reilly is throwing all office-bound pitching notions out the window, instead pulling the equivalent of when your 3rd grade teacher used to announce, "It's such a beautiful day outside, I thought we'd hold class in the park!" THR reports: In another twist to the development model — as a way to boost the creativity of comedy writers — Fox is scrapping the decades-old ritual of creators going to the network executives' offices to pitch their ideas. "We're not going to take most of our comedy pitches in our office," Reilly said. "We're going to go out and meet the writers on their own turf, and that could be at a restaurant (or) their house, anything that gets it out of a sterile environment."
Frustrating, infuriating, maddening. But we can take several good things out of even a loss like that: Lilly threw perhaps his best game of the year and if he keeps pitching like that, good things will follow. Neal Cotts and Jeff Samardzija (the subject, along with Kerry Wood and Carlos Marmol, of a feature article in this week's Sports Illustrated) finished up with two scoreless innings of relief, keeping the game close. Cotts threw ten pitches and Samardzija nine, so both should be available today. (Incidentally, I was amused when getting a glance at Olympic men's volleyball, USA vs. Serbia, yesterday and seeing that one of the Serbian player's names was Marko Samardzic, perhaps a distant relative of Jeff's.)