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#61 · July 27, 2020, 6:04 pm
Quote from WindsorUK on July 27, 2020, 4:09 pmQuote from 84padres on July 27, 2020, 2:17 pmOliveres has to catch the flyball, it cost us 2 runs.
What position is Oliveres playing? And did he get a bad jump, make a bad read, or just fail to go all in?
He was in RF , he go t to the ball on a sort of slide and went too far and the ball hit the back of his glove/ bod
This was my 1st look at Hill and I was impressed. He has a very unusual arm slot for a lefty, very hard for LH hitter and looked good against RHHs
The walks makes me very optimistic and overall pitching looks to be among the best so far.
#62 · July 27, 2020, 8:42 pm
Padres helped in the 4th inning by Weaver being too slow to cover first and Marte taking a bad angle to get to Tatis' drive to center. Bad part of the inning was Padres' failure to get Tatis home with no outs - got to do that in the future because you never have enough runs! It seems Mejia is doing a better job of framing this year - got some calls that didn't appear to be strikes.
The Paddack - Cueto match on Wednesday should be very entertaining. Cueto does everything he can to disrupt the batter's rhythm so we'll see if the Padres' patience continues. First things first, however, beat the Giants on Tuesday!
#63 · July 27, 2020, 10:35 pm
Re the K's: Normally I'd be really worried, since lots of K's have been par for the course the last many years....
... but the # of 3-2 counts Padres got to in the series esp the first 2 games was off the charts crazy & a big factor. I have no problem at all with a guy ultimately K'ing after 8,9,10 pitches. That AB is a win if it's vs the SP; Ray had a lot of K's but he didn't make it 4 IP.
If they're #1 all season long in 3-2 counts, and up near #1 in BB/OBP, don't care what the K's are.
Guessing our 26 walks in 4 games wasn't achieved until the 10th? 12th? higher game last year...
9 players (discounting Cronenworth) > .350 OBP