Inexplicable
What’s so frustrating about this one-run-road futility is that it really defies explanation. Obviously, there are things that you can point to, and we’ve been hearing hitting and bullpen. Getting Soriano, Smoltz, and Gonzales back was supposed to be a big help in the late and close games. That didn’t work out so well yesterday.
The truth is, though, the bullpen hasn’t been letting us down. We have only two blown saves on the road this year: Soriano yesterday and Blaine Boyer in Colorado on April 7.
So, bolstering the pen with the big guns isn’t going to help us.
The hitting aspect is spot on. We’re not hitting. And that’s exactly why it’s so bizarre. This shouldn’t be a club with hitting problems. The lineup is stacked.
You can run the statistics any way you want and they’ll show you the same thing. But they don’t tell you why why we’re not hitting. I think we should be more patient and get better at bats, but we made Edinson Volquez throw 102 in six innings on Friday night and managed to score only 1.
Is it bad luck or some kind of mental block. Is it all of the above. I just don’t know. No one else seems to either. How do you go about fixing a problem when you don’t even know what the cause is?
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