Another Brutal One
Washington: Like a Kajillion, Atlanta: Significantly Less. (Okay, fine. 15-6.) Folks, today was the first time that I can remember actually leaving a game before the final out. Yogi Berraisms aside, this one was over.
So we lost two out of three to the team with the worst record in baseball going into the series. This was not a good team that we lost to. And this was not even a bad team at its best. Dmitri Young, Nick Johnson, and Ryan Zimmerman are all riding the DL train right now. They used Paul Lo Duca at first for this series for goodness sakes. Ryan Langerhans, whose bat last year makes this year’s Francoeur look like Ted Fucking Williams, bashed our pitchers around like it was beer-league softball.
Going into the second half, Braves fans were holding out hope that the bats would turn around and start performing as well as our pitching staff has. Instead, our pitching has been abysmal. 15 is the most runs we’ve given up since September of 2006.
Jo-Jo Reyes is reverting back to his old ways. In 10 games from May 3 to June 18 his K/BB was 22/50. In 5 games since, it’s 12/10. That’s what it boils down to for Jo-Jo: control. No control, no Jo-Jo mojo. I still think he’ll get that sorted out and will be a quality major league starter. But he’s shown us once again that he’s got a little ways to go.
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