GAME NINETEEN IN-GAME DISCUSSION THREAD [PARACHAT]
FLORIDA MARLINS (5-12, -6.0 GB, 5th) AT CHICAGO CUBS (11-7, - 1.5 GB, 4th)
WRIGLEY FIELD, 7:05 CDT
Weather: 43 degrees, Overcast, Wind Blowing In From CF @ 16 mph
TV: CSN Chicago, DirecTV 739
Radio: WGN, XM 185
Sean Marshall, LHP
1-0, 6.28 ERA, 14.1 IP
8 K, 5 BB, 3 HR | Dontrelle Willis, LHP
1-0, 2.92 ERA, 24.2 IP
15 K, 9 BB, 0 HR |
Hanley Ramirez, SS
Dan Uggla, 2B
Miguel Cabrera, 3B
Josh Willingham, LF
Wes Helms, 1B
Miguel Olivo, C
Chris Aguila, RF
Reggie Abercrombie, CF   
* Dontrelle Willis, P | *Juan Pierre, CF
Ronny Cedeno, SS
*Todd Walker, 1B
Aramis Ramirez, 3B
Michael Barrett, C
Matt Murton, LF
*Jacque Jones, RF
Jerry Hairston Jr., 2B
* Sean Marshall, P |
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The D-Train rolls back into Wrigley for the fifth time. Want to impress your friends with small sample size goodness? Drop this one on them before gametime: Willis is 2-0 at Wrigley with a 1.01 ERA. In 27 2/3 innings, he's struck out 23 and hasn't given up a home run.
Meanwhile,
our young lefty (only seven months younger than Willis, actually) is being positively babied by Dusty Baker, a manager with a reputation for over-extending his young starters (when he actually plays them). And I'm not trying to re-open either the pitch-count argument or the Dusty-doesn't-play-kids argument, because I'm actually trying to draw attention to something he's doing that I agree with. Marshall has been extended in each of his starts, from 65 pitches to 79 to 86 in his last start. I expect him in the mid-90s tonight -- now he just needs to figure out how to make those pitches stretch over more than five innings.
Is it too early for scoreboard watching? The Astros start their second fifth starter, Fernando Nieve, against
Brad Penny & the Dodgers, while the Cardinals offer up
Jeff Suppan to the Pirates and the Reds (how are
they six games over .500?) try to suggest that Dave Williams is a major league starting pitcher. Good luck with that.
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