“I send him. I send him, really,” Phillies manager Charlie Manuel repeated.
“He’s had a bad arm in the past, and I thought when the ball was hit, I questioned how good his arm was. He made a good throw, man. He made a hell of a throw.”
“They’re not offering at pitches that people usually chase at,” Myers said. “I don’t know what’s going on. In Loretta’s last at-bat, I threw two good breaking balls with two strikes that he didn’t even offer at. They started as strikes and end up down. Usually you get swings at that. I’m not getting the swings.”
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Bourn told to swing away, but not too hard
“Sean is working on him trying to go the other way a little bit more, trying to control the ball a little bit more,” Cooper said. “He’s trying to stay in the middle of the field more and even be more aggressive with the bat.”
Cooper said Bourn’s strategy early in the season was to work the count and take a lot of pitches. The Astros have been trying to get him out of that, and Bourn is 14-for-34 following his hitless streak.
Bourn said he was swinging the bat too hard before, and he has opened up his stance a bit.
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Rotation rejiggered
Wandy will start Wednesday, and with the off day Monday, Astros will give Roy Oswalt two extra days of rest before he makes his next start Thursday at St. Louis. Cooper also says Moehler may get more starts.
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