My God...

[bubba]

This line-up could make anyone look like Cy fucking Young.  Is there anything more sure than a third out when Ensberg comes to the plate with 2 down and runners in scoring position?

[astro pete]

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This line-up could make anyone look like Cy fucking Young.  Is there anything more sure than a third out when Ensberg comes to the plate with 2 down and runners in scoring position?

Lane could be up.

[bubba]

So, has this O'Malley, who is like the 9th Cubs option from their minor league system thi season, ever come close to complete game shut-out in the minors.  Petitte has pitched one hell of a game and deserves better than this reincarnation of the travelling horseshit show.

[Twoniner]

  Tad over a 4 ERA pitching in Iowa.

[No? in Austin]

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This line-up could make anyone look like Cy fucking Young.  Is there anything more sure than a third out when Ensberg comes to the plate with 2 down and runners in scoring position?

I dunno, but I just watched him leadoff the 8th and he got a pitch right down the middle of the plate.  It was a do nothing fastball (in relative terms).  No movement, just a major league ordinary 91 mph heater down broadway.

He swung at it *late* and lifted a lazy fly ball to right.  A fastball right down the middle of the plate isn't usually what a major league hitter allows to get deep into the zone unless they have ungodly bat speed.  I'm not sure if MoBerg understand this or not, but his bat speed *right now* is not that good (injury related or not).  He's going to have to start the bat head moving towards the zone sooner if he's going to catch a do nothing fastball like that and really drive it.

Fastballs are his doom right now, he can't catch them at all.

As a point of reference, Biggio got the same fastball, up a little higher, but same nonetheless.  Biggio let it get in the zone similar to Ensberg, but Bidge's bat swung through the zone quickly and he lined it to *left* (instead of lifting one to right like Mo).  You can see the difference in bat speed... and the old man has better chance of squaring the ball than one of your run producers.

Not good at all.

[astro pete]

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This line-up could make anyone look like Cy fucking Young.  Is there anything more sure than a third out when Ensberg comes to the plate with 2 down and runners in scoring position?

I dunno, but I just watched him leadoff the 8th and he got a pitch right down the middle of the plate.  It was a do nothing fastball (in relative terms).  No movement, just a major league ordinary 91 mph heater down broadway.

He swung at it *late* and lifted a lazy fly ball to right.  A fastball right down the middle of the plate isn't usually what a major league hitter allows to get deep into the zone unless they have ungodly bat speed.  I'm not sure if MoBerg understand this or not, but his bat speed *right now* is not that good (injury related or not).  He's going to have to start the bat head moving towards the zone sooner if he's going to catch a do nothing fastball like that and really drive it.

Fastballs are his doom right now, he can't catch them at all.

As a point of reference, Biggio got the same fastball, up a little higher, but same nonetheless.  Biggio let it get in the zone similar to Ensberg, but Bidge's bat swung through the zone quickly and he lined it to *left* (instead of lifting one to right like Mo).  You can see the difference in bat speed... and the old man has better chance of squaring the ball than one of your run producers.

Not good at all.

And on top of that, he doesn't realize that he's the #1 problem on this team, followed by Lane and Lidge.

[cre]

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This line-up could make anyone look like Cy fucking Young.  Is there anything more sure than a third out when Ensberg comes to the plate with 2 down and runners in scoring position?

No, probably not, but what do two outs have to do with it?  Wait, I thought of a more sure thing; when it's Jason Lane.

EDIT:  Oops, should have read ahead to see AP answered that already.  Sorry.