Instead, let's focus on the positives for a moment.
- Carlos Delgado. Two hits, one of which was a home run to open the scoring. He's hit well thus far in the season, and hopefully can keep it up.
- Oliver Perez. Willie wasn't thrilled with his performance, but I'll take any performance in which he doesn't give up any runs. Also, he got in a situation early in the game where he walked the pitcher and eventually the bases were loaded. This is one of those situations where he implodes, but he got out of it. I also saw him imploding in the sixth, but Willie took him out in a move I agree with.
- Another note on Ollie's performance yesterday. Watching the game on Gamecast he didn't have a ball hit deep at all. I can't tell how hard the balls were being hit, but it didn't look like he was getting hammered.
- Our starting pitching, in general, has been good, when it was supposed to be a question mark. (We'll see how I feel after the Big Pelf pitches tonight)
The bad news. We can't hit. Our leadoff hitters don't get on, we don't hit with runners in scoring position, yesterday we had some serious WTP issues. Bullpen, also an issue. Joe Smith is our only reliever who has pitched more than one inning and has an ERA under 5.4. Fortunately, it's early in the season and those ERA's should come down. Shouldn't they?
What it boils down to is it's still early in the season. But I'm sick of this "every team goes through a rough patch" talk. Quit making excuses and go out and win. When you win, you don't have to make excuses.
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