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OOTS 5/7/08

smg58 May 07 2008 01:01 PM

The Reds are beating the Cubs 9-0, on the strength of three home runs from Joey Votto and four more from his teammates. And in typical Dusty Baker fashion, Edinson Volquez is allowed to throw 118 pitches with a nine-run lead.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 07 2008 01:03 PM

I can't believe how high my Edinson Volquez bill was this month.

metirish May 07 2008 01:09 PM

Dusty sure likes to ride those young pitchers , but really 118 pitches should be nothing , trying to stretch him out?

Frayed Knot May 07 2008 01:59 PM

Volquez was pulled after 7 IPs with 10 Ks & 6 BBs. Maybe an inning earlier would have been better depending on his workload leading up to this point. 4 HRs against in one inning for Jon Leiber ... Ouch!

Fman99 May 07 2008 02:05 PM

AP photo of one of the Cincy ballplayers standing in against Lieber.

Big Junk May 07 2008 02:10 PM

metirish wrote: Dusty sure likes to ride those young pitchers , but really 118 pitches should be nothing , trying to stretch him out? Really, pitchers and baseball in general would be better off if pitchers could make it into the 8th inning and throw 125-130. These weak sauce pitchers and managers are ruining baseball.

Benjamin Grimm May 07 2008 02:21 PM

I don't necessarily object to a pitch count, but I think the "magic number" could possibly be upped from 100 to about 120. Dyar Miller is a pitching coach somewhere and he's doing something like that.

Frayed Knot May 07 2008 06:50 PM

Nice pitching matchup going on in da Bronx. Cliff Lee, 5-0 w/a sub-1.00 ERA (after pitching so poorly last season they left him off their post-season roster) up against the 6-0 Chien-Ming Wang. 3-0 Indians thru 5

Triple Dee May 08 2008 06:07 AM

Carlos Gomez 4-6, hit for the cycle v the ChiSox