Saturday, July 30, 2005

So far so...good?

We were all set to have that kind of first inning that a team like us never has, three runs already in (via a bomb off of Jason Bay's bat after two walks) with another runner on base and one out when the stupidity struck. On a 2-2 count Jose Castillo took ball three and started trotting towards first. Daryle Ward headed back to the bag, then started towards second when he saw Castillo coming to first. Rusy Kuntz apparently said nothing as the Braves cornered Ward in a rundown, then Castillo (who has adjusted his swing in the past couple weeks to look more like something you'd expect out of Matt Stairs) struck out, ending the inning. I agree with Bob Walk's comment, that he'd never seen a more disappointing 3-run inning. Since then we haven't been able to get more off of Davies and Mark Redman gave 2 of the runs back on a homer by Jeff Francoeur. He's been getting hit hard tonight, but he's had some good glovework behind him (a nice double play to end the 5th), but if we don't get some more runs it's not looking like three will be enough.