Tuesday, August 22, 2006

More Chacon?

We have to endure yet another Shawn Chacon start tonight, as he takes his crooked hat to the mound against Oscar Villareal. I'm almost positive that I heard one of the Pirates TV guys refer to Villareal as the Braves #2 starter this year, but I'm going to hope that I wasn't paying attention and they actually said "Villareal will be making his second start of the year" because the alternative is just incredibly embarassing. He made a decent start in his first start of the year against the Nats, but his numbers from his time in the pen don't really match that gaudy 9-1 record (ERA- 4.13, WHIP- 1.36, only 40 strikeouts in 60 innings, etc.). I mean, he's no John Smoltz or anything, so we should probably get an extra base hit or two and maybe score a run tonight. Maybe not, I haven't seen tonight's lineup yet so anything is possible.