Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Game 109: Pirates 8 D'Backs 3

That was a nice win. Gorzo looked very good save the Justin Upton experience (speaking of Upton, WOW) with nine strikeouts and only one non-Upton hit given up in seven innings. His velocity looked good to me and he threw 100 pitches without showing too much fatigue. Hard to dislike anything about that performance from him tonight. In fact, I'm pretty encouraged given my worries before this game. He definitely looked healthy to me.

The play of the game in this one game in the top of the seventh with Upton on second base and Chris Snyder at the plate. Snyder ripped a shot into left field that Bay tracked to the wall and may have even brought back from the other side, then fired off a throw (shockingly, "fired off" is the correct term for this throw) to second to double Upton off. This all happened with a 4-2 lead and no outs in the seventh. It let Gorzo get out of the seventh, meaning the pen only had to traverse two innings instead of one. It was a game saving play, plain and simple.

Beyond that, did anyone else watch this game and wonder how the D'Backs are in first place? They looked awful tonight. They were completely bumfuzzled by a guy that hasn't pitched in a couple weeks and they spent most of the night acting like they had no idea how to field baseballs. They looked BAD tonight. This is the team that's been setting the world on fire? Really?