Thursday, July 14, 2005
2nd Half Begins
Doug Davis kicked off baseball’s second half of the season at a little over 2:00 EST by breezing through the top of 1st in Milwaukee. 12 pitches, eight strikes, a 1-2-3 inning.
John Patterson is throwing for the Nationals today, and is having an odd season, record-wise. He’s pitched well: 15 starts, 89.2 IP, 73 H, 29 R, 29 ER, 33 BB, 80 K, 2.91 ERA. Very solid numbers, but the strange thing is that he only has five decisions. He’s 3-2, with 10 no-decisions. I don’t have the leaders in front of me in that particularly category, but that sounds like an over-abundance of NDs.
He’s not started the 2nd half in auspicious fashion, allowing two hits to the first two batters in the Brewers’ line-up: a double to Brady Clark and a single to Rickie Weeks.
(will be updating this on-and-off as time allows...)
