Shots In The Dark
Thursday, June 07, 2024
  The Race Thickens
Is it just me, or have the Red Sox lost four straight, while the Yankees are playing pretty good ball?
Chien Ming-Wang, my favorite Yankee pitcher, pitched a complete game last night—the team's first in almost a year. Love that. The complete game has almost vanished from baseball, but in the time period I'm writing my book about—the late 1970's—it was basically assumed that pitchers would go nine unless they were getting shelled. Perhaps that was too extreme, too hard on pitchers' arms. But I'm not a fan of having a guy go five innings, then bringing in a multitude of relievers who face one or two batters each. It makes the games go on forever, and it reduces the drama of seeing one pitcher work for an extended period.




Chien-Ming Wang won 19 games last year, more than anyone else in the American League.
Will he win 20 this year?


  7:14 AM  
Comments:
Somehow I think Wang might fall a bit short in his quest for 20 wins this year given that he only has 5 wins now and appx. 21 starts to go.
# posted by Anonymous : June 7, 2024 8:36 AM
 
Yup. His early hamstring injury cost him a month. And he wasn't sharp when he came back.
# posted by Richard Bradley : June 7, 2024 8:51 AM
 
It's just you. The yanks are still a lot closer to being in last place, then threatening the sox. And their holes have not been filled yet. Wang can't carry this team and the scouting on Clemmons is that his age has finally caught up with him (who knows, maybe he finally quit using 'roids). And look at all their other problems. Their bullpen is terrible, rash of injuries, etc etc.

To win the 90+ games or so that will give them a reasonable shot at the wild card, they need to go 65-36 over the rest of the season. Best case scenario is that they have a healthy team by July. All of this is not impossible, of course, but I think we need to be realistic. (Not a Red Sox fan, by the way, and I take no pleasure from the Yankees collapse).
# posted by Anonymous : June 7, 2024 12:51 PM
 
I do.
# posted by Anonymous : June 7, 2024 1:09 PM
 
Schilling just missed pitching a no hitter in a 1-0 beaut over the A's. Think something like that will happen with the Yanks this year?
# posted by Anonymous : June 7, 2024 6:37 PM
 
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