Reggie, Orlando, Vlady
One of the biggest keys to our offense and our scoring runs early has been Reggie Willits. He always gets on base. Everytime you look up he works the count to 3 and 2 and then he either walks or gets a hit. And right behind him, Orlando Cabrera is a great situational hitter. He puts runners in scoring position. It's all about getting runners on in front of Vlady. He does the damage. Just look at what happened in the fifth last night. Reggie gets on to start the inning, Orlando follows and Vlady hits it out to put us up for good. That's what I'm talking about. We have been doing a lot of that early, scoring runs in the first inning. b0rd3rline asked me a question about the early run support and how it helps the pitchers. It gives the pitcher more confidence to just throw strikes. When you have runs on the board you know that one pitch isn't going to kill you so you can be a little more aggressive. Most pitchers are at their best when they're aggressive and having the lead early helps you do that.
cdobyns7 said May 31, 2007
SBJohn said May 31, 2007
General_Zod said May 31, 2007
LovefromCA said May 31, 2007
b0rd3rline said June 01, 2007
it seems like just a few weeks ago i was looking through the lineup and wondering how we were gonna go anywhere with nobody hitting except for Vlad.. now, just a few weeks later, i look at the lineup to see the first 5 hitters in the lineup hitting .300, with howie, napoli, hillenbloop, and figgy following.. let's just say it makes me feel a whole lot better about our chances this year.
keep up the good work, and lets win against baltimore today!!
BrianC6234 said June 02, 2007
By the way, it's nice to see Figgins hitting. Two nights in a row he's 3 for 3. That's what the offense needs.
rayj0101 said June 03, 2007
lightitup said June 06, 2007