Edgartohof
06-03-2006, 12:46 AM
Jamie Moyer just had one of his best games ever. It was great to see him at his best.
Moyer absolutely shut down the offense tonight, giving up only 2 hits and 1 walk, while hitting a batter, over a complete 9 inning game. Now I might add that I don't think that an HBP from Moyer should really count, as he just doesn't throw hard enough for it to effect anything, it should just be considered a ball or something - but that's just my opinion ;) .
It was a pitchers duel for most of the game, until the 7th (?) inning, when it took just 2 pitches to bring in 2 runs, and a couple more were scored by the Mariner's later in the game.
At age 43 now, he is well past his prime, but as he showed us here, he is still good enough to be pitching in the Majors, and still has a thing or two up his sleeves. Some say that he is helped by Safeco (well, most pitchers are), well who cares - if he gets the job done for us, then I'm just fine with it. Let him throw that breaking ball of his and have it slapped up the middle. If you've got as great of gloves at 2B and SS, you might as well use them.
Moyer now has a 3.76 ERA for the season, though with a not so nice 3-5 record, though his records have not looked too good of late, in part due to the teams lack of offense at times.
I just gotta say that I love watching this guy pitch. He goes out there, knowing what he's got to do. He knows that he doesn't have the speed to make up for his mistakes, so he has to place that ball exactly where it needs to go, and he does it. He loves what he does, and you can tell - and if he can continue to pitch like he did tonight, we should keep him for a long time!
Though after that last comment, I expect that someone will come and yell at me about how he is getting old and that we should get rid of him ASAP, or at least at the end of the season, and we shouldn't expect that same kind of performance out of him again - well I say - I know that, just let me have my fun, and enjoy watching a 40-something-year-old whoop on guys half his age, all the while throwing pitches slower than people have seen since little league.
Moyer absolutely shut down the offense tonight, giving up only 2 hits and 1 walk, while hitting a batter, over a complete 9 inning game. Now I might add that I don't think that an HBP from Moyer should really count, as he just doesn't throw hard enough for it to effect anything, it should just be considered a ball or something - but that's just my opinion ;) .
It was a pitchers duel for most of the game, until the 7th (?) inning, when it took just 2 pitches to bring in 2 runs, and a couple more were scored by the Mariner's later in the game.
At age 43 now, he is well past his prime, but as he showed us here, he is still good enough to be pitching in the Majors, and still has a thing or two up his sleeves. Some say that he is helped by Safeco (well, most pitchers are), well who cares - if he gets the job done for us, then I'm just fine with it. Let him throw that breaking ball of his and have it slapped up the middle. If you've got as great of gloves at 2B and SS, you might as well use them.
Moyer now has a 3.76 ERA for the season, though with a not so nice 3-5 record, though his records have not looked too good of late, in part due to the teams lack of offense at times.
I just gotta say that I love watching this guy pitch. He goes out there, knowing what he's got to do. He knows that he doesn't have the speed to make up for his mistakes, so he has to place that ball exactly where it needs to go, and he does it. He loves what he does, and you can tell - and if he can continue to pitch like he did tonight, we should keep him for a long time!
Though after that last comment, I expect that someone will come and yell at me about how he is getting old and that we should get rid of him ASAP, or at least at the end of the season, and we shouldn't expect that same kind of performance out of him again - well I say - I know that, just let me have my fun, and enjoy watching a 40-something-year-old whoop on guys half his age, all the while throwing pitches slower than people have seen since little league.