OOTS 5/7/08

[smg58]

The Reds are beating the Cubs 9-0, on the strength of three home runs from Joey Votto and four more from his teammates.

And in typical Dusty Baker fashion, Edinson Volquez is allowed to throw 118 pitches with a nine-run lead.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I can't believe how high my Edinson Volquez bill was this month.

[metirish]

Dusty sure likes to ride those young pitchers , but really 118 pitches should be nothing , trying to stretch him out?

[Frayed Knot]

Volquez was pulled after 7 IPs with 10 Ks & 6 BBs.
Maybe an inning earlier would have been better depending on his workload leading up to this point.

4 HRs against in one inning for Jon Leiber ... Ouch!

[Fman99]

AP photo of one of the Cincy ballplayers standing in against Lieber.

[Guest Big Junk]

metirish wrote: Dusty sure likes to ride those young pitchers , but really 118 pitches should be nothing , trying to stretch him out?

Really, pitchers and baseball in general would be better off if pitchers could make it into the 8th inning and throw 125-130. These weak sauce pitchers and managers are ruining baseball.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't necessarily object to a pitch count, but I think the "magic number" could possibly be upped from 100 to about 120.

Dyar Miller is a pitching coach somewhere and he's doing something like that.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice pitching matchup going on in da Bronx.
Cliff Lee, 5-0 w/a sub-1.00 ERA (after pitching so poorly last season they left him off their post-season roster) up against the 6-0 Chien-Ming Wang.

3-0 Indians thru 5

[Guest Triple Dee]

Carlos Gomez 4-6, hit for the cycle v the ChiSox