Saturday, June 19, 2010

Baker Relying Too Much on Starters

Seems like Dusty Baker is relying too much on his starters and needs to take them out when they get in trouble. At today's game Sam LeCure was pitching and got into trouble with two runners on base and nobody out. It was in the sixth inning, and the game was currently tied at one apiece.

Now what does Baker do? He leaves LeCure in and Seattle scores four runs. Three of them on a two-out homer. For me it looked like in the beginning of this inning that LeCure wasn't fooling any of the batters anymore and Baker should have gotten the bullpen warmed up after the first two batters hit the ball hard.

I know the bullpen has been struggling this year, but the manager needs to go to it especially when the starter is getting hit. I'm just really disappointed. It looks like the Reds are starting to fade. They had a poor home stand and this road trip is getting off to a terrible start.

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