Our game tonight is at 6:05 and has RHP J. Jackson (0-1, 5.06) pitching against RHP Tom Lewis (1-2, 7.04). I am anxious to see how he does tonight. I has had two outings, thus far, during both of them he was hit pretty hard. I brought Ramon into my office today to discuss what to do with Jackson if he is banged all around the ball park. I am going to push having him in the bullpen and putting P. Juarez back into the starting lineup.
A review of the waiver wire and the trading block did not reveal anything new.
@tliggett – New York’s SP Harvey Young left the game with finger blister, he will be day to day for two days.
I had some extra time before heading the ball park so I decided to take a look at the personality profiles of our pitching staff to see if there may be any conflicts
Jose Souza – Has good leadership skills and is an extremely hard worker, he gets along with everyone.
Jose Polledo – A good teammate who enjoys a beer or two with friends
Abraham Johnson – A clubhouse leader both on and off the field
Joe Jackson – Considered one of the team leaders and is pretty smart; popular in the clubhouse
Bartolo Salzar – is considered one of the team leaders
Marc Huporkorny – never shows any lack of effort
Manual Farias – considered one of the team leaders, but isn’t very smart
Alejandro Garcia – has exceptional work ethic
Matt Hinton – shows some leadership, is pretty smart and has a good work ethic. He gets along with everyone
Javier Tavares – leads by example, he is well regarded by teammates
Pancho Juarez – a real team leader
Lowell Bishop – Decent guy
There do not appear to be any cancer’s among the pitching staff in the locker room, other than perhaps there are too many leaders, not sure I see that as being a problem. Perhaps they just need more time…
Time to get ready to head to the ball park.
@pgraves – Philadelphia 1B Curt Cannon tied the regular season base on balls record with 4
@pgraves – SP Chris Faulkner of Nashville left the game with an injury, diagnosis pending.
In the second inning J. Jackson allowed a solo HR. Through six innings we are down 2 to 1 off two solo home runs. Now where is the offense? We tied the game up at two in the top of the 8th inning and Ortiz put Jackson back out on the mound. Jackson certainly had pitched well enough to earn another start buy why wouldn’t he hand the ball off to the number one bullpen in baseball. He seems pretty fixated on getting the pitchers to go over the 100 pitch count. Frustrating losing the game 3 to 2. We actually got a quality start from a pitcher only to see the offense fall flat on its face.
Flipping through the channels I noticed Detroit beat Memphis and Tampa is losing 11-3 to Austin in the ninth inning; with our loss to Columbus we have a four way tie for first place in the NL Central
Nothing to note in the late games tonight, I am going to head back to the hotel and get some rest. Until tomorrow.
@tliggett – Nashville’s Joe Bass hitting streak ended at 26 games.
Mallards fall to Columbus 2 to 3
By Rick Featherstone
COLUMBUS 3, MADISON 2
WP: P. Silva (2-0, 2.30)
LP: Joe Jackson (0-2, 4.34)
Save: A. Simon (8)
HR: K. Trent (7), L. Brown (4)
POG: Kevin Trent (RF) – 3-4. R 2 RBI, HR
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