NYY 9, MIA 4: All Rise in Miami

[Kevin Barral]

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[Guest THOMAS JOSEPH]

Unrelated post here, but an annual ritual for me to recall the fabulous 1994 Montreal Expos. On August 12, 1994, the strike eliminated the Expos' 74-40 record and Championship path. It also was the beginning of the end of Montreal baseball. (Happily, the Braves are 73-41 this season, properly a game behind.)

[Guest Leo Armbrister]

Luzardo had his second bad start in a row. Mel has to use the time between this start to figure out what is wrong. Is it a physical problem or is it mental. We have to get him going. Josh Bell is proving to be a great edition to the team. I like the fact that he is a switch hitter with power from both sides. Jake Burger has also been a nice upgrade, but our pitching has to get going.

[Ely Sussman]

Yeah, at the very least, Luzardo will need to pitch his Marlins career numbers the rest of the way for this team to get where they want to go.

[Guest kommenter]

3 komments

1. Skip left Luzardo in too long. You can't manage based on what a player did in the past, you have to manage based on what he is doing today.

2. No reason to ever put Joey Wendle in the starting lineup. The only person who cannot see this is Skip.

3. Just like the Detroit series, young Marlins nerves in front of hostile fans negatively impact their performance. Unfortunately, this includes Alcantara (see home start against Mets last year) and Eury (see start against Atlanta this year). Only Jose was immune and that was because he was amped up on coke. That's what makes the 2003 team so special, they were not impacted by nerves. The talent is there but like Yogi said, baseball is 90% mental.