Stan C said:
Poor offense against average pitchers, this is starting to remind me way too much of last year. Two of the G's need to get going, and we can only hope on our 2 catchers. Gonzo definately looks "back".
I agree. I don't hold the pitching that gave up 12 runs in the 8th and 9th innings as responsible as the batters who couldn't get the job done when the game was close.
Had we tied or taken the lead, I expect the pitching decisions would have been handled differently.
The D'backs hitting has been awful. Even with his HR totals, Glaus batting with RISP has been embarassing. He's capable of better than that.
I hope we're not falling back into the everyone-swing-for-the-fences mentality that led to our problems in the past.
As a prime example -- and I don't want to pick on Chad Tracy, but he is a young player. When we had runners on 1st and 3rd (the tying run on first) on Saturday, it was his job to advance that runner from 1B into scoring position, even if he made out.
Instead he hit a fly ball. It was a sacrifice fly, it scored the runner from third, it gave him an RBI . . . but it did nothing for the team, because he did not advance the tying run. The run that scored was absolutely meaningless.
Little things like that can indicate whether a team has what it takes to lead their division.
