Notes & Observations from the weekend games against Texas.
Reg-gie. Reg-gie. Leadoff hitter Reggie Willits continues to get on base. Two hits Friday, two hits Saturday and a walk and a hit Sunday. His batting average is a nice .365 and his obp is .434.
Vladimir Guerrero is slumping. Only 3 for 9 in the 3 games against Texas? That's almost 100 points lower than his career .432 batting average against the Rangers. OK, I'll throw in the 5 walks and look at his .571 obp in the 3 games.
Gary Matthews Jr sticks it to his old team. 2 home runs and 7 rbi in the 3 games at Texas would qualify as "sticking it to them."
Hillenbrand homers. Is this the "breaking out of a season long slump" home run we have been waiting for? Or is this just a "that goes to show you how bad the Rangers pitching staff is" home run?
Starting pitching is consistent. Lackey is good, Colon is good and Santana is bad on the road. John Lackey threw 8 scoreless innings Friday night before giving up a couple of meaningless 9th inning runs. Bartolo Colon continued his mastery of Texas by winning his 11th straight start as an Angel against Texas.
Shields continues to have problems with home runs. Scot Shields has incredible numbers for a reliever - a whip under 1.00, a batting average against under .150, 17 strikeouts in 19 innings and only 9 hits. The problem is (and it's a big problem) that 4 of those 9 hits have been home runs. He only allowed 8 last year and 5 the year before and we're just now half way through May.
Scioscia over-reacts. I'm a huge Mike Scioscia fan and I like it when he gets thrown out. But did he really think that Texas pitcher Joaquin Benoit intentionally threw at Matthews in the 7th inning of a tie ball game? There were no outs and a runner on second. Absolutely no way that the pitch was intentional.
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