Today is the first day of the "dog days of August." This is the month where your favorite team plays against it's divisional enemies like 80% of their games. As a Braves fan, this means a ton of Nationals, Phillies and Marlins games. Also as a Braves fan, this is a good thing.
Today's match ups are okay, I suppose, but there is one game on the schedule today/tonight that really got me intrigued.
Here's all the starters and what not from around baseball today.
Matt Cain against Cole Hammels is interesting because they're both regarded as top pitchers, but they've not performed up to their expectations this season. In fact, neither the Phillies nor the Giants have played like themselves this year. But that's really all that makes this interesting. The game itself is pretty meaningless.
Will the Royals finally lose? They're playing right now and I don't know the score, but they're heating up, as much as the Royals can really heat up, I suppose. I believe the term for them would be "Streaky."
Hey, how about those red hot Atlanta Braves, eh?
Okay, that's all for today. Enjoy baseball.
Today's match ups are okay, I suppose, but there is one game on the schedule today/tonight that really got me intrigued.
Here's all the starters and what not from around baseball today.
As you can see as of my writing this, the Indians have already beaten the White Sox today 6-1. It's interesting because I would have maybe picked Masterson against Sale as a potential Match Up Of The Day candidate, because Chris Sale can't get a win despite pitching quite well lately. Anyway, he lost again, and I feel bad for him because he's a good pitcher on a terrible team.
The most intersting thing on the schedule today has to be Bud Norris making his Orioles debut against the team that just traded him to Baltimore, the Astros. I wonder who has the advantage here, the hitters who have seen every one of Norris' starts this season, so they know what he likes to throw, or Norris, who knows these hitters weaknesses? I imagine that since the O's are a far superior team that they will probably win, but it's a weird element to what would normally have been a rather mundane Thursday night game in Baltimore.
Matt Cain against Cole Hammels is interesting because they're both regarded as top pitchers, but they've not performed up to their expectations this season. In fact, neither the Phillies nor the Giants have played like themselves this year. But that's really all that makes this interesting. The game itself is pretty meaningless.
Will the Royals finally lose? They're playing right now and I don't know the score, but they're heating up, as much as the Royals can really heat up, I suppose. I believe the term for them would be "Streaky."
Hey, how about those red hot Atlanta Braves, eh?
Okay, that's all for today. Enjoy baseball.
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