What a waste of a great start for Daniel Hudson! He has a small hiccup in the first inning and gave up 2 runs. He settled down after that and ended up with a quality start and racked up 8 K's. Juan Gutierrez is terrible. No question about it. He has an ERA over 4.00 for his career and has many more losses than wins. We need to post a sign at the exit of the dugout that says "Keep the ball down, throw strikes". That's all it has to say! No free passes! We need to get rid of Gutierrez and bring up some minor leaguer who wants to throw strikes. There has to be someone in AA or AAA who can do it. Parker or Zavada would probably do great if given the chance. I know Zavada has had struggles but lets give him another shot. Parker would be lights out in the bullpen and it would give him a chance to get some major league time. I know they don't want to start the clock on him but we are going to have to do it some time.
The batting wasn't much better either. Actually the Dbacks did a great job of getting guys on base but just couldn't push those runs across the plate. Gibson said that Arroyo was sneaky and almost magic when they had runners in scoring position...no he wasn't!!! The problem was that every batter who stepped into the box with a RISP tried to crush the ball and do too much with it! All we needed was for someone to put the ball in play and at least give us a chance! Instead all we got was fly balls and strikeouts. The Dbacks had been playing some great small ball up until then and had really shown some fight. It seemed like they completely forgot how to push runs across the plate last night.
My final thought is the Dbacks need to release Juan Gutierrez. Or at least send him to the minors. He is can not be trusted with the baseball. How can we expect him to throw the ball over the plate when he can't even make the throw to first base? Get rid of him and call up someone else, anyone else. Thanks for reading
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