August 25, 200421 yr I believe if McKeon stays with this lineup and our O stays hot as it is we can sweep the Giants. Hopefully our pitching will be good. I think we can sweep them. But too bad the Padres and Cubs won tonight. :thumbdown
August 25, 200421 yr If Dontrelle and Beckett pitch the same as they did last week and our offense remains consistent with this "new" lineup, a sweep is very possible but let's not speak too soon...
August 25, 200421 yr I believe if McKeon stays with this lineup and our O stays hot as it is we can sweep the Giants. Hopefully our pitching will be good. I think we can sweep them. But too bad the Padres and Cubs won tonight. :thumbdown 525623[/snapback] so basically waht you are saying is that if the offense keeps scoring the way they have been for the past 3 games and if our pitching keeps it the same we can sweep score more + keep opposition down to a minimun = victory hmmmmmmm wouldnt that be a given?
August 25, 200421 yr I think we're jumping the gun a little bit. One game at a time 525652[/snapback] i agree man. Dontrelle has to pitch better than he did against SD, and he really hasnt had the best of success against the Giants in his career.
August 25, 200421 yr I think we're jumping the gun a little bit. One game at a time 525652[/snapback] i agree man. Dontrelle has to pitch better than he did against SD, and he really hasnt had the best of success against the Giants in his career. 525684[/snapback] I think dontrelle even though he had an off game against SD, has been pithcing way better. Most importantly his control has been good, thats the key. With good control sometimes theyll find ways to hit against a pitcher, but as long as control is maintained the pitcher controls the direction of the game. Pavano is good b/c of his great control, and dontrelle is too, and if he can get his breaking balls to move more than they did against SD he will have a great game
August 25, 200421 yr ah his breaking did move very well agiast SD problem it moved right into the middle of the plate :banghead
August 25, 200421 yr ah his breaking did move very well agiast SD problem it moved right into the middle of the plate :banghead 525728[/snapback] Thats b/c it didnt move enough and it hung over the plate.
August 25, 200421 yr While it would be great to sweep the Giants, with the Cubs now in first (for the wildcard) it's something of an irrelevancy. Winning never hurts but we need to see the Cubbies fall from grace if we're going to make up any ground. What I'd really like to see is the Fish get within 5.5 of the Braves before our six games with them in September. I've felt for awhile the team's best chance may be to win the division rather than trying to climb over three teams in the wildcard, all of whom are playing good baseball.
August 25, 200421 yr But too bad the Padres and Cubs won tonight. The Marlins, and us the fans, should only be concerned with winning as many games as we can. Let the cards (Wild ones) fall where they may. If we just win our games, will be in the post season. One game at a time. We can't control other games (teams) so why worry about it? Just worry about tonight's game against the Giants. Forget the other games; the other teams. Just win baby! Go fish!!!
August 25, 200421 yr Lets make sure we get some early runs tonight too. I can see Willis pitching a lot better with a four run lead early on than just trying to keep us in the game, and thus probably throwing way too many pitches early on.
August 25, 200421 yr This thread should have been made after tonights game but whatever, a win tonight makes life a hell of a lot easier and takes the pressure off a little bit tomorrow.
August 26, 200421 yr We need the game tonight just to keep pace again. The Braves, Cubbies, Padres, and Astros have either won, or it looks like they will. It stinks to think we keep playing well and are not advancing in the standings. :thumbdown
August 26, 200421 yr You guys...this game is tied now. Stop jumping the gun! 526383[/snapback] Not jumping the gun, but if we don't win it, we fall back in the standings again. There is no margin right now with the way the Cubbies are playing.
August 26, 200421 yr damn...we should have won today and sweep them tom... we deserved to win...i hate these games... why do we have to mess up???
August 26, 200421 yr Why the hell are threads like this started? How many years have you people been following baseball to know that these threads SHOULD NOT BE STARTED.
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