Jorge Cantu Makes History; Volstad Solid As Fish Beat Reds 5-3

[Party]

Another dare I say unimpressive start for Chris Volstad. It's progress but I'd like to see more groundouts and less walks.

5 Ks, 4 BB, a homer, 8 ground outs, 6 flyouts
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wasn't on tv

I was wondering why they had 14K.

[Beef]

Brenneman was wondering that too

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Another dare I say unimpressive start for Chris Volstad. It's progress but I'd like to see more groundouts and less walks.

5 Ks, 4 BB, a homer, 8 ground outs, 6 flyouts

Unimpressive? This makes 2 starts now where he entered the 7th inning only having allowed 1 run. He gave up the homer on his 117th pitch, a career high, in his second game of the season when he had not thrown even 100 pitches in 2010. 5 K's for Volstad is A LOT. That's not his game. He may not have been perfect but this was a very solid start.

Or were you just trying to get me to say something?

[Ramp]

"what's this guy doing hitting 8th?"

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7443589

[Swifty]

Festa, he set a career high in pitches...if that doesn't impress you....

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

"what's this guy doing hitting 8th?"

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7443589

That was hilarious.

[Ramp]

Dude has some serious pop in that bat. You know when he hits the ball.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Festa, he set a career high in pitches...if that doesn't impress you....

That's not what I meant. I meant that this was game 9 on the season and that's a lot of pitches for this early in the season, especially since it's about 20 more pitches than he has thrown in months. I'm sure he was feeling a bit tired by then.

[Nick]

I've been saying since last season that I'd be very interested to see what kind of numbers Carroll could put up if he were an every day starter.

[Ramp]

Even nicer that he did this off a hard throwing righty too

[Beef]

117 is a lot of pitches at the end of the season. At what point of the season is it less, though?

[Bobbob1313]

If you told everyone on this board at the start of spring training that we'd get 6+ innings out of Volstad in each of his first two starts, we'd take it no questions asked.

[Beef]

I like to ask questions.


And then you would prob argue with somebody after

[Bobbob1313]

117 is a lot of pitches at the end of the season. At what point of the season is it less, though?

I would say sometime during the middle, but even then, it's risky for a young arm. Volstad is still pretty young.

I thought Fredi shouldn't have let him go out another inning when he finished 6 with 101.

[Beef]

Or is he young and fresh and you don't want to tax an older arm because it might be the straw that breaks the dam

:-)