Three Amigos Rhan Six

By Anthony

Yes, that is Welsh, you all got me. Sorry I am lazy. Oh wait? You had no clue? Of course you didn’t. Not too many people outside of Wales speak Welsh. I win again! Anyway, once again the three amigos had some fun playing some baseball. I would say we kind of have the Tigers number this year. At least, we haven’t been denied their number, but seriously baseball is weird like that. To the grades, word and movements of my finger/ hat.

Hector Noesi

So I am 99% sure that Hector Noesi reads this blog. Or Carl Willis. Either way, ever since I wrote about what Hector was doing wrong, he has been doing pretty good. So either I should be a pitching coach, or at least a bullpen coach. Anyway, Hector beat up on some Twins. He went 7 innings, threw 70% strikes, gave up one run, had 5 K’s, 3 BB’s and got his second W. That is a pretty solid performance against a pretty terrible team. But hey, gotta start somewhere right? On my three things Noesi has to do, command his changeup, get whiffs with his breaking pitches and limit the line drives, he did a pretty good job. 71% strikes with his changeup, including a 14% whiff rate. He threw 28 breaking pitches and got 3 whiffs, not great. He gave up three line drives. So yeah, he didn’t do a great job on those last two. But it is the Twins, who are worse than us at hitting. Yeah. That bad. I guess I have to give Hector an A, just because he got a quality start against a low quality opponent. Still, beating the Twins is like getting an A on a religion reflection. Its not too impressive but at least you turned it in, right?

Blake Beavan

Well the Ham Sandwich turned out to only be a half sandwich this time around. Miguel Cabrera decided he was hungry in the third inning and took a bite out of Blake’s elbow, (disclaimer, we don’t endorse cannibalism here, and Cabrera actually hit Beavan with a comebacker in the elbow. Not his jaws). Between Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera, I’m surprised the Ham Sandwich lasted so long. I bet those dudes would love to eat ham. Anyway, Blake did his Blake thing for those three innings. 1 K, 1 run, 75% strikes. Meh. More interesting was the apparition that filled in for Blake after he went down. Yeah, I didn’t watch the game and was told that the ghost of Hisashi iwakuma made an appearance. Besides loving ham sandwiches, I think the Tigers are also scared of ghosts because Hisashi was on his game! 3 innings, 5 K’s, 73% strikes and 1 run. What I am more seriously impressed with was how quickly he got warm. Since he is still adjusting to bullpen life, getting warm takes him longer than League, Wilhelmsen and the other dudes down there. So Hisashi, well done. You may be able to assume a corporeal form soon if you can keep doing that stuff.

Kevin Millwood

If you missed our inaugural tweet, we compared the odds of Santa Clara University’s basketball team beating Marquette University in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game to Millwood beating Verlander. SCU did not win a conference game this year and I guess Marquette was kinda good. So yeah, I didn’t have high expectations. So when we almost won because of some interesting managing decision and poor fandom, we still lost. So like if SCU almost made a run but MU made their free throws down the stretch. Anyway, to baseball. Millwood had a good line if you take out the second inning. His line was 5 innings, 5 runs, 3 K’s, and 5 walks. That is a pretty crappy line because you can’t just take out innings from a baseball game. As many runs and walks as innings pitched? That sucks. He also gave up 8 line drives. So maybe Millwood also reads this blog and got pissed at me for calling him out on his inability to get tough with guys on base. Touche, Kevin. But your victory is quite pyrrhic. You still were not good. I give him a C- because the Tigers are pretty good and Millwood isn’t and minus the bad inning he wasn’t super terrible.

The Word-

Stupid- I hope most of you know what stupid means, otherwise that is super ironic. Anyway, this word goes out to Cole Hamels. For those who did not know, Bryce Harper, the 19-year old phenom on the Nationals stepped in against him the other day. Hamels then hit him with a pitch. That is not stupid, pitches get away from pitchers sometimes and hit batters. Harper then took his base, eventually advanced to third and “stole home.” That is in quotes because Hamels attempted a pick off to first and Harper beat the throw from the first baseman to the plate. So he kind of stole home. That wasn’t stupid of Hamels. Harper is smart and pretty fast. Whatever. What is stupid is that after the game he said he meant to hit Harper. That is stupid, selfish and according to Nat’s GM Mike Rizzo, “chickenshit.” Rizzo’s opinion aside, how hard is it to say that the pitch got away from you? And why do you even try to hit Harper? Because he is a kid and needs to learn the way to play in the big leagues? Well he is playing pretty well right now, and made your team look stupid when he took home. So yeah, cool Cole, you hit someone with a pitch because he is young. Then you thought it would be cooler to brag about it to the media. Enjoy your fine and suspension. I hope you realize how stupid you are.

Tip of My Cap

Doug Fister - Yeah, I know he is an ex-Mariner who shut us down. Like needed 73 pitches in 7 innings and did not give up a run kind of shut us down. I will always like Doug and was sad to see him traded. But I wish him all the best on his new team. Even though the people we got for him aren’t doing super great right now. Ruffin, Furbush, Wells and Martinez. Two are sitting on the bench in Seattle. One will probably be a bullpen arm and Martinez is supposed to be a prospect. Like Justin Smoak. So yeah Doug, way to come back from an injury and take care of business. But too bad you couldn’t get a win! Must of felt like déjà vu, pitching really good in Seattle but then losing. That helped my passive aggressive unhappiness about losing Doug in a bad trade. By the way I hope you are all reading as Douuuuuuuuuuggggggggggg, because that’s how I am reading it. So yeah, go reread this paragraph and pronounce Doug right. I can wait to wag my finger.

Wag of My Finger

Justin Smoak - This is what we get for Cliff Lee? A ham sandwich and another first baseman who can’t hit. He was supposed to be an all star. Supposed to be one of the best hitters in the minors. Well, he is hitting .175 right now. That’s barely above Brendan Ryan territory. Man we can’t hit at all. So Smoak, we gave you a starting spot, gave you a train named after you and made a commercial about you. Better step it up! Otherwise the Smoakamotive could become the Liddi/ Carp/ Jaso- amotive. Yeah, that was a crappy pun. What else is new at Way Out in Left Field? Oh right we have a twitter. Follow us at @Way_Out_in_Left. And Go M’s.