4/10/05: Harden vs. Brazelton

[A's Baby Girl]

Oakland at Tampa Bay

April 10, 2005: Tropicana Field, 11:15 PT

vs
Harden: 0-0, 0.00Brazelton: 0-1, 3.68

Lineups

Oakland Athletics

Tampa Bay Devil Rays

[A's Baby Girl]

Yeah, we're probably gonna get swept...

[Providence A's]

Harden will destroy them...that's my prediction

[A's Baby Girl]

Brazelton's not too bad either

At best, it will be a pitcher's duel. But this team cant hit with RISP so Harden will probably end up a hard luck loser.

[SwingingFriar]

Saw this in this little blurp in morning San Diego's Union Tribune so I thought I'll just drop it in here:

The whole article

WEATHER OR NOT: Some of the Athletics were ticked off, not to mention shivering, at having to open the season with a week-long trip to the AL East. The idea that the weather might be less conducive to baseball in Baltimore than it would be in Oakland was apparently lost on somebody, according to center fielder Mark Kotsay.

"I don't know why we got the short end of the stick," said Kotsay, a SoCal native who has played for two California teams and the Florida Marlins. "I don't know what the schedulers were thinking. I know it's not going to be 30 degrees and snowing in Oakland."

"I still haven't come to grips with it," added teammate Scott Hatteberg. "We have such beautiful weather in Oakland, and we're leaving (the Coliseum) vacant and we'll be out in the snow. I thought I'd left those days behind when I left Boston."

Typically, left-handed pitching ace Barry Zito had different thoughts on the matter, even if he did lose the opener at Camden Yards.

"It's cool, something we haven't done," said Zito, "and it gets us out of the division."

Exactly. The two teams the A's are facing this week – the Orioles and Devil Rays – combined to finish 53½ games out of first. Oakland opens its home schedule against the Blue Jays, who actually finished behind Tampa Bay last year, a truly inconceivable concept.

[Providence A's]

yes, I don't like the schedule either...MLB outsources it to whoever can come up with the "best" schedule...among the crap brought up in that article for the 2nd year in a row the A's go to Boston twice and Boston only comes to Oakland once...unacceptable. In another article I read when the new schedule was accepted, it said the A's will travel the most miles this year out of all the other teams!

[Providence A's]

those are some sad averages for us...everyone .231 or below except Kotsay .476

[Providence A's]

A's
Kotsay CF
Kendall C
Chavez 3b
Durazo DH
Hatteberg 1b
Byrnes LF
Ginter 2b
Swisher RF
Scutaro SS

Devil Dogs
Carwford LF
Green 3b
Huff RF
Lugo SS
Cantu 2b
Lee 1b
Phelps DH
Hall C
Gathright CF

0 - 0 after 1 inning, Harden 2 k's already

[Providence A's]

top 2, 1st and 2nd after a BB and single...0 outs

[Providence A's]

2nd and 3rd with 1 out after a Byrnes groundout to the pitcher

[Providence A's]

Ginter walks to load the bases

[Providence A's]

Swisher k's with the base loaded...2 outs, Scutaro up

[Providence A's]

and Scutaro flew out...way to leaves the sacks jacked again you bums

[Providence A's]

ground out, then a walk...1st base 1 out

[Providence A's]

Phelps flew out to DEEP center, 2 outs, 1st base