Monday, June 23, 2008

No movement, no baseball

First Brandon Webb loses the movement on his fastball. Now his teammate loses a fly ball leading to a five-run Twins rally for a 5-3 Sunday loss at the Metrodome.

The Arizona Republic reports that Conor Jackson's first trip to Minneapolis will be forgettable, only because it's happened so many times before.
Jackson became the latest in a long line of outfielders to lose a fly ball in the Metrodome's tan-colored roof, and the mistake led directly to the Twins' latest big inning against the Diamondbacks. They scored five times in the fifth, enough to come away with a 5-3 victory and complete a three-game sweep of the slumping Diamondbacks.
The loss drops Webb to 11-4, and his ERA is on a steady climb now at 3.40.

Fantasy Impact: No more worries about that dome roof for the D-backs this year, but after the sweep Arizona is just 39-37. Webb doesn't seem like himself. In his last three starts he's gone 15.1 innings with 14 earned runs and just 11 strikeouts. Something is not quite right.

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