{"id":94,"date":"2007-05-06T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2007-05-06T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T20:42:37","slug":"stuff-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"“Stuff-Wise”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we’re back in second place, let’s check out the explanations<\/a> for our loss to the Dodgers last night:<\/p>\n

Huddy, you’re up first: <\/p>\n

\n“I felt like I went out there and pitched as good as I could tonight with the kind of stuff that I had. But Derek came out there and he was throwing wiffle balls at us. He was really good.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reason Number One: Wiffle Balls<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frenchy, you’re always good for an ‘aw, shucks’ or two after a loss:<\/p>\n

“That’s some of the filthiest stuff I’ve ever seen,” said Jeff Francoeur, who accounted for two of the eight strikeouts registered by Lowe. “When you’re getting behind a guy like him all night like we were, it’s not easy to score runs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reason Number Two: The Filthiest Stuff Frenchy Has Ever Seen.<\/strong> For anyone who isn’t keeping tabs on beat quotes: he says this at least once a week.<\/p>\n

Huddy, how about one more?<\/p>\n

\n“It happened quick,” said Hudson, who has worked at least seven innings in each of his first seven starts. “I could have been better tonight. I wasn’t quite as good as I could have been, location-wise and stuff-wise.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nReason Number Three: Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s hope Davies is decent this afternoon — location-wise seems to be too much to hope for with him, but “stuff-wise” . . . maybe. As long as Wolf isn’t throwing wiffle balls, we’ve got a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that we’re back in second place, let’s check out the explanations for our loss to the Dodgers last night: Huddy, you’re up first: “I felt like I went out there and pitched as good as I could tonight with the kind of stuff that I had. But Derek came out there and he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,7,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}