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Considering our bats have been less than our desired affects, one thing I have noticed is that we have been scoring runs against the better pitchers in the game right now. We have just faced Arizona's best three and raised all of their ERAs. We also have faced other teams best pitchers and have done well enough. Our BA is low but we have been scoring runs. There have been things to complain about like not hitting against the lesser pitchers in the league, but we have shown that we can score runs against the better pitching, which is a good thing.
Delgado has been hitting better and we have our lineup in tact. There will always be hiccups along the way, but we just took two games from the hottest team in the league on their field against their best pitchers who were a combined 14-1 before we came into town. This is a good sign of things that aare capable to come.
Reyes seems to be gaining some patience at the plate. There are still some things that I would change like moving Castillo back to second in the lineup and Church to 5th. Leave Delgado at 6th he seems to be hitting there and Alou to 7th until he is fully back into the game and see how he develops. Or we could try to put Wright in the 4 spot as our natural clean up with Church in the 3 and move Beltran to the 5? I don't know whether or not that could help, but I don't mind things the way they are.
We are turning the corner and doing the things we need to do to win. Hopefully we can stay hot for a while and stop these streaky spots. the one thing for certain is that noone takes us lightly at all. Even though the Phils have a much better Line up than we have right now they also give up runs. It should be a long season of cat and mouse with them. The Braves seem much better than their record would indicate as well. And the Marlins are finally starting to tail off a little.
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