-3.5 Points: Disaster Strikes

Yesterday was a complete failure.

My team went 6/36 with only 4 runs and a steal. That’s right, no homers and no RBI.

The worst part of it all is that I feel like an idiot for pitching Dave Bush and benching Mike Mussina. Mussina managed to strike out 8 Rangers, allowing only 7 baserunners and 2 runs over six solid innings in a losing effort.

Down in the desert, Dave Bush was solid through four innings before one of the more frustrating half innings of my fantasy season unfolded in front of me. The D-Backs leveraged a bloop double by Stephen Drew and a bloop single by Conor Jackson into a three run inning.

Now I’m not going to say that Bush deserved to come out of the inning unscathed, but it’s pretty frustrating to see Bill Hall, who’s not exactly Brooks Robinson at the hot corner, allow a blooper to fall in for a double. What was perhaps the most infuriating play of all came when Jackson, the next batter, blooped a ball in front of Corey Hart in shallow right. Hart’s throw short hopped Kendall so a run scores. Fair enough, Arizona deserved to score on that play. But not twice. Dave Bush, unfortunately for the Brewers and any fantasy owners of his, decided not to back up home plate on the play (check the clip "jackson scores drew and ojeda with a double"), so when the ball skidded past his receiver to the backstop, no one was able to prevent Drew from scoring.

Again, I’m not saying that Bush deserved to win; he allowed hard hit balls to go along with the bloopers. It’s just that I’d rather see my pitchers allow runs because other teams hit them, not because they neglect to back up a throw from the outfield in a close game.

Oh, and in Colorado Brian Fuentes faced five batters and they all scored.

Wandy Rodriguez had better pitch well tonight against LA.