Really, Meek gave it up.
The Cubs drew 11 free passes in 12 innings. That's just one less than Neifi Perez drew in all of 2006 and 2007 (387 PA). Evan Meek gave up five all by himself, along with two wild pitches. That was enough to get two runs across without a hit. Cubs Win.
Talking about walks, Carmen Pignatiello threw 8 pitches - all missed the zone. He was yanked after those two walks.
As seen in the past, Carmen throws a fastball, change and a breaking ball.
There's something askew with the PFX data, it is off by a few inches. But the plate locations look alright. In a really not right kind of way. Checking it out on MLB.TV, it looks like the plate locations (or lack thereof) are on, but not my pitch id's on one or two (Gameday did a little better, maybe, on one). I need to work more on reliably picking out a "curve" from a "slider" with this guy.
Jon Lieber pitched the 9th, 10th and 11th innings to get his first win since putting the Cubs uniform back on. He did give up two walks and two doubles in the process.
Whatever Matt Sinatro did with Geo before Sunday's game worked. Geovany threw out two base runners - two very fast base runners who don't get caught. Soto managed to get two guys who had combined career totals of 43 SB in 48 attempts. Make that 50 attempts. Soto improves to 2/9 on the year.
Tuesday is an off-day, Ryan Dempster and Zach Duke are scheduled to start on Wednesday night.
Career numbers against Duke. You can scroll down to the next post, or click the link for his PITCHf/x data.
Ronny Cedeno, anyone? Hey Lou, give Theriot another day off tomorrow. I'll take Ronny's seven singles over what Theriot has done against Duke.
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