6/18: S. Strasburg's third start

[DirtyKash]

Basketball has come and gone, but baseball remains. On deck for Friday: the Phenom, Stephen Strasburg's third start. This one will be in Washington, against the Chicago White Sox, who happen to be 26th in baseball in team batting average, 22nd in runs scored, but 7th in team home runs. And Strasburg has given up a home run in each of his first two starts (Delwyn Young and Trev Hafner).

However, one positive about the White Sox is that they have struck out the fewest number of times of any team, and it's not even close. White Sox have 317 strikeouts, the next closest is Kansas City with 349. Arizona has by far the most strikeouts with 615 this year (Mark Reynolds 95 already, Justin Upton 88, Adam LaRoche 67, Chris Young 60, Kelly Johnson 59). Yowza.

That being said...

Prediction for Strasburg:
7 innings, 4 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts.


(P.S. Toronto has a MLB-leading 103 home runs. The next closest team? Boston with 87. That's a YOOOGE difference.)

[Kingdom]

6.1 innings, 3 ER, 7 K, 1 BB, no decision

[DirtyKash]

My god, he is sick. The White Sox can't hit him. The 90 mph circle-change is just filth.

[DirtyKash]

Final Line: 7 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, 0 walks, 10 strikeouts.

[Porter]

They need to ****ing stop taking him out with only 85 pitches. EIGHTY FIVE PITCHES. That's ridiculous, stop ****ing babying the ****er. LET HIM GOD DAMN PITCH.

[Foster]

Somehow I think this is a Borass deal here.
I believe I read somewhere that he was getting involved in this part of "Strastisfaction's" game.

Can't say that I blame him for looking after his young client, and superior talent. A quick look at recent flame outs from the draft shows that keeping it short and sweet may lead to a long and awesome career.

[Kingdom]

At least they're not ****ing him up like New York did with Joba.

[Porter]

Or Seattle with Morrow? By what, grabbing him by the hand and walking him across the street. Texas has it the right way. You get the ball, you pitch, you finish.