Quote of the day
"It's better than a walk. You never want to walk anybody." -- Dodgers closer Jonathan Broxton, after surrendering a solo home run in the ninth inning, but still notching the saveDaily blurb
John Axford gave us the first reminder of the role of c-Loser, blowing a 3-run lead in spectacular fashion. Last season, he gave up 16 earned runs all year. So far, he’s given up four this year. Not a good start, with an ERA of 54.00 and a WHIP of 4.50.
I’m still working out a few kinks here and there in baseball processing, but I think the four programs I highlighted in yesterday’s blurb are all still functioning as desired, although one needed some emergency repairs last night. And one of my overnight data-gathering jobs brought the rotoguru server to a virtual standstill early this morning, requiring a “when all else fails, reboot” response. So there’s plenty of work to be done.
The weather outlook for today looks more favorable than for yesterday. Pirates @ Cubs looks iffy, but everything else looks likely to be played.