Pitching Disasters

Sunny&Ben-

I agree with you bud. Those unearned runs is what has hurt not only Lohse but what has hurt our other starters as well. After all, that's why it's so important for us to get ahead early in the game. It's no sectet that whoever scores first has a bit better chance of winning that game. It gets into the pitchers head - whether it be our pitcher or theirs - and it takes the edge out of that pitcher. Besides, like you, I haven't heard anyone say that Lohse was the bona fide answer to our pitching woes. He was brought in to eat innings so our bullpen would be less overworked and so far he's done a pretty good job.

The main point here is when your defense lets you down it will get to any pitcher - whether it's Roy Oswalt, Brandon Webb, Johan Santana, Kyle Lohse etc..

Go Cards!!!!     68

I agree with Card-68.  A pitcher hates bad defense.  Even worse is a blown.  It infects the whole team with bad fibes.

Even worse, it causes starting pitchers to try to pitch complete games, ruining their arms. pipe

I realize Izzy is getting close to 300 saves, but it may be time to see if Chris Perez can close games in the majors.  If you can't put the guy(Izzy) in the game and have any feeling at all that he will be successful - DON'T PUT HIM IN.  Right now the only time he isn't going to hurt us is if it is already a blowout in the other teams favor.

We should have at least a 2 game lead in the division.