benitez.gifI was really tired when I got home from work tonight. It’s been a rough working week, and this 5pm to midnight shift is starting to hurt.

So I kind of appreciate it when the C’s don’t concede many runs, thus making the post-game report easy to write at 2am. But it would be nice if they scored a few… or even one… so that I could write about their win, rather than their graceless fall to the bottom of the NWL.

Tonight, Carlos Hernandez pitched six innings of three-hit, one-walk, eight-strikeout, scoreless ball. While he was doing that, No Fear LeVier was going 3-4, knocking his BA up to .273.

Nobody else did a damn thing.

The proof of that? On LeVier’s three hits, he amassed a total of three bases.

Yes, folks. He didn’t get past first base all night. Much like Rob Fai at The Roxy. 

male_cat.gifRunning out a lineup that included the .125 hitting Carlos Arrieche leading off (and collecting his fourth error of the season so far - not bad considering we’ve played 9 games, eh?) and featured Walt Correa managing one hit, but then getting picked off shortly afterwards, all that remained for the final humiliation was for all that great pitching to be undone by a Fabian Gomez hit-by-pitch, wild pitch, RBI double to left sequence in the 7th. Well done, sir. You were indeed a gamebreaker.

Admittedly, this lineup stank of ‘we have a bus trip to get through, so we’re resting some guys so they’ll be fresh tomorrow and running out a scrub or two in the meantime’, but even if the bossmen aren’t overly concerned about winning, the players need to start giving a damn ASAP.

Losing like this, and this often, has a way of not just becoming habit-forming, but also stigma-inducing.

The road to Oakland starts in Vancouver. There are a few players right now who need to grasp that concept.

June 25, 2008
 Final    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9      R   H   E 
 Vancouver   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0      0   6   1 
 Yakima   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   X      1   4   1 
Recap | Box | Audio
W: A. Rosario (1-0, 1.17); L: F. Gomez (1-1, 6.23); SV: B. Woodall (3)
HR: None.

NOTES:

* We suck.