I can see why they didn't want to have Harper out there today. So why the F do you put him out there? Gibby only threw 11 pitches, let him try one more inning! The bats are what burned this team today.
Those pitches to Cruz and Garver were definitely not strikes but you can't stand there and look at those. If the ump wanted to go home, shouldn't he have called those balls?
Not at all, smartass. I want him to succeed just as much as everyone else but the fact that he's like Pedro Cerrano and can't hit anything off-speed leads me to believe that he'll never really be able to hit in this league much longer.
Oh well, the rare combo of the pitching being blah on the same day that the bats are rather silent. It's gonna happen more often than not and at least there's a decent cushion to play with.