1 for 13 with runners in scoring position, 10 men left on base. That's the story. A nice effort by Gorzelanny that came apart in the sixth, partly because he lost command, also because Soriano misplayed a fly ball into a double and Fontenot committed an unlucky error. On the plus side, Fontenot and Fukudome had hits off a tough lefty. In Lou's world this shouldn't happen, although righties can always hit righties.
Anyway, this team is 6-10 after a tenth of the season. They are in serious trouble. 2-5 against two of the worst teams in baseball. It's not because of the bullpen either, though the most plausible reason for demoting Zambrano seems to be to send a message to Hendry to get Lou an experienced right-hander to complement the thoroughly incompetent Grabow for eighth inning duties. There are surely more effective ways to communicate, like maybe picking up the telephone or, God forbid, meeting face to face.
Unless the idea is to humiliate Zambrano, which makes no sense whatsoever, but then Piniella often does things that make no sense and, like many baseball lifers in management positions, is not a nice guy.
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