Roy Oswalt Beats The Diamondbacks 1-0 On A 4 Hitter

Roy-O pitched to Chris Coste, who, in my opinion, is a MUCH better receiver than either Pudge or Q - very soft hands. He threws a TON of curveballs and that curve was most definitely working just FINE tonight - only one ball was well hit all night. Lance Berkman set the club record for first baseman assists with (by my count) 9. And both Kepp and Miggy made really dumb errors, which caused Roy to have to throw 8 extra pitches. Good thing that Roy (and Hawkins and Valverde) pitched as well as they did because the hitters made Yusmeiro Freaking Petit and his 6.5 ERA look like Chris Carpenter. There for a while, I was afraid we were gonna get no-hit. Bourn got on with an E5 to start the game, but then Miggy did - you guessed it - GIDP!!! This team has grounded into 119 freaking DPs this year, with 6 weeks left to go. It's gotten so bad that every time anyone not named Bourn comes up with a man on first and less than 2 outs, I fully expect a GIDP. In fact, in the 7th, with 1 out and men on first and third, the Dbax manager had the fielders play at DP depth and I thought - man this manager is an IDIOT - he should just IBB Bourn, who is batting like .400 with RISP, and has grounded into ONE DP all freaking YEAR (and that was VERY close) and pitch to Miggy, who is up to 23 GIDPs on the year. And Bourn acgtually DID work a walk and Miggy actually DID - all together now - GIDP!!!! to leave bases loaded for the second inning in a row. Anyway, Lance broke up the nono in the 4th with an IF dribbler up the 3rd base line that he beat out. He's got his BA back up to .280, has his OBP over .400 and OPS around .950, as usual. I haven't heard much talk lately about how Berkman is all washed up. Pence is actually looking MUCH better at the plate this past week, after 3 months of struggles. He drew a walk - a 3-2 walk and laid off a pitch that was too high and his usual nemesis pitch on a low and away slider. Although he's still hitting far too many grounders to short, he's begun to hit line drives and long fly balls again. Interesting how people don't notice slumps in the middle of a season... And, by the way, it was Keppinger, who supposedly can't hit RHP, who drove in the only run of the game with a double to left... Tomorrow, it's Brian Moehler vs Max Scherzer, RHP Max is 7-7 in 23 GS over 128.1 IP - 130 H, 13 HR, 47 BB, 135 K - 4.00 ERA/1.33 WHIP/.252 BAA We faced Max only once before, at the BOB, in which he threw 4.1 scoreless in relief, giving up no hits or walks and striking out 7 (it was the infamous game in which Micah Owings hit a PH homer offn Borkowski and Coop went, uh, hysterical...)