Russ Ortiz Pitches His Best Start This Year And Loses

Russ Ortiz did a GREAT job - threw 7 innings, scattered 2 walks and 5 hits. Unfortunately, he got no help from his teammates OR his manager who started Darin Freaking Erstad instead of Berkman and sent crappy Matt Kata and Jason Michaels up to pinch hit instead of Maysonet, who hasn't had so much as a PH AB in 8 days. Manager sure has a problem with "young" players, meaning he doesn't want to play them. Greinke wasn't exactly unhittable, but when you have Erstad hitting 6th (you have a guy hitting his season HIGH of .140 hitting 6th, now WHY?????!!!!) it ain't to hard to pitch out of jams. sigh It's Luke Hochevar (1st pick in the 06 draft) and his 6.61 ERA tomorrow. He's been extremely erratic - gave up 7 R in 4 IP vs the Dbax last start, but threw a 3 hit CG against the Reds the start before. And I would like to see Roy go all Wandy at home this time. Oh yeah TAYLOR JUNGMAN ROOLZ!!!!! GO TEXAS!!!