Diamondbacks beat Giants – Webb beats Zito
In a game where the pitching match up was meant to be a clash of titans, it was more of a shot of reality to the San Francisco Giants and their fans. Brandon Webb improved to 4-0 while Barry Zito went to 0-4. They are both the ace’s over their teams, yet only one pitches like it.
Webb continued his dominate year by throwing 8.0 innings 3 hits and allowing only one run. The only stat that Zito was able to match him at was pitch total, even though Zito through for two less innings.
The Arizona Diamondbacks began the scoring in the second when Barry Zito walked the first three batters to start the inning. Zito got the next two batters out leaving two outs and the pitcher Brandon Webb up to bat. End of inning right? Incorrect, Webb hit a single up the middle scoring two runs. Webb dominated Zito on the mound and at the plate.
The scoring continued in the 5th inning when Eric Byrnes hit a ground rule double to center scoring Steven Drew. Next batter was Orlando Hudson who singled to center scoring Chris Young. Zito was lucky enough to watch Eric Byrnes get thrown out at home during the play helping out his skyrocketing ERA.
"It’s just a fine line," Zito said. "I feel good about the way I’m throwing and have to stick with that."
A fine line is 2-2, not 0-4. Thanks "ace".
Zito once again couldn’t make it passed the 6th inning, even though he hit 85 plus pitches for the fourth straight game.
|
Pitchers |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
HR |
PC-ST |
ERA |
|
B Zito (L, 0-4) |
6.0 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
105-58 |
4.50 |
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