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Gameday Thread: White Sox at O's, 07/29
By SC
Posted on Fri Jul 29, 2005 at 03:07:42 PM EST

Orlando Hernandez, RH Erik Bedard, LH
(7-3, 4.78) (5-2, 2.11)

Game time is 7:35 on MASN and Chicago's WCIU.

Look it's Duque! Hernandez made 15 starts last year for the Yankees and went 8-2. This year he's made 13 for Chicago and gone 7-3. He is a dramatically worse pitcher this year than he was last year, giving up far more hits (1.57 WHIP compared to 1.29 last year). His walks have remained pretty consistent, up a touch. His strikeouts are WAY down: 8.98 K/9 in 2004, 5.75 this year. Now, his '04 K-rate was above his career average, but his '05 rate is well below his career average coming into this season too, which was 7.22 K/9.

Bedard was a bit rocky in his start at Tampa Bay on the 24th, but it was still a quality start and he was in command, just giving up too many hits. Considering he was out for two months, three earned runs in your first 12 innings back is pretty damn good.