Went and saw the Keys play in Wilmington tonight. My scouting is certainly not in depth but here are my observations. There was a scene where
Steve Bumbry got a called strike 3 for his 2nd K of the game. He was obviously upset after the 1-1 pitch was called a strike, and when he was called out, he pointed the bat directly at the umpires head while barking. Then he started walking away and slammed it hard enough to bounce as high as his head then he did the same with his helmet. Through out all this the umpire just stared at him. From what I saw the ump did not eject him, which was unbelieveable, but he was apparently lifted by the Keys. M. Flacco hit a couple balls hard, including a triple to the base of the wall. Schoop had a couple hits, but neither was squared up, one was an infield single and the other was a chopper that bounced high enough to go over the 3B's head. When he was going first to 3rd on a single to right, he ignored the third base coach's signal to slide and it was to close for comfort on the play at 3rd. He was never really tested defensively at short. Machado was out of the game with the hip but he was coaching 1st which I thought was good to see, to keep him in the game. The livliest arm of the night seemed to belong to
Clay Schrader who got a 3 run save, altho he did walk 2. Also, M. Abreu was in CF tonight and he made several real nice plays including a diving catch. He appeared to have some wheels and ran a long way to catch a couple balls
Post #1 by DougDE » July 16th, 2011, 8:59 pm 
