Bedard to pitch exclusively to Burke - 美國職棒

這怎麼回事...城島配球真的有那麼糟糕嗎...
已經第三年了..不能跟城島搭配？

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080521&content_id=2743391&vkey=news_sea&fext=.jsp&c_id=sea

DETROIT -- It's rare when a starting pitcher has his own personal catcher,
but the Mariners are going that route with left-hander Erik Bedard.
When he starts Friday night against the Yankees in New York, Jamie Burke will
be the catcher.

"If a pitcher is having success with a certain catcher, you definitely have
to weigh that heavily," manager John McLaren said on Wednesday. "That doesn't
lie. We have that situation with Burke and Bedard. It has been a good
combination, so we're going to stick with it for awhile."

In four starts this season with Burke behind the plate, Bedard has allowed 17
hits, seven runs, eight walks, 25 strikeouts and has a 2-2 record.
Furthermore, opposing hitters have a .168 batting average against the
Bedard-Burke battery.

And in three starts with Kenji Johjima catching him, Bedard has surrendered
15 hits, 11 runs, walked 12, struck out 12 and has a 1-0 record. Opponents
have a .283 batting average against him when he pitches to Johjima.

Bedard's best game of the season occurred on May 17 against the Padres at
Safeco Field, where he went eight innings, surrendered two runs, struck out
10, walked one and worked exceedingly well with Burke.

The Bedard-Burke tandem decision, divulged during McLaren's pregame media
session, comes on the heels of the brief and ineffective outing Bedard had
against the Rangers in Arlington in his last start. He was rocked for seven
hits and six runs in a two-inning stint.

Burke was the catcher in Wednesday night's game against the Tigers, and
Johjima will start behind the plate in Thursday afternoon's series finale
against the Tigers in a game right-hander Miguel Batista will start.

While this is the first time in memory that the Mariners have gone with a
specific pitcher-catcher tandem, it has been done other places. Greg Maddux
hardly ever pitched to Javy Lopez, the Braves' first-string catcher, and
regular Yankees catcher Jorge Posada, currently on the disabled list, usually
gets the day off when Mike Mussina pitches.

"You have to look at it two ways," McLaren said. "We're not going to switch
everything around, but when there is an opportunity when certain pitchers are
pitching and we can do it, we'll do it."

That opportunity comes on Friday night in The Bronx.


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