Hermida returns.....with a capital E

Jeremy Hermida was back at the plate on Wednesday night, and unfortunately in right field as well. No doubt his arm is better than Luis Gonzalez's (pretty sure my 6 year old nephew's is better) but his glove is shoddy at best. For a RF who missed a decent amount of time due to injury, he was 2nd among errors in RF last year. It was good to see him belting 2 doubles from the #3 hole, but watching him drop a routine fly ball was maddening. Hopefully he will sure up the defense, or else he will have to rake the ball every night to make up for his misplays in the field.

On a bright side though, Olsen has looked like a pitcher who is maturing before our very eyes. In a rotation starving for an ace to eat up innings and save the bullpen, he stepped up with a 7.2 inning performance. Giving up the 4 runs was ok by me.....better to make a team that was trailing by 8 put the ball in play instead of walking the ballpark. He was trying to make them earn everything, and did a good job for a team that is in desperate need of good starting pitching. Way to go Olsen. Keep it up!

Jorge Cantu showed a flash of the power he displayed with the (Devil) Rays a few season ago with his shot to left field. Cantu drove in over 100 a few years ago and is young enough to still have some good seasons left in him if he can get back to his form from a years ago. It would be great to have a legitamite offensive threat that far down in the lineup.

Speaking offense, Amezaga is hot right now?! And when you're hot and making contact to the opposite field you get rewarded by those little flares that drop. Keep it up Alfredo!

Mike Jacobs is showing the power that we all know he has. Stay healthy Jake, and you could have a monster year in this offense. If he could ever learn to hit the ball the other way, think of how much more of a threat that would make him. That being said, when he's pulling balls over the right field wall, that's fine with me. 2 homer night for the slugging 1Bman. How's Delgado doing in NY? 

Fish go for the sweep tomorrow before heading off the Houston. Let's get it and move to 6-3 before they take on Oswalt, Tal's hill and company over the weekend.