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06-10-2002, 11:31 AM
Well, here are the positives. :thumbsup: A few quotes from the report on MLB.com:
Ponson pitched as if he was the ace of the Orioles staff, a position the organization has been waiting two years for him to claim.
"Sometimes, Sidney is his own worst enemy," catcher Brook Fordyce said. "But he threw a great game. He stayed within himself. He didn't try to do too much or lose his focus. It was a shame we couldn't get him a win."
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..........So while he expressed disappointment over the loss, Ponson was satisfied with his performance.
"Nobody likes to lose, you don't go out there and keep score for nothing," he said. "But I kept my team in the game and that's what I wanted to do. I told (Hargrove) I want to go out there for nine innings. I will throw 130 pitches if necessary. It doesn't matter to me. I want to pitch."
Ponson is 3-3 with a 3.50 ERA in his past 10 starts, and has turned in seven quality outings in that stretch. On Sunday, he gave up a first-inning RBI double to Baltimore native Brian Jordan - a pitch Ponson said was his worst of the day - and the third-inning unearned run that finished the scoring.
After the third, no Dodger runner reached second base. Four of the five Dodgers hits were singles and it was the first time in seven starts that Ponson allowed fewer than two earned runs.
"In his last six outings, he's been pretty solid in all of them," Hargrove said. "As a whole he's giving us a chance to win every time out. If you look at it in that context, then it kind of lets your stomach tickle a little with the possibility that maybe the light has come on for him."
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If anything, Ponson has proven to be a durable pitcher who will eat up innings and keep the Orioles in games. He has a 4.96 ERA in his losses and no-decisions and has failed to last six innings just once in 13 starts.
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"I just didn't let anything get to me today and I just pitched," he(Ponson) said. "I used to get (ticked) off when I did something wrong in the last inning. Now, I just pitch."
Ponson pitched as if he was the ace of the Orioles staff, a position the organization has been waiting two years for him to claim.
"Sometimes, Sidney is his own worst enemy," catcher Brook Fordyce said. "But he threw a great game. He stayed within himself. He didn't try to do too much or lose his focus. It was a shame we couldn't get him a win."
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..........So while he expressed disappointment over the loss, Ponson was satisfied with his performance.
"Nobody likes to lose, you don't go out there and keep score for nothing," he said. "But I kept my team in the game and that's what I wanted to do. I told (Hargrove) I want to go out there for nine innings. I will throw 130 pitches if necessary. It doesn't matter to me. I want to pitch."
Ponson is 3-3 with a 3.50 ERA in his past 10 starts, and has turned in seven quality outings in that stretch. On Sunday, he gave up a first-inning RBI double to Baltimore native Brian Jordan - a pitch Ponson said was his worst of the day - and the third-inning unearned run that finished the scoring.
After the third, no Dodger runner reached second base. Four of the five Dodgers hits were singles and it was the first time in seven starts that Ponson allowed fewer than two earned runs.
"In his last six outings, he's been pretty solid in all of them," Hargrove said. "As a whole he's giving us a chance to win every time out. If you look at it in that context, then it kind of lets your stomach tickle a little with the possibility that maybe the light has come on for him."
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If anything, Ponson has proven to be a durable pitcher who will eat up innings and keep the Orioles in games. He has a 4.96 ERA in his losses and no-decisions and has failed to last six innings just once in 13 starts.
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"I just didn't let anything get to me today and I just pitched," he(Ponson) said. "I used to get (ticked) off when I did something wrong in the last inning. Now, I just pitch."