{"id":828,"date":"2010-08-25T08:21:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=828"},"modified":"2010-08-25T08:41:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:41:13","slug":"ryan-howard-loses-his-cool-ability-to-make-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/828","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Howard Loses His Cool, Ability to Make Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Tuesday’s 16 inning<\/strong> contest between the Philadelphia Phillies <\/strong>and Houston Astros, Ryan Howard<\/strong> joined an elite club<\/a> that I’m sure he would prefer not be a part of.\u00a0 Howard managed to go 0-7 with 5 strikeouts- The Platinum Sombrero<\/strong>– before he was ejected for passionately disagreeing with 3rd base umpire Scott Barry over the check swing that ultimately notched his 5th strikeout, in the bottom of the 14th.<\/p>\n

As if Howard’s Tuesday night performance wasn’t concerning in itself, in his last two games he is 0-11, with 8 strikeouts.\u00a0 If anything, perhaps this explains why Howard had such a short fuse by his final at-bat; he knew that he was in the midst of an epic, strikeout streak and probably assumed Barry was out to get him.\u00a0 Let’s look at each of Howard’s 7 at-bats from Tuesday to better understand how he became the latest to wear the Platinum Sombrero.<\/p>\n

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– Bottom 1:\u00a0 K (swinging)<\/p>\n

– Bottom 2:\u00a0 Flyout to center<\/p>\n

– Bottom 3:\u00a0 K (swinging)<\/p>\n

– Bottom 6:\u00a0 K (swinging)<\/p>\n

– Bottom 10:\u00a0 K (swinging)<\/p>\n

– Bottom 13:\u00a0 Foul out to 1st<\/p>\n

– Bottom 14:\u00a0 K (swinging)<\/p>\n

And on that final strikeout, this happened:<\/p>\n

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Who cares! It’s not like his spot up in the order came up again in a crucial situation…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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