I think I have heard this one before

There is a team in major league baseball whose starting pitchers can't go more than 6 innings. The problem is that the bullpen isn't very deep, nor are they very good. Ladies and gentlemen, your 2008 Atlanta Braves!!!!

If you haven't figured it out by now, the Braves were swept by the Phillies yesterday by a score of 6-3. Jorge Campillo started and pitched 5 1/3 innings, giving up 3 runs. Will Ohman threw two innings of scoreless relief, but Blaine Boyer gave up 3 runs while only getting one out in the ninth to break the tie game and take the loss. Chipper Jones was out with a small tear in his quadricep muscle, but Mark Teixeira was 3 for 5 with a 2 run homer to pick up the offense. The Braves are now 32-32, 6.5 games behind Philly for the NL East lead and 5.5 games behind the Cardinals for the wild card.

The starting pitching has been decent when they want to be. They have a 24-19 record. However, the bullpen is 8-13 with 10 blown saves. We really need our starting pitching to get us into the seventh inning to take some pressure off of an already over worked and injured bullpen. The offense is OK, but without Chipper in the lineup it becomes very easy to pitch around Texieira and take your chances with the rest of the team. We have a month until the All-Star break, I would like to see the team within 3 games of the division lead by then. Maybe those three days during the break will refresh the team and get us headed in the right direction.

Five more spots for the College World Series were won on Sunday. Georgia, North Carolina, Miami, Rice, and Florida State all won to join Stanford in the final 8 at Omaha. There are two games today to fill out the rest of the field. UC Irvine plays LSU at 7pm. Fresno State and Arizona State also play at 7pm. The College World Series starts on June 14th on ESPN.