Zack Segovia gave the Lynx their first semi-decent start of the road trip in today's 2-1 loss (boxscore, play-by-play) to Charlotte. Unfortunately for the Lynx, who slipped two games below .500, Segovia ended up as a hard-luck loser thanks to walks -- not so much the five of his own, but the back-on-back bases on balls from Kane Davis that pushed the winning across in the seventh and a lack of run support. (Walks and a total lack of run support -- he's just like A.J. Burnett today!)
In hindsight, the pitchers are kind of on borrowed time -- the staff WHIP (1.51 through Saturday's play) is last and the team's strikeout-to-walk ratio is third-last in the 14-team International League. Those are areas which could have been shored up by Brian Mazone (flew the coop to Korea) and Matt Childers (on the disabled list), but don't cry over split pitchers.
Strange stat: Indianapolis has walked the most batters and struck out the least, yet they led their division and are in the top half of the league in staff ERA.
(Ottawa Lynx Blog has an interview up with Lynx Stadium groundskeeper Matt Teuscher.)
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