Peoria Chiefs baseball taken with Canon 100-400L f/4.5-5.6 IS (July 30)

So a few weeks back I rented a Canon 100-400L f/4.5-5.6 IS. I tried it out in several different scenarios.. sports, wildlife to name a few.
One ball game started at 6PM to finish a game rained out in the 9th the night before. The next game started at 7PM. I found myself having to use ISO 400+ from the get-go to get decently high shutter speeds. By 7:30 to 8PM I was having to use ISO1600-3200, which I hate doing, so at that point I gave up.
I actually went to 2 games that week. One night I sat on first baseline, the other I sat on third base side (sun setting behind me). I do love the sharpness and clarity of this lens WHEN I had enough light.
The exif info is at the bottom of every photo.. but unfortunately the ISO part didn't show up right. These were taken in raw and converted to jpeg. They're also cropped a fair amount to get rid of all the unnecessary background.
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Whatever you are editing your photos with is absolutely raping the quality.

Umm. I"m editing with photoshop 7, saving as JPEG quality 12 and hosting on webshots.

Did you look at the full-res photos on the actual album? Im sure it doesn't help that these were pretty cropped.... possibly up to 30 to 70% cropped out.. rough guess...

Also, as you work your way down the list, it was later & later in the game and I was cranking the ISO higher to get decent shutter speed until I juts gave up and went home... No noise-reduction applied.