Lot of heroes today (yes, I am contributing to the dumbing-down of the word 'hero'). Drew, Nava, and the whole bullpen, for starters.
Ugh-- it's after midnight here so I'm going to hit it. 'Night, all.
I wish for once, just once, when some baserunner is lazily taking 2nd base in the last inning of a blowout, the catcher would say, "I got your indifference right here, sucka!" and nail him to end the game. That would be beautiful.
Yeah, even Atchison didn't really do that poorly -- just managed to get all of his baserunners clumped together so it led to runs. But like I said earlier, the Phillies are awful right now. Fidel Castro could pitch 3 shutout innings against the current Phillies.
The game's going well, but really the Phillies are a AA club right now. As far as impressiveness goes, it ranks right up there with the Yankees beating the Astros.
I'd say Atchison did his job. 2 runs in an emergency fill-in start, got us through 3 innings... not perfect but not totally abysmal either.
Now he hands off to...?
Sounds like a Pedroia kind of guy, in a way. No one ever took him seriously because he's dinky. All he ever did was pound the ball. But he's dinky, so the numbers don't count.
He's got like a .960 OPS in his Red Sox minor league career. Nine frickin' sixty.
I'd love to see him kill the ball tonight. Also, he's playing LF so I hope he's wearing a flak jacket. Gotta protect those ribs, you know.
This gamethread started off so well. The Cleveland tourism video was a riot. "This train is carrying jobs out of Cleveland!" Then it just went doooooownhill. Oy vey.