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Come from behind. Fighting back. Pitchers getting down, but not ever letting it get out of reach. Tough playing tonight.This is the team we’ve been expecting this whole season. Tough, gritty win.
So for games 2 and 3, we have the following unused relievers pitching at least reasonably well recently:
DuPlantier (other than Boehm, he's our best guy for 1-2 innings and closing this year)
O'Hara (reliable, nothing too fast or fancy, an Ace W protege on the mound)--may need to go 3+ innings
Tumis (very, very high ceiling, has the occasional really bad inning though)--may need to go 3+ innings
Shaw (has been crapping all over the mound, until his last outing--where he pitched a really good, high leverage inning)
Then we also have:
Hudson Hamilton (wicked "stuff", but tends to leave meat hanging in the middle of the zone at times, and batters have punished him for it)
Tole (decent WHIP, some bad memories ala DuP)
Hurley (any given game we'll either get the good Hurley or the bad Hurley, and we'll know almost right away).
In game 3, Boehm might be ok to go an inning or 2, if necessary, as would Lummus (who had an uncharacteristic crappy game tonight; his command/control was just off tonight; he's usually pretty good)
I think O'Hara and Tumis have to show up and go 3 innings each, maybe 4 depending on what the starters do.That doesn't give me a ton of confidence, need the starters to go as long as possible. Ace needs to go 7 full innings with the lead in order for us to have enough relievers for Sunday.
Kudos to Coach Pierce last night for going with his best reliever Boehm when he was behind 5-4. He trusted his team to come back and get the win and they did.
Gasparino’s power for hitting the super-far or super-fast homer approaches (and maybe even exceeds) that of Galvan.Great win!
Note to self, don't park in the garage when the state track meet is going on. The garage was full and I had to park almost on the top. At the end of the game I sat in my spot 20 minutes before the car behind me finally was able to move.
Funny note. Last week my wife asked me what kind of hit would be considered a piss-missile. I tried to explain it but I'm not sure it got through to her. When Gasparino hit that line drive home run to left, I looked at her and said, "Now that was a piss missile.
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