Thursday, April 14, 2005

A win by any other score...

So I was wrong about the whole "getting to Clemens" thing. A little wishful thinking on my part (no good can come of predictions like that), but the important thing is that they won in the end.

The game ball obviously belongs to Ishii, who went seven strong. Whether he's on or off, he will get his walks in - three last night - but two hits is very few and neither cleared the fence. A few more outings like this will go a long way to making us forget Jason... c'mon... backup catcher... Hey it happened already!

Anyway it was a scrappy (read: there was baserunning involved) team effort, helped along by four scoreless innings from the bullpen. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, a sweep.

It's not so farfetched. I don't think tonight's game will be much of a pitchers' duel, as walk artist Victor Zambrano takes on home run specialist Brandon "Back Back" Backe, but I'm getting out of the prediction racket. Hopefully they'll make it 4 in a row, and get that serious, David-Wells-on-ice-skates momentum going.

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