BRANDON WEBB!
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
I heard some sports talking head this morning talking about Josh Beckett being the best pitcher in the majors at 4-2. Fiddlesticks! Brandon Webb is 8-0!
He pitched a complete game yesterday, saving the bullpen. Of course, it helped that he was staked to a chalupa-sized 8 runs, thanks in part to Chris Young’s 2-run homer, Chris Snyder’s 2-run double, and Justin Upton’s solo shot. Also, The Sheriff is back in town. Mark Reynolds went 3-4 with an RBI and a run.
Eric Byrnes is thinking of running a bakery. He served up another bagel (0-5) yesterday. I won’t repeat his batting average here in case kids are reading.
I drink herbal teas that are my own blends. This week, I have been adding the memory supplement ginko biloba because I can’t remember the last time Byrnesie had an RBI.
I am trying to figure out what he can do to right himself. Maybe he ought to stop trying to grow a mustache for a hitting streak. His body is trying to put too much energy into a futile effort (mustache) and doesn’t have enough for a good effort (hitting streak).
Actually, there are plenty of other more important things wrong now. But this is a celebratory essay so I won’t go on about it.
BRANDON WEBB! He’s the first NL pitcher since Pedro Martinez in ‘97 to start 8-0. The D’Backs are starting to talk contract extension with him. Ca-Ching! And he deserves it!
Now Danny Haren goes up against the Cubs at Wrigley today at 11:20 PDT/MST. Day game on a Friday? And with no off day for travel? There has been some weird scheduling of day games this season.
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Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Kellia writes (and does some audio work) about baseball, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks, on her blog, Down The Left Field Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes. (http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com), under the name ByrnesBlogger1. She expects to expand her sports journalism from baseball fandom to stories on social issues in a sports context in a website she is building in the fourth quarter of 2007 to be an annex to the "Byrnesblog".
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