Sure, the Phils lost tonight. It was bound to happen. The bats were cooling off after the quick start on Monday night. They went into a deep sleep this evening and didn't produce a run.
However, that wasn't the big story to come out of this evening. The main thing to come out of the game for me tonight is the arrival of the Brett Myers we expected to see this year. It's taken two months, but Brett Myers finally turned in a dominant performance. He went 7 and 1/3 and gave up only 2 earned runs. Brett carried a no hitter into the 7th, but he lost the no hitter and the shutout in the 7th when some dude named Joey Votto (with a name like that, he has to be pictured somewhere on NJguido.com) knocked in a run with a two out double. What a shame to waste such a performance.
Myers even looked slimmer tonight. Who knows, maybe the Wife Beater bought a Wii Fit over the weekend and started using it in earnest.
In any event, this is the Brett Myers this team needs to make a legit playoff run. If we can get 7 dependable innings out of him every night, then look out because I think this team could make a serious post season run.
I just hope I'm not over reacting.
2 comments:
SOOOO. i didn't see a pitch considering im in the Great MidWest, but i saw the performance via the "box score" . I saw 6 walks, which is wayyyy too many. Its a huge improvement no doubt, but he still has something to prove as we move thru June.
Additionally, to classify him a "wife beater" is a bit strong. Yes he had 1 incident that the police were involved in back in 2006. Here's a 24 (at the time) old dude who got into a fracas, but to classify the dude as a "wife beater" may be presumptious. I seem to remember a shoe throwing incident that if the five O was in the area could be "classified" something more than what it was...
Two good starts in a row is very promising.
You can call him the wife beater. One incident is enough for me to think the guy is a creep. It is inexcusable no matter what the circumstances were.
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