Thursday, September 02, 2004
Take That!
3-1 D-Backs over the Dodgers. One of those games where you remember how things can go right. Yet another solid starting pitching performance from Brandon Webb -- 3 hits, 3 walks, and 7 strikeouts over 6 innings. 3 solid innings of relief work from Nance, Koplove, and Aquino. And a 3-run rally all started by Webb drawing a 2-out walk with Hideo Nomo and capped by Shea Hillenbrand getting a 2-out bases-loaded single. It was like "Bizarro D-Backs."
There was some talk on Dodger Thoughts' comments section yesterday (OK, at least one comment) about how they expected Nomo to have a good game and Webb, who needed a couple more years seasoning in AAA, would get hammered.
I take no small consolation in seeing the latter prediction refuted entirely (Webb has had a pretty good season, and may have put his early super-wildness behind him) and the former partially. As I keep telling people in "real life," the D-Backs team is bad, but not awful, and is certainly capable, with Johnson and Webb pitching, of disrupting the NL West race.
There was some talk on Dodger Thoughts' comments section yesterday (OK, at least one comment) about how they expected Nomo to have a good game and Webb, who needed a couple more years seasoning in AAA, would get hammered.
I take no small consolation in seeing the latter prediction refuted entirely (Webb has had a pretty good season, and may have put his early super-wildness behind him) and the former partially. As I keep telling people in "real life," the D-Backs team is bad, but not awful, and is certainly capable, with Johnson and Webb pitching, of disrupting the NL West race.
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