CMW

Got to catch a few innings of this one on the net, and it was good to see CMW work out of jams with confidence. A couple of gappers put you in a two on, no out tight spot? No problem - a strike-out and a double play later and you're walking back to the dugout. But in watching the game tonight, and even when he took a perfect game into the 8th against the Mariners, you could still imagine him allowing a couple of cheap base hits and a double. That is the trouble with relying on a ball hit into play as the basis of your success, but hey, Maddux has made a pretty good career out of it. But as Rob Neyer has noted in the past, most pitchers who go on to long successful careers strike out more than 0.37 batters per inning. Like most types of pitchers, it's great fun to watch when things are going good, but it's definately more painful to watch when things are going poorly. So here's to fun.