5-5-2007
Seattle 1 2 0
New York 8 13 0
On a road trip this weekend, I had the opportunity to listen to almost all of this game on the radio. Both the Seattle and the New York broadcast were availible, and I chose the Seattle guys, because although their pre and post game coverage is always hopelessly optomistic, they call a good game, and John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman are just plain annoying.
The pitching matchup was an interesting one - Jeff Weaver and Chien Ming Wang. Weaver's welcome in Seattle is just about worn out, with the 15+ ERA and all. Wang is just off an injury, and although he was effective all of last year, he still gives up a ton of contact even when successful, and it only takes a few seeing eye singles to land in a heap of trouble.
Weaver dodged trouble through the first 5 innings, prompting the announcers to draw comparisons with his Cardinal playoff heroics, but then had a stat correcting 6th, using a creative combination of hit batsmen, walks, singles and doubles to allow a 5 spot.
Wang on the otherhand cruising along with a perfect game. I started to actually believe that it might happen when he struck out Ibanez to end the 7th after trailing 3-0. He would only retire one more batter before giving up a solo shot to Broussard. In hindsight, I'm sure they were happy to be able to keep his pitch count at 103. It would have been very interesting to see how Joe would have handled the situation in the ninth had Wang kept the perfect game alive.
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