Matzaka!!! actually pitched pretty well, and his fastball looked good. Lugo’s ridiculous 4th inning gaffe is, I think, the first time in fifty plus years of watching that I’ve ever seen a major league shortstop appear totally unfamiliar with the concept of a double play. (Not one but two glorious outs on just one ground ball!) He looked like a little leaguer awkwardly trying to turn his very first…or it actually seemed as if Julio caught the good feed from Dustin, got the out at second, and then suddenly thought to himself, “Hey…I might be able to get that guy running to first too! Maybe it’s worth a shot, and coincidentally that fielding savant Youk even looks ready for a throw!!” Nothing hit all that hard off Dice-BB, and the ump totally blew an inning ending third strike call on him, too. (Why can’t the home plate umpire have some secret little electronic gizmo in his underwear that gives him an immediate, enjoyable gentle tickle whenever the pitch tracker senses a strike, thereby putting him in an upbeat mood to make the correct call ?)
Tito doesn’t want to shake Poor Pap’s confidence by dropping him in the order, but he sends him out there to be thoroughly overwhelmed by about the best lefthander since Koufax? The Eck with his three career bombs he kept talking about would have had a better chance against Johan than Poor Pap did last night.
And speaking of The Eck, since he was loudly reading Youk’s lips after Santana clipped him, it’s a good thing Youk only said ‘s..t’, rather than, “F..k, F..k, F..k!!! That hurt! Johan, you @#$%^&*!@#$%!!! Actually, maybe Youk purposely toned it down because he figured Eck would be clearly but casually quoting him on the air.
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