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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5113227, member: 289"] Went to tonight's game to have a look at Senga. He pitched 2 2/3 innings, Three was going to be the limit. He walked the last two guys and threw two wild pitches. He gave two hits, both line drives to center field, the first a double over the center fielder's head. But he gave up no runs. I wonder if he might stay in Syracuse for another start or two before he goes up. The crowd was larger than normal but not large. There was no one in the upper decks and virtually no one along the right field line. There was brief shower which was refreshing and served to cool things off. Those that were there saw an exciting game and the kids had great fun on the 'burns'. I spent 6 innings in my seat, then went to the picnic tables in right field to eat my ice cream, (I'd had a chicken tender basket for dinner- excellent), and read a book that just came out on Hank Aaron a friend sent me that had been signed by the author, who he met down in Atlanta. (This site won't let me link you to Amazon, even though they are a sponsor, because...Why?) [URL="https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781637272893"]The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legend of the Home Run King (PB) (2023)[/URL] It was one of those games where the home team jumps out to a lead, stops scoring, tries to hold on but can't quite do it. It was also an example of what can happen when you ask the bullpen to pitch half the game, (in this case, more than one half). The first two relievers got 10 guys out but then a guy who had been pitching well, Josh Walker, (1.42 ERA), got one guy out while giving up 3 walks, 2 hits and 4 earned runs, tying the game and pushing his ERA to 2.81. He was replaced by Ty Adcock, late of the big Mets, got 5 guys out and just gave up a single hit. Unfortunately, that was with the bases loaded from Walker's tenure and tied the game, giving Ty a blown save, (Blown Saves are BS!). He was replaced by Tyler Jay. The Smets had finally gotten another run on an infield out to take the lead back. Jay promptly gave up a home running to the left field beer deck to tie it up again. He wound up getting 3 outs with no walks but was "wild in the strike zone" and gave up 5 hits and 4 runs. One was unearned after the first baseman slipped trying to field a bunt, the field still being slick after the brief shower. I thought we'd won it in the 9th when the score was 5-5 and the leadoff hitter, third baseman Yolmer Sanchez, (who was hitting just .204), hit a fly ball to right that looked to me as if it had gone over the fence. I was celebrating a walk-off home run. But Scranton's Oscar Gonzalez had caught the ball right at the top of the wall. We couldn't get a run across and then Jay gave up three more turns in the 10th. We managed to get one of them back and had two on when Cortez lined out to the pitcher. I closed my Hank Aaron book and went him. On the way back I listened to the post game show and Paul Edson, "Boy Green" on the "Manchild and Boy Green" Show, said that it's always been to lose by a large margin than to barely lose like tonight. it's less painful that way. Blown Save! [/QUOTE]

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