watched all of last night's game and can tell you this, hp ump carlson must have been smoking some serious green..that game was so close to going either way but then wood got squeezed on a couple of calls and instead of pitching around ausmus with a 2-0 count(with oswalt on deck) he piped a fastball that ausmus hit the other way for the big hit of the game, wood then gets tossed as he goes to back up home plate and makes some choice comments to carlson--i'll be interested to see how this series plays out also after lugo got plunked(i dont think wood was throwing at him but that guy never knows where it's going anyway, kind of like tim robbins in bull durham) so if you just looked at the box score, you'd think wood got hit kind of hard, not the case at all, if he had any type of curve last night, he might have k'd 15(kind of reminds me of watching nolan ryan when he was with the rangers, can get by strictly with the fb for a few innings while he tries to find the right landing point for his deuce)
I have never in my life seen someone throw as hard as he was the first three innings,'' Hundley said. "I've caught Doc Gooden, Bret Saberhagen, David Cone. I have never seen anyone throw as hard as he was. The umpire and I had words, and that was kind of the breaking point.''
"General manager Gerry Hunsicker has called up Adam Everett from Class AAA New Orleans, which is playing a series in Tacoma, Wash. Jose Vizcaino, who has started at third, short and second this season, also will get plenty of starts at short.
"We're trying to get Everett there for (today's) game," Hunsicker said. "The Triple-A team is on the West Coast. If he's not there before the game, he'll be there at some time during the game.
i'll post some more thoughts as i find the info, first thought is that if clement finds his breaking stuff today(particularly the slider) then i'd lean cubs(too bad they have that heinous bully though)
munro relies on location and has been a pleasant surprise but you have to realize that he's facing teams for the first time and they havent really put together much of a report on him but he got hit pretty hard last time so perhaps the league is starting to see his tendencies--
