YOU CANNOT LOSE IF YOU THROW THE RACE

Getaway day game with the Mariners and Jays and King Felix proves the point that he’d make a good Giant, but if he was a Yank, he’d have 20 wins. And yes, I agree that most of the stats are very impressive, but how do you give the Cy Young award to a .500 pitcher? You can’t in my book…

Thames two-run shot off Price put the Yanks up and was about as good as it got all night. Thames, by the way, is having a really great season off the bench and when used sparingly, and he’s doing it quietly; definitely one of the better off-season acquisitions.
Perhaps it’s not the quiet, but the fact that Swish is just really loud. He K’s in the 3rd; I hear, “Fuck!”
And it looked pretty good up until the 6th with CC holding a 3-1 lead over Price and then Sabathia does an Ivan Nova impersonation and just falls apart. Joba comes in and puts out the fire with gasoline.
And then Ed Whitson--- oops, I mean Javier Vazquez? Well, he did something I had never seen before: hit three guys in a row. The line for the first six guys he faces in the 7th is as follows: BB, HBP, HBP, HBP, SF, BB—it’s more little league than race for the AL East Championship. Javy makes a real good case to have himself left off the Playoff roster.
Girardi leaves Javy in for the last three innings, sucking it up for the bullpen. The other eight in the field behind him are like something out of a Spring training game: Thames, Golson, Curtis, Moeller, Pena, Nunez, Miranda and Russo.

Maybe it’s me. I watch the Giants and they’re a soccer team; I miss their game and they score like a football team while still having that insane pitching. Although the Phils really seem like the team to beat, a series between those two teams could be something else…